Michaelmas Term
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12 October Statelessness: A Roundtable Discussion Mira Siegelberg (Cambridge) Chair: Richard Bourke Commentators: Tejas Parasher (King's College, Cambridge) and Will Selinger (UCL) |
19 October Thomas Paine in the French Revolution Adam Lebovitz (Trinity Hall, Cambridge) Chair: Lucia Rubinelli Commentator: Richard Bourke (King's College, Cambridge) |
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26 October Politics and Salus Populi: Hobbes and the Sovereign as Physician of the State Raffaella Santi (University of Urbino) Chair: Richard Bourke Commentator: Samuel Zeitlin (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge) |
2 November Can Sovereignty Be Represented? Jacobinism From Radical Democracy to Populism Geneviève Rousselière (Duke University) Chair: Lucia Rubinelli Commentator: Christopher Brooke (Homerton College, Cambridge) |
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9 November Irony and the Politics of Pessimism in African American History and Theory Brandon Terry (Harvard University) Chair: Richard Bourke Commentator: Emma Mackinnon (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) |
16 November 'The Greatest of All Plagues': Plato on Economic Inequality David Lay Williams (DePaul University) Chair: Lucia Rubinelli Commentator: Christopher Brooke (Homerton College, Cambridge) |
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23 November Mores, Commerce, and Reforms in Russia: Herder's Response to Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws Eva Piirimae (University of Tartu) Chair: Emma Mackinnon Commentator: Michael Sonenscher (King's College, Cambridge) |
30 November Between Virtue and Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, ca 1590-1650 Lisa Kattenberg (Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge) Chair: Samuel Zeitlin Commentator: Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge) |
Lent Term
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25 January Democracy Requires Organized Collective Power Steven Klein (King's College London) Chair: Emma Mackinnon Commentator: Samuel Bagg (Nuffield College, Oxford) |
1 February Carl Schmitt in Leipzig Lars Vinx (Hughes Hall, Cambridge) Chair: Samuel Zeitlin Commentator: Lucia Rubinelli (Robinson College, Cambridge) |
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8 February Thucydides’ Tragic Science of Democratic Defeat Mark Fisher (Georgetown University) Chair: Emma Mackinnon Commentator: Lisa Kallet (University College, Oxford) |
15 February Kant's 'True Politics' Susan Shell (Boston College) Chair: Samuel Zeitlin Commentator: Katerina Deligiorgi (University of Sussex) |
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22 February Experiencing Republican Texts Rachel Hammersley (Newcastle) Chair: Richard Bourke Commentator: Mark Goldie (Churchill College, Cambridge) |
1 March Not Being Kantian about Moral Justification Luc Foisneau (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS) Chair: Lucia Rubinelli Commentator: John Dunn (King's College, Cambridge) |
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8 March Hegel and Italian Political Thought Fernanda Gallo (Homerton College, Cambridge) Chair: Richard Bourke Commentator: Gareth Stedman Jones (QMUL) |
15 March Separation of Powers as a New Theory Jeffrey Tulis (University of Texas at Austin) Chair: Samuel Zeitlin Commentator: Adam Lebovitz (Trinity Hall, Cambridge) |
Easter Term
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3 May Sir William Petty’s Treatise of Taxes and Contributions: Politics and Political Economy in the Interregnum and Restoration State Shannon Stimson (Georgetown University) Chair: Samuel Zeitlin Commentator: Felix Waldmann (Christ’s College, Cambridge) |
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10 May James Bryce and the Foundation of the Theory of Rigid Constitution Pasquale Pasquino (CNRS) Chair: Lucia Rubinelli Commentator: Lars Vinx (Huges Hall, Cambridge) |
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17 May The Birth of the People: Liberalism and the Origins of the Anticolonial Democratic Project in India Nazmul Sultan (Christ’s College, Cambridge) Chair: Samuel Zeitlin Commentator: Shruti Kapila (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge) |
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24 May Pandemic scholarship: Hobbes's translation of Thucydides' 'Plague of Athens' Kinch Hoekstra (University of California, Berkeley) Chair: Lucia Rubinelli Commentator: Annabel Brett (Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge) |