Political Thought and Intellectual History

Moral Philosophy and the Dissenting Academies, 1660-1860

Isabel Rivers (Queen Mary University of London).

Long Room, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 19 May 2025, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Experimental Democracy

Leah Downey (St. John's College, University of Cambridge).

Long Room, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 12 May 2025, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Enlightenment Scepticism and the Conditions for Political Stability

Elena Yi-Jia Zeng (Princeton University).

Long Room, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 05 May 2025, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The American Progressives on Leaderless Government and the Rule of Law

Dimitrios Halikias (Princeton University).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 17 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Progress and Eschatology in British Antislavery Thought

John Coffey (University of Leicester).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 10 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

John Stuart Mill, Imperial Rule, and Freedom of Speech

Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton University).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 03 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Post-Kantian Perfectionism

Douglas Moggach (University of Ottawa/University of Sydney).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 24 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Apartheid Science and American Capitalism from Black-Scholes to the DotCom Boom

Efthimios Karayiannides (Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 17 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Body Metaphor and Cross-Cultural Political Theory in Medieval Afro-Eurasia

Serena Ferente (University of Amsterdam).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 10 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

On the Reception of Christian Thomasius's Political Thought in Protestant Northern Germany

Mikkel Jensen (University of Erfurt).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 03 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable on 'Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900'

Fernanda Gallo (Homerton College, University of Cambridge).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 27 January 2025, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Arabization and the Social Sciences in Algeria: Language, Pan-Arabism, and Nation-Building

Muriam Haleh Davis (University of California, Santa Cruz).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 02 December 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Reading Hegel in the Twenty-First Century

Kimberly Hutchings (Queen Mary University of London).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 25 November 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Women's Appeals to Talent in Seventeenth-Century England

Geertje Bol (Ghent University).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 18 November 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Locke's Political Legacy

Tim Stanton (University of York).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Limits of Enlightenment: Frederick II, the philosophes, and the common people

Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College, University of Oxford).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 04 November 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Rethinking Weber's 'Politics'

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

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Paradiastole and Civil War in Ancient Greek and Roman Thought

Daniel Sutton (Peterhouse, University of Cambridge).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 21 October 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Oikonomia of Conspiracy

Demetra Kasimis (University of Cambridge).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Enlightenment Theory of Rights

Céline Spector (Sorbonne Université).

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

Monday 20 May 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Why Popular Participation? Collective Action, Majoritarianism, and Solidarity in Ancient Greece

Daniela Cammack (University of California, Berkeley).

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

Monday 13 May 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Technology, Environment, and Crisis: The Idea of ‘Catastrophic Technology’ and the Environmental Movement

Caroline Ashcroft (Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford).

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

Monday 06 May 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Rights in Roman Republican Thought

Valentina Arena (University College London).

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

Monday 29 April 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Violence against Women in Feminist Re-Readings of Marx in Socialist Contexts

Zsófia Lóránd (University of Vienna).

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

Monday 11 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The United States of Europe, 1848–1914

Christopher Brooke (Homerton College, University of Cambridge).

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Des Moulins à Paroles. The Battle for the Meaning of Democracy in France, 1850–1851

Lucia Rubinelli (Yale University).

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

Monday 26 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roman Law between Scholasticism and Humanism

Magnus Ryan (Peterhouse, University of Cambridge).

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

Monday 19 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Slavery in the Society of Equals: Winstanley and the Diggers

Teresa Bejan (Oriel College, University of Oxford).

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

Monday 05 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Pre-History of British Gramscianism. A Transnational Perspective

Marzia Maccaferri (Queen Mary University of London).

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

Monday 29 January 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable on Hegel's World Revolutions

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

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Luis de Molina (1535–1600) and Atlantic Slavery

Daniel Allemann (University of Lucerne).

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

Monday 27 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Loving and Killing Children: Jeremy Bentham on Adult-Child Sex, Infanticide, and Abortion

Philip Schofield (University College London).

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

An Angry Warning: Pareto and Elite Circulation

Natasha Piano (University of California, Los Angeles).

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hobbes on People and Multitude: Context and Argument

James Harris (University of St Andrews).

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Technology, Environment, and Crisis: “Catastrophic Technology” and the Environmental Movement

Caroline Ashcroft (Queen Mary University of London).

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

John Locke and Slavery

Mark Goldie (Churchill College, University of Cambridge).

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

What did Simón Bolívar Owe to Charles V?

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

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable on Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word

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

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Moral Personality in Machiavelli

Peter Stacey (UCLA).

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Political Theory of Restauration

Béla Kapossy (University of Lausanne).

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Beauvoir and Rousseau on Theatrical Consciousness

Kate Kirkpatrick (Oxford).

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Problem of Taqiyya: Invisible Subjects in Indian Political Thought

Taushif Kara (King's College London).

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Truth and Loyalty

Matt Sleat (University of Sheffield).

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

Carol Atack (Newnham College, Cambridge).

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

TBA

Stefan Eich (Georgetown University).

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

Megan Donaldson (University College London).

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Untimely Consciousness: Reading Modernity Through the White-Collar Lens

Emily Steinhauer (Royal Holloway).

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

Iain McDaniel (University of Sussex).

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

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

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

Angus Burgin (Johns Hopkins University).

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

Benjamin Straumann (University of Zurich).

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Friedrich Carl von Savigny and the Politics of Legal Knowledge

Charlotte Johann (Churchill College, Cambridge).

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

Natasha Wheatley (Princeton).

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

Sarah Mortimer (Christ Church, Oxford).

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

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

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

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

Legal Histories beyond the State

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

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

Charlotte Johann, Churchill College, Cambridge .

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

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

Legal Histories beyond the State

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

Paper available for pre-reading

Helen Tilley, Northwestern University .

Zoom + TBC venue.

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

Legal Histories beyond the State

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

The paper will be made available before the seminar

Lauren Benton, Yale University .

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius .

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Dugald Stewart and Political Economy after Enlightenment

Lina Weber (University of St Andrews).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 29 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

Slavery and empire in early modern Iberian thought

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

Daniel Allemann, University of Lucerne .

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius .

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Post-dissident Liberalism as Politics and Culture: East-Central Europe after 1989

Michal Kopeček (Cambridge).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 22 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Reason of State beyond the Canon: Political Argument and Calculation in early Stuart Projects

Vera Keller (University of Oregon).

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College.

Monday 15 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Political Thought of Charles Malik

Chloe Kattar (Darwin College, Cambridge) .

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Democracy and Representation in Early Modern England, 1531–1653

Markku Peltonen (Academy of Finland).

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College.

Monday 01 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

Adam Woodhouse (Robinson College, Cambridge).

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College.

Monday 25 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Volk against Kaste: Non-Democratic Popular Sovereignty in Nazi Germany

Luna Sabastian (Centre for South Asian Studies, Cambridge).

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College.

Monday 18 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics: A Roundtable Discussion

Sylvana Tomaselli (St. John’s College, Cambridge).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 11 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Pandemic scholarship: Hobbes's translation of Thucydides' 'Plague of Athens'

Kinch Hoekstra (UC-Berkeley).

Zoom.

Monday 24 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable: Max Skjönsberg, "The Persistence of Party"

Max Skjönsberg (University of Liverpool).

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

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

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

James Bryce and the concepts of constitution

Pasquale Pasquino (CNRS) .

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Sir William Petty’s Treatise of Taxes and Contributions: Politics and Political Economy in the Interregnum and Restoration State

Shannon Stimson (Georgetown University).

Zoom.

Monday 03 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Separation of Powers as a New Theory

Jeffrey Tulis (University of Texas at Austin).

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hegel and Italian Political Thought

Fernanda Gallo (Homerton College, University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Not Being Kantian about Moral Justification

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

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Experiencing Republican Texts

Rachel Hammersley (Newcastle).

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Kant's 'True Politics'

Susan Shell (Boston College).

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Thucydides’ Tragic Science of Democratic Defeat

Mark Fisher (Georgetown University).

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

Lars Vinx (Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Democracy Requires Organized Collective Power

Steven Klein (King's College London).

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

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

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

Eva Piirimae (University of Tartu).

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

David Lay Williams, (DePaul University)..

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement

Brandon Terry (Harvard University).

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Revolutionary Republicanism: Robespierre, Condorcet, Grouchy

Geneviève Rousselière (Duke University).

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Politics and Salus Populi: Hobbes and the Sovereign as Physician of the State

Raffaella Santi (University of Urbino).

Zoom.

Monday 26 October 2020, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Thomas Paine in the French Revolution

Adam Lebovitz (Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Statelessness: A Roundtable Discussion

Mira Siegelberg (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

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

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Revolution and Charisma in the Thought of Max Weber

Edith Hanke (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Carl Schmitt in Leipzig - Constitutional Guardianship or Authoritarian Subversion?

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

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

"The English Always Disregarded Abstract Theories”: Constructing “Tory Democracy”, 1881-1931

Emily Jones (Manchester).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 17 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

The corporation and law in the making of global capitalism

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

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

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Conceptualizations of Labour and the Making of the French Working Class, 1830-1848

Samuel Hayat (CNRS). Commentator: Julia Nicholls.

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 10 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hypocrisy, Sociability and Virtue: Mandeville vs Shaftesbury

Robin Douglass (KCL).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 03 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

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

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

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

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Fortitude: Spinoza on living in the light of our knowledge

Susan James (Birkbeck).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 27 January 2020, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Empire and Sovereignty in "Democracies of the East"

Tejas Parasher (King's College, Cambridge).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

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

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Neoliberal Turn

Angus Burgin (Johns Hopkins University).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Interpreting the French Revolution with Germaine de Staël

Adela Halo (QML).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 18 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Ecce Homo: Nietzsche on the Philosophic Life

Heinrich Meier (LMU).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 11 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Acting, Artifice, and the Political Sphere in Eighteenth-Century French Thought

Shiru Lim (Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 04 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

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

Organised jointly with the Centre for History and Economics

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

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Marx, Arendt and the Temporalities of Revolution

Miriam Leonard (UCL).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 28 October 2019, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Empire, Freedom and Violence: Theories of Political Pluralism and Dante's Monarchy

Serena Ferente (KCL).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 21 October 2019, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable on In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy

Katrina Forrester (Harvard University).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 14 October 2019, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Chair of Ethics in the University of Naples and Giambattista Vico’s La Scienza Nuova

Dr Felix Waldmann (Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 20 May 2019, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Seeing though lies: Plato on how to avert tyranny

Jill Frank (Cornell University).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 13 May 2019, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Francis Bacon on Peace and the 1604 Treaty of London

Samuel Zeitlin (Chicago) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 06 May 2019, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Plantation’s Colonial Modernity in Comparative Perspective

Adom Getachew (University of Chicago).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 29 April 2019, 17:00-19:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

American States of Nature: The Origins of Independence

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

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

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

Legal Histories beyond the State

International Law's Objects: A Conversation

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

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Languages of Constituent Power

Lucia Rubinelli (Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 11 March 2019, 17:00-19:00

International Relations & History Working Group

Malcolm X, Human Rights, and A New World Picture

Emma Mackinnon (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Three Pillars of Liberalism: Freedom, Markets, and Morals from the Enlightenment to the Present

Alan Kahan (University of Versailles/St. Quentin).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 04 March 2019, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Affairs of Humanity: Arguing for Humanitarian Intervention in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Catherine Arnold (Memphis).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 25 February 2019, 17:00-19:00

International Relations & History Working Group

'Global History and the Place of the International'

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

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

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Karl Marx and the Cycles of American Capitalism

Andrew Hartman (Illinois State University).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 18 February 2019, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

1789 in 1954: Human Rights and the Algerian Revolution

Emma Mackinnon (Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 11 February 2019, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Spectacular Black Death: Lynching, Lethal Police Violence and the Black Female Body

Shatema Threadcraft (Dartmouth).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 04 February 2019, 17:00-19:00

International Relations & History Working Group

Social Pressure and the Making of the Wartime Civilian Protection Rules

Giovanni Mantilla (Lecturer, University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

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

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

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Max Weber's Political Thought and the First World War

Duncan Kelly (University of Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 21 January 2019, 17:00-19:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

Act of State and the Limits of Adjudication

Professor Pat Capps (University of Bristol Law School).

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'Reform or Revolution', redux: Eduard Bernstein on the 1918-19 German Revolution

Marius Ostrowski (University of Oxford).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 26 November 2018, 17:00-19:00

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"

Molly Cochran (Reader, Oxford Brookes University).

Seminar Room 138 Alison Richard Building.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

Debating the rise and fall of the first East African Community in East Africa’s public sphere, 1960s-1970s

Dr Emma Hunter (Senior Lecturer, African History, University of Edinburgh).

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 17:15-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Coercion in a Subjective World

Daniel Luban (Yale University).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 12 November 2018, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Race Man: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas

Corey Robin (CUNY).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 05 November 2018, 17:00-19:00

International Relations & History Working Group

“Cold Wars and the Academy: An Oral History of Russian and Eurasian Studies”

George Gavrilis, Columbia University.

Seminar Room S3 Alison Richard Building.

Friday 02 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Can we write an ethical history of the early common law?

Philippa Byrne (University of Oxford).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 29 October 2018, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hobbes on the Definition of a Legal Sphere

Signy Gutnick Allen (LSE).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 22 October 2018, 17:00-19:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

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

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

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

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

International Relations & History Working Group

Order Projects and Resistance in the Global Political System: A Framework for International Relations History with Case (1851-67)

Dan Green (University of Delaware).

Seminar Room 138 Alison Richard Building.

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Constitutionalism of Imperial Expansion

Stephen Holmes (NYU).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 15 October 2018, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Dilemmas of Sovereignty: Law, Politics and Moral Reasoning in Hugo Grotius

Annabel Brett (University of Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 08 October 2018, 17:00-19:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

Histories of International Law, History within International Law: Questions of Method

Dr Kate Purcell.

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 17:15-18:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

Civitas and Regnum: Grotius’ account of the sovereign entity in the De Iure Belli ac Pacis

Dr Emile V Simpson.

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 17:15-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Human nature as capacities in Hobbes's political theory

Alexandra Chadwick (University of Groningen).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 21 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

Universalizing the Promise of Empire

Dr Emma Mackinnon.

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 17:30-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Liberty and Economic Independence in the Roman Republic (CANCELLED)

Valentina Arena (UCL).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 14 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

Nationality, Alienage and Early International Rights

León Castellanos Jankiewicz.

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 17:15-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Chains and Invisible Threads: Liberty and Domination in Marx's Account of Wage-Slavery

Bruno Leipold (Frankfurt).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 07 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Representation and the Fall

Eric Nelson (Harvard) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

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

Legal Histories beyond the State

CANCELLED IN SYMPATHY WITH STRIKE Nationality, Alienage and Early International Rights

León Castellanos Jankiewicz.

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 17:15-18:30

International Relations & History Working Group

Raymond Aron, Jimmy Carter and the Neoconservative Origins of the Critique of International Human Rights

Daniel Steinmetz Jenkins, Yale University.

Wine Room King's College.

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

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

Dr Lucas Lixinski; Dr Mats Ingulstad.

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

Wednesday 28 February 2018, 17:15-18:30

International Relations & History Working Group

Shifting Patterns of Contemporary Globalization

Professor Yale Ferguson.

(Note venue change) Seminar Room S3 Alison Richard Building.

Tuesday 20 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Whence the force of the law? John Rawls and the course of American legal philosophy

Kenzie Bok (Harvard).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 19 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

"To hold oneself, like a sliver, to the heart of the world": the Political Thought of the Palestinian Revolution

Karma Nabulsi (Oxford).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 12 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hobbes (and Weber) on the Jury

Richard Tuck (Harvard).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 05 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

John Stuart Mill on Universal History

Callum Barrell (New College of the Humanities).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

Pitt Professor Inaugural Lecture, with American History Seminar

Ira Katznelson (Columbia) .

Queens Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Democracy and Republicanism: A Difficult Partnership

Nadia Urbinati (Columbia).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Blue Boar Court, Trinity College.

Monday 22 January 2018, 17:00-19:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

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

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

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Law, morality and the Rechtsstaat in post-war West Germany

Clara Maier.

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 27 November 2017, 17:00-19:00

International Relations & History Working Group

Writing the History of Transnational Spaces:A New Approach to the Study of Pan-European Organisations and Norms

Marco Duranti (University of Sydney).

Wine Room King's College.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Jon Elster's Sour Grapes

Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 20 November 2017, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

A Good Man or a Good Citizen? Aristotelian Politics and the Italian Renaissance Courts

Grace Allen (Manchester).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 13 November 2017, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Plato's Legacy and the Problem of Myth in Political Thought

Tae-Yeoun Keum (Harvard).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 06 November 2017, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

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

CANCELLED

Ira Katznelson (Columbia).

Bateman Auditorium , Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 30 October 2017, 17:00-19:00

International Relations & History Working Group

Go East: Sovereignty Question in IR Revisited

Dr Ayse Zarakol (University of Cambridge).

Wine Room King's College.

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

Legal Histories beyond the State

Transnational Conflicts: A New Kind of War?

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

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The End of Enlightenment: death and the philosophers, 1776-1809

Richard Whatmore (St Andrews) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 23 October 2017, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Flowers of the Crown in English Legal Thought

Edward Cavanagh, University of Cambridge.

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 16 October 2017, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Selfish Systems: Hobbes and Locke

David Wootton (York).

Adrian House Seminar Room, Trinity College.

Monday 09 October 2017, 17:00-19:00

International Relations & History Working Group

Hitler's biography

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

Wine Room King's College.

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

Legal Histories beyond the State

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

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

Professor Jason Sharman (POLIS).

Venue to be confirmed.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Commercial treaties and understandings of 'free trade' in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe

James Stafford (Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 22 May 2017, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Emergence of the Sovereign Consumer – from Adam Smith to the Socialist Calculation Debate

Niklas Olsen (Copenhagen).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 15 May 2017, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

"The New World" of Karl Barth: Legacies of a political theologian

Liisi Keedus (York).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 08 May 2017, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Islam, Toleration and the Enlightenment

John Marshall (Johns Hopkins) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 01 May 2017, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The future of the world. A new history of the future

Jenny Andersson (Paris, Sciences Po).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 06 March 2017, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Grotius on natural law and supererogation

Johan Olsthoorn (Leuven) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 27 February 2017, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Legalism: A Reconstruction and Critique of Judith Shklar's Concept and its Contemporary Import

Seyla Benhabib (Yale).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 20 February 2017, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Cajetan, Suarez and republican liberty: A theme in later scholastic political thought

Ben Slingo (Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 13 February 2017, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

In His Veins the Blood of Kings: Thucydides in the Renaissance

Kinch Hoekstra (Berkeley).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 06 February 2017, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Transformation of International Economics during the Great Depression

Jamie Martin (Sydney) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 30 January 2017, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Emperor's Two Bodies: Mirrored Sovereignty, the Code Civil, and Napoleon's New Men

Stefanos Geroulanos (NYU) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 23 January 2017, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

From royalism to the mystical body of Christ: The interwar revolution in French Catholic political theology

Sarah Shortall (Oxford) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 28 November 2016, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Colonialism, Race and Slavery in Raynal's Histoire des Deux Indes

Ann Thomson (EUI).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 21 November 2016, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

French revolutionary thought and the early Third Republic

Julia Nicholls (Oxford) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 14 November 2016, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Foucault and Shakespeare: Ceremony, Theatre, Politics

Stuart Elden (Warwick).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 07 November 2016, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Theorising Democracy beyond ‘State’ and ‘Society’

Aline-Florence Manent (UCL).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 31 October 2016, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

From state to society, through sacred history: Hobbes and Spinoza

John Robertson (Clare College, Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 24 October 2016, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Democracy confronts diversity: Deliberation and representation in Victorian Britain

Greg Conti (Cambridge) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 17 October 2016, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Reflections on Inequality, Respect, and Love in the Political Writings of Mary Wollstonecraft

Sylvana Tomaselli (St. John's College, Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 10 October 2016, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

A Taste for Virtue: Eighteenth-Century Epicureanism and Rousseau's Political Thought

Jared Holley (Chicago).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 09 May 2016, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

From “Enemies of the Cross” To “Brethren in Faith”: Empire, Decolonization, and the Curious End of Europe’s Religious Wars

Udi Greenberg (Dartmouth) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 02 May 2016, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The cause of all our troubles: the American invention of isolationism in World War II

Stephen Wertheim (Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 07 March 2016, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Polis and the Res Publica: Two Arendtian Models of Political Violence

Caroline Ashcroft (University of Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 22 February 2016, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Francois Chatelet and the Spatial Turn in French Postwar Thought

Danilo Scholz (Sciences Po) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 08 February 2016, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Constitution and Sovereignty in Tocqueville's Democracy in America

Giulia Oskian (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 25 January 2016, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

How to run the world: conceptions of imperial rule between republicanism and technocracy’

Eva Marlene Hausteiner (Humboldt) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 30 November 2015, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Max Weber and some intellectual consequences of the war

Dr Dina Gusejnova (University of Sheffield).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 23 November 2015, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Beyond Utopia: Thomas More as Political Thinker?’

Joanne Paul (New College of the Humanities).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 16 November 2015, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Governing America: John Locke in the 1690s

Prof Mark Goldie (University of Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 09 November 2015, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

From Cameralism to nineteenth-century socialism: Lorenz Stein's idea of a science of society

Diana Siclovan (Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 02 November 2015, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

How (Not) To Draw Contemporary Insights From The History of Political Thought

Dr Adrian Blau (King’s College, London).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 26 October 2015, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Smith and Rousseau, After Hume and Mandeville

Paul Sagar (Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 19 October 2015, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The American States and Their Police Power, 1789-1931

Prof Gary Gerstle (University of Cambridge).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Monday 12 October 2015, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Problem of Political Order in Classical Confucian Thought

Loubna El-Amine.

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 18 May 2015, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Conceptions of Social Pathology in Hobbes, Rousseau, and Kant

Prof. Frederick Neuhouser (Columbia University).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 11 May 2015, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Sovereignty and Representation in Rousseau's Considerations on the Government of Poland

Graham Clure (Harvard).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 04 May 2015, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The American States and Their Police Power, 1789-1931

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.

Prof. Gary Gerstle (University of Cambridge).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Blue Boar Court, Trinity College.

Monday 27 April 2015, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

On Political Responsibility in Post-Revolutionary Times: Kant and Constant’s Debate on Lying

Dr. Genevieve Rousseliere (University of Chicago).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 09 March 2015, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Early Hobbes

Prof. Alan Cromartie (University of Reading).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 02 March 2015, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

"The art of ruling minds": Jeremy Bentham and the Public Opinion Tribunal

Dr. Paola Rudan (University of Bologna).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 23 February 2015, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Is there a republican model of democracy?

Prof. Andreas Niederberger (University of Duisberg-Essen).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 16 February 2015, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Political Science before Hobbes: the Aristotelian tradition

Dr. Sophie Smith (University of Oxford).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 09 February 2015, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The city and the soul in James Harrington's Republicanism

Dr. Rachel Foxley (University of Reading).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 02 February 2015, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Bureaucracy and Moral Agency: Practices of the Self at the Frontlines of Public Service

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.

Bernardo Zacka (Christ's College, University of Cambridge).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Blue Boar Court, Trinity College.

Monday 01 December 2014, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Dystopia: For Dummies

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.

Professor Greg Claeys (Royal Holloway, University of London).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Blue Boar Court, Trinity College.

Monday 24 November 2014, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Thomas Paine's Democratic Thought

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.

Dr Robert Lamb (University of Exeter).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Blue Boar Court, Trinity College.

Monday 17 November 2014, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

A strange afterlife: Pierre Berault and the meaning of Aristotelianism in the late seventeenth century

Dr Michael Edwards (University of Cambridge).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 10 November 2014, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Raymond Aron and the Origins of the "End of Ideology"

Dr Iain Stewart (Queen Mary, University of London).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 03 November 2014, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Concern for Oneself and for Others in Porphyry's Ethics of "On Abstinence"

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.

Dr Miira Tuominen (University of Helsinki).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Blue Boar Court, Trinity College.

Monday 27 October 2014, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Nietzsche's Perfect State

Dr Hugo Drochon (University of Cambridge).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 20 October 2014, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Michael Oakeshott and the Idea of Totalitarianism

Professor Andrew Gamble (University of Sheffield).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 13 October 2014, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Statelessness in International Political and Legal Thought, 1921-1935

Comment: Duncan Kelly (Jesus College, Cambridge)

Mira Siegelberg (Harvard University).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 10 March 2014, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Edmund Burke and the French Revolution before the Reflections

Richard Bourke (Queen Mary, University of London).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 03 March 2014, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'If it be without contention': Hobbes on Difference without Disagreement

Comment: Richard Tuck (Harvard University)

Teresa Bejan (Columbia University).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 24 February 2014, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Bentham as Conspiracy Theorist

David Runciman (University of Cambridge).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 17 February 2014, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Philosophical History in Hannah Arendt’s Political Thought

Comment: Robert Fine (University of Warwick)

Waseem Yaqoob (Pembroke College, Cambridge).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 10 February 2014, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Postmarxism, Radical Democracy, and the Machiavellian Moment

Warren Breckman (University of Pennsylvania/Humboldt University).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 03 February 2014, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Radical Atheism: Jean Meslier in Context

Comment: Michael Sonenscher (King’s College, Cambridge)

Charles Devellennes (University of Kent).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 27 January 2014, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Art and Elevation: Distance and History Painting in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain

Mark Phillips (Carleton University, Ottawa).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 20 January 2014, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

E. P. Thompson, Judith Shklar and the Implications of 'Antipolitics'

Comment: Stefan Collini (Cambridge)

Tim Rogan (St Catharine's College, Cambridge) .

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 02 December 2013, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Kant on Rebellion and the Mere Idea of Popular Rule

Christopher Meckstroth (University of Cambridge).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 25 November 2013, 17:00-18:45

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*

Comment: John Robertson (Cambridge)

Charlotte Roberts (University College London) .

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 18 November 2013, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

English Republicanism in Transnational Context: Edmund Ludlow’s Protestant Network in Seventeenth-Century Switzerland

Gaby Mahlberg (Northumbria University) .

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 11 November 2013, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Citizenship, War and the Origins of International Ethics in American Political Philosophy 1960-1975

Comment: Christopher Brooke (University of Bristol)

Katrina Forrester (St John's College, Cambridge) .

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 04 November 2013, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

What Makes Representation Democratic?

Sofia Näsström (Uppsala University).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 28 October 2013, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Not Talking But Thinking: Democratic Deliberation in Classical Athens

Comment: David Runciman (POLIS)

Daniela Cammack (Harvard Society of Fellows) .

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 21 October 2013, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

What is Liberalism?

Duncan Bell (Christ's College).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 14 October 2013, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Thomas Willis and the Religious Context of the First Neurology

Comment: TBC

Louis Caron.

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 20 May 2013, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Aspects of Indirect Democracy in Ancient Greece, in particular in Aristotle's Politics

Mogens Herman Hansen.

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 13 May 2013, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

J. G. A. Pocock and the Idea of the 'Cambridge School' in the History of Political Thought

Comment: Richard Bourke (Queen Mary)

Sam James (Jesus College, Cambridge).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 06 May 2013, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Realism Tamed or Liberalism Betrayed? The Dystopic Liberal Imagination in Political Thought

Nicholas Rengger.

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 29 April 2013, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'Society' in British Political Thought, c. 1930 to 1960: Some Rival Conceptions of 'Positivism'

Joint Session with the Modern British History Seminar

Jose Harris (University of Oxford).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 04 March 2013, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Malthus and the Doctrine of Utility

Commentator: Donald Winch (University of Sussex)

Niall O'Flaherty (King's College, London).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 25 February 2013, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'This Melancholy Labyrinth': Magistrates and Order in the Early Nineteenth-Century British Empire

Commentator: Michael Lobban (Queen Mary, London)

Lauren Benton (New York University).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 18 February 2013, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Histories of Thought and Comparative Political Theory: The Thesis of 'Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge,' 1860-1895

Commentator: John Dunn (King's College, Cambridge)

Leigh Jenco (London School of Economics and Political Science).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 11 February 2013, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Charismatic Sword: Thomas Müntzer’s Theology of Violence

Matthias Riedl (Central European University).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 04 February 2013, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Third Earl of Shaftesbury and the Defence of Humane Learning

Commentator: Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge)

Karen Collis (University of Oxford).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 28 January 2013, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Anthropology beyond Empires: Samuel Stanhope Smith and the Reconfiguration of the Atlantic World

Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS, Paris).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 21 January 2013, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

On trade and teleology: the role of commercial relations in Kant's philosophy of history

Comment: Istvan Hont (Cambridge)

Lea Ypi (LSE).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 26 November 2012, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Passions in Hobbes's Political Philosophy

Comment: Michael Edwards (University of Cambridge)

Raffaella Santi (University of Urbino).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 19 November 2012, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Historicisms and counter-historicisms in the seventeenth century

Comment: Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge)

Nick Hardy (University of Cambridge).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 12 November 2012, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hobbes and Sexual Desire

Noel Malcolm (All Souls College, University of Oxford).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 05 November 2012, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The nature of dominion in De Justa Reipublicae Christianae Authoritate (1590)

Comment: Harro Hopfl (Essex)

Sophie Nicholls (University of Oxford).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 29 October 2012, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Authority: Some Fables

Raymond Geuss (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 22 October 2012, 17:00-18:45

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

Comment: John Robertson (Cambridge)

Christian Maurer (Université de Fribourg).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 15 October 2012, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Kant and Vattel in Context: Cosmopolitan Philosophy and Diplomatic Casuistry

Commentator: Isaac Nakhimovsky (University of Cambridge)

Ian Hunter (University of Queensland).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 08 October 2012, 17:00-18:45

Balzan-Skinner Lecture and Colloquium 2012

John Locke and the Fable of Liberalism

Dr Tim Stanton and others.

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

Friday 05 October 2012, 10:00-17:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The power of persuasion in Plato

Jill Frank (University of South Carolina).

Beves Room, King’s College.

Monday 28 May 2012, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The rights of sovereignty in early modern political thought

Daniel Lee (University of Toronto).

Beves Room, King’s College.

Monday 21 May 2012, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roman Liberty

Malcolm Schofield (University of Cambridge).

Beves Room, King’s College.

Monday 14 May 2012, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Commerce and monarchy in David Hume's History of England

Mikko Tolonen (University of Helsinki).

Beves Room, King’s College.

Monday 07 May 2012, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Scottish critics of Hume and Smith: Maclaine, Reid and Fergsuon

James Moore (Concordia University, Montreal).

Beves Room, King’s College.

Monday 30 April 2012, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Thomas Hobbes and the problem of self-censorship

Jon Parkin (University of York).

Beves Room, King’s College.

Monday 05 March 2012, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Classical history in the Renaissance: what can the Universal Short Title Catalogue do for us?

Freyja Cox-Jensen (Christ Church, Oxford).

Beves Room, King’s College.

Monday 27 February 2012, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Republicanism and Empire in Britain and France 1763-1815

Held jointly with the Modern European History Seminar

Richard Whatmore (University of Sussex).

Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 20 February 2012, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Sismondi contra Rousseau

Tom Hopkins (University of Helsinki).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 13 February 2012, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Consensual and non-consensual politics in medieval Roman law

Magnus Ryan (University of Cambridge).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 06 February 2012, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Jean Bodin, oeconomics and politics

Anna Becker (University of Basle).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 30 January 2012, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Civil Religion: a window into perennial themes in political philosophy

Ronald Beiner (University of Toronto and Clare Hall).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 23 January 2012, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The false cosmos of new music: Adorno's Philosophie der Neuen Musik as modern political pedagogy

Dina Gusejnova (University College London).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 28 November 2011, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Regalism and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Naples

Girolamo Imbruglia (University of Naples, l'Orientale).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 21 November 2011, 17:00-18:45

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

Jos Betts (Cambridge Victorian Studies Group).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 14 November 2011, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

A social and cultural history of early modern keywords and concepts

Mark Knights (University of Warwick) and Phil Withington (University of Cambridge).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 07 November 2011, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Freedom, the common good and the rule of law: Lippman and Hayek on economic planning

Ben Jackson (University of Oxford).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 31 October 2011, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Women, freedom and equality: Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell

Sarah Hutton (University of Wales Aberystwyth and Wolfson College, Cambridge.

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 24 October 2011, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Some new sources and contexts for the De Legibus Hebraeorum (1685) of John Spencer, father of 'Enlightened' sacred history

Dmitri Levitin (Trinity College).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 17 October 2011, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Three Views of Democracy

David Runciman (University of Cambridge).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 10 October 2011, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Clapham Junction: The place of the Protestant Ethic in Max Weber's intellectual biography

Peter Ghosh (St Anne's College, Oxford).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 23 May 2011, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Historicising the French Revolution in the Third Republic: the case of Ernest Lavisse

Isabel Divanna (Clare College, Cambridge).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 16 May 2011, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

John Locke in liberal memory

Jeffrey Collins (Toronto /Clare Hall).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 09 May 2011, 17:00-18:45

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

Alexander Schmidt (Jena).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 02 May 2011, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Empire and legal universalisms in the eighteenth century

Jennifer Pitts (Chicago).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 14 March 2011, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

"The Race of Life": Republican Revisionism Revisited

Isaac Kramnick (Cornell).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 07 March 2011, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Luxury and the route to revolution in Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality

Istvan Hont (King's College, Cambridge).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 28 February 2011, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hegel and the sea. International trade in Hegel's political philosophy

Norbert Waszek (Paris).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 21 February 2011, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Addison's Empire. Whig conceptions of empire in the early eighteenth century

Steven Pincus (Yale University).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 14 February 2011, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Liberty, tyranny and idolatry in Calvinist thought

Freya Sierhuis (München).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 07 February 2011, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Republic and Mixed Government: Machiavelli and Aristotle

Pasquale Pasquino (New York University / CNRS).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 31 January 2011, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

James Mill on the French Revolution

Anna Plassart (Christ Church, Oxford).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 24 January 2011, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'Seventeenth-Century Perceptions of the Norman Conquest'

George Garnett (St Hugh's College, Oxford).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 29 November 2010, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'Society as the Mode of Redemption: The Idea of Individuality in Georg Simmel's Early Sociological Writings'

Efraim Podoksik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 22 November 2010, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'Heidegger, Cassirer, and Political Theology'

Peter Gordon (Harvard University).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 15 November 2010, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'Self-Possession and Carelessness: Two Versions of Liberty in Montaigne's Essais'

Felicity Green (Trinity College, Cambridge).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 08 November 2010, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'Thinking with Satan: diabolical inspiration and human agency in late antiquity'

Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe (King's College, London).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 01 November 2010, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'Revolutionary Epigones: the Debate between Kant and his Radical Followers'

Reidar Maliks (Oriel College, Oxford).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 25 October 2010, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'French Liberals on Religion: From Constant to Laboulaye'

Helena Rosenblatt (Hunter College, CUNY).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 18 October 2010, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Between Lassalle and Chernyshevsky: Marx and the Aftermath of 1848

Gareth Stedman Jones (Cambridge).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 17 May 2010, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Mahatma Gandhi's Political Thought

Karuna Mantena (Yale).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 10 May 2010, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

On Equality

Malcolm Bull (Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 03 May 2010, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Rethinking Law and Religion. Towards a Legal Anthropology of Late Antiquity

Caroline Humfress (Birkbeck College, London).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 08 March 2010, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Montesquieu and Machiavelli: Appropriation and Critique

Paul Rahe (Hillsdale College, Michigan).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 22 February 2010, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Historia Literaria in the Field: German Academics and the Search for the Dutch Underground, 1690-1720

Kasper Eskildsen (Roskilde Universitet, Denmark).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 15 February 2010, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Crisis of Global Citizenship

James Tully (Victoria University, British Columbia).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 08 February 2010, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The History and Implications of Secularisation: The Leiden Circle, 1575-1618

Mark Somos (Sussex).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 01 February 2010, 17:00-18:45

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

Luc Foisneau (CNRS-EHESS, Paris).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 25 January 2010, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Between Lassalle and Chernyshevsky: Marx and the Aftermath of 1848

Gareth Stedman Jones (Cambridge).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Sunday 24 January 2010, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Republican King: The Creation of Executive Power in America

Nicholas Cole (St. Peter's College, Oxford).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 18 January 2010, 17:00-18:45

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

Christopher Jones (Canterbury, New Zealand).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 23 November 2009, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Thomas Hobbes and Late Renaissance Commentary on Aristotle's Politics

Annabel Brett (Cambridge).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 16 November 2009, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Christian Wolff's Critics and the 'Foundation of Morality' in the Early German Enlightenment

Simon Grote (University of California, Berkeley).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 09 November 2009, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Dutch Accounting Practices and the Cultural Origins of Political Economy in Europe 1600-1730

Jacob Soll (Rutgers University).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 02 November 2009, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Corpus iuris as a Source of Law between Sovereigns in Alberico Gentili's Thought

Benjamin Straumann (New York University).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 26 October 2009, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The International Political Thought of John Stuart Mill

Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary, London).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 19 October 2009, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Karl Marx and the Production Organism

John Filling (St. John's College, Oxford).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 12 October 2009, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'Kingship and Counsel in Early Modern England'

Jacqueline Rose (Newnham College, Cambridge).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 08 June 2009, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'The Transatlantic Dimension of Portuguese Political Thought, c. 1790-1840'

Gabriel Paquette (Trinity College, Cambridge).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 01 June 2009, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'"The Time Is Coming When Politics Will Have a Different Meaning"'

Hans Sluga (Berkeley).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 25 May 2009, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'Protagoras on Political Skill: Plato Protagoras 320c-328d'

Nick Denyer (Cambridge).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 11 May 2009, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'From divine inspiration to empirical enquiry in the German Enlightenment: J. D. Michaelis on language and civilisation'

Avi Lifschitz (UCL).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 04 May 2009, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'The Plan for Perpetual Peace: From Saint-Pierre to Rousseau'

Céline Spector (University of Bordeaux 3).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 27 April 2009, 17:00-18:45