Easter
Political Thought and Intellectual History Seminars
Easter Term 2026
Research Seminar Series 1 | Research Seminar Series 2 |
04 MayTitle: The Intellectual Foundations of Ottoman Constitutionalism: The Political Thought of Namık Kemal Speaker: Banu Turnaoğlu Açan (Magdalene College, University of Cambridge and Sabancı University) Commentator: Samuel Zeitlin (University College London) Venue: Long Room, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. | 11 MayTitle: Jacopo Aconcio and the Question of Religious Coercion Speaker: Odile Panetta (Wadham College, University of Oxford) Commentator: Angus Gowland (University College London) Venue: Long Room, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. |
18 MayTitle: Mater semper certa est. Matriarchal moments in early modern natural law. Speaker: Anna Becker (Aarhus University) Commentator: Annabel Brett (Gonville and Caius College) Venue: Long Room, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. | 25 MayTitle: Making Language. A short history of Language Models from ~ 1956 to 2017. Speaker: Amira Möding (Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge) Commentator: Jonnie Penn (University of Cambridge) Venue: Long Room, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. |