Mr Max Skjönsberg

About

Max Skjönsberg currently works on concepts of political party in eighteenth-century discourse. The project incorporates a contextual reading of thinkers such as Lord Bolingbroke, David Hume, Adam Ferguson, Edmund Burke, and others.

Mr Skjönsberg holds an MA in the History of Political Thought from University College London and Queen Mary University London (2013) and a BA in Contemporary History from Queen Mary and City University (2012).

Teaching

Mr Skjönsberg teaches the following course at undergraduate level:

HY118: Faith, Power and Revolution: Europe and the Wider World, c.1500-c.1800

Publications

• “Lord Bolingbroke’s Theory of Party and Opposition”, The Historical Journal (April 2016). Available online.

Papers

• “Conflict and partisanship in Adam Ferguson’s social and political thought” at the Ninth Annual Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought & Intellectual History, 13 May 2016.
• "Adam Ferguson’s reading of Montesquieu on Party Conflict in Roman and European Contexts” at the 2016 Conference of the International Society for Intellectual History, University of Crete, Rethymnon, Greece, 3-5 May 2016.
• “Political journalism in the Age of Walpole: the Case of Bolingbroke” at Words Matter, a Literary Festival arranged by jointly by the Literature Society and the History Society at LSE, 1 March 2016. (Invited speaker.)
• “Adam Ferguson on Partisanship and Party Conflict” at the 45th Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS), St. Hughe’s College, Oxford, 6-8 January 2016.
• “Lord Bolingbroke’s Theory of Party and Opposition” at the Inaugural Postgraduate Conference in Early Modern Intellectual History at Newcastle University, 18-19 June 2015.

Awards

• Recipient of the PhD Scholarship from the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University, Virginia, 2016.
• Recipient of the Skinner Prize for first place in the University of London MA in the History of Political Thought in 2013

Scholarships

• LSE Studentship 2014-2018