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09 October: Roundtable: Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word. Speaker: Michael Sonenscher (King’s College, University of Cambridge). Commentators: Helen Thompson (Clare College, University of Cambridge) and Keith Tribe (University of Tartu). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |
16 October: Title: What did Simón Bolívar Owe to Charles V? Speaker: Edward Jones Corredera (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg). Commentator: Jeremy Adelman (Global History Lab, University of Cambridge). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |
23 October: Title: John Locke and Slavery. Speaker: Mark Goldie (Churchill College, University of Cambridge). Commentator: Felix Waldmann (Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |
30 October: Title: Technology, Environment, and Crisis: “Catastrophic Technology” and the Environmental Movement. Speaker: Caroline Ashcroft (Queen Mary University of London). Commentator: David Runciman (University of Cambridge). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |
06 November: Title: Hobbes on People and Multitude: Context and Argument. Speaker: James Harris (University of St Andrews). Commentator: Sarah Mortimer (Christ Church, University of Oxford). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |
13 November: Title: An Angry Warning: Pareto and Elite Circulation. Speaker: Natasha Piano (University of California, Los Angeles). Commentator: Duncan Kelly (Jesus College, University of Cambridge). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |
20 November: Title: Loving and Killing Children: Jeremy Bentham on Adult-Child Sex, Infanticide, and Abortion. Speaker: Philip Schofield (University College London). Commentator: Emily Rutherford (Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |
27 November: Title: Luis de Molina (1535–1600) and Atlantic Slavery. Speaker: Daniel Allemann (University of Lucerne). Commentator: Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter College, University of Oxford). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |