Monday 18 October Helena Rosenblatt (Hunter College, CUNY) 'French Liberals on Religion: From Constant to Laboulaye' Comment: Christopher Brooke (Cambridge) Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Monday 25 October Reidar Maliks (Oriel College, Oxford) 'Revolutionary Epigones: the Debate between Kant and his Radical Followers' Comment: Istvan Hont (Cambridge) Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Monday 1 November Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe (King's College, London) 'Thinking with Satan: diabolical inspiration and human agency in late antiquity' Comment: Conrad Leyser (Oxford) Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Monday 8 November Felicity Green (Trinity College, Cambridge) 'Self-Possession and Carelessness: Two Versions of Liberty in Montaigne's Essais' Comment: Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge) Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Monday 15 November Peter Gordon (Harvard University) 'Heidegger, Cassirer, and Political Theology' Comment: Martin Ruehl (Cambridge) Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Monday 22 November Efraim Podoksik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Max-Weber Kolleg, Erfurt) 'Society as the Mode of Redemption: The Idea of Individuality in Georg Simmel's Early Sociological Writings' Comment: Duncan Kelly (Cambridge) Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Monday 29 November George Garnett (St Hugh's College, Oxford) 'Seventeenth-Century Perceptions of the Norman Conquest' Comment: Sir John Baker (Cambridge) Introduction
Lent Term
Monday 31 January Pasquale Pasquino (New York University / CNRS) 'Republic and Mixed Government: Machiavelli and Aristotle' Comment: Annabel Brett (Caius College, Cambridge) Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Monday 24 January Anna Plassart (Christ Church, Oxford) 'James Mill on the French Revolution' Comment: John Robertson (Clare College, Cambridge) Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Monday 14 February Steven Pincus (Yale University) 'Addison's Empire: Whig conceptions of empire in the early eighteenth century' Comment: Sophus Reinert (Caius College, Cambridge) Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Monday 7 February Freya Sierhuis (München) 'Liberty, tyranny and idolatry in Calvinist thought' Comment: Harald Braun (University of Liverpool) Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Monday 28 February Istvan Hont (King's College, Cambridge) 'Luxury and the route to revolution in Rousseau's "Discourse on Inequality"' Comment: Christopher Brooke (King's College, Cambridge) Seminar Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Monday 21 February Norbert Waszek (Paris) 'Hegel and the sea. International trade in Hegel's political philosophy' Comment: Isaac Nakhimovsky (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) Seminar Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Monday 14 March Jennifer Pitts (University of Chicago) 'Empire and legal universalisms in the eighteenth century' Comment: Richard Bourke (Queen Mary, University of London) Seminar Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Monday 2 May Alexander Schmidt (Jena) 'Scholarship, Morals and Government: Jean-Henri-Samuel Formey's and Johann Gottfried Herder's Responses to Rousseau's First Discourse' Comment: Christopher Brooke (King's College, Cambridge) Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Monday 9 May Jeffrey Collins (Toronto/Clare Hall) 'John Locke in liberal memory' Introduction
Monday 16 May Isabel Divanna (Clare College, Cambridge) 'Historicising the French Revolution in the Third Republic: the case of Ernest Lavisse' Comment: Michael Drolet (Oxford) Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Monday 23 May Peter Ghosh (St Anne's College, Oxford) 'Clapham Junction: The place of the Protestant Ethic in Max Weber's intellectual biography' Comment: Duncan Kelly (University of Cambridge) Introduction
