Political Thought and Intellectual History


2009-04-27 17:00: 'The Plan for Perpetual Peace: From Saint-Pierre to Rousseau' (Céline Spector (University of Bordeaux 3))

2009-05-04 17:00: 'From divine inspiration to empirical enquiry in the German Enlightenment: J. D. Michaelis on language and civilisation' (Avi Lifschitz (UCL))

2009-05-11 17:00: 'Protagoras on Political Skill: Plato Protagoras 320c-328d' (Nick Denyer (Cambridge))

2009-05-25 17:00: '"The Time Is Coming When Politics Will Have a Different Meaning"' (Hans Sluga (Berkeley))

2009-06-01 17:00: 'The Transatlantic Dimension of Portuguese Political Thought, c. 1790-1840' (Gabriel Paquette (Trinity College, Cambridge))

2009-06-08 17:00: 'Kingship and Counsel in Early Modern England' (Jacqueline Rose (Newnham College, Cambridge))

2009-10-12 17:00: Karl Marx and the Production Organism (John Filling (St. John's College, Oxford))

2009-10-19 17:00: The International Political Thought of John Stuart Mill (Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary, London))

2009-10-26 17:00: The Corpus iuris as a Source of Law between Sovereigns in Alberico Gentili's Thought (Benjamin Straumann (New York University))

2009-11-02 17:00: Dutch Accounting Practices and the Cultural Origins of Political Economy in Europe 1600-1730 (Jacob Soll (Rutgers University))

2009-11-09 17:00: Christian Wolff's Critics and the 'Foundation of Morality' in the Early German Enlightenment (Simon Grote (University of California, Berkeley))

2009-11-16 17:00: Thomas Hobbes and Late Renaissance Commentary on Aristotle's Politics (Annabel Brett (Cambridge))

2009-11-23 17:00: The Role of Conceptions of History in Shaping Political Ideas: The Case of the Early-Fourteenth-Century Dominican John of Paris (Christopher Jones (Canterbury, New Zealand))

2010-01-18 17:00: The Republican King: The Creation of Executive Power in America (Nicholas Cole (St. Peter's College, Oxford))

2010-01-24 17:00: Between Lassalle and Chernyshevsky: Marx and the Aftermath of 1848 (Gareth Stedman Jones (Cambridge))

2010-01-25 17:00: Security as a Norm in Hobbes's Theory of War: A Critique of Schmitt's Interpretation of Hobbes's Approach to International Relations (Luc Foisneau (CNRS-EHESS, Paris))

2010-02-01 17:00: The History and Implications of Secularisation: The Leiden Circle, 1575-1618 (Mark Somos (Sussex))

2010-02-08 17:00: The Crisis of Global Citizenship (James Tully (Victoria University, British Columbia))

2010-02-15 17:00: Historia Literaria in the Field: German Academics and the Search for the Dutch Underground, 1690-1720 (Kasper Eskildsen  (Roskilde Universitet, Denmark))

2010-02-22 17:00: Montesquieu and Machiavelli: Appropriation and Critique (Paul Rahe (Hillsdale College, Michigan))

2010-03-08 17:00: Rethinking Law and Religion. Towards a Legal Anthropology of Late Antiquity (Caroline Humfress (Birkbeck College, London))

2010-05-03 17:00: On Equality (Malcolm Bull (Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford))

2010-05-10 17:00: Mahatma Gandhi's Political Thought (Karuna Mantena (Yale))

2010-05-17 17:00: Between Lassalle and Chernyshevsky: Marx and the Aftermath of 1848 (Gareth Stedman Jones (Cambridge))

2010-10-18 17:00: 'French Liberals on Religion: From Constant to Laboulaye' (Helena Rosenblatt (Hunter College, CUNY))

2010-10-25 17:00: 'Revolutionary Epigones: the Debate between Kant and his Radical Followers' (Reidar Maliks (Oriel College, Oxford))

2010-11-01 17:00: 'Thinking with Satan: diabolical inspiration and human agency in late antiquity' (Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe (King's College, London))

2010-11-08 17:00: 'Self-Possession and Carelessness: Two Versions of Liberty in Montaigne's Essais' (Felicity Green (Trinity College, Cambridge))

2010-11-15 17:00: 'Heidegger, Cassirer, and Political Theology' (Peter Gordon (Harvard University))

2010-11-22 17:00: 'Society as the Mode of Redemption: The Idea of Individuality in Georg Simmel's Early Sociological Writings' (Efraim Podoksik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem))

2010-11-29 17:00: 'Seventeenth-Century Perceptions of the Norman Conquest' (George Garnett (St Hugh's College, Oxford))

2011-01-24 17:00: James Mill on the French Revolution (Anna Plassart (Christ Church, Oxford))

2011-01-31 17:00: Republic and Mixed Government: Machiavelli and Aristotle (Pasquale Pasquino (New York University / CNRS))

2011-02-07 17:00: Liberty, tyranny and idolatry in Calvinist thought (Freya Sierhuis (München))

2011-02-14 17:00: Addison's Empire.  Whig conceptions of empire in the early eighteenth century (Steven Pincus (Yale University))

2011-02-21 17:00: Hegel and the sea. International trade in Hegel's political philosophy (Norbert Waszek (Paris))

2011-02-28 17:00: Luxury and the route to revolution in Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality (Istvan Hont (King's College, Cambridge))

2011-03-07 17:00: "The Race of Life": Republican Revisionism Revisited (Isaac Kramnick (Cornell))

2011-03-14 17:00: Empire and legal universalisms in the eighteenth century (Jennifer Pitts (Chicago))

2011-05-02 17:00: Scholarship, Morals and Government: Jean-Henri-Samuel Formey's and Johann Gottfried Herder's Responses to Rousseau's First Discourse (Alexander Schmidt (Jena))

2011-05-09 17:00: John Locke in liberal memory (Jeffrey Collins (Toronto /Clare Hall))

2011-05-16 17:00: Historicising the French Revolution in the Third Republic: the case of Ernest Lavisse (Isabel Divanna (Clare College, Cambridge))

2011-05-23 17:00: Clapham Junction: The place of the Protestant Ethic in Max Weber's intellectual biography (Peter Ghosh (St Anne's College, Oxford))

2011-10-10 17:00: Three Views of Democracy (David Runciman (University of Cambridge))

2011-10-17 17:00: Some new sources and contexts for the De Legibus Hebraeorum (1685) of John Spencer, father of 'Enlightened' sacred history (Dmitri Levitin (Trinity College))

2011-10-24 17:00: Women, freedom and equality: Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell (Sarah Hutton (University of Wales Aberystwyth and Wolfson College, Cambridge)

2011-10-31 17:00: Freedom, the common good and the rule of law: Lippman and Hayek on economic planning (Ben Jackson (University of Oxford))

2011-11-07 17:00: A social and cultural history of early modern keywords and concepts (Mark Knights (University of Warwick) and Phil Withington (University of Cambridge))

2011-11-14 17:00: The business enterprise as organisation and as association in nineteenth-century Britain: Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill and Auguste Comte (Jos Betts (Cambridge Victorian Studies Group))

2011-11-21 17:00: Regalism and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Naples (Girolamo Imbruglia (University of Naples, l'Orientale))

2011-11-28 17:00: The false cosmos of new music: Adorno's Philosophie der Neuen Musik as modern political pedagogy (Dina Gusejnova (University College London))

2012-01-23 17:00: Civil Religion: a window into perennial themes in political philosophy (Ronald Beiner (University of Toronto and Clare Hall))

2012-01-30 17:00: Jean Bodin, oeconomics and politics (Anna Becker (University of Basle))

2012-02-06 17:00: Consensual and non-consensual politics in medieval Roman law (Magnus Ryan (University of Cambridge))

2012-02-13 17:00: Sismondi contra Rousseau (Tom Hopkins (University of Helsinki))

2012-02-20 17:00: Republicanism and Empire in Britain and France 1763-1815 (Richard Whatmore (University of Sussex))

2012-02-27 17:00: Classical history in the Renaissance: what can the Universal Short Title Catalogue do for us? (Freyja Cox-Jensen (Christ Church, Oxford))

2012-03-05 17:00: Thomas Hobbes and the problem of self-censorship (Jon Parkin (University of York))

2012-04-30 17:00: The Scottish critics of Hume and Smith: Maclaine, Reid and Fergsuon (James Moore (Concordia University, Montreal))

2012-05-07 17:00: Commerce and monarchy in David Hume's History of England (Mikko Tolonen (University of Helsinki))

2012-05-14 17:00: Roman Liberty (Malcolm Schofield (University of Cambridge))

2012-05-21 17:00: The rights of sovereignty in early modern political thought (Daniel Lee (University of Toronto))

2012-05-28 17:00: The power of persuasion in Plato (Jill Frank (University of South Carolina))

2012-10-05 10:00: Balzan-Skinner Lecture and Colloquium 2012 (Dr Tim Stanton and others)

2012-10-08 17:00: Kant and Vattel in Context: Cosmopolitan Philosophy and Diplomatic Casuistry (Ian Hunter (University of Queensland))

2012-10-15 17:00: Calvinist Doctrines at the Beginning of the Scottish Enlightenment: Archibald Campbell vs. the Committee for Purity of Doctrine on Human Nature and Self-Love (Christian Maurer (Université de Fribourg))

2012-10-22 17:00: Authority: Some Fables (Raymond Geuss (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge))

2012-10-29 17:00: The nature of dominion in De Justa Reipublicae Christianae Authoritate (1590) (Sophie Nicholls (University of Oxford))

2012-11-05 17:00: Hobbes and Sexual Desire (Noel Malcolm (All Souls College, University of Oxford))

2012-11-12 17:00: Historicisms and counter-historicisms in the seventeenth century (Nick Hardy (University of Cambridge))

2012-11-19 17:00: The Passions in Hobbes's Political Philosophy (Raffaella Santi (University of Urbino))

2012-11-26 17:00: On trade and teleology: the role of commercial relations in Kant's philosophy of history (Lea Ypi (LSE))

2013-01-21 17:00: Anthropology beyond Empires: Samuel Stanhope Smith and the Reconfiguration of the Atlantic World (Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS, Paris))

2013-01-28 17:00: The Third Earl of Shaftesbury and the Defence of Humane Learning (Karen Collis (University of Oxford))

2013-02-04 17:00: The Charismatic Sword: Thomas Müntzer’s Theology of  Violence (Matthias Riedl (Central European University))

2013-02-11 17:00: Histories of Thought and Comparative Political Theory: The Thesis of 'Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge,' 1860-1895 (Leigh Jenco (London School of Economics and Political Science))

2013-02-18 17:00: 'This Melancholy Labyrinth': Magistrates and Order in the Early Nineteenth-Century British Empire  (Lauren Benton (New York University))

2013-02-25 17:00: Malthus and the Doctrine of Utility (Niall O'Flaherty (King's College, London))

2013-03-04 17:00: 'Society' in British Political Thought, c. 1930 to 1960: Some Rival Conceptions of 'Positivism' (Jose Harris (University of Oxford))

2013-04-29 17:00: Realism Tamed or Liberalism Betrayed? The Dystopic Liberal Imagination in Political Thought (Nicholas Rengger)

2013-05-06 17:00: J. G. A. Pocock and the Idea of the 'Cambridge School' in the History of Political Thought (Sam James (Jesus College, Cambridge))

2013-05-13 17:00: Aspects of Indirect Democracy in Ancient Greece, in particular in Aristotle's Politics (Mogens Herman Hansen)

2013-05-20 17:00: Thomas Willis and the Religious Context of the First Neurology (Louis Caron)

2013-10-14 17:00: What is Liberalism? (Duncan Bell (Christ's College))

2013-10-21 17:00: Not Talking But Thinking: Democratic Deliberation in Classical Athens (Daniela Cammack (Harvard Society of Fellows) )

2013-10-28 17:00: What Makes Representation Democratic? (Sofia Näsström (Uppsala University))

2013-11-04 17:00: Citizenship, War and the Origins of International Ethics in American Political Philosophy 1960-1975 (Katrina Forrester (St John's College, Cambridge) )

2013-11-11 17:00: English Republicanism in Transnational Context: Edmund Ludlow’s Protestant Network in Seventeenth-Century Switzerland (Gaby Mahlberg (Northumbria University) )

2013-11-18 17:00: Tracing a Meridian through the Map of Time: Fact, Conjecture and the Scientific Method in William Robertson's *History of America* (Charlotte Roberts (University College London) )

2013-11-25 17:00: Kant on Rebellion and the Mere Idea of Popular Rule (Christopher Meckstroth (University of Cambridge))

2013-12-02 17:00: E. P. Thompson, Judith Shklar and the Implications of 'Antipolitics' (Tim Rogan (St Catharine's College, Cambridge) )

2014-01-20 17:00: Art and Elevation: Distance and History Painting in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain (Mark Phillips (Carleton University, Ottawa))

2014-01-27 17:00: Radical Atheism: Jean Meslier in Context (Charles Devellennes (University of Kent))

2014-02-03 17:00: Postmarxism, Radical Democracy, and the Machiavellian Moment (Warren Breckman (University of Pennsylvania/Humboldt University))

2014-02-10 17:00: Philosophical History in Hannah Arendt’s Political Thought (Waseem Yaqoob (Pembroke College, Cambridge))

2014-02-17 17:00: Bentham as Conspiracy Theorist (David Runciman (University of Cambridge))

2014-02-24 17:00: 'If it be without contention': Hobbes on Difference without Disagreement (Teresa Bejan (Columbia University))

2014-03-03 17:00: Edmund Burke and the French Revolution before the Reflections (Richard Bourke (Queen Mary, University of London))

2014-03-10 17:00: Statelessness in International Political and Legal Thought, 1921-1935 (Mira Siegelberg (Harvard University))

2014-10-13 17:00: Michael Oakeshott and the Idea of Totalitarianism (Professor Andrew Gamble (University of Sheffield))

2014-10-20 17:00: Nietzsche's Perfect State (Dr Hugo Drochon (University of Cambridge))

2014-10-27 17:00: Concern for Oneself and for Others in Porphyry's Ethics of "On Abstinence" (Dr Miira Tuominen (University of Helsinki))

2014-11-03 17:00: Raymond Aron and the Origins of the "End of Ideology" (Dr Iain Stewart (Queen Mary, University of London))

2014-11-10 17:00: A strange afterlife: Pierre Berault and the meaning of Aristotelianism in the late seventeenth century (Dr Michael Edwards (University of Cambridge))

2014-11-17 17:00: Thomas Paine's Democratic Thought (Dr Robert Lamb (University of Exeter))

2014-11-24 17:00: Dystopia: For Dummies (Professor Greg Claeys (Royal Holloway, University of London))

2014-12-01 17:00: Bureaucracy and Moral Agency: Practices of the Self at the Frontlines of Public Service (Bernardo Zacka (Christ's College, University of Cambridge))

2015-02-02 17:00: The city and the soul in James Harrington's Republicanism (Dr. Rachel Foxley (University of Reading))

2015-02-09 17:00: Political Science before Hobbes: the Aristotelian tradition (Dr. Sophie Smith (University of Oxford))

2015-02-16 17:00: Is there a republican model of democracy? (Prof. Andreas Niederberger (University of Duisberg-Essen))

2015-02-23 17:00: "The art of ruling minds": Jeremy Bentham and the Public Opinion Tribunal (Dr. Paola Rudan (University of Bologna))

2015-03-02 17:00: Early Hobbes (Prof. Alan Cromartie (University of Reading))

2015-03-09 17:00: On Political Responsibility in Post-Revolutionary Times: Kant and Constant’s Debate on Lying (Dr. Genevieve Rousseliere (University of Chicago))

2015-04-27 17:00: The American States and Their Police Power, 1789-1931 (Prof. Gary Gerstle (University of Cambridge))

2015-05-04 17:00: Sovereignty and Representation in Rousseau's Considerations on the Government of Poland (Graham Clure (Harvard))

2015-05-11 17:00: Conceptions of Social Pathology in Hobbes, Rousseau, and Kant (Prof. Frederick Neuhouser (Columbia University))

2015-05-18 17:00: The Problem of Political Order in Classical Confucian Thought (Loubna El-Amine)

2015-10-12 17:00: The American States and Their Police Power, 1789-1931 (Prof Gary Gerstle (University of Cambridge))

2015-10-19 17:00: Smith and Rousseau, After Hume and Mandeville (Paul Sagar (Cambridge))

2015-10-26 17:00: How (Not) To Draw Contemporary Insights From The History of Political Thought (Dr Adrian Blau (King’s College, London))

2015-11-02 17:00: From Cameralism to nineteenth-century socialism: Lorenz Stein's idea of a science of society (Diana Siclovan (Cambridge))

2015-11-09 17:00: Governing America: John Locke in the 1690s (Prof Mark Goldie (University of Cambridge))

2015-11-16 17:00: Beyond Utopia: Thomas More as Political Thinker?’ (Joanne Paul (New College of the Humanities))

2015-11-23 17:00: Max Weber and some intellectual consequences of the war (Dr Dina Gusejnova (University of Sheffield))

2015-11-30 17:00: How to run the world: conceptions of imperial rule between republicanism and technocracy’ (Eva Marlene Hausteiner (Humboldt) )

2016-01-25 17:00: Constitution and Sovereignty in Tocqueville's Democracy in America (Giulia Oskian (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) )

2016-02-08 17:00: Francois Chatelet and the Spatial Turn in French Postwar Thought (Danilo Scholz (Sciences Po) )

2016-02-22 17:00: The Polis and the Res Publica: Two Arendtian Models of Political Violence (Caroline Ashcroft (University of Cambridge))

2016-03-07 17:00: The cause of all our troubles: the American invention of isolationism in World War II (Stephen Wertheim (Cambridge))

2016-05-02 17:00: From “Enemies of the Cross” To “Brethren in Faith”: Empire,  Decolonization, and the Curious End of Europe’s Religious Wars (Udi Greenberg (Dartmouth) )

2016-05-09 17:00: A Taste for Virtue: Eighteenth-Century Epicureanism and Rousseau's Political Thought (Jared Holley (Chicago))

2016-10-10 17:00: Reflections on Inequality, Respect, and Love in the Political Writings of Mary Wollstonecraft (Sylvana Tomaselli (St. John's College, Cambridge))

2016-10-17 17:00: Democracy confronts diversity: Deliberation and representation in Victorian Britain (Greg Conti (Cambridge) )

2016-10-24 17:00: From state to society, through sacred history: Hobbes and Spinoza (John Robertson (Clare College, Cambridge))

2016-10-31 17:00: Theorising Democracy beyond ‘State’ and ‘Society’ (Aline-Florence Manent (UCL))

2016-11-07 17:00: Foucault and Shakespeare: Ceremony, Theatre, Politics (Stuart Elden (Warwick))

2016-11-14 17:00: French revolutionary thought and the early Third Republic (Julia Nicholls (Oxford) )

2016-11-21 17:00: Colonialism, Race and Slavery in Raynal's Histoire des Deux Indes (Ann Thomson (EUI))

2016-11-28 17:00: From royalism to the mystical body of Christ: The interwar revolution in French Catholic political theology (Sarah Shortall (Oxford) )

2017-01-23 17:00: The Emperor's Two Bodies: Mirrored Sovereignty, the Code Civil, and Napoleon's New Men (Stefanos Geroulanos (NYU) )

2017-01-30 17:00: The Transformation of International Economics during the Great Depression (Jamie Martin (Sydney) )

2017-02-06 17:00: In His Veins the Blood of Kings: Thucydides in the Renaissance (Kinch Hoekstra (Berkeley))

2017-02-13 17:00: Cajetan, Suarez and republican liberty: A theme in later scholastic political thought (Ben Slingo (Cambridge))

2017-02-20 17:00: Legalism: A Reconstruction and Critique of Judith Shklar's Concept and its Contemporary Import (Seyla Benhabib (Yale))

2017-02-27 17:00: Grotius on natural law and supererogation (Johan Olsthoorn (Leuven) )

2017-03-06 17:00: The future of the world. A new history of the future (Jenny Andersson (Paris, Sciences Po))

2017-05-01 17:00: Islam, Toleration and the Enlightenment (John Marshall (Johns Hopkins) )

2017-05-08 17:00: "The New World" of Karl Barth: Legacies of a political theologian (Liisi Keedus (York))

2017-05-15 17:00: The Emergence of the Sovereign Consumer – from Adam Smith to the Socialist Calculation Debate (Niklas Olsen (Copenhagen))

2017-05-22 17:00: Commercial treaties and understandings of 'free trade' in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe (James Stafford (Cambridge))

2017-06-01 15:30: The Grand Dichotomies: Sovereignty, the Public/ Private Divide, and Company States (Professor Jason Sharman (POLIS))

2017-10-05 13:00: Hitler's biography (Prof. Brendan Simms ( History of International Relations, Cambridge University))

2017-10-09 17:00: Selfish Systems: Hobbes and Locke  (David Wootton (York))

2017-10-16 17:00: Flowers of the Crown in English Legal Thought (Edward Cavanagh, University of Cambridge)

2017-10-23 17:00: The End of Enlightenment: death and the philosophers, 1776-1809  (Richard Whatmore (St Andrews) )

2017-10-25 17:15: Transnational Conflicts: A New Kind of War? (Dr Ziv Bohrer (Bar-Ilan University; visitor, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law))

2017-10-26 13:00: Go East: Sovereignty Question in IR Revisited (Dr Ayse Zarakol (University of Cambridge))

2017-10-30 17:00: 'As God Rules the Universe': Reflections  on the People and the State in Early America (Ira Katznelson (Columbia))

2017-11-06 17:00: Plato's Legacy and the Problem of Myth in Political Thought (Tae-Yeoun Keum (Harvard))

2017-11-13 17:00: A Good Man or a Good Citizen? Aristotelian Politics and the Italian Renaissance Courts (Grace Allen (Manchester))

2017-11-20 17:00: Jon Elster's Sour Grapes  (Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam))

2017-11-23 13:00: Writing the History of Transnational Spaces:A New Approach to the Study of Pan-European Organisations and Norms (Marco Duranti (University of Sydney))

2017-11-27 17:00: Law, morality and the Rechtsstaat in post-war West Germany (Clara Maier)

2017-11-29 17:15: Constructing International Law: Property, Commerce, and "Expectations" (Dr Kate Miles (Fellow and Lecturer in Law, Gonville & Caius))

2018-01-22 17:00: Democracy and Republicanism: A Difficult Partnership  (Nadia Urbinati (Columbia))

2018-01-25 17:00: "As God Rules the Universe": Reflections on the People and the State in Early America (Ira Katznelson (Columbia) )

2018-01-29 17:00: John Stuart Mill on Universal History (Callum Barrell (New College of the Humanities))

2018-02-05 17:00: Hobbes (and Weber) on the Jury (Richard Tuck (Harvard))

2018-02-12 17:00: "To hold oneself, like a sliver, to the heart of the world": the Political Thought of the Palestinian Revolution (Karma Nabulsi (Oxford))

2018-02-19 17:00: Whence the force of the law? John Rawls and the course of American legal philosophy (Kenzie Bok (Harvard))

2018-02-20 13:00: Shifting Patterns of Contemporary Globalization (Professor Yale Ferguson)

2018-02-28 17:15: CANCELLED in solidarity with strike action: Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources and the Unsettling of Mainstream Narratives of International Legal History (Dr Lucas Lixinski; Dr Mats Ingulstad)

2018-03-13 13:00: Raymond Aron, Jimmy Carter and the Neoconservative Origins of the Critique of International Human Rights (Daniel Steinmetz Jenkins, Yale University)

2018-03-14 17:15: CANCELLED IN SYMPATHY WITH STRIKE Nationality, Alienage and Early International Rights (León Castellanos Jankiewicz)

2018-04-30 17:00: Representation and the Fall  (Eric Nelson (Harvard) )

2018-05-07 17:00: Chains and Invisible Threads: Liberty and Domination in Marx's Account of Wage-Slavery (Bruno Leipold (Frankfurt))

2018-05-09 17:15: Nationality, Alienage and Early International Rights (León Castellanos Jankiewicz)

2018-05-14 17:00: Liberty and Economic Independence in the Roman Republic (CANCELLED) (Valentina Arena (UCL))

2018-05-16 17:30: Universalizing the Promise of Empire (Dr Emma Mackinnon)

2018-05-21 17:00: Human nature as capacities in Hobbes's political theory ( Alexandra Chadwick (University of Groningen))

2018-05-23 17:15: Civitas and Regnum: Grotius’ account of the sovereign entity in the De Iure Belli ac Pacis (Dr Emile V Simpson)

2018-06-07 17:15: Histories of International Law, History within International Law: Questions of Method (Dr Kate Purcell)

2018-10-08 17:00: Dilemmas of Sovereignty: Law, Politics and Moral Reasoning in Hugo Grotius (Annabel Brett (University of Cambridge))

2018-10-15 17:00: The Constitutionalism of Imperial Expansion (Stephen Holmes (NYU))

2018-10-16 13:00: Order Projects and Resistance in the Global Political System: A Framework for International Relations History with Case (1851-67) (Dan Green (University of Delaware))

2018-10-17 17:15: 'The consciousness of a duty done': British attitudes towards self-determination and the case of the Sudan (Dr Sarah Nouwen (University Senior Lecturer in International Law) & Orfeas Chasapis-Tassinis (doctoral candidate, Lauterpacht Centre of International Law))

2018-10-22 17:00: Hobbes on the Definition of a Legal Sphere (Signy Gutnick Allen (LSE))

2018-10-29 17:00: Can we write an ethical history of the early common law? (Philippa Byrne (University of Oxford))

2018-11-02 16:00: “Cold Wars and the Academy:  An Oral History of Russian and Eurasian Studies” (George Gavrilis, Columbia University)

2018-11-05 17:00: Race Man: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas (Corey Robin (CUNY))

2018-11-12 17:00: Coercion in a Subjective World (Daniel Luban (Yale University))

2018-11-14 17:15: Debating the rise and fall of the first East African Community in East Africa’s public sphere, 1960s-1970s (Dr Emma Hunter (Senior Lecturer, African History, University of Edinburgh))

2018-11-15 13:00: "Leveraging 'Publicness' at the League of Nations: The Minority Question and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom" (Molly Cochran (Reader, Oxford Brookes University))

2018-11-26 17:00: 'Reform or Revolution', redux: Eduard Bernstein on the 1918-19 German Revolution (Marius Ostrowski (University of Oxford))

2018-11-28 17:15: Act of State and the Limits of Adjudication (Professor Pat Capps (University of Bristol Law School))

2019-01-21 17:00: Max Weber's Political Thought and the First World War (Duncan Kelly (University of Cambridge))

2019-01-23 17:15: The Rise of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission, the OAS and Responses to the Cuban Revolution: Towards a Humanitarian and Geopolitical Genealogy of Human Rights in the Americas (Juan Pablo Scarfi (Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina; Visiting Professor, Institut des Hautes Études de l'Amérique Latine, Université Paris 3))

2019-01-29 13:00: Social Pressure and the Making of the Wartime Civilian Protection Rules (Giovanni Mantilla (Lecturer, University of Cambridge))

2019-02-04 17:00: Spectacular Black Death: Lynching, Lethal Police Violence and the Black Female Body (Shatema Threadcraft (Dartmouth))

2019-02-11 17:00: 1789 in 1954: Human Rights and the Algerian Revolution (Emma Mackinnon (Cambridge))

2019-02-18 17:00: Karl Marx and the Cycles of American Capitalism (Andrew Hartman (Illinois State University))

2019-02-19 13:00: 'Global History and the Place of the International' (Andrew Hurrell ( Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, Oxford University))

2019-02-25 17:00: Affairs of Humanity: Arguing for Humanitarian Intervention in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Catherine Arnold (Memphis))

2019-03-04 17:00: The Three Pillars of Liberalism: Freedom, Markets, and Morals from the Enlightenment to the Present (Alan Kahan (University of Versailles/St. Quentin))

2019-03-05 13:00:  Malcolm X, Human Rights, and A New World Picture (Emma Mackinnon (University of Cambridge))

2019-03-11 17:00: Languages of Constituent Power (Lucia Rubinelli (Cambridge))

2019-03-21 18:00: International Law's Objects: A Conversation (Dr Jessie Hohmann (QMUL) and Dr Daniel Joyce (University of New South Wales))

2019-04-25 17:15: American States of Nature: The Origins of Independence (Dr Mark Somos (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law))

2019-04-29 17:00: The Plantation’s Colonial Modernity in Comparative Perspective (Adom Getachew (University of Chicago))

2019-05-06 17:00: Francis Bacon on Peace and the 1604 Treaty of London (Samuel Zeitlin (Chicago)  )

2019-05-13 17:00: Seeing though lies: Plato on how to avert tyranny (Jill Frank (Cornell University))

2019-05-20 17:00: The Chair of Ethics in the University of Naples and Giambattista Vico’s La Scienza Nuova (Dr Felix Waldmann (Cambridge))

2019-10-14 17:00: Roundtable on In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy (Katrina Forrester (Harvard University))

2019-10-21 17:00: Empire, Freedom and Violence: Theories of Political Pluralism and Dante's Monarchy (Serena Ferente (KCL))

2019-10-28 17:00: Marx, Arendt and the Temporalities of Revolution (Miriam Leonard (UCL))

2019-10-30 17:00: Use, war, and commercial society. Changing paradigms of human relations with animals in the early modern law of nature and of nations (Professor Annabel Brett, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge )

2019-11-04 17:00: Acting, Artifice, and the Political Sphere in Eighteenth-Century French Thought (Shiru Lim (Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen))

2019-11-11 17:00: Ecce Homo: Nietzsche on the Philosophic Life (Heinrich Meier (LMU))

2019-11-18 17:00: Interpreting the French Revolution with Germaine de Staël (Adela Halo (QML))

2019-11-25 17:00: The Neoliberal Turn (Angus Burgin (Johns Hopkins University))

2019-12-02 17:00: Freedom, Slavery and Empire in Machiavelli's 'Discourses on Livy' (Adam Woodhouse (University of Chicago). Commentator: Quentin Skinner)

2020-01-20 17:00: Empire and Sovereignty in "Democracies of the East" (Tejas Parasher (King's College, Cambridge))

2020-01-27 17:00: Fortitude: Spinoza on living in the light of our knowledge (Susan James (Birkbeck))

2020-01-30 17:00: Thinking Inside the Box: ‘Modular’ Historiography, the Ethiopian Empire and Other Subjects of International Law (Dr Rose Parfitt, Kent Law School, University of Kent )

2020-02-03 17:00: Hypocrisy, Sociability and Virtue: Mandeville vs Shaftesbury (Robin Douglass (KCL))

2020-02-10 17:00: Conceptualizations of Labour and the Making of the French Working Class, 1830-1848 (Samuel Hayat (CNRS). Commentator: Julia Nicholls)

2020-02-13 17:00: The corporation and law in the making of global capitalism (Dr Grietje Baars, The City Law School, City, University of London )

2020-02-17 17:00: "The English Always Disregarded Abstract Theories”: Constructing “Tory Democracy”, 1881-1931 (Emily Jones (Manchester))

2020-10-12 17:00: Statelessness:  A Roundtable Discussion (Mira Siegelberg (University of Cambridge))

2020-10-19 17:00: Thomas Paine in the French Revolution (Adam Lebovitz (Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge))

2020-10-26 17:00: Politics and Salus Populi: Hobbes and the Sovereign as Physician of the State (Raffaella Santi (University of Urbino))

2020-11-02 17:00: Revolutionary Republicanism: Robespierre, Condorcet, Grouchy (Geneviève Rousselière (Duke University))

2020-11-09 17:00: The Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement (Brandon Terry (Harvard University))

2020-11-16 17:00: 'The Greatest of All Plagues': Plato on Economic Inequality (David Lay Williams, (DePaul University).)

2020-11-23 17:00: Poetry, Mores, and Laws: Herder's response to Montesquieu (Eva Piirimae (University of Tartu))

2020-11-30 17:00: Between Virtue and Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, ca 1590-1650 (Lisa Kattenberg (Gonville & Caius, University of Cambridge))

2021-01-25 17:00: Democracy Requires Organized Collective Power (Steven Klein (King's College London))

2021-02-01 17:00: Carl Schmitt in Leipzig – Defence of Democracy or Autocratic Subversion? (Lars Vinx (Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge))

2021-02-08 17:00: Thucydides’ Tragic Science of Democratic Defeat (Mark Fisher (Georgetown University))

2021-02-15 17:00: Kant's 'True Politics' (Susan Shell (Boston College))

2021-02-22 17:00: Experiencing Republican Texts (Rachel Hammersley (Newcastle))

2021-03-01 17:00: Not Being Kantian about Moral Justification (Luc Foisneau (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS))

2021-03-08 17:00: Hegel and Italian Political Thought (Fernanda Gallo (Homerton College, University of Cambridge))

2021-03-15 17:00: Separation of Powers as a New Theory (Jeffrey Tulis (University of Texas at Austin))

2021-05-03 17:00: Sir William Petty’s Treatise of Taxes and Contributions: Politics and Political Economy in the Interregnum and Restoration State (Shannon Stimson (Georgetown University))

2021-05-10 17:00: James Bryce and the concepts of constitution (Pasquale Pasquino (CNRS) )

2021-05-17 17:00: The Birth of the People: Liberalism and the Origins of the Anticolonial Democratic Project in India (Nazmul Sultan (Christ’s College, University of Cambridge))

2021-05-18 16:00: Roundtable: Max Skjönsberg, "The Persistence of Party" (Max Skjönsberg (University of Liverpool))

2021-05-24 17:00: Pandemic scholarship: Hobbes's translation of Thucydides' 'Plague of Athens' (Kinch Hoekstra (UC-Berkeley))

2021-10-11 17:00: Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics: A Roundtable Discussion (Sylvana Tomaselli (St. John’s College, Cambridge))

2021-10-18 17:00: Volk against Kaste: Non-Democratic Popular Sovereignty in Nazi Germany  (Luna Sabastian (Centre for South Asian Studies, Cambridge))

2021-10-25 17:00: Freedom, Slavery, and Empire in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy  (Adam Woodhouse (Robinson College, Cambridge))

2021-11-01 17:00: Democracy and Representation in Early Modern England, 1531–1653  (Markku Peltonen (Academy of Finland))

2021-11-08 17:00: The Political Thought of Charles Malik (Chloe Kattar (Darwin College, Cambridge) )

2021-11-15 17:00: Reason of State beyond the Canon: Political Argument and Calculation in early Stuart Projects (Vera Keller (University of Oregon))

2021-11-22 17:00: Post-dissident Liberalism as Politics and Culture: East-Central Europe after 1989 (Michal Kopeček (Cambridge))

2021-11-24 17:00: Slavery and empire in early modern Iberian thought (Daniel Allemann, University of Lucerne )

2021-11-29 17:00: Dugald Stewart and Political Economy after Enlightenment (Lina Weber (University of St Andrews))

2022-02-15 17:00: Protection-Shopping among Empires: Suspended Sovereignty in the Cocos-Keeling Islands (Lauren Benton, Yale University )

2022-03-09 17:00: Traditional Medicine Goes Global: Pan-African Precedents, Cultural Decolonization, and Cold War Rights/Properties’ (Helen Tilley, Northwestern University )

2022-05-11 17:00: Law Made Immortal: Inheritance and Personhood in Modern German Legal Thought (Charlotte Johann, Churchill College, Cambridge )

2022-10-10 17:00: Roundtable on Jessica Patterson’s (Cambridge) Book, 'Religion, Enlightenment and Empire' (Jessica Patterson (Cambridge), with comments by Ian Stewart (QMUL), Niall O’Flaherty (KCL), and Shruti Kapila (Cambridge))

2022-10-24 17:00: Virtue Beyond Law? Christian Ethics and Political Duties in Reformation Europe (Sarah Mortimer (Christ Church, Oxford))

2022-10-31 17:00: Hans Kelsen, Imperial Dissolution, and the History of Modern Legal Thought (Natasha Wheatley (Princeton))

2022-11-07 17:00: Friedrich Carl von Savigny and the Politics of Legal Knowledge (Charlotte Johann (Churchill College, Cambridge))

2022-11-14 17:15: On the Liberties of the Ancients: Licentiousness, Equal Rights, and the Rule of Law (Benjamin Straumann (University of Zurich))

2022-11-21 17:00: From Cyberspace to the Metaverse: Toward an Intellectual History of the Internet (Angus Burgin (Johns Hopkins University))

2022-11-28 17:00: Roundtable on 'The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance' (Jamie Martin (Harvard), with comments by Mira Siegelberg (Cambridge), Madeline Woker (Cambridge), and Duncan Bell (Cambridge))

2023-01-23 17:00: Democracy and Caesarism in Histories of Progress: G. F. Kolb and the Politics of Nineteenth-Century Cultural History (Iain McDaniel (University of Sussex))

2023-01-30 17:00: Untimely Consciousness: Reading Modernity Through the White-Collar Lens (Emily Steinhauer (Royal Holloway))

2023-02-06 17:00: Afterlives of François de Callières: Secrecy, Espionage and the Twentieth-Century Law of Diplomatic Relations (Megan Donaldson (University College London))

2023-02-13 17:00: TBA (Stefan Eich (Georgetown University))

2023-02-20 17:00: Plato's Longue Durée: the Politics of Time in the Later Dialogues (Carol Atack (Newnham College, Cambridge))

2023-03-06 17:00: Truth and Loyalty (Matt Sleat (University of Sheffield))

2023-03-13 17:00: The Problem of Taqiyya: Invisible Subjects in Indian Political Thought (Taushif Kara (King's College London))

2023-05-01 17:00: Beauvoir and Rousseau on Theatrical Consciousness (Kate Kirkpatrick (Oxford))

2023-05-15 17:00: The Political Theory of Restauration (Béla Kapossy (University of Lausanne))

2023-06-05 17:00: Moral Personality in Machiavelli (Peter Stacey (UCLA))

2023-10-09 17:00: Roundtable on Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word (Michael Sonenscher (King’s College, University of Cambridge))

2023-10-16 17:00: What did Simón Bolívar Owe to Charles V? (Edward Jones Corredera (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg))

2023-10-23 17:00: John Locke and Slavery (Mark Goldie (Churchill College, University of Cambridge))

2023-10-30 17:00: Technology, Environment, and Crisis: “Catastrophic Technology” and the Environmental Movement (Caroline Ashcroft (Queen Mary University of London))

2023-11-06 17:00: Hobbes on People and Multitude: Context and Argument (James Harris (University of St Andrews))

2023-11-13 17:00: An Angry Warning: Pareto and Elite Circulation (Natasha Piano (University of California, Los Angeles))

2023-11-20 17:00: Loving and Killing Children: Jeremy Bentham on Adult-Child Sex, Infanticide, and Abortion (Philip Schofield (University College London))

2023-11-27 17:00: Luis de Molina (1535–1600) and Atlantic Slavery (Daniel Allemann (University of Lucerne))

2024-01-22 17:00: Roundtable on Hegel's World Revolutions (Richard Bourke (King’s College, University of Cambridge))

2024-01-29 17:00: The Pre-History of British Gramscianism. A Transnational Perspective (Marzia Maccaferri (Queen Mary University of London))

2024-02-05 17:00: Slavery in the Society of Equals: Winstanley and the Diggers (Teresa Bejan (Oriel College, University of Oxford))

2024-02-19 17:00: Roman Law between Scholasticism and Humanism (Magnus Ryan (Peterhouse, University of Cambridge))

2024-02-26 17:00: Des Moulins à Paroles. The Battle for the Meaning of Democracy in France, 1850–1851 (Lucia Rubinelli (Yale University))

2024-03-04 17:00: The United States of Europe, 1848–1914 (Christopher Brooke (Homerton College, University of Cambridge))

2024-03-11 17:00: Violence against Women in Feminist Re-Readings of Marx in Socialist Contexts (Zsófia Lóránd (University of Vienna))

2024-04-29 17:00: Rights in Roman Republican Thought (Valentina Arena (University College London))

2024-05-06 17:00: Technology, Environment, and Crisis: The Idea of ‘Catastrophic Technology’ and the Environmental Movement (Caroline Ashcroft (Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford))

2024-05-13 17:00: Why Popular Participation? Collective Action, Majoritarianism, and Solidarity in Ancient Greece (Daniela Cammack (University of California, Berkeley))

2024-05-20 17:00: Enlightenment Theory of Rights (Céline Spector (Sorbonne Université))

2024-10-14 17:00: The Oikonomia of Conspiracy (Demetra Kasimis (University of Cambridge))

2024-10-21 17:00: Paradiastole and Civil War in Ancient Greek and Roman Thought (Daniel Sutton (Peterhouse, University of Cambridge))

2024-10-28 17:00: Rethinking Weber's 'Politics' (Peter Ghosh (St. Anne's College, University of Oxford))

2024-11-04 17:00: Limits of Enlightenment: Frederick II, the philosophes, and the common people (Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College, University of Oxford))

2024-11-11 17:00: Locke's Political Legacy (Tim Stanton (University of York))

2024-11-18 17:00: Women's Appeals to Talent in Seventeenth-Century England (Geertje Bol (Ghent University))

2024-11-25 17:00: Reading Hegel in the Twenty-First Century (Kimberly Hutchings (Queen Mary University of London))

2024-12-02 17:00: Arabization and the Social Sciences in Algeria: Language, Pan-Arabism, and Nation-Building (Muriam Haleh Davis (University of California, Santa Cruz))

2025-01-27 17:00: Roundtable on 'Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900' (Fernanda Gallo (Homerton College, University of Cambridge))

2025-02-03 17:00: On the Reception of Christian Thomasius's Political Thought in Protestant Northern Germany (Mikkel Jensen (University of Erfurt))

2025-02-10 17:00: The Body Metaphor and Cross-Cultural Political Theory in Medieval Afro-Eurasia (Serena Ferente (University of Amsterdam))

2025-02-17 17:00: Apartheid Science and American Capitalism from Black-Scholes to the DotCom Boom (Efthimios Karayiannides (Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge))

2025-02-24 17:00: Post-Kantian Perfectionism (Douglas Moggach (University of Ottawa/University of Sydney))

2025-03-03 17:00: John Stuart Mill, Imperial Rule, and Freedom of Speech (Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton University))

2025-03-10 17:00: Progress and Eschatology in British Antislavery Thought (John Coffey (University of Leicester))

2025-03-17 17:00: The American Progressives on Leaderless Government and the Rule of Law (Dimitrios Halikias (Princeton University))

2025-05-05 17:00: Enlightenment Scepticism and the Conditions for Political Stability (Elena Yi-Jia Zeng (Princeton University))

2025-05-12 17:00: Experimental Democracy (Leah Downey (St. John's College, University of Cambridge))

2025-05-19 17:00: Moral Philosophy and the Dissenting Academies, 1660-1860 (Isabel Rivers (Queen Mary University of London))

2025-05-26 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Sophie Joscelyne (University College London))

2025-10-13 17:00: Seeing Politics through Time: The Grounds of Modern Politics c. 1848-1914 (Duncan Kelly (Jesus College, University of Cambridge))

2025-10-20 17:00: Censors and Recalls: Rousseau on Elite Accountability (Arthur Ghins (Université Libre de Bruxelles))

2025-10-27 17:00: Mosca and the Ruling Class (Hugo Drochon (University of Nottingham))

2025-11-03 17:00: Hegel and German Public Law (Nathaniel Boyd (University of York))

2025-11-10 17:00: The Macedonianism of Fear: Aristotle versus Rawls (Paul Sagar (King’s College London))

2025-11-17 17:00: The Political Theory of American Populism (Anton Jäger (University College, University of Oxford))

2025-11-24 17:00: In Defence of Universities: Knowledge and its Enemies in Early Modern Europe (Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, University of Cambridge))

2025-12-01 17:00: Gendering Intellectual Labour in Interwar Central Europe and Exile: Marie Jahoda and Hilda Weiss (Emily Steinhauer (Royal Holloway, University of London))

2026-01-26 17:00: In the Shadow of Minority Rights (Sagnik Dutta (Tilburg University))

2026-02-02 17:00: Does Art Have a Purpose? A Response from Aristotle's Poetics (Katie Ebner-Landy (Utrecht University))

2026-02-09 17:00: The Republic of Beavers' (Chris Brooke (Homerton College, University of Cambridge))

2026-02-16 17:00: Seminar Postponed (Julia McClure (University of Glasgow)   )

2026-02-23 17:00: Revolutionary Linkages across Iran, the Russian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire, 1904 - 1908 (Kayhan Nejad (University of Oklahoma))

2026-03-02 17:00: Moral Geographies of Pan-Asian Sisterhood: Examining Elite Indian and Chinese Women's Political Thought c. 1920 - 45 (Shruti Balaji (London School of Economics))

2026-03-09 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Melissa Lane (Princeton University))

2026-03-16 17:00: Schleiermacher on Masse and Monarch (Olivier Higgins (New College, University of Oxford))

2026-05-04 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Anna Becker (Aarhus University) )

2026-05-11 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Odile Panetta (Christ Church, University of Oxford))

2026-05-18 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Sophie Nicholls (Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford))

2026-05-25 17:00: Machine Politics? Computers and AI in the History of Political Thought (Amira Möding (University of Cambridge) )