Research Seminar Series 1

Research Seminar Series 2

26 January

Title: In the Shadow of Minority Rights

Speaker: Sagnik Dutta (Tilburg University)

Commentator: Tobias Müller (Queens College, University of Cambridge)

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

02 February

Title: Does Art Have a Purpose? A Response from Aristotle's Poetics

Speaker: Katie Ebner-Landy (Utrecht University)

Commentator: Malcolm Bull (University of Oxford)

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

09 February 

Title: The Republic of Beavers

Speaker: Chris Brooke (Homerton College, University of Cambridge)

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

16 February (Cancelled)

23 February

Title: From the Oilfield to the Battlefield: Revolutionary Internationalism on the Iranian, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands, 1904-1921 

Speaker: Kayhan Nejad (University of Oklahoma)

Commentator: David Motadel (London School of Economics)

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

02 March

Title: “The African Problem Is a Human Problem”: (Dis)locating Race in Elite Indian Intellectual Thought ca. 1910s–40s

Speaker: Shruti Balaji (King's College, University of Cambridge)

Commentator: Kimberly Hutchings (Queen Mary University of London)

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

09 March

Title: Moses and other Lawgivers in Philo and Josephus: on the Roles of Law and Writing in Ethical Education

Speaker: Melissa Lane (Princeton University)

Commentator: Benjamin Gray (University of Cambridge)

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

16 March

Title: Schleiermacher on Masse and Monarch

Speaker: Olivier Higgins (New College, University of Oxford)

Commentator: Hugo Drochon (University of Nottingham)

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