2012-2013

Michaelmas Term

• Monday 8 October
  Ian Hunter (University of Queensland)
  'Kant and Vattel in Context: Cosmopolitan Philosophy and Diplomatic Casuistry'
  Comment: Isaac Nakhimovsky (University of Cambridge)
  Introduction
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• Monday 15 October
  Christian Maurer, (Université de Fribourg)
  'Calvinist Doctrines at the Beginning of
  the Scottish Enlightenment: Archibald Campbell vs. the Committee for
  Purity of Doctrine on Human Nature and Self-Love'
  Comment: John Robertson (University of Cambridge)
  Introduction
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• Monday 22 October
  Raymond Geuss (University of Cambridge)
  'Authority: Some Fables'
  Introduction

• Monday 29 October
  Sophie Nicholls (University of Oxford)
  'The nature of dominion in De Justa Reipublicae Christianae Authoritate (1590)'
  Comment: Harro Hopfl (University of Essex)
  Introduction
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• Monday 5 November
  Noel Malcolm (University of Oxford)
  'Hobbes and Sexual Desire'
  Introduction

• Monday 12 November
  Nick Hardy (University of Cambridge)
  'Historicisms and counter-historicisms in the seventeenth century'
  Comment: Scott Mandelbrote (University of Cambridge)
  Introduction
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• Monday 19 November
  Raffaella Santi (University of Urbino)
  'The Passions in Hobbes's Political Philosophy'
  Comment: Michael Edwards (University of Cambridge)
  Introduction
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• November 26 November
  Lea Ypi (LSE)
  'On trade and teleology: the role of commercial relations in Kant's philosophy of history'
  Comment: Istvan Hont (University of Cambridge)
  Introduction
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Lent Term

• 21 January
  Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS, Paris)
  'Anthropology beyond Empires: Samuel Stanhope Smith and the Reconfiguration of the Atlantic World'
  Introduction
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• 28 January
  Karen Collis (University of Oxford).
  'The Third Earl of Shaftesbury and
  the Defence of Humane Learning''
  Comment: Richard Serjeantson
  (Trinity College, Cambridge)
  Introduction
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• 4 February
  Matthias Riedl (Central European University)
  'The Charismatic Sword: Thomas Müntzer’s Theology of Violence'
  Introduction

• 11 February
  Leigh Jenco (London School of Economics and Political Science)
  'Histories of Thought and Comparative Political Theory: The Thesis of
  "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge," 1860-1895'
  Comment: John Dunn
  (King's College, Cambridge)
  Introduction
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• 18 February
  Lauren Benton (New York University)
  'This Melancholy Labyrinth': Magistrates and Order in the Early Nineteenth-Century British Empire'
  Comment: Michael Lobban (Queen Mary, London)
  Introduction
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• 25 February
  Niall O'Flaherty (King's College, London)
  'Malthus and "the Doctrine
  of Utility"'
  Comment: Donald Winch (University of Sussex)
  Introduction
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• 4 March
  Jose Harris (University of Oxford)
  'Society' in British Political Thought, c. 1930 to 1960: Some Rival Conceptions of 'Positivism'
  Introduction
  Joint session with the Modern British History Seminar

Easter Term

• 29 April
  Nicholas Rengger (St Andrews)
  'Realism tamed or liberalism betrayed? The dystopic liberal imagination in political thought'
  Introduction

• 6 May
  Sam James (Jesus College, Cambridge)
  J. G. A. Pocock and the idea of the 'Cambridge School' in the history of political thought'
  Comment: Professor Richard Bourke (Queen Mary, University of London)
  Introduction
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• 13 May
  Mogens Herman Hansen (University of Copenhagen)
  'Aspects of indirect democracy in ancient Greece, in particular in Aristotle's Politics'

• 20 May
  Louis Caron
  'Thomas Willis and the Religious Context of the First Neurology'
  Comment: Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge)
  Introduction
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