Lent
Political Thought and Intellectual History Seminars
Lent Term 2026
Research Seminar Series 1 | Research Seminar Series 2 |
26 JanuaryTitle: Rights, Freedom and Selfhood in Early Modern Feminism Speaker: Hannah Dawson (King’s College London), Commentator: Sagnik Dutta (Tilberg University) Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. | 02 FebruaryTitle: Does Art Have a Purpose? A Response from Aristotle's Poetics Speaker: Katie Ebner-Landy (Utrecht University) Commentator: TBC Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. |
09 FebruaryTitle: Chimera: Capitalism, Anti-Semitism and the Composition of the Modern Other Speaker: Sophus Reinert (Harvard University) Commentator: Martin Ruehl (University of Cambridge) Venue: Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College | |
16 FebruaryTitle: TBC Speaker: Julia McClure (University of Glasgow) Commentator: Milinda Bannerjee (University of St Andrews) Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. | |
23 FebruaryTitle: Revolutionary Linkages across Iran, the Russian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire, 1904 - 1908 Speaker: Kayhan Nejad (University of Oklahoma) Commentator: David Motadel (London School of Economics) Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. | |
02 MarchTitle: Moral Geographies of Pan-Asian Sisterhood: Examining Elite Indian and Chinese Women's Political Thought c. 1920 - 45 Speaker: Shruti Balaji (London School of Economics) Commentator: Kimberly Hutchings (Queen Mary University of London) Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. | |
09 MarchTitle: TBC Speaker: Melissa Lane (Princeton University) Commentator: Benjamin Gray (University of Cambridge) Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. | 16 MarchTitle: Schleiermacher on Masse and Monarch Speaker: Olivier Higgins (New College, University of Oxford) Commentator: TBC Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. |