LECTURE
Commemorating 150 years of political studies at UCD
On 15 June 2005 the Department of Politics will celebrate a major anniversary: the appointment 150 years ago of Aubrey de Vere as first Professor of Political and Social Science in the new Catholic University located in what is now Newman House. His inaugural lecture was scheduled for 15 June 1855.
To mark these events, the Head of the Department of Politics, Professor Tom Garvin, cordially invites you to attend a special lecture, reception and book launch in UCD’s former home in Earlsfort Terrace on Wednesday 15 June 2005.
The lecture will be given by the distinguished political theorist, Professor Carole Pateman, University of California, Los Angeles, with a response from Dr Martin Mansergh, Seanad Éireann.
A booklet on the history of the Department will be launched by Dr Maurice Manning, President, Irish Human Rights Commission, at a reception following the lecture.
THE POLITICS DEPARTMENT
The origins of UCD Politics department may be traced back to 1855, when the first Professor of Political and Social Science was appointed—an unusually early recognition of the subject by international standards. Reorganised in 1882, the subject came into more formal existence in 1909 when a professorship of Ethics and Politics was created under the structure of the new National University of Ireland.
The Politics department is currently the largest such department in the Republic of Ireland, and its graduates are to be found in a wide range of positions—in journalism and the media, the civil and public service, the private sector, education and many other areas.
PROGRAMME
Wednesday 15 June 2005
17h00, lecture theatre G32, Earlsfort Terrace, University College Dublin
(entrance by door closest to St Stephen’s Green)
Professor Carole Pateman, University of California, Los Angeles, “The settler contract”
Response: Dr Martin Mansergh, Seanad Éireann
Chair: Dr Hugh Brady, President, UCD
18h15, Newman House,86 St Stephen’s Green
(access from Earlsfort Terrace to Newman House through Iveagh Gardens)
Reception: Hosted by Professor Tom Garvin and the Department of Politics
Launch: Dr Maurice Manning, President, Irish Human Rights Commission, will launch a booklet on the history of Political Studies at UCD, 1855-2005.
Dr Martin Mansergh was educated at Oxford University and wrote his doctoral thesis on late eighteenth century French history. He joined the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1974, moved to the Taoiseach’s department in 1980 and worked closely with leaders of Fianna Fáil as advisor on Northern Ireland. He played a major role in the negotiations that led to the Good Friday agreement. In 2002 he was elected a member of Seanad Éireann.
Dr Maurice Manning was educated at University College Dublin and Strathclyde University, and worked in the Department of Politics at UCD from 1966 to 2002. He has published widely in the area of Irish politics, and is the author of The Blueshirts (Gill and Macmillan, 1970, 1987) and James Dillon: a biography (Wolfhound, 1999). He was appointed President of the Irish Human Rights Commission in 2002.
Department of Politics
INVITATION
SPECIAL LECTURE
AND RECEPTION TO MARK
150 YEARS OF POLITICAL
STUDIES AT UCD
15 June 2005
Earlsfort Terrace and Newman House
University College Dublin
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CAROLE PATEMAN
Carole Pateman is a leading figure in the world of political science, her reputation having been built in particular on her work in the area of democratic theory. She has written four books, co-edited four volumes of essays, and made numerous contributions to scholarly journals. Her first book, Participation and democratic theory, has been reprinted 19 times and is widely considered to be the definitive exploration of participatory democracy. Her third book, The sexual contract, won the Victoria Schuck Award from the American Political Science Association in 1989.
She was born in Maresfield, Sussex, and was educated at Ruskin College and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. After working at the University of Sydney, she served as a visiting professor at Stanford (1980) and Princeton (1985-86), and as a fellow at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1984-5), and Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study (1986-87). In 1988-89 she became the inaugural holder of the Kirsten Hesselgren Professorship of the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In 1990 she took up her post in the Department of Political Science, UCLA.
THE SETTLER CONTRACT
Professor Pateman’s paper forms part of a longer book project on which she is currently working with Charles Mills, author of The racial contract (1997).
The paper represents a continuation of Professor Pateman’s interest in the relationship between contract theory and inequality. Because of recent legal developments, the legitimacy of the states created in North America and Australia is a problem, though one that is not usually acknowledged.
The starting point of Professor Pateman’s argument is the Mabo judgment in 1992 in Australia that held that, contrary to previous legal rulings, the country was not terra nullius in 1788. Terra nullius is a concept that goes back to ancient times, and the general principle underlying it is that if something is “empty” it is unowned and so open to claims of ownership.
The paper builds on recent work on Locke and British expansion into North America, discusses conquest and consent, analyses Grotius and Locke and some leading North American cases to show how terra nullius is used as a justification for planting settlers in (what was held to be) a state of nature and making an original, settler contract to found new civil societies (modern states).
Professor Pateman puts these arguments explicitly in the context of theories of an original contract and brings North America and Australia together in this context. Australia is central to the argument, because the law there rested on the presumption that the continent was uninhabited, not just uncultivated or lacking proper sovereignty.
The paper looks at some singular features of settlement there, at Mabo and two earlier cases. A conclusion follows that highlights the political difficulty that arises once terra nullius is rejected and the prior occupancy of native peoples and native title is recognized, and raises difficult questions regarding the relationship between present obligations and past injustices.