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31 upcoming talks and 3095 talks in the archive.

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Digital Development Dilemma: From Progress to Control

Please register here to attend : https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1033765429227?aff=oddtdtcreator

UserDr Azadeh Akbari, University of Twente.

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Locke's Political Legacy

UserTim Stanton (University of York).

HouseBateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

ClockMonday 11 November 2024, 17:00-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Algorithmic Governance: Theory and Practice

UserDr. Christian Katzenbach, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), University of Bremen.

HouseS1, Alison Richard Building .

ClockTuesday 29 October 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Rethinking Weber's 'Politics'

UserPeter Ghosh (St. Anne's College, University of Oxford).

HouseBateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

ClockMonday 28 October 2024, 17:00-18:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Colonizing Free Will

UserBernard Forjwuor (Notre Dame).

HouseWebb Library, West Court, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 25 October 2024, 13:00-14:30

Mary Hesse Lecture

In praise of the inexact, the inelegant and the unassuming

First Annual Mary Hesse Lecture in the Philosophy and History of Science

UserNancy Cartwright (Durham University, and University of California, San Diego).

HouseOld Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 24 October 2024, 15:00-16:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

UserHasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 21 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Oikonomia of Conspiracy

UserDemetra Kasimis (University of Cambridge).

HouseBateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

ClockMonday 14 October 2024, 17:00-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Africa's Voices' 10 Year Anniversary Celebration

UserSamuel Kimeu, Executive Director of Africa’s Voices.

HouseKing's College.

ClockThursday 06 June 2024, 17:30-19:30

Rausing Lecture

Technology and interconnection in Southeast Asia's longue durée

Twenty-Eighth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserSuzanne Moon (University of Oklahoma).

HouseThe Frankopan Hall, Jesus College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 30 May 2024, 16:00-17:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Gerd Buchdahl, Kantian philosopher of science

UserNick Jardine (History and Philosophy of Science) and Angela Breitenbach (Philosophy).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 23 May 2024, 15:30-17:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

AI and Human Rights

UserMathias Risse; Jude Browne; Sebastian Lehuede; Matt Mahmoudi.

HouseSociology Seminar Room, CB2 3RQ, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 07 May 2024, 17:30-19:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Movie Screening: The Cost of Convenience

UserDavid Donnelly (Director), Dr Ella McPherson and Michael Csanyi-Wills (Composer).

HouseSociology Seminar Room, CB2 3RQ, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 06 May 2024, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Jungius and Leibniz on textiles and texture in the 17th century

UserMichael Freidman (Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 29 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The United States of Europe, 1848–1914

UserChristopher Brooke (Homerton College, University of Cambridge).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockMonday 04 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Is AI generated art really art?

UserMilena Ivanova (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2024, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Cultures of curiosity in Polish/Royal Prussia, 1650–1760

UserKatarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska (Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 13 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Practitioner Series: Albert Fox Cahn

UserAlbert Fox Cahn .

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Skin colour assessment in the age of biological diversity

UserAna Carolina Vimieiro (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 06 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

UserHasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 31 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable on Hegel's World Revolutions

UserRichard Bourke (King’s College, University of Cambridge).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockMonday 22 January 2024, 17:00-18:30

Contemporary Political Theory

A Taxonomy of Injustice

UserDuncan Ivison (University of Sydney).

HouseBawden Room, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 17 November 2023, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Lifecycle of a constant: e

UserAlistair Isaac (University of Edinburgh).

HouseArts School Lecture Theatre A.

ClockThursday 16 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Where inattention pays

UserJingyi Wu (London School of Economics).

HouseArts School Lecture Theatre A.

ClockThursday 09 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Tech Design and Human Rights: Six Provocations (and a Card Game!)

UserDr Sharath Srinivasan, Dr Ella McPherson and Dr Sebastian Lehuede.

HouseS1, Alison Richard Building .

ClockWednesday 08 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Embodied knowledge: riding Ottoman horses in Renaissance Italy

This seminar starts at 12noon

UserMarissa Smit-Bose (Harvard University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 30 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Lineages as evolving processes

UserJohn Dupré (University of Exeter).

HouseArts School Lecture Theatre A.

ClockThursday 26 October 2023, 15:30-17:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

John Locke and Slavery

UserMark Goldie (Churchill College, University of Cambridge).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockMonday 23 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Futures of Critique in International Political Theory

UserKimberley Hutchings (Queen Mary University of London).

HouseWebb Library, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 20 October 2023, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Welcome Drinks!

UserDr Sharath Srinivasan and Dr Ella McPherson.

HouseAtrium, Alison Richard Building .

ClockWednesday 18 October 2023, 18:30-19:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

The Right of Peaceful Assembly Today: Technology, Policing, Politics

UserDr Sharath Srinivasan, Dr Ella McPherson and Dr Thomas Probert.

HouseS1, Alison Richard Building .

ClockWednesday 18 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Why we shouldn't democratise science

UserStephen John (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2023, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

What did Simón Bolívar Owe to Charles V?

UserEdward Jones Corredera (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockMonday 16 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Student Group 2023-24: Introductory Meeting

UserCGHR Co-Director Dr Sharath Srinivasan.

HouseS2, Alison Richard Building .

ClockWednesday 11 October 2023, 12:30-13:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable on Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word

UserMichael Sonenscher (King’s College, University of Cambridge).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockMonday 09 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Protective Falsehoods

UserMaxime Lepoutre (University of Reading).

HouseWebb Library, West Court, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 06 October 2023, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Critical Data Research in Praxis

If you're interested in joining this event, please contact Dr Sebastián Lehuedé at sal92@cam.ac.uk

UserProfessor Mirca Madianou (Goldmisths University); Professor Nick Couldry (LSE); Professor Ulises Ali Mejia (SUNY Oswego); and Dr Andrea Medrado (University of Westminster).

HouseSG1, ARB.

ClockMonday 12 June 2023, 12:00-17:00

Rausing Lecture

Technology eats history: time and techno-metabolism in the Anthropocene

Twenty-Seventh Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserPaul N. Edwards (Stanford University).

HouseThe Frankopan Hall, Jesus College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 01 June 2023, 16:30-18:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Book Launch: Human Rights for Pragmatists, by Jack Snyder

UserJack Snyder (Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations at Columbia University), and Emma Mackinnon and Sharath Srinivasan (University of Cambridge).

HouseS1, ARB.

ClockTuesday 16 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Expertise as perspectives in dialogue

UserMichael Larkin, Lisa Bortolotti, Michele Lim (University of Birmingham).

HouseHopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockThursday 04 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Workshop by Voices 4 Workers in Tech (V4WT)

UserDr Hong Yu Liu, Lu Wang, Muhammed Alakitan and Anusha Arumugam.

HouseOnline.

ClockMonday 24 April 2023, 09:00-12:30

POLIS Department Research Seminars

Suffering, Progress, and Precarity in the West

UserProfessor Michael Barnett, George Washington University.

HouseAlison Richard Building, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site), Room S1.

ClockMonday 03 April 2023, 13:00-15:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Practitioner Series: Carly Kind on Tech, Data and AI

UserCarly Kind (Director, Ada Lovelace Institute).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Extra-illustrating natural history in early modern England

UserXinyi Wen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 27 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Ways of worldfaking

CANCELLED

UserBoaz Miller (Zefat Academic College).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2023, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The nuns and the apothecary: transatlantic collecting in the eighteenth century

CANCELLED

UserLynn Berry (Open University).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 20 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

TBA

UserStefan Eich (Georgetown University).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockMonday 13 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Practitioner Series: Clea Kahn on Conflict and Humanitarianism

UserClea Kahn (Humanitarian Consultant and Visiting Fellow, International Institute of Social Studies).

HouseIn person, SG2, Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Preadamites on Ambon in the 1680s

UserJan Becker (European University Institute).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 06 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Picturing the world, fashioning the self: Marcus zum Lamm collects naturalia in Calvinist Heidelberg

UserFrederick Crofts (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 30 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable on 'The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance'

UserJamie Martin (Harvard), with comments by Mira Siegelberg (Cambridge), Madeline Woker (Cambridge), and Duncan Bell (Cambridge).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockMonday 28 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

From Gilead to Peru: balsam in late Renaissance medicine and alchemy

UserElisabeth Moreau (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 14 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Perceptual wronging and perceptual injustice

UserTom McClelland (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Descartes's history of nature: method and experiments in the study of particular bodies

UserFabrizio Baldassarri (Ca' Foscari University in Venice).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 07 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Is Drag Morally Objectionable?

UserSimon Kirchin (University of Kent).

HouseColeridge Room, Jesus College..

ClockFriday 04 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

UserHasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 24 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'The Great Kanto Earthquake' and 'Doctors, patients and the two languages'

UserManabu Akagawa and Akihito Suzuki (University of Tokyo).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 11 October 2022, 09:00-10:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable on Jessica Patterson’s (Cambridge) Book, 'Religion, Enlightenment and Empire'

UserJessica Patterson (Cambridge), with comments by Ian Stewart (QMUL), Niall O’Flaherty (KCL), and Shruti Kapila (Cambridge).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockMonday 10 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Commemorating the Dead

UserZofia Stemplowska (University of Oxford).

HouseColeridge Room, Jesus College..

ClockFriday 07 October 2022, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

When do statistics provide evidence for discrimination by police? A causal approach

UserNaftali Weinberger (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich).

HouseArts School Lecture Theatre A.

ClockWednesday 18 May 2022, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Aztec botany and natural history in the 16th century (1552–1580)

UserOsiris Sinuhé González Romero (University of Saskatchewan).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 16 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

Environing technologies – shaping, seeing, sense-making

Twenty-Sixth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserSverker Sörlin (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).

HouseDepartment of Zoology, Main Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 12 May 2022, 16:30-18:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

Law Made Immortal: Inheritance and Personhood in Modern German Legal Thought

Draft paper will be circulated from up to one week in advance

UserCharlotte Johann, Churchill College, Cambridge .

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 11 May 2022, 17:00-18:15

Early Science and Medicine

Alhazen's Perspectiva legacy in science and art

UserNader El-Bizri (American University of Beirut).

HouseArts School Lecture Theatre A.

ClockTuesday 10 May 2022, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What empirical network analysis could offer to Integrated HPS

UserCatherine Herfeld (University of Zurich).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2022, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Imitation as innovation: recasting the history of technology in modern Korea

UserHyungsub Choi (Seoul National University of Science and Technology; Needham Research Institute).

HouseHopkinson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 28 April 2022, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Learning (to learn) from others

UserRichard Moore (University of Warwick).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 10 March 2022, 15:30-17:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Book Launch: "Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni's Uganda"

UserRebecca Tapscott, Ambizione Research Fellow, the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.

Househttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-arbitrary-states-oup-2021-by-dr-rebecca-tapscott-tickets-250066775457?aff=ebdsoporgprofile.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2022, 17:00-18:30

Book Talk: ARBITARY STATES, Rebecca Tapscott

Book Talk: ARBITARY STATES, Rebecca Tapscott

This talk has been canceled/deleted

UserRebecca Tapscott.

HouseOnline (register on Eventbrite for link).

ClockWednesday 09 March 2022, 17:00-19:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

Traditional Medicine Goes Global: Pan-African Precedents, Cultural Decolonization, and Cold War Rights/Properties’

Paper available for pre-reading

UserHelen Tilley, Northwestern University .

HouseZoom + TBC venue.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2022, 17:00-18:15

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

On the nonexistence of moralometers

UserEric Schwitzgebel (University of California, Riverside).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2022, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Global actuarial science in the making of the universal healthcare system in the Republic of China, 1935–2010

Please note this seminar takes place on a Monday

UserWayne Soon (Vassar College).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 07 March 2022, 17:00-18:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Should we have kids in the climate emergency?

UserElizabeth Cripps (Edinburgh).

HouseBrewery Room, Jesus College..

ClockFriday 04 March 2022, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

When models migrate: the epistemic pitfalls of model transfer

UserAxel Gelfert (Technische Universität Berlin).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 03 March 2022, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Epistemic bunkers

UserKatherine Furman (University of Liverpool).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 24 February 2022, 15:30-17:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Doubt as a Political Virtue

UserQuassim Cassam (Warwick).

HouseBrewery Room, Jesus College..

ClockFriday 18 February 2022, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The news from Glozel: media, scandal and the making of French archaeology, ca. 1927

CANCELLED

UserDaniel J. Sherman (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 17 February 2022, 15:30-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences

CANCELLED

UserTracey Loughran (University of Essex).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

Protection-Shopping among Empires: Suspended Sovereignty in the Cocos-Keeling Islands

The paper will be made available before the seminar

UserLauren Benton, Yale University .

HouseBateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius .

ClockTuesday 15 February 2022, 17:00-18:15

Contemporary Political Theory

TBC

UserGulzaar Barn (Utrecht).

HouseBrewery Room, Jesus College..

ClockFriday 04 February 2022, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Practitioner Series: JONATHAN COHEN (Exec Director, Conciliation Resources)

UserJonathan Cohen (Director, Conciliation Resources).

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockWednesday 02 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

What's in a name? William Jones, 'philological empiricism' and botanical knowledge making in 18th-century India

UserMinakshi Menon (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 31 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Exhibiting imperial entanglements in science museums

UserEleanor S. Armstrong (Stockholm University / University of Delaware).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 27 January 2022, 15:30-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Black eugenics and the politics of reproduction

UserAyah Nuriddin (Princeton University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 25 January 2022, 17:00-18:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Anger and Remorse

UserAdam Etison (St. Andrews).

HouseBrewery Room, Jesus College..

ClockFriday 21 January 2022, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Ways of worldfaking

CANCELLED

UserBoaz Miller (Zefat Academic College).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 01 December 2021, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'She's wearing it!' Gender, tinkering, and the design of hearing aids

UserJaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 30 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Causal explanation and revealed preferences

UserKate Vredenburgh (London School of Economics).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

ClockThursday 25 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

Slavery and empire in early modern Iberian thought

Draft paper will be circulated from up to one week in advance

UserDaniel Allemann, University of Lucerne .

HouseBateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius .

ClockWednesday 24 November 2021, 17:00-18:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Tasting the past, or the fallacy of historical accuracy

Online only

UserMarieke M.A. Hendriksen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 22 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Climate storylines and managing uncertainty

UserMathias Frisch (Leibniz University Hannover).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 17 November 2021, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Technoscience in the tropics: public agricultural research and environmental imaginaries in Brazil

UserRyan Nehring (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 16 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Sisyphean science: why value freedom is worth pursuing

UserJacob Stegenga (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 10 November 2021, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Philosophy for anatomists: Francis Glisson and the peculiar fits of irritable matter

UserGuido Giglioni (University of Macerata).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 09 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Political Thought of Charles Malik

UserChloe Kattar (Darwin College, Cambridge) .

HouseKeynes Hall, King’s College.

ClockMonday 08 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Forced Marriage and Modern Slavery

UserHelen McCabe (Nottingham).

HouseBrewery Room, Jesus College..

ClockFriday 05 November 2021, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Tracing scientific instrument makers: the importance of researching the actual objects they made or sold

McConnell Lecture

UserGloria Clifton (Emeritus Curator, National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory, Greenwich).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

ClockThursday 04 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Cultural groups, essentialism, and ontic risk

UserAndrew Buskell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

ClockThursday 28 October 2021, 15:30-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art and Knowledge

Special session, 10am, online only

UserMaree Clarke, Mitch Mahoney, Fran Edmonds (University of Melbourne).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 28 October 2021, 10:00-11:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Environment and Empire... in the museum': Cambridge and the platypus

UserCharlotte Connelly (The Polar Museum), Jack Ashby (University Museum of Zoology).

HouseZoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 25 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

The kinetic Caribbean: technologies of mobility in a pre-modern world

Twenty-Fifth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserMaría M. Portuondo (Johns Hopkins University).

HouseThe Theatre, Peterhouse.

ClockThursday 21 October 2021, 16:30-18:00

Early Science and Medicine

Ship tracks on European maps and charts, c.1500–c.1800

UserSara Caputo (Magdalene College, Cambridge).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 19 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'Constipated, toothless fatties': body and diet in twentieth-century Britain

UserChris Otter (Ohio State University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 12 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The 'lesser herbals' in early modern natural history

UserXinyi Wen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 11 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

COVID-19 and Seafarers: A Humanitarian Crisis?

UserDr Momoko Kitada (World Maritime University), Dr Birgit Pauksztat (Uppsala University), Dr Sanley Abila (University of the Phillipines Visayas), Dr Helen Devereux (Solent University), .

Househttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-the-implications-of-online-assemblies-tickets-151772861715?aff=ebdsoporgprofile.

ClockThursday 10 June 2021, 12:00-13:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Exploring the implications of online assemblies

UserFrancesca Fanucci (ECNL), Evelyn Douek (Harvard Law School), Dr Ella McPherson (Cambridge Sociology/CGHR), Dr Thomas Probert (Univ. Pretoria/CGHR), .

Househttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-the-implications-of-online-assemblies-tickets-151772861715?aff=ebdsoporgprofile.

ClockThursday 27 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Collecting and curating at Rothschild's Zoological Museum

UserElla Larsson (University of Westminster).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 24 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Early Science and Medicine

The two lives of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues: picturing plants in the 16th century

UserMonique Kornell and Dániel Margócsy.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 18 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable: Max Skjönsberg, "The Persistence of Party"

UserMax Skjönsberg (University of Liverpool).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 18 May 2021, 16:00-17:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Birth of the People: Liberalism and the Origins of the Anticolonial Democratic Project in India

UserNazmul Sultan (Christ’s College, University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 17 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Of wasps in wigs and gnatter with gnats: how insects made Alice in Wonderland

UserFranziska Holt (University of York).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 17 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Journalism in Colonial Settings: The case of Puerto Rico

UserDr Federico Subervi-Vélez, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Sandra Rodríguez Cotto, Journalist, Puerto Rico; Dr Jairo Lugo-Ocando, Northwestern University.

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 13 May 2021, 18:00-19:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Islamic science, cultural difference and colonization

UserHarun Küçük (University of Pennsylvania).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 13 May 2021, 15:30-17:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

James Bryce and the concepts of constitution

UserPasquale Pasquino (CNRS) .

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 10 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Nehemiah Grew, collector, curator, and cataloguer of plants

UserChristoffer Basse Eriksen (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 10 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Futures

UserJenny Andersson (Upsala University) and Sandra Kemp (Lancaster University).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 06 May 2021, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

World models and intuition in the 1970s

UserSarah Dry (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 29 April 2021, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Practical intentions, action schemas, and strategic control in skill

UserEllen Fridland (King's College London).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 17 March 2021, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Separation of Powers as a New Theory

UserJeffrey Tulis (University of Texas at Austin).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 15 March 2021, 17:00-19:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Data agnosticism in medical emergencies: a tale from the past

UserDavid Teira (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 11 March 2021, 15:30-17:00

Early Science and Medicine

Birth, fate, and Roman futures

UserAnna Bonnell Freidin (University of Michigan).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 09 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hegel and Italian Political Thought

UserFernanda Gallo (Homerton College, University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 08 March 2021, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Dithipa: (re)collecting animals and their depictions from southern Africa's Missionary Road

UserChris Wingfield (Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 08 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Audre Lorde on Care

UserKathryn Sophia Belle (Penn State).

HouseZoom.

ClockFriday 05 March 2021, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What kind of models are deep learning algorithms?

UserLena Zuchowski (University of Bristol).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2021, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Not Being Kantian about Moral Justification

UserLuc Foisneau (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 01 March 2021, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Books, botany and the organisation of nature in 18th-century Cambridge

UserEdwin Rose (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 01 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Drawing processes

UserChiara Ambrosio (University College London).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 25 February 2021, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

From authenticism to alethism: against McCarroll on observer memory

UserKourken Michaelian (Université Grenoble Alpes).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2021, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Wound Man: three early modern afterlives of a medieval surgical image

UserJack Hartnell (University of East Anglia).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Experiencing Republican Texts

UserRachel Hammersley (Newcastle).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 22 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Gardens in ink: engraved title-pages of botanical treatises from 1450 to 1700

UserKaleigh Hunter (University of Wuppertal).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 22 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Normative Powers

UserLaura Valentini (KCL).

HouseZoom.

ClockFriday 19 February 2021, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Seed sovereignty and 'our living relatives' in Native American community farming and gardening

UserElizabeth Hoover (University of California, Berkeley).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Kant's 'True Politics'

UserSusan Shell (Boston College).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 15 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

A natural history of evil

UserAlexander Etkind (European University Institute at Florence).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 15 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

P-hacking: its costs and when it is warranted

UserAdrian Erasmus (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2021, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Thucydides’ Tragic Science of Democratic Defeat

UserMark Fisher (Georgetown University).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 08 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Race, science and literary studies in the 21st century

UserJosie Gill (University of Bristol).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 04 February 2021, 15:30-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Renaissance eugenics

UserMackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Carl Schmitt in Leipzig – Defence of Democracy or Autocratic Subversion?

UserLars Vinx (Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 01 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Truth AND consequences

UserPolly Mitchell (King's College London).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 28 January 2021, 15:30-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The concept of 'disease carrier' in Western medicine

UserAmir Teicher (Tel Aviv University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Democracy Requires Organized Collective Power

UserSteven Klein (King's College London).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 25 January 2021, 17:00-19:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Intra-Party Party Democracy: A Contextualist Account

UserUdit Bhatia (Oxford).

HouseZoom.

ClockFriday 22 January 2021, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How does process tracing work?

UserChristopher Clarke (CRASSH Cambridge and Erasmus University, Rotterdam).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 21 January 2021, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Nominalism in the social sciences: promises and pitfalls

UserAriane Hanemaayer (Brandon University and CRASSH, Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2020, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The shadow of slavery: measuring miscegenation in the early 20th century

UserRana Hogarth (University of Illinois).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Between Virtue and Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, ca 1590-1650

UserLisa Kattenberg (Gonville & Caius, University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 30 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Tackling COVID-19 in Kenya and Somalia: Interdisciplinary innovations out of CGHR

UserSharath Srinivasan (POLIS/CGHR, Katikati, Africa's Voices Foundation), Luke Church (Computer Lab/CGHR, Katikati, Africa's Voices Foundation).

Househttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/124692772439.

ClockThursday 26 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How to study animal minds

HPS Virtual Conversation

UserSee description.

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 26 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Poetry, Mores, and Laws: Herder's response to Montesquieu

UserEva Piirimae (University of Tartu).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 23 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Tuning into nature in interwar Britain: biology and natural history on the BBC

UserMax Long (Faculty of History).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 23 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Thinking About Black Republicanism: An Introduction

UserMelvin Rogers (Brown).

HouseZoom.

ClockFriday 20 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Spreading Disinformation in Brazil: the Amazon Fires Case

UserRebekah Lyndon, Victoria Tse, Lena Moore, Mo May-Hobbs.

Househttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/124686264975.

ClockThursday 19 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Do we live in a post-truth era?

UserKristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij (Birkbeck, University of London).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 19 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Epistemic responsibility and scientific authorship

UserHaixin Dang (University of Leeds).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Gender and generation in premodern Europe

UserLeah DeVun (Rutgers University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'The Greatest of All Plagues': Plato on Economic Inequality

UserDavid Lay Williams, (DePaul University)..

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 16 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

A magnetic world: understanding the lodestone in the early modern Iberian empires

UserLeonardo Carrio Cataldi (LMU Munich).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 16 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Microbe smiths: engineering microbial control in 20th-century Japan

UserVictoria Lee (Ohio University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement

UserBrandon Terry (Harvard University).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 09 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'Congo' the TV chimpanzee and the 'biology of art' at London Zoo, 1956–62

UserMiles Kempton (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 09 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

The Meaning of "Rich Individuality" in Marxist Theory

UserVanessa Wills (George Washington).

HouseZoom.

ClockFriday 06 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

A material history of 16th-century astronomy?

Anita McConnell Lecture

UserJim Bennett (University of Oxford, emeritus).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 05 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Learning from case studies

UserPetri Ylikoski (University of Helsinki).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

The body whole and quotidian: experiencing the body in 18th-century Britain

UserKaren Harvey (University of Birmingham).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 03 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Revolutionary Republicanism: Robespierre, Condorcet, Grouchy

UserGeneviève Rousselière (Duke University).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 02 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Discovery of Britain and Ireland's bryophytes

UserChristopher Preston.

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 02 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Artificial Intelligence and the Exploitative Optimization Problem

UserAnnette Zimmermann (York).

HouseZoom.

ClockFriday 23 October 2020, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Science and speculation

UserAdrian Currie (University of Exeter).

HouseTeams.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2020, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

The first Egyptian society

UserAnna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 20 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Thomas Paine in the French Revolution

UserAdam Lebovitz (Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 19 October 2020, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Statelessness: A Roundtable Discussion

UserMira Siegelberg (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 12 October 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Piecing together the 19th-century Lisbon zoological collections through catalogue lists, specimen tags and paper slips

UserCatarina Madruga (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & University of Lisbon).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 12 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Title to be confirmed

CANCELLED

UserCarina Prunkl (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2020, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

By Virtue of Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy

UserLisa Kattenberg (Gonville and Caius, Cambridge). Commentator: Richard Serjeantson.

HouseKeynes Hall, Kings College.

ClockMonday 09 March 2020, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Revolution and Charisma in the Thought of Max Weber

UserEdith Hanke (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities).

HouseKeynes Hall, Kings College.

ClockMonday 02 March 2020, 17:00-19:00

Contemporary Political Theory

"We" Exiles: Edward Said and Political Theory

UserJeanne Morefield (Birmingham).

HouseAudit Room, King's College.

ClockFriday 28 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Carl Schmitt in Leipzig - Constitutional Guardianship or Authoritarian Subversion?

UserLars Vinx (Hughes Hall, Cambridge). Commentator: Josh Smeltzer.

HouseKeynes Hall, Kings College.

ClockMonday 24 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain

CANCELLED

UserLaura Brassington (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Monkeys and modernity in colonial Myanmar

Please note that this seminar is on a Friday

UserJonathan Saha (University of Leeds).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

The corporation and law in the making of global capitalism

There will be a pre-circulated reading for this talk. Please contact Surabhi at sr496@cam.ac.uk if you would like a copy

UserDr Grietje Baars, The City Law School, City, University of London .

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockThursday 13 February 2020, 17:00-18:15

Contemporary Political Theory

Political Responsibility

UserJude Browne (Cambridge).

HouseAudit Room, King's College.

ClockFriday 31 January 2020, 13:00-14:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

Thinking Inside the Box: ‘Modular’ Historiography, the Ethiopian Empire and Other Subjects of International Law

There will be a pre-circulated reading for this talk. Please contact Surabhi at sr496@cam.ac.uk if you would like a copy

UserDr Rose Parfitt, Kent Law School, University of Kent .

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockThursday 30 January 2020, 17:00-18:15

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Creativity and AI

UserMarta Halina (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2020, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How atoms became real

UserMilena Ivanova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 23 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Empire and Sovereignty in "Democracies of the East"

UserTejas Parasher (King's College, Cambridge).

HouseKeynes Hall, Kings College.

ClockMonday 20 January 2020, 17:00-19:00

Contemporary Political Theory

The Grounds of Political Legitimacy

UserFabienne Peter (Warwick).

HouseAudit Room, King's College.

ClockFriday 17 January 2020, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Freedom, Slavery and Empire in Machiavelli's 'Discourses on Livy'

UserAdam Woodhouse (University of Chicago). Commentator: Quentin Skinner.

HouseKeynes Hall, Kings College.

ClockMonday 02 December 2019, 17:00-19:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Reproductive regimes in apartheid South Africa

CANCELLED

UserSusanne Klausen (Ottawa, Amsterdam and Johannesburg).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 26 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Neoliberal Turn

UserAngus Burgin (Johns Hopkins University).

HouseKeynes Hall, Kings College.

ClockMonday 25 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Teach-out! The Ripples of Violence against Women and Girls Across Time and Spaces

UserDr Manali Desai, Dr Tiffany Page, Dr Holly Porter, Ilaria Michelis.

HouseNewnham College, Lucia Windsor Room.

ClockMonday 25 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Coffee with Scientists

1 million correlations: steps towards reproducible psychological science

UserAmy Orben (Emmanuel College and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 22 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Digital Verification Workshop

UserRay Adams Row Farr and Rebekah Lyndon, students at the University of Cambridge.

HouseAngevin Room, Queens' College.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR and CAS event - Decolonising African Studies?

UserProfessor Christopher Clapham, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom S1, ARB.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

Use, war, and commercial society. Changing paradigms of human relations with animals in the early modern law of nature and of nations

Organised jointly with the Centre for History and Economics

UserProfessor Annabel Brett, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge .

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2019, 17:00-18:15

Contemporary Political Theory

Radical Reparations

UserDaniel Butt (Oxford).

HouseAudit Room, King's College.

ClockFriday 25 October 2019, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Exhibition opening- War in Raqqa: Rhetoric versus Reality

UserDonatella Rovera, Sam Dubberly, Matt Mahmoudi.

HouseAngevin room, Queens College.

ClockFriday 18 October 2019, 17:15-18:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Hypocrisy and Anti-Hypocrisy

UserEmma Mackinnon (Cambridge).

HouseAudit Room, King's College.

ClockFriday 11 October 2019, 13:00-14:30

Rausing Lecture

Whose history of technology? Path dependencies, contested modernities, and pockets of persistence

Twenty-Fourth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserRuth Oldenziel (Eindhoven University of Technology).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 16 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Thinking/researching/teaching race, genetics and intelligence in HPS and STS

UserJenny Bangham (HPS), Marta Halina (HPS) and Ernesto Schwartz Marin (University of Exeter).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 16 May 2019, 13:00-14:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

American States of Nature: The Origins of Independence

UserDr Mark Somos (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockThursday 25 April 2019, 17:15-18:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

International Law's Objects: A Conversation

UserDr Jessie Hohmann (QMUL) and Dr Daniel Joyce (University of New South Wales).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockThursday 21 March 2019, 18:00-19:15

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Insta-Glam: Smartphone Apps and Beauty Surveillance

UserProf Rosalind Gill, City University of London.

HouseRoom B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 12 March 2019, 12:30-14:00

Philosophy Events

Routledge Lecture in Philosophy: Ethics for Communication in a Digital Age

UserBaroness Onora O'Neill (Emeritus Honorary Professor, University of Cambridge).

HouseCynthia Beerbower Room, Newnham College.

ClockThursday 07 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The 'dye herbarium': capturing colour in botanical collections

UserAnna Svensson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 04 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Left Critiques of Equality

UserAnne Phillips (LSE).

HouseAudit Room, King's College.

ClockFriday 01 March 2019, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Panel - The Streets Don't Forget: Photojournalism and Creative Research on the Philippine Drug War

UserRaffy Lerma - freelance photographer; Ica Fernandez - urban planner; Inez Feria - founder of NoBox Philippines .

House Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

The Class Ceiling: Why it Plays to be Privileged

UserDr Sam Friedman, London School of Economics.

HouseRoom B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2019, 12:30-14:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Practitioner's Series with Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen O’Brien KBE

UserRt. Hon. Sir Stephen O’Brien KBE, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.

House Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Beauty, truth and understanding

UserMilena Ivanova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

International Relations & History Working Group

'Global History and the Place of the International'

UserAndrew Hurrell ( Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, Oxford University).

House Room 138, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

'Appointment with God'; Facebook, Digital-Deathworlds and Extra Judicial Killings of Criminal Gangs in Eastlands Nairobi

UserDr. Duncan Omanga, British Academy Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge (2018/9); Senior Lecturer of Media Studies in Moi University, Kenya.

House Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Is Europe Christian?

UserProf Oliver Roy, European University Institute.

HouseRoom B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 12 February 2019, 12:30-14:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

The Humanitarian Club

UserProfessor Michael Barnett (George Washington University).

House138, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 07 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Emancipation for the Unjust Past

UserAlasia Nuti (York).

HouseAudit Room, King's College.

ClockFriday 01 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Negotiating history: contingency, canonicity and case studies

UserAgnes Bolinska and Joseph Martin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

What is the Sociology of Reproduction all about?

UserProf Sarah Franklin, Sociology Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 29 January 2019, 12:30-14:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

The Rise of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission, the OAS and Responses to the Cuban Revolution: Towards a Humanitarian and Geopolitical Genealogy of Human Rights in the Americas

UserJuan Pablo Scarfi (Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina; Visiting Professor, Institut des Hautes Études de l'Amérique Latine, Université Paris 3).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2019, 17:15-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Tour of the recently re-opened University Museum of Zoology and an insider's guide to natural history museums

Meet outside the Whale Hall (main entrance of the Museum of Zoology) by 1pm

UserJack Ashby (Museum of Zoology, Cambridge).

HouseUniversity Museum of Zoology.

ClockMonday 21 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

The Logic of Legitimacy

UserAmanda Greene (UCL).

HouseKeynes Hall, Kings College.

ClockFriday 18 January 2019, 13:00-14:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Decolonising the history of science curriculum

UserMary Brazelton, Simon Schaffer, Charu Singh and Richard Staley (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

Act of State and the Limits of Adjudication

UserProfessor Pat Capps (University of Bristol Law School).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2018, 17:15-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The C theory of time

UserMatt Farr (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

'The American soldier' in Jerusalem: on measurement, travel and translation

CANCELLED

UserTal Arbel (Tel Aviv University/University of Edinburgh).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 22 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Time-asymmetry in thermal physics

UserKatie Robertson (Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge/University of Birmingham).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Political Theory for the Real World

UserMichael Goodhart (Pittsburgh).

HouseRoom 138, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2018, 12:30-14:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Sociology at Cambridge: Past, Present and Future

UserProf Anthony Giddens, Prof Patrick Baert, Dr Ali Meghji, Prof Jackie Scott, Prof J Thompson.

House Clare College, Cambridge .

ClockMonday 12 November 2018, 14:45-16:15

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

How to do things with sensors

UserProf Jennifer Gabrys, Cambridge Sociology Department.

HouseRoom B, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2018, 12:00-14:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Panel Discussion: Crime, Human Rights and Police-Community Relations: Law Enforcement in Post-Colonial Worlds

UserKaitlin M. Ball (University of Cambridge), Nanjala Nyabola (Kenyan writer & Political Analyst), Dr Jude Kagoro (University of Bremen).

House Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Political Policing in Uganda: Surveillance, Mobilisation and Police-NRM Party nexus

UserDr Jude Kagoro, Research Fellow at the Institute of Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS), Bremen University.

House Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 23 October 2018, 18:00-19:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

'The consciousness of a duty done': British attitudes towards self-determination and the case of the Sudan

UserDr Sarah Nouwen (University Senior Lecturer in International Law) & Orfeas Chasapis-Tassinis (doctoral candidate, Lauterpacht Centre of International Law).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2018, 17:15-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Explanations for medical artificial intelligence

UserRune Nyrup (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

Contemporary Political Theory

A Just Theory of Riots

UserJonathan Havercroft (Southampton).

HouseAudit Room, King's College.

ClockFriday 12 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Many Molyneux Questions

UserJonathan Cohen (University of California, San Diego).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The long-lost Paston Collection

UserSpike Bucklow (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 08 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

Steamroll all the brutes: coal, steam and British Imperialism in mid-nineteenth century Levant and West Africa

Twenty-Third Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserAndreas Malm (Lund University).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 17 May 2018, 16:30-18:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Understanding protein function through multiple models of structure: barriers to integration

UserAgnes Bolinska (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) and Julie-Anne Gandier (University of Toronto).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Alcuin Lecture 2018- Brexit: What happened and where do we go from here?

UserProfessor Anand Menon, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs, Kings College London and Director of UK in a Changing Europe.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockTuesday 08 May 2018, 17:00-18:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Alcuin Lecture 2018- Brexit: What happened and where do we go from here?

UserProfessor Anand Menon, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs, Kings College London and Director of UK in a Changing Europe.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College.

ClockTuesday 08 May 2018, 17:00-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Climate Change & Human Rights: Let's talk interdisciplinary action

UserDr Stephen Humphreys (LSE), Dr Shailaja Fennell (Centre of Development Studies), chaired by Dr Mette Eilstrup- Sangiovanni (POLIS).

House Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 03 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Fear and loathing in modern warfare

UserProf Michael Mann, Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA.

HouseRoom 3, Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 01 May 2018, 14:00-16:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Film Screening UNSEEN ENEMY with the director Janet Tobias

UserJanet Tobias, Director, Sierra Tango Productions & Dr Laurie Denyer Willis, CGHR Research Associate.

HouseFitzpatrick Hall, Queens' College.

ClockMonday 30 April 2018, 17:00-19:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

How archaeologists resolve the inductive risk argument

CANCELLED

UserRune Nyrup (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2018, 13:00-14:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

A Certain Idea of Britain: Writing the political history of one's own country in one's own times

UserLord Peter Hennessy (Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, CB2 1RH.

ClockThursday 01 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Disaggregating goods

Please note change of day and time

UserMariam Thalos (University of Utah).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Digital Fakery and its Consequences

UserDr Ella McPherson, Cambridge Sociology Department.

HouseRoom G, 2nd Floor, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 13 February 2018, 12:30-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Structural Injustice and the Rising Demands of Beauty

UserHeather Widdows (Birmingham).

HouseUpper Hall, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 02 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

John Stuart Mill on Universal History

UserCallum Barrell (New College of the Humanities).

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

ClockMonday 29 January 2018, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

"As God Rules the Universe": Reflections on the People and the State in Early America

Pitt Professor Inaugural Lecture, with American History Seminar

UserIra Katznelson (Columbia) .

HouseQueens Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockThursday 25 January 2018, 17:00-19:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Policing with Human Rights - promoting peaceful and inclusive societies

UserChristof Heyns, Member of the UN Human Rights Committee & former UN Special Rapporteur on summary executions, Anneke Osse, Consultant on policing and human rights, Stuart Maslen Honorary Professor, Faculty of Law (University of Pretoria) .

House Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 18 January 2018, 18:00-19:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Ether: the multiple lives of a resilient concept

UserJaume Navarro (University of the Basque Country).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 18 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

The Weaponisation of Human Rights

UserChase Madar, attorney, author and journalist.

HouseKing's Audit Room, King's College.

ClockFriday 01 December 2017, 17:00-18:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

Constructing International Law: Property, Commerce, and "Expectations"

UserDr Kate Miles (Fellow and Lecturer in Law, Gonville & Caius).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2017, 17:15-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Corruption as a global threat

UserLaurence Cockcroft, Independent Writer and Economist & Prof Jason Sharman, POLIS.

House Room S2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 28 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Can the Digital Revolution Transform our Productivity?

UserGilles Babinet, Tech entrepreneur and former President of the French Digital National Council.

HouseSG1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 12:00-02:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

A bold hypothesis about pursuit

UserAdrian Currie (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 16 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Iron holds the whale

UserJenny Bulstrode (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 13 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

What's next for Kenya after the 2017 Elections? The good, the bad and the ugly

UserNjoki Wamai (CGHR, POLIS, University of Cambridge), Patrick Mutahi (University of Edinburgh), Kamau Wairuri (University of Edinburgh) .

House Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 08 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Philosophical Racism

UserKatrin Flikschuh (LSE).

HouseBawden Room, West Court, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 03 November 2017, 13:00-14:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Putting health and wellbeing evidence into policy

User• Sara MacLennan, Whatworks wellbeing centre.

HouseEnglish faculty room GR04.

ClockWednesday 01 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Conference: Centenary of the Russian Revolution

UserOrganisers: Dr David Lane (Cambridge Sociology) and Dr Jeff Miley (Cambridge Sociology).

HouseQueen's Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockFriday 27 October 2017, 09:45-18:00

International Relations & History Working Group

Go East: Sovereignty Question in IR Revisited

UserDr Ayse Zarakol (University of Cambridge).

HouseWine Room King's College.

ClockThursday 26 October 2017, 13:00-14:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

Transnational Conflicts: A New Kind of War?

UserDr Ziv Bohrer (Bar-Ilan University; visitor, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law).

HouseLauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

ClockWednesday 25 October 2017, 17:15-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The perils of p-hacking and the promise of pre-analysis plans

UserJacob Stegenga (with Zoë Hitzig) (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2017, 13:00-14:30

International Relations & History Working Group

Hitler's biography

UserProf. Brendan Simms ( History of International Relations, Cambridge University).

HouseWine Room King's College.

ClockThursday 05 October 2017, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Breaking Aleppo: Facts and Fictions of the Conflict

UserMaksymilian Czuperski, Director, Digital Forensic Research Lab & Special Advisor to the President, Atlantic Council.

House Room S2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 13 June 2017, 12:00-13:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Salon: Duterte’s War on Drugs (Last CGHR Salon of Easter Term!)

UserSharmila Parmanand, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies.

House Room S2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 08 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

The Grand Dichotomies: Sovereignty, the Public/ Private Divide, and Company States

For the paper in advance, please contact md718@cam.ac.uk

UserProfessor Jason Sharman (POLIS).

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 01 June 2017, 15:30-16:45

Philosophy Events

Routledge Lecture in Philosophy

UserProf Peter Singer, Princeton University & University of Melbourne.

HousePaston Brown Room, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

ClockFriday 26 May 2017, 18:00-19:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Authority, Expertise and Race in the South African TRC

UserDr. Deborah Posel, Professor of Sociology at the University of Cape Town.

House Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 17 May 2017, 17:00-18:45

Rausing Lecture

The history of failure: a chronicle of losers or key to success?

Twenty-Second Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserLissa Roberts (University of Twente).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 11 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Public Policy Seminar: Cycles of Invention and Discovery

UserProfessor Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences .

HouseRoom 119, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road.

ClockFriday 05 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Beyond Clicktivism: New Models for Exposing Human Rights Violations in the Digital Age

UserSam Dubberley, manager of Amnesty International's Digital Verification Corps, and Alexa Koenig, Executive Director of the Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley School of Law.

House Room SG2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 27 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

POSTPONED: Book launch: The Horn of Africa, State Formation and Decay

UserProfessor Christopher Clapham (Cambridge); Dr Harry Verhoeven (Georgetown, Qatar).

HouseS2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 15 March 2017, 17:00-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Asylum Monologues

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre.

ClockSaturday 11 March 2017, 14:00-16:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Radio and Political Change: Everyday Life Listening in Morocco

UserDr Ali Sonay, POLIS, University of Cambridge, with Discussant Lorena Gazzotti (Centre of Development Studies, Cambridge).

HouseRoom 138, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 06 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Contemporary Political Theory

States, Corporations, Robots

UserDavid Runciman (Cambridge).

HousePrioress's Room, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 03 March 2017, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

State Security, Torture and the Law

UserDr. Onder Ozkalipci (Medical Expert), Dr. Carla Ferstman (REDRESS) and Dr. Lutz Oette (SOAS).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 4.

ClockThursday 02 March 2017, 17:00-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Iran’s Rhetoric Aggression: the Hard Words of Soft War

UserDR ROXANNE FARMANFARMAIAN (POLIS, University of Cambridge).

HouseSociology Department Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

ClockTuesday 28 February 2017, 12:30-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Natural history and the antiquarian

UserBoris Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 27 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

How can researchers better engage with national and global policymaking?

UserCharlotte Watts (DfID), Peter Sellen (Education Policy Institute), Roy Head (CEO of DMI) and Pauline Rose (University of Cambridge).

HouseBoulind Room, Mary Allen Building, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2017, 16:00-18:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Institutions, Growth, and Global Justice

UserChris Armstrong (Southampton).

HousePrioress's Room, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 17 February 2017, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

The challenge of justice in transnational contexts of human rights violations: reflections on the case of Giulio Regeni

UserDr Antonio Marchesi (Professor of Law at Università di Teramo and President, Amnesty Italy) .

HouseKeynes Hall Lecture Theatre, King's College.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2017, 12:00-13:45

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Life Beside the State: Refusing citizenship in Rio de Janeiro's Pentecostal Subúrbios

UserLaurie Denyer-Willis (CGHR, POLIS) with discussant Professor Sarah Radcliffe (Geography).

HouseRoom 138, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 06 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Dealing with Extremism

UserProfessor David Runciman, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Wishful speaking: science, truth and dictatorship

UserStephen John (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2017, 13:00-14:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

CGHR Salon: Politics of Choice in Eastern and Southern Europe

UserDr. Marcin Smietana, Dr. Robert Pralat, and Dr. Katie Dow; Reproductive Sociology Research Group.

HouseRoom 119, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 01 December 2016, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The anti-feminist construction of the 'midlife crisis'

UserSusanne Schmidt (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Peculiar Institutions: Four centuries of race-making in the United States

UserProfessor Loïc Wacquant, Pitt Professor in the Department of Sociology .

HouseKnox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 28 November 2016, 17:00-19:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

The ghetto and the prison

UserProfessor Loïc Wacquant, Pitt Professor in the Department of Sociology .

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockFriday 18 November 2016, 17:00-19:00

Contemporary Political Theory

The Doctrine of Gender Identity - A Critical Examination

UserRebecca Reilly-Cooper (Warwick).

HouseAudit Room, King's College.

ClockFriday 18 November 2016, 13:00-14:30

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Racialized slavery and racial terrorism

UserProfessor Loïc Wacquant, Pitt Professor in the Department of Sociology .

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockThursday 17 November 2016, 17:00-19:00

Department of Sociology Seminar Series

Race as symbolic violence and public dishonour

UserProfessor Loïc Wacquant, Pitt Professor in the Department of Sociology.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 1.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2016, 17:00-19:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What makes econophysics distinctive?

UserJames Weatherall (University of California, Irvine).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2016, 13:00-14:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Making pregnancy public in seventeenth-century England

UserLeah Astbury (Department of History and Philosphy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

In conversation: Richard Leakey FRS on Kenyan politics, African politics

*Attendance by registration only: email Dr Srinivasan - ss919@cam.ac.uk

UserProfessor Richard Leakey (Stony Brook University, Turkana Basin Institute).

House Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Film screening: Things of the Aimless Wanderer

UserKiev Ruhorahoza (film Director), Piotr Cieplak and Dr Andrea Grant.

HouseArts Picturehouse, 38-39 St Andrew's Street, Cambridge CB2 3AR.

ClockSaturday 22 October 2016, 18:30-20:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Should human rights be apolitical? A debate

UserAngela Patrick, Dr Ayça Çubukçu, Dr Stephanie Palmer, Dr Sharath Srinivasan and Julian Huppert.

HouseS1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockMonday 17 October 2016, 19:30-20:30

Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events

Book launch: Why Comrades Go To War

UserHarry Verhoeven (Georgetown), Philip Roessler (College of William and Mary), Christopher Clapham (discussant, Cambridge).

HouseS2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Rd, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2016, 17:00-18:30