Michaelmas — Cambridge Centre for Political Thought

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Unless otherwise specified, seminars take place Monday between 5pm - 6.45pm in the Old Combination Room, Trinity College

Research Seminar Series 1	Research Seminar Series 2
Monday 8 October Dilemmas of Sovereignty: Law, Politics and Moral Reasoning in Hugo Grotius Annabel Brett (Cambridge) Introduction Paper download: Cambridge \| Visitor	Monday 22 October Hobbes on the Definition of a Legal Sphere Signy Gutnick Allen (LSE) Commentator: Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge)
Monday 15 October The Constitutionalism of Imperial Expansion Stephen Holmes (NYU) Introduction	Monday 29 October Can we write an ethical history of the early common law? Philippa Byrne (Oxford) Commentator: Jenny Benham (Cardiff)
Monday 5 November Race Man: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas Corey Robin (CUNY) Joint with US History Seminar	Monday 12 November Coercion in a Subjective World Daniel Luban (Yale) Commentator: Nakul Krishna (Cambridge)
Monday 19 November TBC	Monday 26 November Reform or Revolution', redux: Eduard Bernstein on the 1918-19 German Revolution Marius Ostrowski (Oxford) Commentator: Gareth Stedman-Jones (QMUL)

Political Thought Seminars

Mon 22 Oct 17:00: Hobbes on the Definition of a Legal Sphere

Mon 29 Oct 17:00: Can we write an ethical history of the early common law?

Mon 05 Nov 17:00: Race Man: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas

Centre for Political Thought Events

Contemporary Political Thought Seminar

Fri 26 Oct 13:00: Disturbing the "One Size Fits All' Feudal Approach to Data Governance: Bottom-up Data Trusts

Fri 09 Nov 13:00: Bleak Dreams, not Nightmares: Critical Dystopias and the Necessity of Melancholic Hope

Fri 23 Nov 13:00: The Compatibility of Constitutional Democracy with International Law

International Relations & History Working Group

Tue 16 Oct 13:00: Order Projects and Resistance in the Global Political System: A Framework for International Relations History with Case (1851-67)

Fri 02 Nov 16:00: “Cold Wars and the Academy: An Oral History of Russian and Eurasian Studies”

Thu 15 Nov 13:00: "Leveraging 'Publicness' at the League of Nations: The Minority Question and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom"

Legal Histories Beyond the State

Wed 17 Oct 17:15: 'The consciousness of a duty done': British attitudes towards self-determination and the case of the Sudan

Wed 14 Nov 17:15: Debating the rise and fall of the first East African Community in East Africa’s public sphere, 1960s-1970s

Wed 28 Nov 17:15: Act of State

Global Intellectual History Seminar

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