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Cambridge Centre for Political Thought

 

The Seminar starts at 5pm every week and is held in the Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College.

Research Seminar Series 1:

Research Seminar Series 2:

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)

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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)

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Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.

10 February:

TitleThe 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:

TitleApartheid 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)

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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)

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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)

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Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.

10 March:

TitleProgress and Eschatology in British Abolitionist Thought

Speaker: John Coffey (University of Leicester)

Commentator: Rachel Hammersley (University of Newcastle)

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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)

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Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.