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Cambridge Centre for Political Thought

 

Research Seminar Series 1:

Research Seminar Series 2:

09 October:

Roundtable: Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word.

Speaker: Michael Sonenscher (King’s College, University of Cambridge).

Commentators: Helen Thompson (Clare College, University of Cambridge) and Keith Tribe (University of Tartu).

Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge.

16 October:

Title: What did Simón Bolívar Owe to Charles V?

Speaker: Edward Jones Corredera (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg).

Commentator: Jeremy Adelman (Global History Lab, University of Cambridge).

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Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge.

23 October:

Title: John Locke and Slavery.

Speaker: Mark Goldie (Churchill College, University of Cambridge).

Commentator: Felix Waldmann (Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge).

Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge.

30 October:

Title: Technology, Environment, and Crisis: “Catastrophic Technology” and the Environmental Movement.

Speaker: Caroline Ashcroft (Queen Mary University of London).

Commentator: David Runciman (University of Cambridge).

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Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge.

06 November:

Title: Hobbes on People and Multitude: Context and Argument.

Speaker: James Harris (University of St Andrews).

Commentator: Sarah Mortimer (Christ Church, University of Oxford).

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Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge.

13 November:

TitleAn Angry Warning: Pareto and Elite Circulation.

Speaker: Natasha Piano (University of California, Los Angeles).

Commentator: Duncan Kelly (Jesus College, University of Cambridge).

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Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge.

20 November:

Title: Loving and Killing Children: Jeremy Bentham on Adult-Child Sex, Infanticide, and Abortion.

Speaker: Philip Schofield (University College London).

Commentator: Emily Rutherford (Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford).

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Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge.

27 November:

TitleLuis de Molina (15351600) and Atlantic Slavery.

Speaker: Daniel Allemann (University of Lucerne).

Commentator: Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter College, University of Oxford).

Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, University of Cambridge.