2010-2011

Michaelmas Term

• Monday 18 October
  Helena Rosenblatt (Hunter College, CUNY)
  'French Liberals on Religion: From Constant to Laboulaye'
  Comment: Christopher Brooke (Cambridge)
  Introduction
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• Monday 25 October
  Reidar Maliks (Oriel College, Oxford)
  'Revolutionary Epigones: the Debate between Kant and his Radical Followers'
  Comment: Istvan Hont (Cambridge)
  Introduction
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• 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
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• 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
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• Monday 15 November
  Peter Gordon (Harvard University)
  'Heidegger, Cassirer, and Political Theology'
  Comment: Martin Ruehl (Cambridge)
  Introduction
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• 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
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• 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
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• Monday 24 January
  Anna Plassart (Christ Church, Oxford)
  'James Mill on the French Revolution'
  Comment: John Robertson (Clare College, Cambridge)
  Introduction
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• 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
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• Monday 7 February
  Freya Sierhuis (München)
  'Liberty, tyranny and idolatry in Calvinist thought'
  Comment: Harald Braun (University of Liverpool)
  Introduction
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• Monday 7 March
  Isaac Kramnick (Cornell)
  '"The Race of Life": Republican Revisionism Revisited'
  Seminar Introduction

Easter Term

• 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
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• 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
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• 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