Michaelmas Term
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11 October Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics: A Roundtable Discussion Sylvana Tomaselli (St. John’s College, Cambridge) Commentators: Chair: Emma Mackinnon (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) Venue: Keynes Hall, King’s College |
18 October Volk without Kaste: Non-Democratic Popular Sovereignty in Nazi Germany Luna Sabastian (Centre for South Asian Studies, Cambridge) Commentator: David Motadel (LSE) Chair: Samuel Zeitlin (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge) Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College |
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25 October Freedom, Slavery, and Empire in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy Adam Woodhouse (Robinson College, Cambridge) Chair: Richard Bourke (King's College, Cambridge) Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College
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1 November Democracy and Representation in Early Modern England, 1531–1653 Markku Peltonen (University of Helsinki) Commentator: Annabel Brett (Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge) Chair: Samuel Zeitlin (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge) Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College |
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8 November The Political Thought of Charles Malik Chloe Kattar (Darwin College, Cambridge) Chair: Richard Bourke (King's College, Cambridge) Venue: Keynes Hall, King’s College |
15 November Beyond the Canon: Political Argument and Calculation in early Stuart Projects Vera Keller (University of Oregon) Commentator: Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge) Chair: Lisa Kattenberg (Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge) Venue: Zoom |
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22 November Post-dissident Liberalism as Politics and Culture: East-Central Europe after 1989 Michal Kopeček (Cambridge) Chair: Emma Mackinnon (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) Venue: Keynes Hall, King’s College
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29 November Dugald Stewart and Political Economy after Enlightenment Lina Weber (University of St Andrews) Commentator: Niall O’Flaherty (KCL) Chair: Lisa Kattenberg (Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge) Venue: Zoom
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Lent Term
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24 January Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age: A Roundtable Discussion Shruti Kapila (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge) Commentators: Faisal Devji (Oxford) and Cécile Laborde (Oxford) Chair: Richard Bourke (King's College, Cambridge) Venue: Zoom |
31 January The Kelsenian Critique of Militant Democracy Sandrine Baume (Lausanne) Commentator: Lars Vinx (Hughes Hall, Cambridge) Chair: Charlotte Johann (Churchill College, Cambridge) Venue: Zoom |
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7 February 'A Monarch Feels For No-One’: Sophie de Grouchy’s French Revolutionary Republicanism Kathleen McCrudden Illert (European University Institute) Chair: Emma Mackinnon (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) |
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7 March Recovering Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin in Contexts Jared Holley (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge) Chair: Emma Mackinnon (Emmanuel College, Cambridge)
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14 March Hobbes’s Political Philosophy: Man and Morality Devin Stauffer (University of Texas, Austin) Commentator: Adrian Blau (King's College London) Chair: Samuel Zeitlin (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge) |
Easter Term
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2 May Du Bois, Democracy, and Aesthetic Education Robert Gooding-Williams (Columbia University) Chair: Emma Mackinnon (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) Venue: online |
9 May Opening the People’s Eyes (At Least Partially): Machiavelli on Civic versus Princely Leadership John P. McCormick (University of Chicago) Commentator: Andrew Fitzmaurice (Queen Mary, University of London) Chair: Samuel Zeitlin (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge) Venue: Keynes Hall, King's College |