Monday 12 October John Filling (St. John's College, Oxford) 'Karl Marx and the Production Organism' Comment: Christopher Brooke (Cambridge) Seminar Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Monday 19 October Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary, London) 'The International Political Thought of John Stuart Mill' Comment: Duncan Bell (Cambridge) Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Monday 26 October Benjamin Straumann (New York University) 'The Corpus iuris as a Source of Law between Sovereigns in Alberico Gentili's Thought' Comment: Lauri Tähtinen (Magdalene College, Cambridge) Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Monday 2 November Jacob Soll (Rutgers University) 'Dutch Accounting Practices and the Cultural Origins of Political Economy in Europe 1600-1730' Comment: Craig Muldrew (Cambridge) Seminar Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Monday 9 November Simon Grote (University of California, Berkeley) 'Christian Wolff's Critics and the 'Foundation of Morality' in the Early German Enlightenment' Comment: Thomas Ahnert (Edinburgh) Seminar Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Monday 16 November Annabel Brett (Cambridge) 'Thomas Hobbes and Late Renaissance Commentary on Aristotle's Politics'
Monday 23 November Chris Jones (Canterbury, New Zealand) 'The Role of Conceptions of History in Shaping Political Ideas: The Case of the Early-Fourteenth-Century Dominican John of Paris' Comment: Joseph Canning (Cambridge) Seminar Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Monday 25 January Luc Foisneau (CNRS-EHESS, Paris) 'Security as a Norm in Hobbes's Theory of War: A Critique of Schmitt's Interpretation of Hobbes's Approach to International Relations' Comment: David Runciman (Cambridge) Seminar Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Monday 8 February James Tully (Victoria University, British Columbia) 'The Crisis of Global Citizenship' Comment: Kimberly Hutchings (London School of Economics) Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Monday 8 March Caroline Humfress (Birkbeck College, London) 'Rethinking Law and Religion. Towards a Legal Anthropology of Late Antiquity' Comment: Kate Cooper (University of Manchester) Seminar Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Easter Term
Monday 3 May Malcolm Bull (Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford) 'On Equality' Comment: Raymond Geuss (Cambridge) Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor