2019-2020

14 October

Roundtable on In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy

Katrina Forrester (Harvard University)

Commentators: Emma Mackinnon (Cambridge) and Christopher Brooke (Cambridge)

21 October

Empire, Freedom, and Violence: Theories of Political Pluralism and Dante's Monarchy

Serena Ferente (KCL)

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28 October

Marx, Arendt and the Temporalities of Revolution’

Miriam Leonard (UCL)

4 November

Acting, Artifice, and the Political Sphere in Eighteenth-Century French Thought

Shiru Lim (Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen)

11 November

Ecce Homo: Nietzsche on the Philosophic Life

Heinrich Meier (LMU)

18 November

Interpreting the French Revolution with Germaine de Staël

Adela Halo (QMUL)

20 January

Empire and Sovereignty in 'Democracies of the East'

Tejas Parasher (Cambridge)

27 January

Fortitude: Spinoza on living in the light of our knowledge

Susan James (Birkbeck)

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3 February

Hypocrisy, Sociability and Virtue: Mandeville vs. Shaftesbury

Robin Douglass (KCL)

10 February

Conceptualizations of Labour and the Making of the French Working Class, 1830-1848

Samuel Hayat (CNRS)

Commentator: Julia Nicholls (KCL)

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17 February

"The English Always Disregarded Abstract Theories”: Constructing “Tory Democracy," 1881-1931

Emily Jones (Manchester)