Michaelmas Term
- Monday 20th October
Michael Mosher (Tulsa)
'Montesquieu on Empire and Enlightenment'
Comment: Michael Sonenscher (King's College, Cambridge)
Seminar Introduction
Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor - Monday 27th October
Joel Isaac (Queen Mary, London)
'The Harvard Pareto Circle Revisited'
Comment: James Kloppenberg (Harvard)
Seminar Introduction
Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor - Monday 3rd November
Peter Onuf (Virginia)
'Federalism, Democracy, and Liberty in the New American Nation'
Comment: Michael O'Brien (Cambridge)
Seminar Introduction
Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor - Monday 10th November
Anna Stilz (Princeton)
'When Do States Have Territorial Rights?'
Comment: Sarah Fine (St. Edmund Hall, Oxford)
Seminar Introduction
Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor - Monday 17th November
Michael Sonenscher (King's College, Cambridge)
'Ideology and Social Science: Rousseau, Sieyès and Modern Politics'
Comment: Istvan Hont (Cambridge)
Seminar Introduction
Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor - Monday 24th November
Carolina Armenteros (Groningen)
'Revolutionary Violence and the End of History: The Divided Self in Francophone Thought, 1762-1914'
Comment: Christopher Brooke (Balliol College, Oxford)
Seminar Introduction
Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor - Monday 1st December
Joseph Canning (Bangor)
'How Useful Are Notions of Sovereignty and State for Interpreting the Political Thought of Bartolus and Baldus?'
Comment: Magnus Ryan (Cambridge)
Seminar Introduction
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Lent Term
- Monday 26th January
Peter Miller (Bard Graduate Center, New York)
'Writing the History of Antiquarianism before Momigliano'
Comment: Peter Burke (Cambridge)
Seminar Introduction
Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor - Monday 19th January
Noah Dauber (Harvard)
'Legal theory, private property, and the state in the Reformation'
Comment: Annabel Brett (Cambridge)
Seminar Introduction
Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor - Monday 2nd February
Susan James (Birkbeck, London)
'Narrative as the Means to Spinozist Freedom'
Comment: Hans Blom (Erasmus University, Rotterdam and Collegium Civitas, Warsaw)
Seminar Introduction
Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor - Monday 9th February
Serena Ferente (King 's College, London)
'Passions and Freedom: Bartolus of Saxoferrato on Factions'
Comment: Joseph Canning (Bangor)
Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor - Monday 16th February
Roger Berkowitz (Bard College, New York)
From Justice to Justification: An Alternative Genealogy of Positive Law
Comment: Douglas Moggach (Ottawa)
Seminar Introduction
Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor - Monday 23rd February
Sophus Reinert (Cambridge)
'Dare Legem Victis': Liberty, Emulation, and the Science of the Legislator in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Comment: Koen Stapelbroek (Erasmus University, Rotterdam)
Seminar Introduction
Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor - Monday 2nd March
Magnus Ryan (Cambridge)
'From People to Prince (and Back?): Medieval Lawyers and the Origins of Imperial Authority'
Comment: George Garnett (Oxford) - Monday 9th March
Hugo Drochon (Cambridge)
'Why Nietzsche's Destiny is Great Politics'
Comment: Keith Ansell-Pearson (Warwick)
Seminar Introduction
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Easter Term
- Monday 27 April
Céline Spector (University of Borde aux 3)
'The Plan for Perpetual Peace: From Saint-Pierre to Rousseau'
Comment: Isaac Nakhimovsky (Cambridge)
Seminar Introduction
Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor - Monday 4 May
Avi Lifschitz (UCL)
'From divine inspiration to empirical enquiry in the German Enlightenment: J. D. Michaelis on language and civilisation'
Comment: Joachim Whaley (Cambridge)
Seminar Introduction
Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor - Monday 11 May
Nick Denyer (Cambridge)
'Protagoras on Political Skill: Plato Protagoras 320c-328d'
Comment: Melissa Lane (Cambridge)
Seminar Introduction
Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor - Monday 1 June
Gabriel Paquette (Trinity College, Cambridge)
'Burke of the Tropics? José da Silva Lisboa's political thought and the fortunes of 'enlightened reform' in the Luso-Brazilian World, c. 1800-1830'
Comment: Charles Jones (Cambridge)
Seminar Introduction
Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor - Monday 25 May
Hans Sluga (Berkeley)
'"The Time Is Coming When Politics Will Have a Different Meaning"'
Comment: Gareth Stedman Jones (Cambridge)
Seminar Introduction
Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor - Monday 8 June
Jacqueline Rose (Newnham Colleg e, Cambridge)
'Kingship and Counsel in Early Modern England'
Comment: Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge)
Seminar Introduction
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