2013-2014

Michaelmas Term

• Monday 14 October
  Duncan Bell (Christ’s College, Cambridge)
  'What is Liberalism?'

  Introduction
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• Monday 21 October
  Daniela Cammack (Harvard Society of Fellows)
  'Not Talking But Thinking: Democratic Deliberation in Classical Athens'

  Comment: David Runciman
  Introduction
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• Monday 28 October
  Sofia Näsström (Uppsala University)
  'What Makes Representation Democratic?'

  Introduction
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• Monday 4 November
  Katrina Forrester (St John's College, Cambridge)
  'Citizenship, War and the Origins of International Ethics in American Political Philosophy 1960-1975'

  Comment: Christopher Brooke
  Introduction
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• Monday 11 November
  Gaby Mahlberg (Northumbria University)
  'English Republicanism in Transnational Context: Edmund Ludlow’s Protestant Network in Seventeenth-Century Switzerland'

  Introduction

• Monday 18 November
  Charlotte Roberts (University College London)
  'Tracing a Meridian through the Map of Time: Fact, Conjecture and the Scientific Method in William Robertson's History of America'

  Comment: John Robertson
  Introduction
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• Monday 25 November
  Christopher Meckstroth (University of Cambridge)
  'Kant on Rebellion and the Mere Idea of Popular Rule'

  Introduction
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• Monday 2 December
  Tim Rogan (St Catharine's College, Cambridge)
  "E. P. Thompson, Judith Shklar and the Implications of 'Antipolitics'"

  Comment: Stefan Collini
  Introduction
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Lent Term

• 20 January
  Mark Phillips (Carelton University, Ottawa)
  'Art and Elevation: Distance and History Painting in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain'

  Introduction

• 27 January
  Charles Devellennes (University of Kent)
  'Radical Atheism: Jean Meslier in Context'
  Comment: Michael Sonenscher (King’s College, Cambridge)

  Introduction
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• 3 February
  Warren Breckman (University of Pennsylvania/Humboldt University)
  'Postmarxism, Radical Democracy, and the Machiavellian Moment'
  Introduction
• 10 February
  Waseem Yaqoob (Pembroke College, Cambridge)
  'Philosophical History in Hannah Arendt’s Political Thought'
  Comment: Robert Fine (University of Warwick)

  Introduction
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• 17 February
  David Runciman (University of Cambridge)
  'Bentham as Conspiracy Theorist'

  Introduction

• 24 February
  Teresa Bejan (Columbia University)
  '"If it be without contention": Hobbes on Difference without Disagreement’
  Comment: Richard Tuck (Harvard University)

  Introduction
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• 3 March
  Richard Bourke (Queen Mary, University of London)
  'Edmund Burke and the French Revolution before the Reflections’

  Introduction

• 10 March
  Mira Siegelberg (Harvard University)
  'Statelessness in International Political and Legal Thought, 1921-1935'
  Comment: Duncan Kelly (Jesus College, Cambridge)

  Introduction
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Easter Term

• 28 April
  Noah Dauber (Colgate University)
  'Envy, Emulation, and the theory of the state in early modern'
  
  Introduction
• 5 May
  Lauri Tähtinen (Brown University)
  'The Right of Communication and Early Modern Globalisation'
  Comment: Peter Schröder (University College London)
  Introduction

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• 12 May
  Daniel Stolzenberg (University of California)
  'A Protestant Bookseller in Counter-Reformation Rome: Science, Censorship, Commerce'

  Introduction

• 19 May
  Orazio Cappello (USC Dornsife)
  'Community, Reason and Doubt: Cicero and the Politics of Scepticism'
  Comment: Malcolm Schofield (University of Cambridge)
  Introduction

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