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09 October: Roundtable: Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word. Speaker: Michael Sonenscher (King’s College, University of Cambridge). Commentators: Helen Thompson (Clare College, University of Cambridge) and Keith Tribe (University of Tartu). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |
16 October: Title: What did Simón Bolívar Owe to Charles V? Speaker: Edward Jones Corredera (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg). Commentator: Jeremy Adelman (Global History Lab, University of Cambridge). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |
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23 October: Title: John Locke and Slavery. Speaker: Mark Goldie (Churchill College, University of Cambridge). Commentator: Felix Waldmann (Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |
30 October: Title: Technology, Environment, and Crisis: “Catastrophic Technology” and the Environmental Movement. Speaker: Caroline Ashcroft (Queen Mary University of London). Commentator: David Runciman (University of Cambridge). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |
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06 November: Title: Hobbes on People and Multitude: Context and Argument. Speaker: James Harris (University of St Andrews). Commentator: Sarah Mortimer (Christ Church, University of Oxford). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |
13 November: Title: An Angry Warning: Pareto and Elite Circulation. Speaker: Natasha Piano (University of California, Los Angeles). Commentator: Duncan Kelly (Jesus College, University of Cambridge). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |
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20 November: Title: Loving and Killing Children: Jeremy Bentham on Adult-Child Sex, Infanticide, and Abortion. Speaker: Philip Schofield (University College London). Commentator: Emily Rutherford (Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |
27 November: Title: Luis de Molina (1535–1600) and Atlantic Slavery. Speaker: Daniel Allemann (University of Lucerne). Commentator: Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter College, University of Oxford). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |
Lent Term
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22 January: Roundtable: Hegel’s World Revolutions. Speaker: Richard Bourke (King’s College, University of Cambridge). Commentators: Christopher Clark (St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge) and Lea Ypi (London School of Economics and Political Science). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |
29 January: Title: The Pre-History of British Gramscianism. A Transnational Perspective. Speaker: Marzia Maccaferri (Queen Mary University of London). Commentator: Peter Thomas (Brunel University London). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |
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05 February: Title: Slavery in the Society of Equals: Winstanley and the Diggers. Speaker: Teresa Bejan (Oriel College, University of Oxford). Commentator: John Coffey (University of Leicester). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |
12 February: Title: Time and the Political Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America. Speaker: Nicola Miller (University College London). Commentator: John Robertson (Clare College, University of Cambridge). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |
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19 February: Title: Roman Law between Scholasticism and Humanism. Speaker: Magnus Ryan (Peterhouse, University of Cambridge). Commentator: Joseph Canning (Queen’s College, University of Cambridge). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |
26 February: Title: Des Moulins à Paroles. The Battle for the Meaning of Democracy in France, 1850–1851. Speaker: Lucia Rubinelli (Yale University). Commentator: Matthew D’Auria (University of East Anglia). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |
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04 March: Title: The United States of Europe, 1848–1914. Speaker: Christopher Brooke (Homerton College, University of Cambridge). Commentator: Georgios Giannakopoulos (City, University of London). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |
11 March: Title: Violence against Women in Feminist Re-Readings of Marx in Socialist Contexts. Speaker: Zsófia Lóránd (University of Vienna). Commentator: Celia Donert (Wolfson College, University of Cambridge). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |
Easter Term
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13 May: Title: Why Popular Participation? Collective Action, Majoritarianism, and Solidarity in Ancient Greece. Speaker: Daniela Cammack (University of California, Berkeley). Commentator: Carol Atack (Newnham College, University of Cambridge). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |
29 April: Title: Rights in Roman Republican Thought. Speaker: Valentina Arena (University College London). Commentator: Malcolm Schofield (St John’s College, University of Cambridge). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |
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20 May: Title: Enlightenment Theory of Rights. Speaker: Céline Spector (Université Paris-Sorbonne). Commentator: Christopher Brooke (Homerton College, University of Cambridge). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |
06 May: Title: Technology, Environment, and Crisis: The Idea of ‘Catastrophic Technology’ and the Environmental Movement. Speaker: Caroline Ashcroft (Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford). Commentator: David Runciman (University of Cambridge). Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge. |