Michaelmas Term
- 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 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
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