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Vicki Spencer is an Associate Professor of political theory. Previously she taught at the University of Adelaide and Flinders University of South Australia. She is the author of Herder’s Political Thought: A Study of Language, Culture, and Community (University of Toronto Press, 2012), and the co-editor of Visions of Peace: Asia and the West with Takashi Shogimen (Ashgate, 2014), Disclosures with Paul Corcoran (Ashgate, 2000), and a special edition of The Australian Journal of Politics and History: Rethinking Nationalism. Her research encompasses seventeenth and eighteenth-century European thought and contemporary political theory with a focus on culture, identity and the concepts of recognition and toleration.
Her most recent book is a collected edition, Toleration in Comparative Perspective (Lexington, 2017), which disrupts the assumption in Western political discourse that toleration is a uniquely Western idea by examining comparable ideas in Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism and Daoism.
She has supervised PhDs, Masters and Honours dissertations on a wide range of topics including models of heroic thought, hermeneutics, religious toleration, models of forgiveness in transitional societies, democratic free schools, Nietzsche and Hannah Arendt. Her teaching interests traverse both contemporary political theory and the history of modern political thought and she is happy to supervise students in applied theory.
Spencer, V. A. (2012). Herder's political thought: A study of language, culture, and community. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 354p.
Shogimen, T., & Spencer, V. A. (Eds.). (2014). Visions of peace: Asia and the West. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 195p.
Shogimen, T., & Spencer, V. A. (2014). Introduction. In T. Shogimen & V. A. Spencer (Eds.), Visions of peace: Asia and the West. (pp. 1-9). Farnham, UK: Ashgate.
Spencer, V. A. (2014). Indigenous inspiration and Herder's peace woman. In T. Shogimen & V. A. Spencer (Eds.), Visions of peace: Asia and the West. (pp. 139-160). Farnham, UK: Ashgate.
Spencer, V. A. (2009). Viewing Islam through Enlightenment eyes. In T. Shogimen & C. J. Nederman (Eds.), Western political thought in dialogue with Asia. (pp. 109-134). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Spencer, V. (2007). In defense of Herder on cultural diversity and interaction. Review of Politics, 69, 79-105.
Spencer, V., Smits, K., Winter, S., & MacDonald, L. (2013, December). Why does culture matter? Panel discussion at the New Zealand Political Studies Association (NZPSA) Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Spencer, V. A. (2011, November). Forms of public recognition. Verbal presentation at the Postcolonial Studies Research Network Conference: Citizenship in an Era of Global Crisis, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Spencer, V. A. (2010, September). The politics of humility. Verbal presentation at the Australian Political Studies Association Conference: Connected Globe: Conflicting Worlds, Melbourne, Australia.
Spencer, V. (2009, September). Concepts of power in Montesquieu's Persian Letters and Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters. Verbal presentation at the Otago/Sydney Early Modern Seminar: Women, Philosophy and Literature in the Early Modern Period, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Lam, C., Spencer, V., Green, K., & Broad, J. (2009, September). A history of women's political thought in Europe 1400-1700 [Roundtable Discussion]. Verbal presentation at the Otago/Sydney Early Modern Seminar: Women, Philosophy and Literature in the Early Modern Period, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Spencer, V. (2009, November-December). Concepts of power in Montesquieu's Persian letters and Montagu's Turkish embassy letters. Verbal presentation at the New Zealand Political Studies Association (NZPSA) Annual Conference, Auckland, New Zealand.
Spencer, V. A. (2009, January). Montagu's Turkish experience. Verbal presentation at the 38th British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Oxford, UK.
Spencer, V. (2009, August). The historical use of philosophy to underpin modern theory and practice in political science in general. Verbal presentation at the Philosophy in Social Science: Implications for Political and International Theory Workshop, Wellington, New Zealand.
Spencer, V. (2009, December). Herder's peace woman. Verbal presentation at the Visions of Peace: The West and Asia Symposium, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Spencer, V. (2008, August). John Locke's doctrine of toleration. Verbal presentation at the New Zealand Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Auckland, New Zealand.
Spencer, V. (2008, July). John Locke on tolerance and humility. Verbal presentation at the Australasian Political Science Association Conference, Brisbane, Australia.
Spencer, V. (2006, December). Viewing 'Islam' through enlightenment eyes. Verbal presentation at the International Symposium: Western Political Thought in Dialogue with Asia, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Spencer, V. (2006, September). Young on fixed identities and co-sovereignty. Verbal presentation at the Australasian Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Newcastle, Australia.
Spencer, V. (2006, August). Iris Marion Young on representations, fixed identities and co-sovereignty. Verbal presentation at the New Zealand Political Studies Association Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand.

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