James Panton

James Panton is a politics teacher at Stowe School in Buckingham, a lecturer in politics at Hertford College, University of Oxford, and an Associate Lecturer in Politics at the Open University. He is also co-founder and member of the radical civil liberties campaigning group The Manifesto Club.

In his academic work James specialises in intellectual history, and has a particular interest in changing conceptions of ‘the political’ in the 20th century. He is author of a number of academic articles and book chapters, and co-editor of Science Vs. Superstition: The Case for a New Scientific Enlightenment (Policy Exchange, 2006).

James regularly takes part in radio and television debates on politics, education and intellectual life, and he writes for print and online media.

Related Sessions

Saturday 31 October 2009, 9.30am Student Union
Parliament: reform or revolution?

Sunday 1 November 2009, 6.40pm Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Question Time: What Next?

Wednesday 4 November 2009, 5.00pm St John's College, University of Oxford
Post-recession ideologies: what ideas will shape the world after the credit crunch?


Publications

James Panton, ‘Reflections of a early career Don’ in D Palfreyman (ed) The Oxford Tutorial (OxCHEPS and Blackwells, 2008).
James Panton, ‘Intellectual influences on the New Left in America: C Wright Mills and Herbert Marcuse’. In journal: Reconstruction Vol. 8 No. 1. 2008.
Science vs Superstition: the case for a new scientific enlightenment (ed.) (Policy Exchange, 2006)


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