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Emma Griffin (Queen Mary University of London) .
Thursday 19 March 2026, 14:15-16:00
The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography
The seminar offers a unique opportunity for students and scholars to reflect on some great historical works and engage in discussion with renowned experts. The seminar will endeavour to underline the importance of the classics of historiography for their relevant intellectual function in creating critical political thought.
Contact: Prof Davide Cadeddu
4 upcoming talks View 358 archived talks
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Schleiermacher on Masse and Monarch
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Title to be confirmed
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Moral Geographies of Pan-Asian Sisterhood: Examining Elite Indian and Chinese Women's Political Thought c. 1920 - 45
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Revolutionary Linkages across Iran, the Russian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire, 1904 - 1908
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Seminar Postponed
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Republic of Beavers'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Does Art Have a Purpose? A Response from Aristotle's Poetics
Political Thought and Intellectual History
In the Shadow of Minority Rights
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Gendering Intellectual Labour in Interwar Central Europe and Exile: Marie Jahoda and Hilda Weiss
Political Thought and Intellectual History
In Defence of Universities: Knowledge and its Enemies in Early Modern Europe
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Political Theory of American Populism
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Macedonianism of Fear: Aristotle versus Rawls
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hegel and German Public Law
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Mosca and the Ruling Class
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Censors and Recalls: Rousseau on Elite Accountability
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Seeing Politics through Time: The Grounds of Modern Politics c. 1848-1914
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Title to be confirmed
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Moral Philosophy and the Dissenting Academies, 1660-1860
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Experimental Democracy
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Enlightenment Scepticism and the Conditions for Political Stability
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The American Progressives on Leaderless Government and the Rule of Law
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Progress and Eschatology in British Antislavery Thought
Political Thought and Intellectual History
John Stuart Mill, Imperial Rule, and Freedom of Speech
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Post-Kantian Perfectionism
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Apartheid Science and American Capitalism from Black-Scholes to the DotCom Boom
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Body Metaphor and Cross-Cultural Political Theory in Medieval Afro-Eurasia
Political Thought and Intellectual History
On the Reception of Christian Thomasius's Political Thought in Protestant Northern Germany
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roundtable on 'Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Arabization and the Social Sciences in Algeria: Language, Pan-Arabism, and Nation-Building
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Reading Hegel in the Twenty-First Century
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Women's Appeals to Talent in Seventeenth-Century England
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Locke's Political Legacy
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Limits of Enlightenment: Frederick II, the philosophes, and the common people
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Rethinking Weber's 'Politics'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Paradiastole and Civil War in Ancient Greek and Roman Thought
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Oikonomia of Conspiracy
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Enlightenment Theory of Rights
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Why Popular Participation? Collective Action, Majoritarianism, and Solidarity in Ancient Greece
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Technology, Environment, and Crisis: The Idea of βCatastrophic Technologyβ and the Environmental Movement
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Rights in Roman Republican Thought
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Violence against Women in Feminist Re-Readings of Marx in Socialist Contexts
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The United States of Europe, 1848β1914
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Des Moulins Γ Paroles. The Battle for the Meaning of Democracy in France, 1850β1851
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roman Law between Scholasticism and Humanism
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Slavery in the Society of Equals: Winstanley and the Diggers
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Pre-History of British Gramscianism. A Transnational Perspective
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roundtable on Hegel's World Revolutions
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Luis de Molina (1535β1600) and Atlantic Slavery
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Loving and Killing Children: Jeremy Bentham on Adult-Child Sex, Infanticide, and Abortion
Political Thought and Intellectual History
An Angry Warning: Pareto and Elite Circulation
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hobbes on People and Multitude: Context and Argument
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Technology, Environment, and Crisis: βCatastrophic Technologyβ and the Environmental Movement
Political Thought and Intellectual History
John Locke and Slavery
Political Thought and Intellectual History
What did SimΓ³n BolΓvar Owe to Charles V?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roundtable on Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Moral Personality in Machiavelli
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Political Theory of Restauration
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Beauvoir and Rousseau on Theatrical Consciousness
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Problem of Taqiyya: Invisible Subjects in Indian Political Thought
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Truth and Loyalty
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Plato's Longue DurΓ©e: the Politics of Time in the Later Dialogues
Political Thought and Intellectual History
TBA
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Afterlives of François de Callières: Secrecy, Espionage and the Twentieth-Century Law of Diplomatic Relations
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Untimely Consciousness: Reading Modernity Through the White-Collar Lens
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Democracy and Caesarism in Histories of Progress: G. F. Kolb and the Politics of Nineteenth-Century Cultural History
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roundtable on 'The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
From Cyberspace to the Metaverse: Toward an Intellectual History of the Internet
Political Thought and Intellectual History
On the Liberties of the Ancients: Licentiousness, Equal Rights, and the Rule of Law
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Friedrich Carl von Savigny and the Politics of Legal Knowledge
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hans Kelsen, Imperial Dissolution, and the History of Modern Legal Thought
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Virtue Beyond Law? Christian Ethics and Political Duties in Reformation Europe
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roundtable on Jessica Pattersonβs (Cambridge) Book, 'Religion, Enlightenment and Empire'
Legal Histories beyond the State
Law Made Immortal: Inheritance and Personhood in Modern German Legal Thought
β οΈ Draft paper will be circulated from up to one week in advance
Legal Histories beyond the State
Traditional Medicine Goes Global: Pan-African Precedents, Cultural Decolonization, and Cold War Rights/Propertiesβ
β οΈ Paper available for pre-reading
Legal Histories beyond the State
Protection-Shopping among Empires: Suspended Sovereignty in the Cocos-Keeling Islands
β οΈ The paper will be made available before the seminar
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Dugald Stewart and Political Economy after Enlightenment
Legal Histories beyond the State
Slavery and empire in early modern Iberian thought
β οΈ Draft paper will be circulated from up to one week in advance
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Post-dissident Liberalism as Politics and Culture: East-Central Europe after 1989
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Reason of State beyond the Canon: Political Argument and Calculation in early Stuart Projects
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Political Thought of Charles Malik
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Democracy and Representation in Early Modern England, 1531β1653
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Freedom, Slavery, and Empire in Machiavelliβs Discourses on Livy
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Volk against Kaste: Non-Democratic Popular Sovereignty in Nazi Germany
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics: A Roundtable Discussion
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Pandemic scholarship: Hobbes's translation of Thucydides' 'Plague of Athens'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roundtable: Max SkjΓΆnsberg, "The Persistence of Party"
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Birth of the People: Liberalism and the Origins of the Anticolonial Democratic Project in India
Political Thought and Intellectual History
James Bryce and the concepts of constitution
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Sir William Pettyβs Treatise of Taxes and Contributions: Politics and Political Economy in the Interregnum and Restoration State
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Separation of Powers as a New Theory
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hegel and Italian Political Thought
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Not Being Kantian about Moral Justification
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Experiencing Republican Texts
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Kant's 'True Politics'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Thucydidesβ Tragic Science of Democratic Defeat
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Carl Schmitt in Leipzig β Defence of Democracy or Autocratic Subversion?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Democracy Requires Organized Collective Power
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Between Virtue and Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, ca 1590-1650
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Poetry, Mores, and Laws: Herder's response to Montesquieu
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'The Greatest of All Plagues': Plato on Economic Inequality
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Revolutionary Republicanism: Robespierre, Condorcet, Grouchy
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Politics and Salus Populi: Hobbes and the Sovereign as Physician of the State
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Thomas Paine in the French Revolution
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Statelessness: A Roundtable Discussion
Political Thought and Intellectual History
"The English Always Disregarded Abstract Theoriesβ: Constructing βTory Democracyβ, 1881-1931
Legal Histories beyond the State
The corporation and law in the making of global capitalism
β οΈ There will be a pre-circulated reading for this talk. Please contact Surabhi at sr496@cam.ac.uk if you would like a copy
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Conceptualizations of Labour and the Making of the French Working Class, 1830-1848
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hypocrisy, Sociability and Virtue: Mandeville vs Shaftesbury
Legal Histories beyond the State
Thinking Inside the Box: βModularβ Historiography, the Ethiopian Empire and Other Subjects of International Law
β οΈ There will be a pre-circulated reading for this talk. Please contact Surabhi at sr496@cam.ac.uk if you would like a copy
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Fortitude: Spinoza on living in the light of our knowledge
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Empire and Sovereignty in "Democracies of the East"
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Freedom, Slavery and Empire in Machiavelli's 'Discourses on Livy'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Neoliberal Turn
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Interpreting the French Revolution with Germaine de StaΓ«l
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Ecce Homo: Nietzsche on the Philosophic Life
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Acting, Artifice, and the Political Sphere in Eighteenth-Century French Thought
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
β οΈ Organised jointly with the Centre for History and Economics
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Marx, Arendt and the Temporalities of Revolution
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Empire, Freedom and Violence: Theories of Political Pluralism and Dante's Monarchy
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roundtable on In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Chair of Ethics in the University of Naples and Giambattista Vicoβs La Scienza Nuova
Cambridge Centre for Political Thought
Reinhart Koselleck Symposium
Cambridge Centre for Political Thought
Seeley Lectures 2019, Elizabeth Anderson (Michigan): Neoliberalism as a Reversion from the Progressive to the Conservative Work Ethic
Cambridge Centre for Political Thought
Seeley Lectures 2019, Elizabeth Anderson (Michigan): Bentham and Malthus through the Lens of the Work Ethic: A Conservative Tale
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Seeing though lies: Plato on how to avert tyranny
Cambridge Centre for Political Thought
Seeley Lectures 2019, Elizabeth Anderson (Michigan): Locke and Classical Liberals through the Lens of the Work Ethic: A (Mostly) Progressive Tale
Cambridge Centre for Political Thought
Seeley Lectures 2019, Elizabeth Anderson (Michigan): Neoliberalism and its Puritan Roots: A Tale of Two Work Ethics
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Francis Bacon on Peace and the 1604 Treaty of London
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Plantationβs Colonial Modernity in Comparative Perspective
Legal Histories beyond the State
American States of Nature: The Origins of Independence
Legal Histories beyond the State
International Law's Objects: A Conversation
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Languages of Constituent Power
International Relations & History Working Group
Malcolm X, Human Rights, and A New World Picture
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Three Pillars of Liberalism: Freedom, Markets, and Morals from the Enlightenment to the Present
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Affairs of Humanity: Arguing for Humanitarian Intervention in Eighteenth-Century Europe
International Relations & History Working Group
'Global History and the Place of the International'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Karl Marx and the Cycles of American Capitalism
Political Thought and Intellectual History
1789 in 1954: Human Rights and the Algerian Revolution
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Spectacular Black Death: Lynching, Lethal Police Violence and the Black Female Body
International Relations & History Working Group
Social Pressure and the Making of the Wartime Civilian Protection Rules
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
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Max Weber's Political Thought and the First World War
Legal Histories beyond the State
Act of State and the Limits of Adjudication
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Reform or Revolution', redux: Eduard Bernstein on the 1918-19 German Revolution
International Relations & History Working Group
"Leveraging 'Publicness' at the League of Nations: The Minority Question and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom"
Legal Histories beyond the State
Debating the rise and fall of the first East African Community in East Africaβs public sphere, 1960s-1970s
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Coercion in a Subjective World
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Race Man: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas
International Relations & History Working Group
βCold Wars and the Academy: An Oral History of Russian and Eurasian Studiesβ
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Can we write an ethical history of the early common law?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hobbes on the Definition of a Legal Sphere
Legal Histories beyond the State
'The consciousness of a duty done': British attitudes towards self-determination and the case of the Sudan
International Relations & History Working Group
Order Projects and Resistance in the Global Political System: A Framework for International Relations History with Case (1851-67)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Constitutionalism of Imperial Expansion
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Dilemmas of Sovereignty: Law, Politics and Moral Reasoning in Hugo Grotius
Legal Histories beyond the State
Histories of International Law, History within International Law: Questions of Method
Legal Histories beyond the State
Civitas and Regnum: Grotiusβ account of the sovereign entity in the De Iure Belli ac Pacis
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Human nature as capacities in Hobbes's political theory
Legal Histories beyond the State
Universalizing the Promise of Empire
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Liberty and Economic Independence in the Roman Republic (CANCELLED)
Cambridge Centre for Political Thought
Political Thought, Time and History: An International Conference
Cambridge Centre for Political Thought
Political Thought, Time and History: An International Conference
Legal Histories beyond the State
Nationality, Alienage and Early International Rights
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Chains and Invisible Threads: Liberty and Domination in Marx's Account of Wage-Slavery
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Representation and the Fall
Legal Histories beyond the State
CANCELLED IN SYMPATHY WITH STRIKE Nationality, Alienage and Early International Rights
International Relations & History Working Group
Raymond Aron, Jimmy Carter and the Neoconservative Origins of the Critique of International Human Rights
Legal Histories beyond the State
CANCELLED in solidarity with strike action: Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources and the Unsettling of Mainstream Narratives of International Legal History
International Relations & History Working Group
Shifting Patterns of Contemporary Globalization
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Whence the force of the law? John Rawls and the course of American legal philosophy
Political Thought and Intellectual History
"To hold oneself, like a sliver, to the heart of the world": the Political Thought of the Palestinian Revolution
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hobbes (and Weber) on the Jury
Political Thought and Intellectual History
John Stuart Mill on Universal History
Cambridge Centre for Political Thought
Workshop on Melissa Lane's Carlyle Lectures
Political Thought and Intellectual History
"As God Rules the Universe": Reflections on the People and the State in Early America
β οΈ Pitt Professor Inaugural Lecture, with American History Seminar
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Democracy and Republicanism: A Difficult Partnership
Legal Histories beyond the State
Constructing International Law: Property, Commerce, and "Expectations"
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Law, morality and the Rechtsstaat in post-war West Germany
International Relations & History Working Group
Writing the History of Transnational Spaces:A New Approach to the Study of Pan-European Organisations and Norms
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Jon Elster's Sour Grapes
Political Thought and Intellectual History
A Good Man or a Good Citizen? Aristotelian Politics and the Italian Renaissance Courts
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Plato's Legacy and the Problem of Myth in Political Thought
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'As God Rules the Universe': Reflections on the People and the State in Early America
β οΈ CANCELLED
International Relations & History Working Group
Go East: Sovereignty Question in IR Revisited
Legal Histories beyond the State
Transnational Conflicts: A New Kind of War?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The End of Enlightenment: death and the philosophers, 1776-1809
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Flowers of the Crown in English Legal Thought
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Selfish Systems: Hobbes and Locke
International Relations & History Working Group
Hitler's biography
Cambridge Centre for Political Thought
Quentin Skinner Lecture & Colloquium: Dr Sophie Smith (Oxford): 'The Nature of Politics and the History of Political Thought'
Legal Histories beyond the State
The Grand Dichotomies: Sovereignty, the Public/ Private Divide, and Company States
β οΈ For the paper in advance, please contact md718@cam.ac.uk
Cambridge Centre for Political Thought
Seeley Lectures 2017, Axel Honneth (Columbia) 'Germany: recognition and self-determination'
Cambridge Centre for Political Thought
Seeley Lectures 2017, Axel Honneth (Columbia) 'Great Britain: recognition and self-control'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Commercial treaties and understandings of 'free trade' in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe
Cambridge Centre for Political Thought
Seeley Lectures 2017, Axel Honneth (Columbia) 'France: recognition and self-loss'
Cambridge Centre for Political Thought
Seeley Lectures, Axel Honneth (Columbia) 'Methodological remarks on intellectual history'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Emergence of the Sovereign Consumer β from Adam Smith to the Socialist Calculation Debate
Political Thought and Intellectual History
"The New World" of Karl Barth: Legacies of a political theologian
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Islam, Toleration and the Enlightenment
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The future of the world. A new history of the future
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Grotius on natural law and supererogation
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Legalism: A Reconstruction and Critique of Judith Shklar's Concept and its Contemporary Import
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Cajetan, Suarez and republican liberty: A theme in later scholastic political thought
Cambridge Centre for Political Thought
'Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion': half-day Colloquium
Political Thought and Intellectual History
In His Veins the Blood of Kings: Thucydides in the Renaissance
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Transformation of International Economics during the Great Depression
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Emperor's Two Bodies: Mirrored Sovereignty, the Code Civil, and Napoleon's New Men
Political Thought and Intellectual History
From royalism to the mystical body of Christ: The interwar revolution in French Catholic political theology
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Colonialism, Race and Slavery in Raynal's Histoire des Deux Indes
Political Thought and Intellectual History
French revolutionary thought and the early Third Republic
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Foucault and Shakespeare: Ceremony, Theatre, Politics
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Theorising Democracy beyond βStateβ and βSocietyβ
Political Thought and Intellectual History
From state to society, through sacred history: Hobbes and Spinoza
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Democracy confronts diversity: Deliberation and representation in Victorian Britain
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Reflections on Inequality, Respect, and Love in the Political Writings of Mary Wollstonecraft
Political Thought and Intellectual History
A Taste for Virtue: Eighteenth-Century Epicureanism and Rousseau's Political Thought
Political Thought and Intellectual History
From βEnemies of the Crossβ To βBrethren in Faithβ: Empire, Decolonization, and the Curious End of Europeβs Religious Wars
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The cause of all our troubles: the American invention of isolationism in World War II
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Polis and the Res Publica: Two Arendtian Models of Political Violence
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Francois Chatelet and the Spatial Turn in French Postwar Thought
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Constitution and Sovereignty in Tocqueville's Democracy in America
Political Thought and Intellectual History
How to run the world: conceptions of imperial rule between republicanism and technocracyβ
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Max Weber and some intellectual consequences of the war
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Beyond Utopia: Thomas More as Political Thinker?β
Political Thought Postdoctoral Forum
Catholic visions of democratic world order in the 1940
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Governing America: John Locke in the 1690s
Political Thought and Intellectual History
From Cameralism to nineteenth-century socialism: Lorenz Stein's idea of a science of society
Political Thought and Intellectual History
How (Not) To Draw Contemporary Insights From The History of Political Thought
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Smith and Rousseau, After Hume and Mandeville
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The American States and Their Police Power, 1789-1931
Political Thought Postdoctoral Forum
TBC
Political Thought Postdoctoral Forum
TBC
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Problem of Political Order in Classical Confucian Thought
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Conceptions of Social Pathology in Hobbes, Rousseau, and Kant
Political Thought Postdoctoral Forum
Chris Bickerton, "Populism or Technocracy: Opposites or Complements?"
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Sovereignty and Representation in Rousseau's Considerations on the Government of Poland
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The American States and Their Police Power, 1789-1931
β οΈ Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.
Political Thought and Intellectual History
On Political Responsibility in Post-Revolutionary Times: Kant and Constantβs Debate on Lying
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Early Hobbes
Political Thought and Intellectual History
"The art of ruling minds": Jeremy Bentham and the Public Opinion Tribunal
Political Thought Postdoctoral Forum
Hugo Drochon (CRASSH): "Nietzsche's critique of democracyβ
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Is there a republican model of democracy?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Political Science before Hobbes: the Aristotelian tradition
Political Thought Postdoctoral Forum
Paul Sagar (Kingβs), "A Question of Sympathy"
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The city and the soul in James Harrington's Republicanism
Political Thought Postdoctoral Forum
'Rape in the History of Political Thoughtβ
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Bureaucracy and Moral Agency: Practices of the Self at the Frontlines of Public Service
β οΈ Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Dystopia: For Dummies
β οΈ Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.
Political Thought Postdoctoral Forum
'Breaking Democracy's Spell'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Thomas Paine's Democratic Thought
β οΈ Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.
Political Thought and Intellectual History
A strange afterlife: Pierre Berault and the meaning of Aristotelianism in the late seventeenth century
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Raymond Aron and the Origins of the "End of Ideology"
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Concern for Oneself and for Others in Porphyry's Ethics of "On Abstinence"
β οΈ Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Nietzsche's Perfect State
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Michael Oakeshott and the Idea of Totalitarianism
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Statelessness in International Political and Legal Thought, 1921-1935
β οΈ Comment: Duncan Kelly (Jesus College, Cambridge)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Edmund Burke and the French Revolution before the Reflections
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'If it be without contention': Hobbes on Difference without Disagreement
β οΈ Comment: Richard Tuck (Harvard University)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Bentham as Conspiracy Theorist
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Philosophical History in Hannah Arendtβs Political Thought
β οΈ Comment: Robert Fine (University of Warwick)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Postmarxism, Radical Democracy, and the Machiavellian Moment
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Radical Atheism: Jean Meslier in Context
β οΈ Comment: Michael Sonenscher (Kingβs College, Cambridge)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Art and Elevation: Distance and History Painting in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain
Political Thought and Intellectual History
E. P. Thompson, Judith Shklar and the Implications of 'Antipolitics'
β οΈ Comment: Stefan Collini (Cambridge)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Kant on Rebellion and the Mere Idea of Popular Rule
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Tracing a Meridian through the Map of Time: Fact, Conjecture and the Scientific Method in William Robertson's *History of America*
β οΈ Comment: John Robertson (Cambridge)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
English Republicanism in Transnational Context: Edmund Ludlowβs Protestant Network in Seventeenth-Century Switzerland
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Citizenship, War and the Origins of International Ethics in American Political Philosophy 1960-1975
β οΈ Comment: Christopher Brooke (University of Bristol)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
What Makes Representation Democratic?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Not Talking But Thinking: Democratic Deliberation in Classical Athens
β οΈ Comment: David Runciman (POLIS)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
What is Liberalism?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Thomas Willis and the Religious Context of the First Neurology
β οΈ Comment: TBC
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Aspects of Indirect Democracy in Ancient Greece, in particular in Aristotle's Politics
Political Thought and Intellectual History
J. G. A. Pocock and the Idea of the 'Cambridge School' in the History of Political Thought
β οΈ Comment: Richard Bourke (Queen Mary)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Realism Tamed or Liberalism Betrayed? The Dystopic Liberal Imagination in Political Thought
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Society' in British Political Thought, c. 1930 to 1960: Some Rival Conceptions of 'Positivism'
β οΈ Joint Session with the Modern British History Seminar
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Malthus and the Doctrine of Utility
β οΈ Commentator: Donald Winch (University of Sussex)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'This Melancholy Labyrinth': Magistrates and Order in the Early Nineteenth-Century British Empire
β οΈ Commentator: Michael Lobban (Queen Mary, London)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Histories of Thought and Comparative Political Theory: The Thesis of 'Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge,' 1860-1895
β οΈ Commentator: John Dunn (King's College, Cambridge)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Charismatic Sword: Thomas MΓΌntzerβs Theology of Violence
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Third Earl of Shaftesbury and the Defence of Humane Learning
β οΈ Commentator: Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Anthropology beyond Empires: Samuel Stanhope Smith and the Reconfiguration of the Atlantic World
Political Thought and Intellectual History
On trade and teleology: the role of commercial relations in Kant's philosophy of history
β οΈ Comment: Istvan Hont (Cambridge)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Passions in Hobbes's Political Philosophy
β οΈ Comment: Michael Edwards (University of Cambridge)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Historicisms and counter-historicisms in the seventeenth century
β οΈ Comment: Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hobbes and Sexual Desire
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The nature of dominion in De Justa Reipublicae Christianae Authoritate (1590)
β οΈ Comment: Harro Hopfl (Essex)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Authority: Some Fables
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Calvinist Doctrines at the Beginning of the Scottish Enlightenment: Archibald Campbell vs. the Committee for Purity of Doctrine on Human Nature and Self-Love
β οΈ Comment: John Robertson (Cambridge)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Kant and Vattel in Context: Cosmopolitan Philosophy and Diplomatic Casuistry
β οΈ Commentator: Isaac Nakhimovsky (University of Cambridge)
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Balzan-Skinner Lecture and Colloquium 2012
β οΈ John Locke and the Fable of Liberalism
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The power of persuasion in Plato
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The rights of sovereignty in early modern political thought
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roman Liberty
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Commerce and monarchy in David Hume's History of England
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Scottish critics of Hume and Smith: Maclaine, Reid and Fergsuon
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Thomas Hobbes and the problem of self-censorship
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Classical history in the Renaissance: what can the Universal Short Title Catalogue do for us?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Republicanism and Empire in Britain and France 1763-1815
β οΈ Held jointly with the Modern European History Seminar
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Sismondi contra Rousseau
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Consensual and non-consensual politics in medieval Roman law
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Jean Bodin, oeconomics and politics
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Civil Religion: a window into perennial themes in political philosophy
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The false cosmos of new music: Adorno's Philosophie der Neuen Musik as modern political pedagogy
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Regalism and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Naples
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The business enterprise as organisation and as association in nineteenth-century Britain: Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill and Auguste Comte
Political Thought and Intellectual History
A social and cultural history of early modern keywords and concepts
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Freedom, the common good and the rule of law: Lippman and Hayek on economic planning
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Women, freedom and equality: Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Some new sources and contexts for the De Legibus Hebraeorum (1685) of John Spencer, father of 'Enlightened' sacred history
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Three Views of Democracy
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Clapham Junction: The place of the Protestant Ethic in Max Weber's intellectual biography
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Historicising the French Revolution in the Third Republic: the case of Ernest Lavisse
Political Thought and Intellectual History
John Locke in liberal memory
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Scholarship, Morals and Government: Jean-Henri-Samuel Formey's and Johann Gottfried Herder's Responses to Rousseau's First Discourse
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Empire and legal universalisms in the eighteenth century
Political Thought and Intellectual History
"The Race of Life": Republican Revisionism Revisited
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Luxury and the route to revolution in Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hegel and the sea. International trade in Hegel's political philosophy
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Addison's Empire. Whig conceptions of empire in the early eighteenth century
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Liberty, tyranny and idolatry in Calvinist thought
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Republic and Mixed Government: Machiavelli and Aristotle
Political Thought and Intellectual History
James Mill on the French Revolution
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Seventeenth-Century Perceptions of the Norman Conquest'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Society as the Mode of Redemption: The Idea of Individuality in Georg Simmel's Early Sociological Writings'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Heidegger, Cassirer, and Political Theology'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Self-Possession and Carelessness: Two Versions of Liberty in Montaigne's Essais'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Thinking with Satan: diabolical inspiration and human agency in late antiquity'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Revolutionary Epigones: the Debate between Kant and his Radical Followers'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'French Liberals on Religion: From Constant to Laboulaye'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Between Lassalle and Chernyshevsky: Marx and the Aftermath of 1848
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Mahatma Gandhi's Political Thought
Political Thought and Intellectual History
On Equality
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Rethinking Law and Religion. Towards a Legal Anthropology of Late Antiquity
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Montesquieu and Machiavelli: Appropriation and Critique
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Historia Literaria in the Field: German Academics and the Search for the Dutch Underground, 1690-1720
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Crisis of Global Citizenship
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The History and Implications of Secularisation: The Leiden Circle, 1575-1618
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Security as a Norm in Hobbes's Theory of War: A Critique of Schmitt's Interpretation of Hobbes's Approach to International Relations
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Between Lassalle and Chernyshevsky: Marx and the Aftermath of 1848
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Republican King: The Creation of Executive Power in America
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Role of Conceptions of History in Shaping Political Ideas: The Case of the Early-Fourteenth-Century Dominican John of Paris
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Thomas Hobbes and Late Renaissance Commentary on Aristotle's Politics
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Christian Wolff's Critics and the 'Foundation of Morality' in the Early German Enlightenment
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Dutch Accounting Practices and the Cultural Origins of Political Economy in Europe 1600-1730
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Corpus iuris as a Source of Law between Sovereigns in Alberico Gentili's Thought
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The International Political Thought of John Stuart Mill
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Karl Marx and the Production Organism
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Kingship and Counsel in Early Modern England'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'The Transatlantic Dimension of Portuguese Political Thought, c. 1790-1840'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'"The Time Is Coming When Politics Will Have a Different Meaning"'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'Protagoras on Political Skill: Plato Protagoras 320c-328d'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'From divine inspiration to empirical enquiry in the German Enlightenment: J. D. Michaelis on language and civilisation'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
'The Plan for Perpetual Peace: From Saint-Pierre to Rousseau'
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