Monday 17 October Dmitri Levitin (Trinity College, Cambridge) 'Some new sources and contexts for the De legibus Hebraeorum (1685) of John Spencer, father of 'enlightened' sacred history' Comment: Scott Mandelbrote (University of Cambridge) Introduction
Monday 24 October Sarah Hutton (University of Wales, Aberystwyth and Wolfson College, Cambridge) 'Women, freedom and equality: Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell' Comment: Joanne Wright (University of New Brunswick and Clare Hall, Cambridge) Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Monday 31 October Ben Jackson (University College, Oxford) 'Freedom, the Common Good and the Rule of Law: Lippmann and Hayek on Economic Planning' Comment: Andrew Gamble (University of Cambridge) Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Monday 7 November Mark Knights (University of Warwick) and Phil Withington (University of Cambridge) 'A social and cultural history of early modern keywords and concepts' Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Monday 14 November Jos Betts (Cambridge Victorian Studies Group) The business enterprise as organization and as association in nineteenth century Britain: Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, and Auguste Comte Comment: Gareth Stedman Jones (Queen Mary, University of London) Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Monday 21 November Girolamo Imbruglia (Università di Napoli 'L'Orientale') 'Regalism and Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Naples' Comment: John Robertson (University of Cambridge) Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
November 28 November Dina Gusejnova (University College London) The false cosmos of new music: Adorno’s Philosophie der Neuen Musik as modern political pedagogy Comment: Andrew Bowie (Royal Holloway, University of London) Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Lent Term
23 January Ronald Beiner (University of Toronto) 'Civil Religion: a window into perennial themes in political philosophy' Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
30 January Anna Becker (Universität Basel). 'Jean Bodin, oeconomics and politics' Comment: Jill Kraye (Warburg Institute) Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
6 February Magnus Ryan (University of Cambridge) 'Consensual and non-consensual politics in medieval Roman Law' Introduction
13 February Tom Hopkins (University of Helsinki) 'Sismondi contra Rousseau: Social Contracts and Political Economy after the French Revolution' Comment: Isaac Nakhimovsky (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
20 February Richard Whatmore (University of Sussex) 'Republicanism and Empire in Britain and France 1763-1815' Seminar to be held jointly with the Modern European History Seminar. Introduction
27 February Freyja Cox Jensen (Christ Church, Oxford) 'Classical history in the Renaissance: what can the Universal Short Title Catalogue do for us?' Comment: Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge) Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
5 March Jon Parkin (University of York) 'Thomas Hobbes and the problem of self-censorship' Comment: Chris Brooke (King's College, Cambridge) Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
Easter Term
30 April James Moore (Concordia University) 'The Scottish critics of Hume and Smith: Maclaine, Reid and Ferguson' Introduction
7 May Mikko Tolonen (University of Helsinki) 'Commerce and monarchy in Hume’s History of England' Comment: Istvan Hont (King's College, Cambridge) Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
21 May Daniel Lee (University of Toronto) 'The Rights of Sovereignty and Its Exercise: Civil Law Origins of a Public Law Distinction' Comment: Magnus Ryan (Peterhouse, Cambridge) Introduction Handout Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
28 May Jill Frank (University of South Carolina) 'The power of persuasion in Plato' Comment: Miriam Leonard (University College, London) Introduction Paper Download: Cambridge | Visitor
