CRASSH

Alfred Dubs Lecture: race, corporate “sovereigns” and corporate borders

E. Tendayi Achiume (Alicia Miñana Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles and former UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance).

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

Wednesday 15 May 2024, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge University Energy Technology Society

Energy Policy: Road to Net Zero

Terry Macalister, Guy Buckenham and Dr Shobana Sivanendran.

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

Thursday 25 January 2024, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge University Energy Technology Society

The engineering reality of decarbonisation and the role of nuclear energy

Mr Paul Stein, Chairman at Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactors.

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

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 18:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Moral Personality in Machiavelli

Peter Stacey (UCLA).

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

Monday 05 June 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Political Theory of Restauration

Béla Kapossy (University of Lausanne).

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

Monday 15 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Engineering Biology Interdisciplinary Research Centre

Designing the next generation of bioengineered tools for health & wellbeing - ENGBIO IRC Forum

Prof. Randall J Platt, ETH Zurich & Dr Kiran Patil, MRC Toxicology Cambridge.

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

Thursday 04 May 2023, 17:00-21:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Beauvoir and Rousseau on Theatrical Consciousness

Kate Kirkpatrick (Oxford).

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

Monday 01 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Problem of Taqiyya: Invisible Subjects in Indian Political Thought

Taushif Kara (King's College London).

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

Monday 13 March 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Truth and Loyalty

Matt Sleat (University of Sheffield).

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

Monday 06 March 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Plato's Longue Durée: the Politics of Time in the Later Dialogues

Carol Atack (Newnham College, Cambridge).

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

Monday 20 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

TBA

Stefan Eich (Georgetown University).

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Afterlives of François de Callières: Secrecy, Espionage and the Twentieth-Century Law of Diplomatic Relations

Megan Donaldson (University College London).

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

Monday 06 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Untimely Consciousness: Reading Modernity Through the White-Collar Lens

Emily Steinhauer (Royal Holloway).

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

Monday 30 January 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Democracy and Caesarism in Histories of Progress: G. F. Kolb and the Politics of Nineteenth-Century Cultural History

Iain McDaniel (University of Sussex).

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

Monday 23 January 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

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

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

From Cyberspace to the Metaverse: Toward an Intellectual History of the Internet

Angus Burgin (Johns Hopkins University).

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

Monday 21 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

On the Liberties of the Ancients: Licentiousness, Equal Rights, and the Rule of Law

Benjamin Straumann (University of Zurich).

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

Monday 14 November 2022, 17:15-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Friedrich Carl von Savigny and the Politics of Legal Knowledge

Charlotte Johann (Churchill College, Cambridge).

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

Monday 07 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hans Kelsen, Imperial Dissolution, and the History of Modern Legal Thought

Natasha Wheatley (Princeton).

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

Monday 31 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Virtue Beyond Law? Christian Ethics and Political Duties in Reformation Europe

Sarah Mortimer (Christ Church, Oxford).

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

Monday 24 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

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

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

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

Students for Global Health Cambridge

Forced displacement, migration, and global health

Dr Naures Atto, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

Students for Global Health Cambridge

The changing field of global health: aid and international partnerships

Dr Neil Squires, Public Health England .

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

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

Students for Global Health Cambridge

The role of the media in global health

Jacqui Thornton, Sarah Newey and more tbc - health journalists.

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

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

Students for Global Health Cambridge

The frontline of vaccine development

Professor Margaret Stanley; Professor Derek Smith; Professor Jonathan Heeney. University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Digital Humanities

Digital Landscapes: Understanding Archival Representation with Digital Methods

Book your place at: https://digital-landscapes.eventbrite.co.uk. This event will be followed by a wine reception

Professor Ruth Ahnert, Queen Mary University of London.

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

Monday 27 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Slavonic Studies

Special event for 100 years since the regaining of Polish independence

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Thursday 15 November 2018, 15:00-20:00

Cambridge University Polish Society

Polish Independence Day - Chopin Piano Recital by Piotr Pawlak

Piotr Pawlak, Gdansk Musical Academy.

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

Sunday 11 November 2018, 17:30-19:00

CRASSH

Law and the Arts: Staging Law, Performing Trials

Registration for this event is now open. The event is free to attend but registration is required. Details: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/27723

Adele Thomas, Carey Young, Farah Karim-Cooper, Subha Mukherji, Nicola Padfield QC, Richard Sherwin, and Caroline Williams.

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

Tuesday 03 July 2018, 15:30-17:30

Conspiracy & Democracy

Conspiracy Theory: A Lizard's Tale

Marlon Solomon.

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

Friday 08 June 2018, 18:00-19:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Brexit: What happens and where do we go from here?

Professor Anand Menon.

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

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

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

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

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

Tuesday 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?

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

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

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

The Believing Brain: Neuroscience of Belief panel discussion

The Believing Brain: Neuroscience of Belief panel discussion

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Tuesday 03 April 2018, 18:00-21:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminars

The Believing Brain: Neuroscience of Belief panel discussion

Prof. Alasdair Coles, Dr. Joseph Tennant, Dr. Harvey McMahon FRS, Dr. Lee de Wit.

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

Tuesday 03 April 2018, 18:00-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Microsoft: Quantum Computing

Anita Ramanan, Microsoft.

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

Thursday 15 March 2018, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Structurally unravelling ATP synthase

Professor John Walker.

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

Thursday 15 February 2018, 19:30-20:30