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Cambridge Centre for Political Thought

 
Research Seminar Series 1 Research Seminar Series 2

23 January

Democracy and Caesarism in Histories of Progress: G. F. Kolb and the Politics of Nineteenth-Century Cultural History

Iain McDaniel (University of Sussex)

Commentator: Martin Ruehl (Christ's College, Cambridge)

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Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College

30 January

Untimely Consciousness: Reading Modernity Through the White-Collar Lens

Emily Steinhauer (Royal Holloway)

Commentator: Dina Gusejnova (London School of Econmics)

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Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John's College

 

6 February

Afterlives of François de Callières: Secrecy, Espionage and the Twentieth-Century Law of Diplomatic Relations

Megan Donaldson (University College London)

Commentator: Mira Siegelberg (University of Cambridge)

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Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John's College

 

13 February

Space of Expedience, Horizon of Experimentation: John Maynard Keynes and the Politics of Time

Stefan Eich (Georgetown University)

Commentator: Emma Mackinnon (Emmanuel College, Cambridge)

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Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John's College

 

20 February

Plato's Longue Durée: the Politics of Time in the Later Dialogues

Carol Atack (Newnham College, Cambridge) 

Commentator: Thornton Lockwood (Clare Hall, Cambridge and Quinnipiac University)

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Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John's College

27 February

Not the “Dismal Science” but the “Lifeless” one: Critiques of Classical Political Economy in Latin America

Nicola Miller (University College London)

Commentator: Eduardo Posada (Brasenose College, Oxford)

Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John's College

6 March

Truth and Loyalty

Matt Sleat (University of Sheffield)

Commentator: Clare Chambers (Jesus College, Cambridge)

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Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John's College

13 March

The Problem of Taqiyya: Invisible Subjects in Indian Political Thought

Taushif Kara (King's College London)

Commentator: Shruti Kapila (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge)

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Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John's College