The Cambridge Centre for Political Thought is hosting a colloquium on the new biography, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion (Allen Lane/Harvard University Press) by Professor Gareth Stedman Jones on Friday 10 February, from 3pm until 6pm. The colloquium will consist of two panels, each discussing...

A major conference on this subject took place in Christ’s College, Cambridge on 20 June 2017. The participants included Melissa Calaresu, Serena Ferente, James Hankins, Jill Kraye, Giorgio Lizzul, John Robertson, Quentin Skinner, Peter Stacey, Nicolas Stone Villani, Filippo de Vivo, and Felix...

The J.R. Seeley Lectures 2017 Axel Honneth Recognition — three national cultures The lectures will be delivered in the University of Cambridge at 5pm on Tuesday 16, Thursday 18, Tuesday 23 and Thursday 25 May 2017, at 5pm in the Runcie Room of the Divinity Faculty (map here ). The lectures will...

The Quentin Skinner Fellow for 2016-17 was Dr Sophie Smith, University Lecturer in Politics and Fellow of University College, Oxford: her lecture was on the theme of 'The nature of Politics. Political Science in Early Modern England'. The lecture was accompanied by a colloquium with Melissa Lane (...

WORKSHOP ON MELISSA LANE'S CARLYLE LECTURES Friday 26 January 2.30pm - 4pm, Latimer Room, Clare College Professor Melissa Lane (Princeton University, formerly University Lecturer in the History of Political Thought here in Cambridge) is giving this year's Carlyle Lectures in Oxford, on the subject...