2011-2012

Michaelmas Term

• Monday 10 October
  David Runciman (University of Cambridge)
  'Three Views of Democracy'
  Introduction

• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• Monday 21 November
  Girolamo Imbruglia (Università di Napoli 'L'Orientale')
  'Regalism and Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Naples'
  Comment: John Robertson (University of Cambridge)
  Introduction
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• 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
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Lent Term

• 23 January
  Ronald Beiner (University of Toronto)
  'Civil Religion: a window into perennial themes in political philosophy'
  Introduction
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• 30 January
  Anna Becker (Universität Basel).
  'Jean Bodin, oeconomics and politics'
  Comment: Jill Kraye (Warburg Institute)
  Introduction
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• 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
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• 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
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• 5 March
  Jon Parkin (University of York)
  'Thomas Hobbes and the problem of self-censorship'
  Comment: Chris Brooke (King's College, Cambridge)
  Introduction
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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
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• 14 May
  Malcolm Schofield (St John's College, Cambridge)
  'Roman Liberty'
  Comment: Valentina Arena (University College, London)
  Introduction
  Handout

• 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
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• 28 May
  Jill Frank (University of South Carolina)
  'The power of persuasion in Plato'
  Comment: Miriam Leonard (University College, London)
  Introduction
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