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Michaelmas Term
- Monday 12 October
John Filling (St. John's College, Oxford)
'Karl Marx and the Production Organism'
Comment: Christopher Brooke (Cambridge)
Seminar Introduction
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- Monday 19 October
Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary, London)
'The International Political Thought of John Stuart Mill'
Comment: Duncan Bell (Cambridge)
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- 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)
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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Lent Term
- Monday 18 January
Nicholas Cole (St. Peter's College, Oxford)
'The Republican King: The Creation of Executive Power in America'
Comment: Isaac Nakhimovsky (Emmanuel College, Cambridge)
Seminar Introduction
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- 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
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- Monday 1 February
Mark Somos (Sussex)
'The History and Implications of Secularisation: The Leiden Circle, 1575-1618'
Comment: Sarah Mortimer (Christ Church, Oxford)
Seminar Introduction
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- Monday 8 February
James Tully (Victoria University, British Columbia)
'The Crisis of Global Citizenship'
Comment: Kimberly Hutchings (London School of Economics)
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- Monday 15 February
Kasper Eskildsen (Roskilde Universitet, Denmark)
'Historia Literaria in the Field: German Academics and the Search for the Dutch Underground, 1690-1720'
Comment: Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge)
Seminar Introduction
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- Monday 22 February
Paul Rahe (Hillsdale College, Michigan)
'Montesquieu's Anti-Machiavellian Machiavellism'
Comment: Michael Sonenscher (King's College, Cambridge)
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- Monday 1 March
Isabel DiVanna (Wolfson College, Cambridge)
'Rethinking the Role of Politics in French Intellectual History'
Comment: Emile Perreau-Saussine (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge)
Seminar Introduction
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- 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
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Easter Term