Keynes Hall, Kings College 2013-02-18 19:00: The Purpose of Life – Hamza Tzortzis (Hamza Tzortzis) 2013-04-26 14:00: CRIA Book Review Panel: “Globalization and the Environment: Capitalism, Ecology and Power”, by Peter Newell (Prof. P. Newell, University of Sussex (author); Prof. D. Crawford-Brown, University of Cambridge (reviewer); Prof. M. Grubb, University of Cambridge (chair).) 2013-10-17 15:00: Climate change and energy scarcity (Dr. Joerg Friedrichs (Oxford)) 2013-11-20 19:00: The Shift and the Shocks: the World Economy after the Crisis (Martin Wolf CBE) 2013-11-27 19:00: Nudging Public Policy (Dr David Halpern) 2016-01-13 18:00: Intellectual Refuge and Shelter from Persecution: the Role of Universities in the Current Migration Crisis (Invited speakers: Dr. Shana Cohen, Deputy Director of the Woolf Institute and a Research Associate in the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge Dr. Thomas Miley, Lecturer of Political Sociology, University of Cambridge Dr. Peter Sarris, Reader ) 2019-01-18 13:00: The Logic of Legitimacy (Amanda Greene (UCL)) 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)) 2019-11-04 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)) 2019-11-12 20:15: Elimination of Extremes of Wealth and Poverty (Dr Augusto Lopez-Claros) 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)) 2020-02-03 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) 2020-02-17 17:00: "The English Always Disregarded Abstract Theories”: Constructing “Tory Democracy”, 1881-1931 (Emily Jones (Manchester)) 2020-02-24 17:00: Carl Schmitt in Leipzig - Constitutional Guardianship or Authoritarian Subversion? (Lars Vinx (Hughes Hall, Cambridge). Commentator: Josh Smeltzer) 2020-03-02 17:00: Revolution and Charisma in the Thought of Max Weber (Edith Hanke (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities)) 2020-03-09 17:00: By Virtue of Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy (Lisa Kattenberg (Gonville and Caius, Cambridge). Commentator: Richard Serjeantson)