The Monday Seminars in Michaelmas Term will be held via Zoom, with Zoom links publicised by the Seminar mailing list.
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12 October Statelessness: Mira Siegelberg (University of Cambridge) Chair: Richard Bourke Commentators: Tejas Parasher (King's College, University of Cambridge) and Will Selinger (UCL) |
19 October Thomas Paine in the French Revolution Chair: Lucia Rubinelli Commentator: Richard Bourke (King's College, University of Cambridge) |
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26 October Politics and Salus Populi: Hobbes and the Sovereign as Physician of the State Raffaella Santi (University of Urbino) Chair: Richard Bourke Commentator: Samuel Zeitlin (Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge) |
2 November Can Sovereignty Be Represented? Jacobinism From Radical Democracy to Populism Geneviève Rousselière (Duke University) Chair: Lucia Rubinelli Commentator: Christopher Brooke (Homerton College, University of Cambridge) |
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9 November Irony and the Politics of Pessimism in African American History and Theory Brandon Terry (Harvard University) Chair: Richard Bourke Commentator: Emma Mackinnon (Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge) |
16 November 'The Greatest of All Plagues': Plato on Economic Inequality David Lay Williams (DePaul University) Chair: Lucia Rubinelli Commentator: Christopher Brooke (Homerton College, University of Cambridge) |
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23 November Mores, Commerce, and Reforms in Russia: Herder's Response to Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws Eva Piirimae (University of Tartu) Chair: Emma Mackinnon Commentator: Michael Sonenscher (King's College, University of Cambridge)
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30 November Between Virtue and Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, ca 1590-1650 Lisa Kattenberg (Gonville & Caius, University of Cambridge) Chair: Samuel Zeitlin Commentator: Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, University of Cambridge) |