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Olivier Higgins (New College, University of Oxford).
Monday 16 March 2026, 17:00-18:30
Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series
Seminars organised by the Centre of African Studies
Contact: Victoria Jones
4 upcoming talks View 1224 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
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Book Talk: Contesting Pluralism(s) Islamism, Liberalism, and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Chronopolitics across the West and non-West Divide: Populism, History and Historical IR in Turco-European Relations
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
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Bounding War: the Institutional Logic of Prohibitions on Militarized Bargaining
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Playing with Fire - Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The American Progressives on Leaderless Government and the Rule of Law
POLIS Department Research Seminars
The End of Engagement: America's China Experts and U.S. Strategy Since 1989
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CANCELLED: CGHR Practitioner Series: Working as an International Journalist
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Progress and Eschatology in British Antislavery Thought
Contemporary Political Theory
Search Engines and Democracy's Information Dilemma
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
World of the Right - Radical Conservatism and Global Order
Political Thought and Intellectual History
John Stuart Mill, Imperial Rule, and Freedom of Speech
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Working on Human Rights' Watch Responses to Major Crises
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Post-Kantian Perfectionism
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Beyond infotainment and digital-only paradigms: Conservative talk radio in rural USA
Contemporary Political Theory
Ghosting and Decency
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Apartheid Science and American Capitalism from Black-Scholes to the DotCom Boom
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Beyond the Wilsonian Moment β Empire and order in world history
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Meet a United Nations Special Mandate Holder
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Body Metaphor and Cross-Cultural Political Theory in Medieval Afro-Eurasia
Contemporary Political Theory
The Politics of Spontaneity
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Informers Up Close: Why Do People Report Others to Secret Police?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
On the Reception of Christian Thomasius's Political Thought in Protestant Northern Germany
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Being a political organiser and non-profit founder
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Sudan's Tragedy: Popular Revolution to War, Famine, Genocide
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roundtable on 'Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900'
Contemporary Political Theory
Spaces on the Move: Transforming the Politics of Spatial Mobilities in a Changing World
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
Contemporary Political Theory
From 'Racial Capitalism' to 'Capitalist Racialization': A Marxist View
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
What Interests do Algorithms Serve? Is Algorithmic Colonisation Inevitable?
β οΈ Please register here to attend: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1033771597677?aff=oddtdtcreator
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Women's Appeals to Talent in Seventeenth-Century England
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Digital Development Dilemma: From Progress to Control
β οΈ Please register here to attend : https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1033765429227?aff=oddtdtcreator
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Locke's Political Legacy
Contemporary Political Theory
Does the Baker Have a βFree Speechβ Case? The Expansion of Speech-as-Conduct and Risks to Free Speech
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Limits of Enlightenment: Frederick II, the philosophes, and the common people
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Algorithmic Governance: Theory and Practice
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Rethinking Weber's 'Politics'
Contemporary Political Theory
Colonizing Free Will
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Paradiastole and Civil War in Ancient Greek and Roman Thought
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Governance and Smart Policing in Kerala, India: Towards a Kerala Model of Algorithmic Governance?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Oikonomia of Conspiracy
Contemporary Political Theory
Food as a Problem for Multicultural Theory and Practice
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Two countries at birth: The century that co-created Canada and the United States
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Africa's Voices' 10 Year Anniversary Celebration
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Enlightenment Theory of Rights
Contemporary Political Theory
Rescuing Democracy from Oligarchic Capture
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Why Popular Participation? Collective Action, Majoritarianism, and Solidarity in Ancient Greece
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
AI and Human Rights
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Technology, Environment, and Crisis: The Idea of βCatastrophic Technologyβ and the Environmental Movement
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Movie Screening: The Cost of Convenience
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Rights in Roman Republican Thought
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Practitioner Series: Comfort Ero
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
Contemporary Political Theory
Race, Dissociated Labour, and Social Reproduction in the Shadow of Amazon
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Book Launch! Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: Trump and the Voice of America
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Des Moulins Γ Paroles. The Battle for the Meaning of Democracy in France, 1850β1851
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Victor Sibaja
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roman Law between Scholasticism and Humanism
Contemporary Political Theory
Tenure Neutrality and State Neutrality, or Can States Promote Home Ownership?
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Albert Fox Cahn
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Slavery in the Society of Equals: Winstanley and the Diggers
Contemporary Political Theory
Face/Body Equality: Should We Aspire to It?
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
Contemporary Political Theory
Uncivil Protest, Civil Participation, and Uncivil Non-Participation in Steve Bikoβs Ethics of Just Struggle
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
Contemporary Political Theory
A Taxonomy of Injustice
Political Thought and Intellectual History
An Angry Warning: Pareto and Elite Circulation
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Tech Design and Human Rights: Six Provocations (and a Card Game!)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hobbes on People and Multitude: Context and Argument
Contemporary Political Theory
Freedom, Spontaneity, and the Value of our Encounters
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Revolutions, counterrevolutions, and (un)making of order in Europe: the case of Ukraine
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Technology, Environment, and Crisis: βCatastrophic Technologyβ and the Environmental Movement
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Elemental Ethics for AI: Mobilising Water in Data Centres and Lithium Activism in Chile
Political Thought and Intellectual History
John Locke and Slavery
Contemporary Political Theory
Futures of Critique in International Political Theory
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Welcome Drinks!
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
The Right of Peaceful Assembly Today: Technology, Policing, Politics
Political Thought and Intellectual History
What did SimΓ³n BolΓvar Owe to Charles V?
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Student Group 2023-24: Introductory Meeting
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roundtable on Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word
Contemporary Political Theory
Protective Falsehoods
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Autocrats at the Cutting Edge: China, Innovation, and the Global Balance of Power
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Critical Data Research in Praxis
β οΈ If you're interested in joining this event, please contact Dr SebastiΓ‘n LehuedΓ© at sal92@cam.ac.uk
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Moral Personality in Machiavelli
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Book Launch: Human Rights for Pragmatists, by Jack Snyder
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Political Theory of Restauration
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Book talk: Women and Power in Africa - Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Beauvoir and Rousseau on Theatrical Consciousness
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Workshop by Voices 4 Workers in Tech (V4WT)
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Suffering, Progress, and Precarity in the West
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Problem of Taqiyya: Invisible Subjects in Indian Political Thought
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Carly Kind on Tech, Data and AI
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Truth and Loyalty
Contemporary Political Theory
The Empire of Women: Rousseau on Domination and Sexuality
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Podcasting and Social Justice
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
POSTPONED: CGHR Practitioner Series: Richard Solly on Extractivism and Mining
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Plato's Longue DurΓ©e: the Politics of Time in the Later Dialogues
Contemporary Political Theory
We Are As Gods: Eschatological Ambiguity and the Politics of Apocalyptic AI
Political Thought and Intellectual History
TBA
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Clea Kahn on Conflict and Humanitarianism
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Afterlives of François de Callières: Secrecy, Espionage and the Twentieth-Century Law of Diplomatic Relations
Contemporary Political Theory
Reparations Unbound: Dismantling Systemic Racial Injustice in the 21st Century
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
The Space of the World: Digital Platforms and the Prospects for Human Solidarity in the 21st Century
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Untimely Consciousness: Reading Modernity Through the White-Collar Lens
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Jason McCue on LawfareβHuman Rights Litigation
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Democracy and Caesarism in Histories of Progress: G. F. Kolb and the Politics of Nineteenth-Century Cultural History
Contemporary Political Theory
The Politics of Architecture: Designing a More Hospitable Welfare State
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
Contemporary Political Theory
Decolonizing Cultural Globalization: CΓ©saire and the Hierarchy of Creator and Consumer
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
Contemporary Political Theory
Is Drag Morally Objectionable?
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
Contemporary Political Theory
Democratic Futures: Towards a Critical Political Theory of Finance
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roundtable on Jessica Pattersonβs (Cambridge) Book, 'Religion, Enlightenment and Empire'
Contemporary Political Theory
Commemorating the Dead
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
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Practitioner Series: Young Alumni Practitioners Working in Health & Humanitarian Response
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
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Book Launch: "Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni's Uganda"
Contemporary Political Theory
Should we have kids in the climate emergency?
Contemporary Political Theory
Doubt as a Political Virtue
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Teach-out: RENATA ΓVILA (CEO, Open Knowledge Foundation)
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
Contemporary Political Theory
TBC
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Practitioner Series: JONATHAN COHEN (Exec Director, Conciliation Resources)
Contemporary Political Theory
Anger and Remorse
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CANCELLED: The Rights of People with Disabilities in the Climate Crisis, SΓ©bastien Jodoin
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Dugald Stewart and Political Economy after Enlightenment
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
At the Crossroads: The Digital Rights Movement in Times of Data Coloniality, SebastiΓ‘n LehuedΓ©
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
Contemporary Political Theory
A Reductionist Account of Relationship Duties
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Reason of State beyond the Canon: Political Argument and Calculation in early Stuart Projects
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Book Launch: βWhen Peace Kills Politics: International Intervention and Unending Wars in the Sudansβ, by Sharath Srinivasan.
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Book Launch:Β Searching for a New Kenya: Politics and Social Media on the Streets of Mombasa, Stephanie Diepeveen
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Political Thought of Charles Malik
Contemporary Political Theory
Forced Marriage and Modern Slavery
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
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
COVID-19 and Seafarers: A Humanitarian Crisis?
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Exploring the implications of online assemblies
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Pandemic scholarship: Hobbes's translation of Thucydides' 'Plague of Athens'
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Book launch: The Frontlines of Peace: An Insiderβs Guide to Changing the World (Severine Autesserre, Barnard College- Columbia University).
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
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Journalism in Colonial Settings: The case of Puerto Rico
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
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Practitioner Series: MΓ‘ria PatakyovΓ‘ [Public Defender of Rights]
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hegel and Italian Political Thought
Contemporary Political Theory
Audre Lorde on Care
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Not Being Kantian about Moral Justification
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Practitioner Series: Aleksandra Dier [CTED]
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Experiencing Republican Texts
Contemporary Political Theory
Normative Powers
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Kant's 'True Politics'
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Practitioner Series: Lysa John [CIVICUS]
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Thucydidesβ Tragic Science of Democratic Defeat
Contemporary Political Theory
We Who Must Fight in the Shade: Derrick Bellβs Philosophy of Racial Realism as the Basis of a Black Politics of Disempowerment
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Carl Schmitt in Leipzig β Defence of Democracy or Autocratic Subversion?
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Practitioner Series: Deborah Brown [Human Rights Watch]
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Democracy Requires Organized Collective Power
Contemporary Political Theory
Intra-Party Party Democracy: A Contextualist Account
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Between Virtue and Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, ca 1590-1650
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Tackling COVID-19 in Kenya and Somalia: Interdisciplinary innovations out of CGHR
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Poetry, Mores, and Laws: Herder's response to Montesquieu
Contemporary Political Theory
Thinking About Black Republicanism: An Introduction
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Spreading Disinformation in Brazil: the Amazon Fires Case
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
Contemporary Political Theory
The Meaning of "Rich Individuality" in Marxist Theory
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
Contemporary Political Theory
Artificial Intelligence and the Exploitative Optimization Problem
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
(Un)Settling Epistemologies Through Digital Tools
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Thomas Paine in the French Revolution
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Statelessness: A Roundtable Discussion
Contemporary Political Theory
Fabulation and the Right to the City: The Bacchae with Saidiya Hartman and Hannah Arendt
Contemporary Political Theory
"We" Exiles: Edward Said and Political Theory
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Book Launch - "Digital Witness: Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation and Accountability" (Oxford University Press, 2019)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
"The English Always Disregarded Abstract Theoriesβ: Constructing βTory Democracyβ, 1881-1931
Contemporary Political Theory
Grudge Informers Revisited: On Accountability for Collaborators with Repressive Regimes
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
Contemporary Political Theory
Political Responsibility
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
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
"Measuring Peace: Principles, Practices and Politics"- Book Discussion with Professor Richard Caplan
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Empire and Sovereignty in "Democracies of the East"
Contemporary Political Theory
The Grounds of Political Legitimacy
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Freedom, Slavery and Empire in Machiavelli's 'Discourses on Livy'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Neoliberal Turn
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Teach-out! The Ripples of Violence against Women and Girls Across Time and Spaces
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Decolonisation in International Law: What Does It Mean?
Contemporary Political Theory
Conceptual Change and Political Judgment: A Wittgensteinian Approach
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Digital Verification Workshop
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
Contemporary Political Theory
Justification and Vindication in Political Philosophy
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR and CAS event - Decolonising African Studies?
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
Contemporary Political Theory
Radical Reparations
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Student recruitment for research team - "THE RIGHT OF PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY ONLINE"
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Cambridge Festival of Ideas - Citizen Voice, Social Change and Africaβs Digital Revolution: Power to the People
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Empire, Freedom and Violence: Theories of Political Pluralism and Dante's Monarchy
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Exhibition opening- War in Raqqa: Rhetoric versus Reality
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Information Session for new Student Group 2019/20 members and coordinator
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Roundtable on In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy
Contemporary Political Theory
Hypocrisy and Anti-Hypocrisy
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Chair of Ethics in the University of Naples and Giambattista Vicoβs La Scienza Nuova
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Seeing though lies: Plato on how to avert tyranny
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Francis Bacon on Peace and the 1604 Treaty of London
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CGHR Practitioner Series presents: Reporting Human Rights Today
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
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How should the UK govern itself in the time of Brexit?
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR at the Cambridge Science Festival - Health crises, digital media and community voices
Legal Histories beyond the State
International Law's Objects: A Conversation
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Britain in Europe, 1973β1975: From Hope to Uncertainty
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Languages of Constituent Power
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How can AI be used for Social Good? Lessons from Africaβs Voices Foundation
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Legitimacy and e ectiveness of the European Semester: does the parliamentary involvement make a di erence?
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Learning Europe at its borders: how deployments to migration hotspots a ect Europeansβ understandings of themselves and society
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner's Series with Clive Baldwin, Human Rights Watch
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
BOOK TALK - Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism
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
Contemporary Political Theory
Left Critiques of Equality
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The Future of British Foreign Policy (Book launch celebration)
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CGHR Panel - The Streets Don't Forget: Photojournalism and Creative Research on the Philippine Drug War
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Affairs of Humanity: Arguing for Humanitarian Intervention in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner's Series with Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen OβBrien KBE
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
Contemporary Political Theory
Hannah Arendt in Baddawi: Political Identity without Sovereignty in Refugee History
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The Power of Political Arguments in Understanding Referendums (European Centre Seminars)
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'Appointment with God'; Facebook, Digital-Deathworlds and Extra Judicial Killings of Criminal Gangs in Eastlands Nairobi
Political Thought and Intellectual History
1789 in 1954: Human Rights and the Algerian Revolution
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The Humanitarian Club
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Liberalism and Democracy in Myanmar
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Spectacular Black Death: Lynching, Lethal Police Violence and the Black Female Body
Contemporary Political Theory
Emancipation for the Unjust Past
International Relations & History Working Group
Social Pressure and the Making of the Wartime Civilian Protection Rules
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Economic Adjustment and Political Transformation in Europe and the United States (Alcuin Lecture 2019)
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The Timeless Appeal of Technocracy in Global Governance
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The Timeless Appeal of Technocracy in Global Governance
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
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner's Series with Sam Dubberley, Amnesty International
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Max Weber's Political Thought and the First World War
Contemporary Political Theory
The Logic of Legitimacy
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Seizing the Crisis and Using Europe: The Politics of EU Defence Integration Cooperation after Brexitβ
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
βWhy should one care about European Parliament's elections in the post-Brexit European Union?β
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
Contemporary Political Theory
The Compatibility of Constitutional Democracy with International Law
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
The Role of the Catholic Church in the Global Governance of Migration
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Cogs and Monsters: economists, experts and measuring progress
Contemporary Political Theory
Political Theory for the Real World
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"
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
βWhat is βGlobal Britainβ? Brexit and Britain's World Roleβ
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
Contemporary Political Theory
Bleak Dreams, not Nightmares: Critical Dystopias and the Necessity of Melancholic Hope
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
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
βFacing the Pressures of Internationalisation and Securitisation: National Governments as the Weaker Actors?β
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Can we write an ethical history of the early common law?
Contemporary Political Theory
Disturbing the "One Size Fits All' Feudal Approach to Data Governance: Bottom-up Data Trusts
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Panel Discussion: Crime, Human Rights and Police-Community Relations: Law Enforcement in Post-Colonial Worlds
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Book launch with Nanjala Nyabola - in conversation with Dr Duncan Omanga (CGHR)
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Political Policing in Uganda: Surveillance, Mobilisation and Police-NRM Party nexus
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hobbes on the Definition of a Legal Sphere
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Recent developments in EU energy and climate policy
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
Contemporary Political Theory
A Just Theory of Riots
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
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Practical Competition Policy Implications of Digital Platforms: Taking Schumpeter Seriously (Departmental Seminar)
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Human nature as capacities in Hobbes's political theory
Contemporary Political Theory
Democratic Competition: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Legal Histories beyond the State
Universalizing the Promise of Empire
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Liberty and Economic Independence in the Roman Republic (CANCELLED)
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
From Discord to Cooperation? Armenia and Turkey in the 21st Century
Legal Histories beyond the State
Nationality, Alienage and Early International Rights
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Brexit: What happens and where do we go from here?
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Alcuin Lecture 2018- Brexit: What happened and where do we go from here?
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Alcuin Lecture 2018- Brexit: What happened and where do we go from here?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Chains and Invisible Threads: Liberty and Domination in Marx's Account of Wage-Slavery
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Law and International Religious Freedom: The Rise and Decline of the American Model
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Climate Change & Human Rights: Let's talk interdisciplinary action
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Film Screening UNSEEN ENEMY with the director Janet Tobias
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Representation and the Fall
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Gender, UN Peacebuilding and the Politics of Space
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Teach-Out! Conference! Post-Truth Phenomenon (15-17 March)
Legal Histories beyond the State
CANCELLED IN SYMPATHY WITH STRIKE Nationality, Alienage and Early International Rights
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Teach-out! Practitioner Series: Elizabeth Davies, BBC World Service
International Relations & History Working Group
Raymond Aron, Jimmy Carter and the Neoconservative Origins of the Critique of International Human Rights
Contemporary Political Theory
Procreative Justice and Genetic Selection for Non-Disease Traits: The Case of Fair Skin
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
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
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Sharath Srinivasan, Africa's Voices
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Fear and Democracy: Reflections on Security and Freedom
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
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Andrea Coomber, JUSTICE
Political Thought and Intellectual History
"To hold oneself, like a sliver, to the heart of the world": the Political Thought of the Palestinian Revolution
Contemporary Political Theory
The Doctorβs Plot: How Philosophizing Human Rights Began
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Hobbes (and Weber) on the Jury
Contemporary Political Theory
Structural Injustice and the Rising Demands of Beauty
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Alix Dunn, The Engine Room
Political Thought and Intellectual History
John Stuart Mill on Universal History
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
Contemporary Political Theory
Liberal Egalitarianism and the Critique of Religion
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Policing with Human Rights - promoting peaceful and inclusive societies
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Film screening 'Chauka, please tell us the time' and Q&A
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
The Weaponisation of Human Rights
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Stratification, Centralization, and the Structures of International Societies
Legal Histories beyond the State
Constructing International Law: Property, Commerce, and "Expectations"
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Departmental Seminar- 'A New Global Politics of Religion: Religious Harmony, Public Order, and Securitisation in the Post-colony'
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Corruption as a global threat
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Law, morality and the Rechtsstaat in post-war West Germany
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Letβs Talk: Power and Powerlessness in Academia
International Relations & History Working Group
Writing the History of Transnational Spaces:A New Approach to the Study of Pan-European Organisations and Norms
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Can the Digital Revolution Transform our Productivity?
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Jon Elster's Sour Grapes
Contemporary Political Theory
When the Rules Run Out: Informal Taxonomies at the Front Lines of Public Service
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Departmental Seminar- 'Descriptive Representation Revisited'
Political Thought and Intellectual History
A Good Man or a Good Citizen? Aristotelian Politics and the Italian Renaissance Courts
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Research Group: "A murdered journalist and the puncturing of a culture of impunity in Burkina Faso: the pursuit of justice for Norbert Zongo"
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
What's next for Kenya after the 2017 Elections? The good, the bad and the ugly
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Plato's Legacy and the Problem of Myth in Political Thought
Contemporary Political Theory
Philosophical Racism
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Departmental Seminar- "The Jehovah's Witnesses of social policy"? Explaining the rise, fall, and revival of Universal Basic Income in British politics, 1918-2017
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?
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Global Governance and Grand Corruption: The International Politics and Policy of Looted Wealth
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The End of Enlightenment: death and the philosophers, 1776-1809
Contemporary Political Theory
Criminal Accountability, Restorative Justice, and the Moral Standing of States
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Flowers of the Crown in English Legal Thought
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Selfish Systems: Hobbes and Locke
Contemporary Political Theory
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Making Use of the Stilts?
International Relations & History Working Group
Hitler's biography
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
'Politics in Uncertain Times: What will the world look like in 2050 and how do you know?
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Breaking Aleppo: Facts and Fictions of the Conflict
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Salon: Duterteβs War on Drugs (Last CGHR Salon of Easter Term!)
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
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Religious Leaders and Conflict Transformation: A Discussion
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Salon: Justice, Human Rights and the Changing International Order - Is Cosmopolitan Progress under Threat?
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Digital Fact-Finding Without Borders: Transnational Advocacy in the 21st Century
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Commercial treaties and understandings of 'free trade' in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Authority, Expertise and Race in the South African TRC
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Emergence of the Sovereign Consumer β from Adam Smith to the Socialist Calculation Debate
POLIS Department Research Seminars
Religious Leaders and Conflict Transformation: A Discussion
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Decolonising the Curriculum in Theory and Practice
Political Thought and Intellectual History
"The New World" of Karl Barth: Legacies of a political theologian
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Public Policy Seminar: Cycles of Invention and Discovery
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
A Day in the Life: Bede Sheppard from Human Rights Watch
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Islam, Toleration and the Enlightenment
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Salon: Human Rights Violations and the 2016 Rio Olympics
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Beyond Clicktivism: New Models for Exposing Human Rights Violations in the Digital Age
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Cultural Diversity and International Order Seminar Professor Christian Reus-Smit (Chair of International Relations, University of Queensland)
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Public Policy Seminar: A Strategy for the UK Steel Industry
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
POSTPONED: Book launch: The Horn of Africa, State Formation and Decay
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Corporate Social Responsibility and Political Control in Kenya and South Africa
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Asylum Monologues
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Wallah Je Te Jure Screening + Q&A
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Salon: Parliamentary Engagement and the Syrian Conflict
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Departmental Seminar: The Religionization of Israeli Society
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The future of the world. A new history of the future
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Party Politics, Capital Mobilization and the Rise of βSmall Boysβ Capitalists in Ghanaβs Fourth Republic
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Radio and Political Change: Everyday Life Listening in Morocco
Contemporary Political Theory
States, Corporations, Robots
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Public Policy Seminar: The Politics of Fiscal Squeeze over Time in the UK - Eternal Verities or a Changing Game?
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
State Security, Torture and the Law
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Grotius on natural law and supererogation
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
'It's Not My Story to Tell': Ownership, Legitimacy, and the Politics of History in Mocimboa da Praia, Mozambique
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Salon: Sex, Drugs and Mafioso: The rise of illicit economies in the wake of the refugee crisis
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
"Obliterated Families" Film Screening, In Conjunction with PalSoc
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Fiona O'Brien, Foreign Correspondent, Academic, Communications Consultant
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
How can researchers better engage with national and global policymaking?
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Departmental Seminar: Reconstruction: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Politics
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Legalism: A Reconstruction and Critique of Judith Shklar's Concept and its Contemporary Import
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
ZANUβs Post-1980 Legitimation Strategies: Post-Liberation Demobilization via Development Discourse (with Book Launch)
Contemporary Political Theory
Institutions, Growth, and Global Justice
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Marcus Lenzen, Senior Conflict Adviser, DFID
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
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Cajetan, Suarez and republican liberty: A theme in later scholastic political thought
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The Politics of Moving On: Legitimacy and Contestation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Kenya
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
British Politics Seminar: the Coalition Government with Lynne Featherstone
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Why the βResponsibility to Protectβ (R2P) Backfires (And How to Fix It)
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Open Discussion Group: Fighting Female Genital Cutting in India
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Departmental Seminar: Constitution and Contestation of Norms in Global Governance
Political Thought and Intellectual History
In His Veins the Blood of Kings: Thucydides in the Renaissance
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
From Hidden Dissent to Open Renegotiation and Contestation: Local Actors Interacting with Agrarian Modernisation in Rural Rwanda
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Life Beside the State: Refusing citizenship in Rio de Janeiro's Pentecostal SubΓΊrbios
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Dealing with Extremism
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
British Politics Seminar: βWales, the UK and the EUβ
Contemporary Political Theory
Should we genetically select for the beauty feature of fair skin? Procreative Beneficence versus Procreative Justice
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Public Policy Seminar: Inequality and Education Policy
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Graduate Reading Group Series: βChallenges to European Unityβ
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Transformation of International Economics during the Great Depression
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
What Is Supreme about the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (SUPKEM)? Challenging the practices of representativeness amongst Muslims in Kenya
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
British Politics Seminar: UK Foreign Policy
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Practitioner Series: Sandrine Tiller, Humanitarian Adviser (MSF-UK)
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Departmental Seminar: Destination still unknown - the UK's relations with the EU
Political Thought and Intellectual History
The Emperor's Two Bodies: Mirrored Sovereignty, the Code Civil, and Napoleon's New Men
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
From Rebel Movement to Political Party: UNITA's Social Engagement in Post-War Angola
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
The End of the Asian Century?: Trump, Europe, and the Race to Manage the Risks Threatening Asia's Future
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
British Politics Seminar: "Does the environment still matter in the age of Trump?"
Contemporary Political Theory
The Dancer of the Future from a Socialist Point of View: Eleanor Marx, Isadora Duncan, and Choreographing Socialist Feminism
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
2016 Annual Public Policy Lecture: Smart and Inclusive Growth, a New Narrative on Wealth Creation
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Salon: Politics of Choice in Eastern and Southern Europe
Political Thought and Intellectual History
From royalism to the mystical body of Christ: The interwar revolution in French Catholic political theology
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
CGHR Research Group: "Digital Media as Experimental Governance: Shifting the Accountability Paradigm in International Human Rights?"
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Public Policy Seminar: Criminal. Why people do bad things. Edit Event
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Righteously Bellicose: The Mental Habits of Religious Violence
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Colonialism, Race and Slavery in Raynal's Histoire des Deux Indes
Contemporary Political Theory
The Doctrine of Gender Identity - A Critical Examination
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
CRP Panel - From Followers to Leaders: The Challenges of Innovation in East Asia Edit Event
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Campaign strategy in a rally-intensive campaign: rallying supporters and canvassing swing voters in Tanzania
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Hinsley Memorial Lecture
Political Thought and Intellectual History
French revolutionary thought and the early Third Republic
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Democracy in Africa (Dr Nic Cheeseman): book talk
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Foucault and Shakespeare: Ceremony, Theatre, Politics
Contemporary Political Theory
"Cultural v. Clinical v. Cosmetic Surgery: Challenging the Distinction"
Political Thought and Intellectual History
Theorising Democracy beyond βStateβ and βSocietyβ
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Covering the Presidential Election
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
In conversation: Richard Leakey FRS on Kenyan politics, African politics
β οΈ *Attendance by registration only: email Dr Srinivasan - ss919@cam.ac.uk
Political Thought and Intellectual History
From state to society, through sacred history: Hobbes and Spinoza
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Film screening: Things of the Aimless Wanderer
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Festival of Ideas - Moving the Tipping Point
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Festival of Ideas - British Movement in the Middle East: 60 years since the Suez Crisis
Contemporary Political Theory
Civil Disobedience and the Disaggregation of Political Authority
All POLIS Department Seminars and Events
Alcuin Lecture 2016: Global Britain? The future of British trade after Brexit with Greg Hands, MP
Centre of Governance and Human Rights Events
Should human rights be apolitical? A debate
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