2024-2025
Michaelmas Term
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14 October: Title: The Oikonomia of Conspiracy Speaker: Demetra Kasimis (Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge) Commentator: Christopher Brooke(Homerton College, University of Cambridge) Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. | 21 October: Title: Paradiastole and Civil War in Ancient Greek and Roman Thought Speaker: Daniel Sutton (Peterhouse, University of Cambridge) Commentator: Samuel Zeitlin(University College London) Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. |
28 October: Title: Rethinking Weber's “Politics” Speaker: Peter Ghosh (St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford) Commentator: Dina Gusejnova (London School of Economics and Political Science) Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. | |
04 November: Title: Limits of Enlightenment: Frederick II, the philosophes, and the common people Speaker: Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College, University of Oxford) Commentator: Adam Sutcliffe (King’s College London) Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. | |
11 November: Title: Locke's Political Legacy Speaker: Tim Stanton (University of York) Commentator: Annabel Brett (Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge) Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. | 18 November: Title: Women’s Appeals to Talent in Seventeenth-Century England Speaker: Geertje Bol (Ghent University) Commentator: Sylvana Tomaselli (St John’s College, University of Cambridge) Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. |
25 November: Title: Reading Hegel in the Twenty-first Century Speaker: Kimberly Hutchings (Queen Mary University of London) Commentator: Emma MacKinnon(Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge) Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. | 02 December: Title: From “Algerian Literature” to “Algerian Sociology:” Decolonization, Speaker: Muriam Haleh Davis (MECAM - Université de Tunis) Commentator: Kaoutar Ghilani(Pembroke College, University of Cambridge) Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. |
Lent Term
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27 January: Title: Roundtable on Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900 Speaker: Fernanda Gallo(Homerton College, University of Cambridge) Commentators: David James(University of Warwick), Axel Körner (University of Leipzig) Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. | 03 February: Title: Christian Heinrich Amthor and the Reception of Christian Thomasius’s Political Thought at the University of Kiel, 1703-1714 Speaker: Mikkel Jensen (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) Commentator: Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, University of Cambridge) Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. |
10 February: Title: The Body Metaphor and Cross-Cultural Political Theory in Medieval Afro-Eurasia Speaker: Serena Ferente(University of Amsterdam) Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. | 17 February: Title: Apartheid Science and American Capitalism from Black-Scholes to the DotCom Boom Speaker: Efthimios Karayiannides (Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge) Commentator: Saul Dubow (Magdalene College, University of Cambridge) Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. |
24 February: Title: Post-Kantian Perfectionism Speaker: Douglas Moggach(University of Ottawa/University of Sydney) Commentator: Howard Williams(Cardiff University) Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. | 03 March: Title: John Stuart Mill, Imperial Rule, and Freedom of Speech Speaker: Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton University) Commentator: Duncan Bell (Christ’s College, University of Cambridge) Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. |
10 March: Title: Progress and Eschatology in British Abolitionist Thought Speaker: John Coffey(University of Leicester) Commentator: Rachel Hammersley (University of Newcastle) Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. | 17 March: Title: The Progressive Critique of Leaderless Government and the Rule of Law Speaker: Dimitrios Halikias (Princeton University) Commentator: Charlotte Johann (Queen Mary University of London) Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. |
Easter Term
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05 May: Title: Enlightenment Scepticism and the Nature of Pluralist Politics Speaker: Elena Yi-Jia Zeng (Princeton University) Commentator: Robin Douglass (King’s College London) Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. | |
12 May: Title: Democracy without Rationality Speaker: Leah Downey (St. John’s College, Cambridge) Commentator: Steven Klein (King’s College London) Venue: Long Room, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. | |
19 May: Title: Moral Philosophy and the Dissenting Academies, 1660-1860 Speaker: Isabel Rivers (Queen Mary University of London) Commentator: Niall O’Flaherty(King’s College London) Venue: Long Room, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. | 26 May: Title: Jeane Kirkpatrick, Totalitarianism Theory, and Neoconservative Human Rights Speaker: Sophie Joscelyne (University College London) Commentator: David Milne (University of East Anglia) Venue: Long Room, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. |