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The Seminar starts at 5pm every week and is held in the Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College.

Research Seminar Series 1:

Research Seminar Series 2:

14 October:

Title: The Oikonomia of Conspiracy

Speaker: Demetra Kasimis (Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge)

Commentator: Christopher Brooke (Homerton College, University of Cambridge)

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

21 October:

Title: Paradiastole and Civil War in Ancient Greek and Roman Thought

Speaker: Daniel Sutton (Peterhouse, University of Cambridge)

Commentator: Samuel Zeitlin (University College London)

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

28 October:

Title: Rethinking Weber's “Politics”

Speaker: Peter Ghosh (St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford)

Commentator: Dina Gusejnova (London School of Economics and Political Science)

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

04 November:

Title: Limits of Enlightenment: Frederick II, the philosophes, and the common people

Speaker: Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College, University of Oxford)

Commentator: Adam Sutcliffe (King’s College London)

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

11 November:

Title: Locke's Political Legacy

Speaker: Tim Stanton (University of York)

Commentator: Annabel Brett (Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge)

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

18 November:

Title: Women’s Appeals to Talent in Seventeenth-Century England

Speaker: Geertje Bol (Ghent University)

Commentator: Sylvana Tomaselli (St John’s College, University of Cambridge)

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

25 November:

Title: Reading Hegel in the Twenty-first Century

Speaker: Kimberly Hutchings (Queen Mary University of London)

Commentator: Emma MacKinnon (Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge)

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

02 December:

Title: From “Algerian Literature” to “Algerian Sociology:” Decolonization,
Translation, and Knowledge Production

Speaker: Muriam Haleh Davis (MECAM - Université de Tunis)

Commentator: Kaoutar Ghilani (Pembroke College, University of Cambridge)

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