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2005-01-27 02:15: The electronic structure of proteins as obtained by first principles total energy calculations (Prof ME Galvan, Mexico City)

2005-03-03 02:15: "Quantum turbulence" (Prof. WF Vinen, Birmingham)

2005-04-20 11:15: Intrinsic Inhomogeneities in the Strongly Correlated Electron System CeNi1-xCux (Noelia Marcano Aguado / Gomez Sal, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander)

2005-04-27 11:15: Negative Thermal Expansion, Phonons, and Neutron Scattering (Andrew Goodwin, Earth Sciences, Univ. Cambridge)

2005-04-28 02:15: Field theoretic methods in polymer stat mech (Prof Andrea Pelissetto (Rome))

2005-05-04 11:15: Squids (Prof John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley))

2005-05-04 11:15: Microtesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A New Clinical Modality? (John Clarke, UC Berkeley)

2005-05-06 14:00: Feeling and Influencing Active Intracellular Polymer Networks with Light (Professor Josef Kas, University of Leipzig)

2005-05-11 11:15: Analogies between superfluid helium Three and the Universe (Prof George Pickett (University of Lancaster))

2005-05-11 11:15: Superfluid 3He: The Universal Substance from Cosmology to Hydrodynamics via NMR (and OR) (George Pickett, Lancaster University)

2005-05-11 16:30: Atom Chips: A Vision for Quantum Information (Professor Ed Hinds, Imperial College)

2005-05-18 11:15: Alpha-Uranium and Its Superconductivity (George Schmiedeshoff, Occidental College, Los Angeles)

2005-05-18 16:30: Local Interstellar Medium / History of Investigation of Mars and Venus in USSR (1960-1996) (Professor Vladimir Kurt, P N Lebedev Physical Institute	)

2005-05-19 14:15: Superconducting pairing in small metallic nanoparticles (Dr Vladimir Kresin (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab))

2005-05-25 11:15: Crystal Growth, X-Ray and Neutron Scattering - Fun with Complex Oxides (Martin Greven, Stanford University)

2005-05-25 16:30: Probing the Early Universe with Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (Professor George Efstathiou, Institute of Astronomy)

2005-05-26 14:15: Non-Equilibrium Fermi Gas as a Riemann Hilbert Problem (Dr Boris Muzykanskii, University of Warwick)

2005-06-02 14:15: TBA (TBA)

2005-06-08 11:15: Tangles in Infinity: The Kagome Spin Glass (Andrew Wills, University College London)

2005-06-09 14:15: TBA (TBA)

2005-06-15 11:15: Sr2RuO4: Inflating the Fermi Surface (Peter Mann, QM, Cavendish Laboratory)

2005-06-16 14:15: Evolutionary genetics (Prof Simon Tavar (DAMTP, Cambridge))

2005-06-30 14:00: Heat Transport in Quantum Materials (Louis Taillefer, Universit de Sherbrooke)

2005-06-30 15:00: Dynamics in Cuprates and Manganites: From Femtoseconds to Minutes (John Hill, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

2005-10-06 16:15: Unification, Supersymmetry, and the Family Problem (Prof F Wilczek, MIT)

2005-10-06 20:00: This House would rather warm up the planet than cool down the economy. (see abstract)

2005-10-07 18:45: Sir Jeremy Greenstock (Sir Jeremy Greenstock)

2005-10-10 19:30: Robert Frisk (Robert Frisk)

2005-10-12 16:15: The Support of Mountains and the Survival of Ancient Continental Cratons (Professor James Jackson, Earth Sciences, Cambridge)

2005-10-13 14:15: Mapping Phase Diagrams by Atomistic Simulation (Prof. Matt Probert, Physics, University of York)

2005-10-13 20:00: This House believes that the European Union is bad for Britain (see abstact)

2005-10-19 11:15: Observation and Non-Observation of Vortex Matter Phase Transitions in Niobium (Ted Forgan, University of Birmingham)

2005-10-19 16:15: "Mott Centenary Lecture" - Present Status of the Theory of High Temperature Superconductors (Professor Phil Anderson, Department of Physics, Princeton University)

2005-10-27 14:15: Nanomechanical Oscillators: from Thermodynamics to Pattern Formation (Prof. Mike Cross, Physics, Caltech, Pasadena)

2005-11-02 11:15: Quantum Criticality in Weakly Magnetic Ytterbium Systems (Anna Kusmartseva & Emma Pearson, QM, Cavendish Laboratory)

2005-11-02 16:15: Nano-Ferroelectric Materials and Devices (Professor James Scott, Earth Sciences, Cambridge)

2005-11-09 16:15: Scanning the cosmological horizon (Professor Sir Martin Rees, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

2005-11-10 14:15: Why Can't We Solve the Problem of High Temperature Superconductivity? (Mike Norman)

2005-11-10 14:15: Why Can't We Solve the Problem of High Temperature Superconductivity? (Prof. Mike Norman (joint seminar with Quantum Matter Group))

2005-11-16 16:15: Charge Transport in Organic Single-crystal Transistors (Professor Alberto Morpurgo, Department of Nanoscience, University of Delft)

2005-11-23 11:15: Dispelling Shadows in the Photoemission of Bi-2212 (Mark Golden, University of Amsterdam)

2005-11-23 16:15: Probabilistic models of human sensorimotor control (Professor Daniel Wolpert, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge)

2005-11-24 14:15: Local correlation methods for molecular electronic structure calculations (Prof. Martin Head-Gordon, Berkeley)

2005-11-25 15:30: Photon Anti-bunching (Prof. E. C. G. Sudarshan, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin)

2005-11-30 11:15: Fatal Attraction: Magnetic Mysteries of the Enlightenment (Patricia Fara, Clare College and History and Philosophy of Science, Univ. Cambridge)

2005-11-30 16:15: Controlling the Flow of Colour: Photonic Systems in Biology (Dr Peter Vukusic, Thin Film Photonics, School of Physics, University of Exeter)

2005-12-08 14:15: Polymorphism in organic and inorganic solids (Prof.  M Parrinello, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

2006-01-25 11:15: Quantum Criticality in Weakly Magnetic Ytterbium Systems (Anna Kusmartseva, University of Cambridge)

2006-01-25 16:15: "The Nearby Universe as Revealed by the Spitzer Space Telescope" (Professor R Kennicutt, Plumian Professor, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

2006-01-26 14:15: Dynamics of network motifs (Dr. Thomas Fink, CNRS/Institut Curie, Paris)

2006-02-01 16:15: Fluorescence imaging on the micro- and the nanoscale (Dr Clemens Kaminski, The Laser Analytics Group, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2006-02-06 16:15: New Ideas in Particle Physics and Cosmology: Unification, Supersymmetry, and the Family Problem (Prof F Wilczek, MIT)

2006-02-08 16:15: New Ideas in Particle Physics and Cosmology. Dark Matters: WIMPs and Axions (Prof F Wilczek, MIT)

2006-02-09 14:15: Carnot and the fields formulation of elementary thermodynamics (Professor John Hannay, Physics Department, University of Bristol)

2006-02-10 16:15: New Ideas in Particle Physics and Cosmology. Diquarks: Reforming Hadron Spectroscopy (Prof F Wilczek, MIT)

2006-02-15 11:15: New Effects in Vortex Resistivity and Pinning in Optimally Doped YBa2Cu3O6+x (Ben Morgan, University of Cambridge)

2006-02-15 16:15: No Mott Colloquium this week (Speaker to be confirmed)

2006-02-22 11:15: Superfluid stiffness and defect-assisted pair-breaking: getting a handle on organic superconductors (Stephen Blundell, University of Oxford)

2006-02-22 16:15: Quantum computing with electron spins in quantum dots (Dr. Lieven Vandersypen, Delft)

2006-02-23 14:15: Spin and charge quantum phase transitions in narrow-band metals (Dr. Malte Grosche, Royal Holloway, University of London)

2006-02-28 17:00: Images, Objects and the Scientific Self: The Assassin of Relativity (Peter Galison)

2006-03-01 16:15: "Atoms Made Entirely of Antimatter: Two Methods Produced Slow Antihydrogen" (Professor Gerald Gabrielse, Physics Department, Harvard University)

2006-03-06 17:00: Images, Objects and the Scientific Self: Picturing Objectivity (Peter Galison)

2006-03-07 17:00: Objects and the Scientific Self I: What Machines Demand of Us (Peter Galison)

2006-03-08 16:15: Visualizing Complex Electronic Quantum Matter (Professor J C Seamus Davis, Cornell University)

2006-03-09 02:15: Is the "Hidden Electronic Order" in the Cuprates neither Hidden nor Ordered? (J.C.  Seamus Davis, Cornell University)

2006-03-09 14:15: Is the Hidden Electronic Order in the Cuprates neither Hidden nor Ordered? (Prof. J. C. Samus Davis, Cornell University)

2006-03-14 17:00: Objects and the Scientific Self II: Wastelands and Wilderness (Speaker to be confirmed)

2006-03-15 16:15: Through a Glass Darkly - and Other Optical metastabilities" (Professor Stephen Elliott, Chemistry Department, University of Cambridge)

2006-03-16 14:15: To be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed)

2006-03-29 11:15: Transport and thermodynamic properties of cuprate superconductors: E(k) dispersion, pseudogap and isotope effects (James G. Storey, Victoria University of Wellington)

2006-04-19 11:15: Unconventional noise and aging experiments in manganites and superconductors (Michael Weissman, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

2006-04-26 11:15: High magnetic fields: A tool for studying strongly correlated systems (Cyril Proust, Laboratoire National des Champs Magntiques Pulss)

2006-05-03 16:15: Chameleon Metals: from nanostructures  for plasmon engineering to molecular detection (Professor Jeremy Baumberg, Department of Physics, University of Southampton)

2006-05-04 14:15: Electronic-structure challenges in biomimetic catalysis (Prof Nicola Marzari, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT)

2006-05-10 11:15: The Generation and Decay of Grid Turbulence in a Dissipationless Fluid--4He at 20 mK (Gary Ihas, University of Florida)

2006-05-10 16:15: Fusion of Relativistic Vortices in Josephson Arrays (Prof. Alexey Ustinov)

2006-05-12 10:00: Condensates in Flatland - Bose gases in two dimensions (Dr Zoran Hadzibabic, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Paris)

2006-05-18 14:15: New Challenges in the physics of high temperature superconductors (Prof. Jeff Tallon, University of Wellington, New Zealand)

2006-05-24 11:15: From quantum critical magnets to superconductivity in graphite intercalates (Dr Montu Saxena  (Physics Department, University of Cambridge))

2006-05-24 16:15: Spin Ice - a Laboratory for Statistical Physics (Stephen Bramwell, UCL)

2006-05-29 11:15: Tunability and self-organisation of quantum matter (Dr Malte Grosche (Royal Holloway, University of London))

2006-05-31 11:15: The quest for imperfection (Dr Anke Husmann (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, Cambridge))

2006-05-31 14:00: Investigating quantum matter with cold atomic gases (Michael Koehl (ETH Zurich))

2006-06-05 11:15: Electrons on the Magnetic Quantum Roundabout - Measuring Fermi Surfaces and Band Renormalisation in Correlated Materials (Dr Christoph Bergemann (Physics Department, University of Cambridge))

2006-06-07 11:15: Emergent phases in tuneable quantum materials (Dr Christos Panagopoulos (Physics Department, University of Cambridge))

2006-06-12 11:15: The Dual Nature of Electrons (Dr Filip Ronning (Los Alamos National Laboratory))

2006-06-14 11:15: Metamagnetism and Quantum Criticality in Sr3Ru2O7 (Dr Santiago Grigera (Physics Department, University of St. Andrews))

2006-06-19 10:00: Unconventional Superconductivity and Quantum Criticality in CeCoIn5 (Dr Cigdem Capan (Louisiana State University))

2006-06-19 11:00: Competing orders in low-dimensional doped quantum spin systems (Dr Girsh Blumberg, Bell Labs)

2006-09-19 16:15: Doing low temperature physics six decades ago (B.S. Chandrasekhar)

2006-09-20 11:15: Andreev Reflection Spectroscopy of the Pure and Cd-doped Heavy Fermion Superconductor CeCoIn5:  Detecting Order Parameter Symmetry and Competing Phases (Laura H. Greene, Department of Physics and the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

2006-09-25 17:30: Lonesome George: The life and loves of a conservation icon (Henry Nicholls)

2006-10-04 11:15: Giant sharp magnetoelectric switching in multiferroic epitaxial La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 on BaTiO3 (Neil Mathur, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge)

2006-10-09 16:30: Reconsidering Relativistic Causality (Jeremy Butterfield)

2006-10-11 16:15:  Fred Hoyle: discovery and conflict in astrophyiscs and cosmology (Dr Simon Mitton, St Edmunds College, Cambridge)

2006-10-16 16:30: Stochastic Einstein Locality Revisited (Jeremy Butterfield, Trinity College Cambridge)

2006-10-18 16:15: QED in a Pencil Trace (Prof. Andre Geim, University of Manchester)

2006-10-19 14:15: Origin of large electromechanical coupling in relaxor ferroelectrics (Prof. Ron E. Cohen, Carnegie Institution of Washington)

2006-10-23 16:30: Machian Dynamics: The End of Time? (Jeremy Butterfield, Trinity College)

2006-10-25 16:15: WAS EINSTEIN RIGHT? (Prof Clifford Will, McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University)

2006-10-26 14:15: Electron Spin Injection and Transport in Semiconductors (Dr Darryl L. Smith, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

2006-10-30 16:30: MACHIAN DYNAMICS: THE END OF TIME? PART TWO (Jeremy Butterfield, Trinity College)

2006-11-01 11:15: Magnetic frustration and ferroelectricity (Maxim Mostovoy (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen))

2006-11-01 16:15: The rich physics of nanowires (Professor Adrian Sutton, Department of Physics, Imperial College London)

2006-11-06 16:30: Stochastic Einstein Locality : Part Two (Jeremy Butterfield, Trinity College)

2006-11-08 11:15: Search for Stripes in Lightly Hole Doped YBa2Cu3O6 by ESR and IR Transmission (András Jánossy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics))

2006-11-08 16:15: Relationships between Structure, Dynamics and Catalytic Activity at Solid Surfaces (Prof Sir David King, Director of Research, Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government & Head of the Office of Science and Innovation)

2006-11-09 14:15: Determination of protein structures using NMR chemical shifts (Dr Michele Vendruscolo, Dept. of Chemistry)

2006-11-13 16:30: Against Pointillisme about Geometry and about Mechanics (Jeremy Butterfield, Trinity College)

2006-11-14 17:30: Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age (Joel N. Shurkin (Stanford University))

2006-11-15 16:15: Physical Aspects of Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellularity (Professor Raymond E. Goldstein, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge)

2006-11-20 16:30: Is Teleportation a (quantum) mystery? (Berry Groisman, CQC, Cambridge)

2006-11-22 11:15: Understanding superconductivity in spin ladders: new tools and a hard climb! (Daniel Braithwaite, CEA Grenoble)

2006-11-23 14:15: The Energy Crisis on the back of an envelope (Prof. David MacKay, Cavendish Laboratory)

2006-11-29 11:15: From solitons to magnons via transverse field in an Ising magnet (Radu Coldea, University of Bristol)

2006-12-04 16:00: Na_x Co O_2: What's going on at high doping (Chris Hooley, University of St Andrews)

2006-12-06 11:15: High pressure study of a quasi one dimensional two band conductor (Neven Barisic, Stanford University)

2007-01-17 11:15: Some Controversial Issues in High Tc Superconductivity - a Specific Heat Perpective (Dr. John Loram (University of Cambridge))

2007-01-22 16:30: On classical limits of quantum theory (J Butterfield)

2007-01-23 11:15: Phonon anomalies in superconductors studied by Inelastic X-ray Scattering (Matteo d'Astuto (Université Pierre et Marie Curie))

2007-01-24 16:15:   SOME  MACROSCOPIC  PROPERTIES  OF  FILMS  AND  BUBBLES  DEMONSTRATED (Dr Cyril Isenberg, University of Kent)

2007-01-25 14:15: Hydrodynamic interactions and Brownian forces in suspensions:  Coarse-graining over time and length-scales (Dr. Ard Louis, University of Oxford)

2007-01-30 17:00: Alternative spatialities for a global city (Doreen Massey (Geography; The Open University))

2007-02-05 16:30: The Problem of Time in Quantum Gravity (Dr Edward Anderson, Peterhouse and DAMTP)

2007-02-07 16:15: Planar Photonics meta-materials: spectral selectivity, "invisible metals", magnetic mirrors, chirality, asymmetric transmission and nano-focusing (Prof. Nikolay Zheludev, Southampton University)

2007-02-08 14:15: Metal to metal transitions (Prof. Andy Schofield)

2007-02-08 14:15: Metal to metal transitions (Joint TCM/QM seminar) (Prof. Andy Schofield)

2007-02-12 16:30: The nature of time in a closed system (Dr Jonathan Oppenheim (DAMTP))

2007-02-13 17:15: Title to be confirmed (Mette Ramsgard Thomsen (Centre for Information Technology and Architecture; Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen))

2007-02-14 14:15: Cold and dense dipolar exciton quantum fluids in two dimensions. (Dr. Ronen Rapaport, Bell Labs)

2007-02-14 16:15: What's Cooking in Mining (Professor Sam Kingman, University of Nottingham)

2007-02-19 16:30: Introduction to Algebraic Quantum Statistical Mechanics (J Butterfield (Cambridge))

2007-02-19 17:30: Thomas Young: the last man who knew everything (Andrew Robinson)

2007-02-22 14:15: Polariton Bose-Einstein condensation: Theoretical analysis in terms of a two-component weakly-interacting Bose gas (Prof. Vincenzo Savona, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

2007-02-26 16:30: Realism, the Interpretation of Quantum Theory, and Idealism (Dt Matthew Donald (Cambridge))

2007-02-27 17:15: Kierkegaard & Copenhagen: From Genius in a Market-Town or Philosopher-Flâneur (George Pattison (Theology; University of Oxford))

2007-02-28 16:15: Collapse of a Granular Column (Professor E.J. Hinch, DAMTP, Cambridge)

2007-03-05 16:15: Almost Absolute Zero:  the story of laser cooling and trapping (Professor William Phillips)

2007-03-07 16:15: Optics with laser-like atom waves (Professor William Phillips)

2007-03-08 14:15: Monte Carlo methods in cosmology (Dr Mike Hobson)

2007-03-09 16:15: A Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice:  cold atomic gases meet solid state physics (Professor William Phillips)

2007-03-13 17:15: Title to be confirmed (Mirjam Struppek (Urban Media Research; Berlin))

2007-04-25 11:15: Interlayer tunneling in Bi-2212: Evidence for strong-coupling features and impurity effects (Tim Benseman, QM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

2007-04-26 14:15: Multiscale Simulations of Mechanical Properties: From General Issues to Fracture and Friction (Dr. Noam Bernstein,  Naval Research Laboratory, Washingtom and TCM Group, Cambridge)

2007-05-09 16:15: Time and Frequency as New Frontiers in Microscopy (Prof. A Howie, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University)

2007-05-17 14:15: Record dynamics in spin glasses, superconductors and biological evolution. (Prof. Henrik Jensen, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London)

2007-05-23 11:15: NaxCoO2 and Related Oxides from the Perspective of their Electronic Structures (David Singh, Oak Ridge National Lab)

2007-05-23 16:15: How do animals detect sensory stimuli? Experiments in photoreceptors, pain-sensitive receptors and magneto-receptors (Prof. PA McNaughton, Pharmacology, Cambridge University)

2007-05-24 14:15: Coherent coupling of excitons in quantum dots probed by two-dimensional four-wave mixing (Dr. Wolfgang Langbein, Bio Photonics and Quantum Optoelectronics, Cardiff)

2007-05-30 11:15: Magnetic order in the pseudogap phase of the high-T_c superconductor YBCO (Benoît Fauqué; , Laboratoire Léon Brillouin CEA/Saclay, France)

2007-06-06 11:15: Exploring metallization and superconductivity in elements and simple molecular systems at megabar pressures (Mikhail I. Eremets, Max-Planck-Institut fur Chemie)

2007-06-06 16:15: Transistors and wires:  Quantum transport and nonlinear dynamics at the bottom (Prof. Charles Stafford, Department of Physics, University of Arizona)

2007-06-13 11:15: Novel Experiments in Superfluid Helium-3 at Ultralow Temperatures (Richard Haley, Lancaster University)

2007-06-14 11:30: Density-functional perturbation theory goes time dependent: from static properties, to lattice vibrations, up to optical excitations (Prof. Stefano Baroni, DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center Trieste)

2007-09-05 11:15: High pressure synthesis, structural and physical properties of the new A-site ordered double perovskite oxides CaCu3Fe4O12 and (Ca,Y)Cu3Co4O12 (Ikuya Yamada, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie)

2007-09-20 14:15: The non-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensation phase transition in microcavity polariton systems (Dr. Iacopo Carusotto, INFM-CNR, Universita di Trento)

2007-10-03 11:15: Unconventional Kondo lattice systems: Eu-compounds and ferromagnetic Ce-systems (Christoph Geibel, Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany)

2007-10-04 14:15: Are deterministic nanomachines viable?  - A simulation study of energy dissipation in carbon nanotube-based devices. (Dr. Paul Tangney, Imperial College London)

2007-10-10 16:15: Bose Einstein Condensation of Polaritons (Professor Peter Littlewood, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge)

2007-10-16 14:00: Simulating the solid state with ultracold atom gases (Chris Hooley (University of St Andrews))

2007-10-16 17:00: The Magic of the Corner: Getting Lost with Walter Benjamin (Alex Regier, Research Fellow, King's College Cambridge)

2007-10-17 11:15: Transport and Thermodynamic Properties of High-Tc Superconductors Calculated from the Energy-Momentum Dispersion. (James Storey, Victoria University, New Zealand)

2007-10-18 14:15: Electrons in bilayer graphene (Dr Edward McCann, Lancaster University)

2007-10-22 17:00: Klaatu barada nikto - Climate Change and other acts of Imagination (Caspar Henderson, Author and Journalist)

2007-10-24 11:15:  A Ginzburg Landau Approach to Superconductivity in the Cuprates (Professor T.V. RAMAKRISHNAN, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science)

2007-10-24 16:15: Cosmology for Physicists - Why You Should Take Inflation Seriously (Professor Malcolm Longair, Department of Physics, Univerity of Cambridge)

2007-10-30 17:00: The Global Conservation Crisis (Anthony M Tung, author of 'Preserving the World's Great Cities: The Destruction and Renewal of the Historic Metropolis')

2007-11-01 14:15: Shear Banding in Complex Fluids: Wall effects and unstable dynamics (Prof. Peter Olmsted, University of Leeds)

2007-11-05 17:00: What is a Climate Refugee? (Deborah Staines, Macquarie University and CRASSH Visiting Fellow)

2007-11-07 11:15: Quantum phase transitions and quantum criticality in two-dimensional helium (John Saunders*, Royal Holloway University of London)

2007-11-07 16:15: The Discovery and Early Development of X-Ray Crystallography (Dr Gordon Squires, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge)

2007-11-13 17:00: TBC (Dalibor Vesely, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge)

2007-11-14 16:15: Phenomena in cold exciton gases (Leonid Butov, University of California at San Diego)

2007-11-15 14:15: Resonant Level Hybridized with Luttinger Liquid (Prof. Igor Lerner, University of Birmingham)

2007-11-19 17:00: ICT and Climate Change (Molly Webb, The Climate Group)

2007-11-21 11:15: Measuring correlations at the critical temperature of a dilute Bose gas (Michael Kohl, University of Cambridge)

2007-11-21 16:15: Quarks and their quirks (Professor Christine Davies, Department of Physics, University of Glasgow)

2007-11-27 17:00: Conflict and recovery: archaeology and planning in post-war Beirut (Dominic Perring, Director, Centre for Applied Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London)

2007-11-28 11:15: Structure-dependent ferromagnetism in Au4V: Investigations into magnetic gold (Damon D Jackson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

2007-12-03 17:00: Climate of Fear or Fear of Climate? 'Lines of Defence' on the East Coast of England (Bettina Furnee, www.ifever.org.uk and 2008 UL Artist-in-Residence)

2007-12-05 11:15: Heavy fermion superconductivity of a new transuranium compound NpPd5Al2 (Dai Aoki, Grenoble)

2007-12-07 11:15: Superconductivity and the dark side of magnetism (Andrew Huxley, University of Edinburgh)

2007-12-10 14:15:  A Numerical Renormalization Group for Continuum One Dimensional Systems (Robert Konik, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

2008-01-17 14:15: Magnetic monopoles in spin ice (Dr Claudio Castelnovo (University of Oxford))

2008-01-18 15:30: Lev Landau - Life and Physics - 100 years from his birth (Dima Khmelnitskii ( TCM.))

2008-01-18 15:30: Lev Landau - Life and Physics - 100 years from his birth (Dima Khmelnitskii ( TCM.))

2008-01-21 11:15: Peer Review and Citation Analysis in Physical Review Letters: An Editor's Perspective (Manolis Antonoyiannakis, Assistant Editor Physical Review Letters)

2008-01-23 16:15: Title to be confirmed (Professor Anton Zeilinger, Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics, Quantum Information, University of Vienna)

2008-01-28 17:00: Imaging the Arctic (Nick Cobbing, www.nickcobbing.co.uk)

2008-01-30 11:00: Magnetic monopoles in spin ice (Eoin O'Farrell)

2008-01-31 14:15: Maximally-localised Wannier functions as building blocks of electronic structure (Dr Arash Mostofi, Imperial College London)

2008-02-06 11:15: Competition between antiferromagnetism and superconductivity in low-dimensional magnets (Chris Stock, ISIS)

2008-02-06 16:15: Title to be confirmed (Professor Simon Tavare, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2008-02-11 17:00: The Political Aesthetics of Climate Change (Kathryn Yusoff, University of Exeter)

2008-02-14 14:15: Grain boundaries in strontium titanate (Prof. Mike Finnis, Imperial College London)

2008-02-15 15:30: A Critical Point for Science? (Prof. Brian Josephson, Cavendish Laboratory)

2008-02-19 14:00: Magnetism under Pressure with Synchrotron Radiation (Dr. Matteo d'Astuto IMPMC, CNRS, PARIS)

2008-02-22 10:00: Sound and the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Janet Cardiff, Eric Clarke, Michael Bull, Graham Jeffrey, Jacob Kreutzfeldt, Juliana Hodkinson, Robin Rimbaud/Scanner)

2008-02-25 15:00: Le Corbusier: Ecology and Sustainable Development (Dr Emma Dummett (Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh))

2008-02-25 17:00: "Serious Things": On Literature and Environmentalism (Gregory Norminton)

2008-02-28 14:15: Single electron transistors coupled to resonators: from cooling to lasing (Dr Andrew Armour, University of Nottingham)

2008-03-03 16:00: Phase analysis of quantum oscillations in graphite (Igor Luk'yanchuk, University of Picardie Jules Verne, France and L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia)

2008-03-05 17:30: Why is the violin so hard to play? (Jim Woodhouse (Department of Engineering))

2008-03-10 17:00: The Bounding Main: On Poetry and Frost (Melanie Challenger, award-winning poet and writer)

2008-04-11 14:15: Bound states of 2D electrons induced  by the spin-orbit interaction (Prof A.V.Chaplik, Semiconductors Physics Institute, Novosibirsk)

2008-04-17 14:15: An analytical approach to a model of spin interactions in quartic wells (Dr Godfrey Akpojotor, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems)

2008-04-23 11:15: Quantum criticality in slightly Ir- and Co-doped YbRh2Si2 (Manuel Brando, University of Dresden)

2008-04-24 14:15: Complex dynamics in simple models of shear banding. (Dr Suzanne Fielding, University of Manchester)

2008-04-28 17:00: Climate Refugees: Destabilising an Unstable World (Norman Myers, University of Oxford)

2008-05-01 13:00: An ingenious gadget from a Greek musical theorist's workshop (Andrew Barker (University of Birmingham))

2008-05-07 11:15: Spin Correlations in the Paramagnetic Phase of Quantum Magnets (Jon Goff, Department of Physics, Royal Holloway, University of London)

2008-05-08 14:15: Diagrammatic Monte Carlo for resonant fermions. (Prof. Nikolay Prokof'ev, University of Massachusetts at Amherst)

2008-05-12 17:00: The Ecological Thought (Timothy Morton, UC-Davis)

2008-05-14 11:15: Probing the electronic structure of layered 4d transition metal oxides by ARPES (Felix Baumberger, Univeristy of St. Andrews)

2008-05-16 15:30: Breaking the Protein Amino Acid Code (aka the Code of Life) (J. C. Phillips, Rutgers)

2008-05-19 17:00: The Disjointed Temporality of Climate Change (Karen Pinkus, USC)

2008-05-22 14:15: Electronic structure in real space: optimised local orbitals for linear scaling, band structure and polarisation (Dr Peter Haynes, Imperial College London)

2008-05-27 14:15:  Andreev reflection spectroscopy in CeCoIn5 (Laura Greene, UIUC)

2008-06-04 14:15: Recent Progress on the Phase Diagram of High Temperature Superconductors (Doug Bonn, University of British Columbia)

2008-06-05 14:15: Emergent Behaviour in Heavy Electron Materials (David Pines, ICAM, UC Davis)

2008-06-09 16:00: Quantum Dynamics in the Thermodynamic Limit (Dr Jasper van Wezel)

2008-06-10 14:15: Long wavelength spin dynamics of ferrromagnetic condensates (Prof. Austen Lamacraft, University of Virginia)

2008-06-12 11:00: Case Studies III from the Whipple Museum of the History of Science (Various speakers)

2008-06-12 14:15: SU(2) gauge theory, the Berry phase and spintronics (Prof. Stewart Barnes, University of Miami)

2008-06-20 15:00: "Room-Temperature Bose-Einstein Condensates of Magnons in Yttrium Iron Garnet (Philip Stamp, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia)

2008-06-25 11:15: THE FLUCTUATING BOND MODEL – A WAY TO UNDERSTAND CUPRATE SUPERCONDUCTORS? (Dennis Newns, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

2008-06-30 08:00: Nobel Laureate Lectures live, week starting June 30 2008 (Miscellaneous Physics Nobel Laureates)

2008-07-01 11:15: Dynamics of 1d quantum liquids (Prof. Alex Kamenev)

2008-07-03 08:00: Nobel Laureate Lectures live, week starting June 30 2008 (Miscellaneous Physics Nobel Laureates)

2008-08-05 11:15: Orbital Physics in Spinel Oxides (Takuro Katsufuji, Dept. Phys., Waseda Univ)

2008-09-15 11:15: Novel quantum phases on Kondo lattices due to quantum criticality and geometrical frustraton (Satoru Nakatsuji, ISSP Tokyo)

2008-09-29 14:30: Physics at the kitchen (Prof. Andrey Varlamov, University of Rome)

2008-10-01 11:15: Ferromagnetic insulating state of manganites: Is it an electron glass? (Prof. Arup Kumar Raychaudhuri, S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences)

2008-10-08 11:15: Brian Pippard and non-local response in normal metals and superconductors (David Khmelnitskii, TCM, Cavendish Laboratory)

2008-10-09 14:15: Random searching: shining a light on structure space (Dr Chris Pickard, University of St Andrews)

2008-10-15 16:15: Virtual Cosmology with Superfluid 3He (Professor George Pickett, FRS, Physics Department, University of Lancaster)

2008-10-17 16:00: Kyoto 2: A New Future for Energy Policy (Oliver Tickell, author of "Kyoto2: How to Manage the Global Greenhouse")

2008-10-22 11:15: Quantum oscillations in an iron-based superconductor (Amalia Coldea, University of Bristol)

2008-10-23 14:15: Towards density functional theory calculations of defects in crystals (Prof. Kaushik Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology)

2008-10-29 11:15: Interactions and the dHvA Effect (P.C.E. Stamp , University of British Columbia; Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics)

2008-10-29 16:15: Pulsars: A Marvellous Serendipity (Professor Dick Manchester, Australia Telescope Facility, CSIRO, Australia)

2008-10-29 17:30: The history of the science of music, 1700 to 1900 (Torben Rees (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-10-31 11:15: Unconventional superconductivity originating from disconnected Fermi surfaces in the iron-based compounds (Hideo Aoki (Dept of Physics, University of Tokyo):)

2008-11-07 15:30: Fractal superconductivity near localization threshold (Prof. Mikhail Feigel'man, Landau Institute)

2008-11-11 17:00: Listening in Place (Dr Katharine Norman, City University)

2008-11-12 16:15: Lord Rayleigh's Legacy (Professor Ted Davis, Universities of Leicester and CAmbridge)

2008-11-19 11:15: Heavy fermion states and quantum criticality (Prof. Yoshichika Onuki, Osaka University)

2008-11-20 14:15: Freezing of cluster solids and the Gibbs phase rule (Prof. Daan Frenkel FMRS, University of Cambridge)

2008-11-20 19:00: The Climate Crunch: Ethics, Ecology and the End of Civilisation (Dr Michael Northcott, Divinity, University of Edinburgh)

2008-11-25 17:00: Film Screening and Discussion: "The Happening" (2008) (Benjamin Morris and Bradon Smith (University of Cambridge))

2008-11-26 11:15: Larmor diffraction from antiferromagnetic and hidden order in URu2Si2 (Philipp Niklowitz, Royal Holloway)

2008-11-26 16:15: Inaugural Lecture: "Blink, and you miss it" (Professor Jeremy Baumberg)

2008-11-27 13:00: Patterns of co-existing order parameters and universal escapeway to the  magnetic quantum critical point (Prof. Georgios Varelogiannis, National Technical University of Athens)

2008-11-28 11:30: Quantum Criticality, the Alpha/Delta Puzzle, and Dual Vacua (Prof George Chapline, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

2008-12-03 16:15: Power to Choose: How the energy choices people make will change their lives. (Dr Saul Griffith, Makani Power)

2008-12-11 17:45: Still in the Aftermath of Waterloo (Margaret Miles, American School of Classical Studies, Athens; UC Irvine)

2008-12-12 09:00: Culture Wars: Heritage and Armed Conflict in the 21st century (Abbas Alhussainy, Michael Barry, Reinhard Bernbeck, Patrick Boylan et al)

2009-01-12 14:15: Layered Kondo lattice model for novel quantum critical compound beta-YbAlB4 (Dr Andriy Nevidomskyy, Rutgers University)

2009-01-15 14:15: Electron-phonon contribution to the photoemission kink in cuprate superconductors (Dr Feliciano Giustino, University of Oxford)

2009-01-21 16:15: Mesoscale imaging in disordered systems: soft matter physics in hard matter (Professor Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)

2009-01-27 17:00: The Cultures of Climate Change: Reading Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-01-29 14:15: Topological Phases of Matter and Why You Should be Interested (Prof. Steve Simon, University of Oxford)

2009-02-04 11:15: Skyrmion lattice in chiral magnets (Christian Pfliederer, Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Germany)

2009-02-06 14:00: The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project - a timely update (Various speakers)

2009-02-10 17:00: The Cultures of Climate Change: Max Boykoff (ECI, Oxford) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-02-12 14:15: Towards an understanding of how general anaesthetics work (Dr P.-L. Chau, Bioinformatique Structurale, Institut Pasteur)

2009-02-16 14:00: Flexibility in carbon emissions trading: "when, where, how" and "why"? (Richard Benwell, Centre of International Studies)

2009-02-17 17:00: The Politicisation of Irish Literature (Prof. Roy Foster (Hertford College, Oxford))

2009-02-18 16:15: Emerging Concepts in Particle and Photon Beams (Professor Swapan Chattopadhyay, Sir John Cockcroft Professor of Physics Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool and Manchester  And Director, Cockcroft Institute Daresbury, Cheshire, UK.)

2009-02-19 11:00: Superfluidity and other quantum fluid effects of microcavity polaritons (Dr Alberto Amo, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel)

2009-02-24 17:00: The First Romantics: Young Irelands between Catholic Emancipation and the Famine (Prof. Roy Foster (Hertford College, Oxford))

2009-02-25 11:15: Spin-Excitation Spectroscopy: Probing Magnetic Nanostructures at the Atomic Scale (Cyrus Hirjibehedin, University College London)

2009-02-26 14:15: Ehrenfest Simulations of Radiation Damage in Metals (Prof. Matthew Foulkes, Imperial College)

2009-03-02 14:00: "Anything New Under the Sun? Trade and development in the EU's Economic (Dr Lorand Bartels, University of Cambridge)

2009-03-04 16:15: The ATLAS Experiment Entering Operation: Overview, Motivation and Status of the Project (Professor Peter Jenni,  CERN)

2009-03-05 17:00: Lost in the Big House: Anglo-Irishry and the Uses of the Supernatural (Prof. Roy Foster (Hertford College, Oxford))

2009-03-11 11:15: Electric Field Tuning of Manganites and Cuprates (Anoop Singh Dhoot, Cavendish Laboratory)

2009-03-11 16:15: Title to be confirmed (Sir Robin Jacob, Lord Justice of Appeal (Patents) 2003 -)

2009-03-12 17:00: Smut's Memorial Lecture 2009: "Negotiating from Weakness in International Trade Relations" (Professor John Odell, University of Southern California)

2009-03-12 17:00: Oisin Comes Home: Yeats as Inheritor (Prof. Roy Foster (Hertford College, Oxford))

2009-03-12 17:30: 'A function of the time': the Cavendish Society and its Postprandial Proceedings (Jeff Hughes (University of Manchester))

2009-03-26 16:30: Introducing "Zomia": Site of the Last Great Enclosure Movement of (relatively) Stateless Peoples in Mountainous Southeast Asia (James Scott (Political Science, Yale))

2009-03-26 19:30: Screening of: 'Terlena: the Breaking of a Nation' (2004) (Andre Vltchek (Filmmaker and Political Commentator))

2009-03-27 16:30: Cosmic Centers and the Subject of the 21st Century (Shelly Errington (Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz))

2009-03-31 13:00: Creation ex Nihilo and What It Means for Science (Dr Janet Soskice, Faculty of Divinity)

2009-04-23 14:15: QMC applied to two-component molecular systems (Dr Ryo Maezono, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

2009-04-27 16:15: Physics and Complexity : An Overview (Professor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA)

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

2009-04-28 17:30: God, Darwin and Design (Prof. Kenneth Miller, Brown University, USA)

2009-04-29 11:15: de Haas-van Alphen studies of the YbRh2Si2 Fermi surface: Lifshitz transition at H0 ~ 10 T (Patrick Rourke, University of Bristol)

2009-04-29 16:15: Physics and Complexity : Methodologies (Professor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.)

2009-05-01 16:15: Physics and Complexity : Examples (Professor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA)

2009-05-04 17:00: Cardenio Lost. Or, How to Make a Play with Don Quixote? (Prof. Roger Chartier (École des haute études en sciences sociales, Paris, and University of Pennsylvania))

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))

2009-05-06 17:00: Forms Affect Meaning: Pauses and Pitches in Early Modern Texts (Prof. Roger Chartier (Écoles des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, and University of Pennsylvania))

2009-05-07 14:15: Fermi-surface and volume-collapse transitions in heavy fermions and pnictide superconductors (Prof. Matthias Vojta, University of Cologne)

2009-05-07 17:00: Clark Lecture seminar in conjunction with the History of the Book seminar (Prof. Roger Chartier (École des haute études en sciences sociales, Paris, and University of Pennsylvania))

2009-05-08 15:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr Bogdan Mihaila, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

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

2009-05-12 13:00: The Secret History of Victorian Evolution (Prof. Jim Secord, Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science)

2009-05-13 11:15: Natural Optical Activity of Metals (Vladimir Mineev,  Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Grenoble, France)

2009-05-13 16:15: Electromagnetic surfaces from butterflies to battleships (Professor J Roy Sambles, School of Physics, University of Exeter)

2009-05-14 14:15: Glasses, Jamming and Spin Glasses (Prof. Mike Moore FRS, University of Manchester.)

2009-05-15 16:00: Understanding liquids and glass transition on the basis of elastic  interactions (Dr Kostya Trachenko (University of Cambridge))

2009-05-21 14:15: Kondo physics in multilevel quantum dots. (Prof. David Logan, Theoretical Chemistry, Oxford University)

2009-05-22 16:00: Local density of states of electron-crystal phases in graphene in the quantum Hall regime (Oleksandr Poplavskyy (University of Cambridge))

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

2009-05-26 13:00: Natural Disasters and Christian Theology (Dr David Chester, Geography Dept., Liverpool University)

2009-05-26 17:00: The Economic Downturn and the Carbon Economy (Seb Henbest, New Carbon Finance)

2009-05-26 17:00: Techniques of Totalitarian Power: comparing Mobilization Strategies of Mao, Hitler and Stalin (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-05-27 11:15: Theory of the Phase Diagarm of the Cuprates (Chandra Varma, University of California Riverside)

2009-05-27 17:00: Voice, Subjectivity and the Politics of Democratic Claim-Making (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-05-29 14:15: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Gerald Mahan, Penn State University)

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

2009-06-04 14:15: Quantum Many-Body Phenomena in Coupled Arrays of Cavities (Dr Michael Hartmann, Technische Universitaet Muenchen)

2009-06-05 15:30: Can the thermal conductivity of semiconductors be controlled by impurities? (Stefan K. Estreicher, Physics Department, Texas Tech University)

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

2009-06-11 14:15: Heterogeneities in granular media (Prof. Anita Mehta, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Calcutta)

2009-06-18 14:15: What is the momentum of a photon propagating in a medium? (Prof. Steve Barnett, University of Strathclyde)

2009-06-25 14:15: Electronic Correlations and Magnetic Frustration in the Iron Pnictides (Qimiao Si, Rice University, Texas)

2009-07-15 11:15: Exotic or conventional - the physics of High-Tc Superconductors (Professor Jeffery Tallon, MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology)

2009-08-28 15:30: Simplifying the theory of the Invar effect in iron-nickel alloys (Chris Hooley (SUPA, University of St Andrews))

2009-10-02 14:15: Kinetics and Bose-Einstein condensation of parametrically driven magnons at RT. (Prof. Sergej Demokritov, Muenster University)

2009-10-06 13:00: Information, Biological Complexity and Emergence (Prof. Gennaro Auletta, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome)

2009-10-08 14:15: Hybrid density functionals for accurate semiconductor band gaps (Prof. John Robertson, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

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

2009-10-13 17:00: ‘Powers of War: Fighting, Knowledge, and Critique’ (Dr Tarak Barkawi, University of Cambridge)

2009-10-14 16:15: The deep structure of the proton ...... and why it matters! (Professor J W Stirling, CBE, FRS, Jacksonian Professor, Cavendish Laboratory)

2009-10-15 17:00:  José Scheinkman, 'Speculation and Bubbles' ( José Scheinkman)

2009-10-15 17:00: Ireland and the Lisbon Treaty (Barbara Jones, Counsellor for Political Affairs, Embassy of Ireland)

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

2009-10-20 13:00: Newton, Science and Religion (Prof. Robert Iliffe, University of Sussex)

2009-10-21 11:15: Ultrafast measurements of the nonequilibrium charge-transfer state of Sr2CuCl2O2 (Jesse Petersen, University of Oxford)

2009-10-21 17:00: "More Than Just War: Modern Moral Imaginaries of War" (Dr Charles Jones (University of Cambridge))

2009-10-22 14:15: Polarised Fermi Gases. (Meera Parish (University of Cambridge))

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))

2009-10-27 17:00: 'US Liberalism: The Perennial Tradition in US Foreign Policy' (Geraldo Zahran, POLIS, University of Cambridge)

2009-10-30 14:30: Superconductivity in underdoped cuprates from attraction between spin vortices (Prof. Lu Yu (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences))

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

2009-11-03 13:00: The Necessity of Chance: Randomness, Purpose and the Sovereignty of God (Prof. Paul Ewart, Univeristy of Oxford)

2009-11-03 17:00: Is Global Democracy Possible? (Jan Aart Scholte, PAIS, University of Warwick)

2009-11-04 17:00: "Just War: A State of the Art" (Prof. Nicholas Rengger (St. Andrews))

2009-11-04 19:00: Senator David Coltart - Human Rights in Zimbabwe: Past, Present and Future (Senator David Coltart)

2009-11-05 14:15: Amplified stochastic oscillations (Prof. Alan McKane (Univeristy of Manchester))

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))

2009-11-10 17:00: ‘The Power of Words: A Critical Investigation of the Language of Security’ (Faye Donnelly, University of St Andrews)

2009-11-10 17:00: The Europeanization of Migration policy in South-East Europe: Changing Narratives and Institutional Adaptation (Elena Lazarou, Research Associate, University of Cambridge)

2009-11-11 11:15: Low temperature transport in an  electron-hole bilayer:  search for  excitonic phases and collective modes. (Kanti Das Gupta, SP group, Cavendish Laboratory)

2009-11-11 18:00: Hinsley Lecture: "Can There Be A Single Great Power?" (Professor Ian Clark  FBA, E H Carr Professor of International Politics, Aberystwyth University)

2009-11-12 17:00: EU Policing and Organised Crime (Felix Berenskoetter, SOAS)

2009-11-12 17:00: Religion and International Relations after 9/11: Increased Cooperation or More Conflict? (Professor Jeffrey Haynes, Department of Law, Governance and International Relations, London Metropolitan University and Centre for the Study of Religion, Conflict and Cooperation)

2009-11-12 17:30: Playing God?: Toward Machines that Deny Their Maker (Prof. Rosalind Picard, MIT Media Laboratory)

2009-11-13 09:15: Small States in the International Political Economy (Conference Organiser: Dr. Amrita Narlikar.  The conference features 16 speakers and chair persons)

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

2009-11-17 13:00: Calvin's Contributions to the Emergence of Modern Science (Prof. Alister McGrath, King's College, London)

2009-11-18 17:00: Centre Launch and Inaugural Lecture by Francis M Deng, 'Managing Diversity as a Strategy for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities' (Francis M Deng, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide)

2009-11-19 14:15: Theory of exchange splittings of bands in diluted magnetic semiconductors (Prof. Dr. Thomas Dietl, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, and Institute of Physics, University of Warsaw)

2009-11-19 17:00: A short history of jihād in the Islamic west: justifiable war on a religious frontier (Dr. Amira Bennison, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of 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))

2009-11-23 17:00: Globalization after Neoliberalism’s Troubled Decline (Daniel Drache, York University, Toronto)

2009-11-24 17:00: The Inadequacy of International Law for Private International Security (Ian Ralby, POLIS, University of Cambridge)

2009-11-25 11:15: Evidence for Unusual Magnetic Order in Cubic FeGe beyond its Quantum Phase Transition (Heribert Wilhelm, University of Geneva, Switzerland and Diamond Light Source)

2009-11-25 17:00: Thoughtless About Violence: The Paradoxical Fate of Liberal Imperialism (Prof. Kimberley Hutchings, LSE)

2009-11-26 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Elena Lazarou)

2009-11-26 17:00: The Europeanization of Migration policy in South-East Europe: Changing Narratives and Institutional Adaptation (Elena Lazarou, Research Associate, University of Cambridge)

2009-11-30 11:15: Emergence of local broken symmetries with hole-doping in Ca2-xNaxCuO2Cl2 (Dr. Yuki Kohsaka, Magnetic Materials Laboratory, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Wako, Saitama, Japan)

2009-11-30 17:00: Open Hands and Clenched Fists:  Obama's foreign policy in the Greater Middle East (Dr. Lee Marsden, School of Political, Social and International Studies, University of East Anglia)

2009-12-01 17:00: An Initial Problem with the Nation State (Mark Francis, University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

2009-12-02 11:15: Neutron scattering studies of ferromagnetic superconductor UGe2 under pressure (Dmitri Sokolov, University of Edinburgh)

2009-12-02 17:00: "How Rights Move: Liability, Forfeiture and the Lesser Evil" (Dr David Rodin (University of Oxford))

2009-12-04 14:30: Quantum Optics Experiments with Multiple Qubits and Multiple Photons in Superconducting Electronic Circuits (Johannes Fink (ETH, Zurich))

2010-01-14 14:15: Quantum transport beyond the independent-electron approximation (Prof. Rex Godby, University of York)

2010-01-15 14:00: The long-standing puzzle of missing inelastic neutron scattering intensity in the cuprates (Andrew C. Walters, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France)

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

2010-01-19 17:00: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations (Mark Mazower, Columbia University)

2010-01-20 16:00: Synthetic structures and machines from DNA (Prof Andrew Turberfield of University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU,)

2010-01-21 17:00: Sir Michael Rawlins - Keynote Lecture (Sir Michael Rawlins (National Institute of Clinical Excellence))

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

2010-01-25 17:00: Democracy in Post-Colonial Africa (Professor John Dunn)

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))

2010-01-26 13:00: Scientific Explanations of Religious Experience and their Implications for Belief (Revd Dr Patrick Richmond, Vicar of Christ Church, Eaton)

2010-01-26 17:00: ‘Prefab Politics: The rise and fall of Zambia's donor-built reform coalition’ (Alaistair Fraser)

2010-01-27 17:00: Cashing in on Climate Change: Political Theory and Global Emissions Trading (Ed Page (University of Warwick))

2010-02-01 17:00: SMS Uprising: How mobile communications are changing the public sphere in Africa (Sokari Ekine and Ken Banks)

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

2010-02-03 11:00: Possible field-induced superconductivity in the quasi-1D purple bronze Li0.9Mo6O17 (Alimamy Bangura, University of Bristol)

2010-02-03 16:00: 'Climate Change: the science behind the headlines' (Professor Julia Slingo, Chief Scientist, Met Office)

2010-02-04 17:30: Religious Influences in the Founding of the Royal Society (Prof Peter Harrison, Oxford University)

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

2010-02-09 13:00: Biology in the Service of Natural Theology (Dr Jonathan Topham, University of Leeds)

2010-02-09 17:00: Russia in a Global World (H E Yurii Fedotov, Ambassador of the Russian Federation)

2010-02-10 17:00: Truth be Told? Debating the Human Rights records of Exiled Liberation Movements in Southern Africa (Prof. Jocelyn Alexander (Oxford), Prof. Saul Dubow (Sussex) and Prof. Stephen Ellis (African Studies Centre, Leiden & Free University Amsterdam) with Paul Trewhela, author of 'Inside Quatro: Uncovering the Exile History of the ANC and SWAPO')

2010-02-11 14:15: Exciton condensation in quantum Hall   bilayers: disorder and transport (Paul Eastham, Trinity College, Dublin)

2010-02-11 17:00: Global Taxes on Natural Resources (Paula Casal (University of Reading/Universidad Pompeu Fabra))

2010-02-12 09:00: Understanding New Wars (Dr Harald Wydra, Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology, and International Studies, University of Cambridge)

2010-02-12 17:00: The New Geopolitics of Multilateralism: Brazil's Economic Diplomacy in the WTO Doha Round Agriculture Negotiations (Mr. Braz Baracuhy, First Secretary, WTO Agriculture Desk, Permanent Mission of Brazil to the WTO)

2010-02-13 09:00: Understanding New Wars (Dr Harald Wydra, Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology, and International Studies, University of Cambridge)

2010-02-15 17:00: Struggles for Citizenship in Africa (Bronwen Manby (AfriMAP and Open Society Foundation))

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))

2010-02-17 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Mike Payne, FRS, TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

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

2010-02-23 13:00: The Religious Roots of the Idea of Scientific Laws (Dr Lydia Jaegar, Institut Biblique de Nogent-sur-Maine, Paris)

2010-02-23 17:00: False Twins dealing with their pasts: Transitional Justice in Rwanda and Burundi (Dr Stef Vanderginste (Antwerp), Dr Phil Clark (Oxford) and Dr Antje du Bois-Pedain (Cambridge))

2010-02-23 17:00: 'Secession and International Order' (Professor James Mayall, POLIS, University of Cambridge)

2010-02-24 16:00: A matter of life and death: The struggle for Ugandan gay rights (Mr David Cato, Advocacy/Litigation officer at Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG))

2010-02-24 17:00: Ecological Citizenship: A Dead End? (Andrew Dobson (Keele University))

2010-02-25 11:15: Interference between an s-wave superconductor and Sr2RuO4 (Taketomo Nakamura, Kyoto University)

2010-02-25 11:45: Uniaxial pressure effects on the superconductivity of Sr2RuO4 (Haruka Taniguchi, Kyoto University)

2010-02-25 14:15: From ultracold atoms to ultracold molecules. Prospects for novel  physics (Prof. Gora Shlyapnikov,  University of Amsterdam and LPTMS Paris)

2010-02-26 14:00: The politics of immigration control in the UK: What is the role of the political elite discourse in policy approaches and outcomes? (Elif Cetin, PhD candidate in IR, POLIS)

2010-02-26 14:15: Influence of Thermal Order Parameter Fluctuations on the Spectral Function of 2D Superconductors (Prof. Alexei Tsvelik, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)

2010-03-01 17:00: The return of the state in post-war Angola (Dr Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford)

2010-03-02 17:00: Copenhagen: Realism Bites (Sir Tony Brenton, POLIS)

2010-03-04 17:30: "Croatia - 28th EU Member State" (Dr Ivica Tomic, Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to the United Kingdom)

2010-03-05 14:00: Think Tanks and Europe (Mark Leonard, Director, European Council on Foreign Relations)

2010-03-08 17:00: Corporate Complicity in Human Rights violations in Africa (Vuyelwa Kuuya (Lauterpacht Centre for international Law, Cambridge))

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

2010-03-09 13:00: Sustainable Development - Is Religion Relevant? (Prof. Jan Boersema, Vrije University, Amsterdam)

2010-03-09 17:00: Afghanistan: the Peace-Building Process (Arpita Basu Roy, Pavate Fellow, POLIS)

2010-03-10 16:00: High-Temperature Superconductors:  From Broken Symmetries to the Power Grid (Professor Laura Greene, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

2010-03-10 18:00: O the noise, noise, Noise, NOISE! (Christopher Hicks (CEDAR Audio Ltd))

2010-03-12 14:00: Religion in the EU (Dr Sara Silvestri, City University)

2010-03-17 11:15: From vacuum tunnelling to quantum transport: Recent developments and new opportunities in Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy (Stefan Tautz, Forschungszentrum Juelich)

2010-03-17 18:00: When is a structure a musical instrument? Adventures in tuned percussion (Jim Woodhouse (Department of Engineering))

2010-03-19 11:15: Crystal structures from nothing - new materials from random numbers (Chris J Pickard)

2010-04-06 14:15: Using Disorder to Detect Local Order: Noise and Nonequilibrium Effects in Disordered Electron Nematics (Prof. Erica Carlson, Purdue University)

2010-04-14 11:15: Probing the normal and superconducting state electronic structure of iron-pnictide superconductors (Tony Carrington, University of Bristol)

2010-04-20 17:00: Theories of global politics (Dr. Olaf Corry)

2010-04-21 11:15: Nanodomains in Ferroelectrics and Magnetoelectrics (J. F. Scott, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge)

2010-04-22 14:15: The Local Approach to Electronic Structure and Band Gaps (Roger Haydock (TCM and University of Oregon ))

2010-04-23 17:00: A Least Human-Restrictive GATT Environmental Model at the G-20 (Dr. Pedro Erik Carneiro)

2010-04-26 17:00: Scholars at Risk: Human Rights and Academic Freedom (The president of the UK Exiled Journalists Network; A female Iranian lawyer and women's/children's rights campaigner; A Zimbabwean politics academic; Chaired by Sir Martin Harris (President, Clare Hall))

2010-04-28 16:00: Dirac's Dream - the Continuing Quest for the Magnetic Monopole (Professor James Pinfold, University of Alberta)

2010-04-29 14:15: Quantum phase transitions and novel phases. (Philipp Gegenwart, University of Goettingen)

2010-04-29 17:00: Informal Governance in the European Union (Dr Mareike Kleine, London School of Economics and Political Science)

2010-04-30 14:15: Talk Cancelled (Prof. Pawel Hawrylak, Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada)

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

2010-05-04 13:00: Human Enhancement - Threat or Promise? (Prof. Gareth Jones [University of Otago, New Zealand)

2010-05-05 17:00: Domestic Violence and International Law (Professor Bonita Meyersfeld (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa))

2010-05-05 17:00: Crossing the River, by Feeling for Stones: China’s Gradual Currency Internationalization (Dr. Gregory Chin - Assistant Professor of Political Science at York University (Toronto) and senior fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI))

2010-05-05 17:30: Life, extended mind, and physical reality (Prof. Brian Josephson, Mind-Matter Unification Project, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge)

2010-05-06 14:15: How a non-Fermi liquid can emerge at a metal-insulator transition (Prof. Gabriel Aeppli, University College London)

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

2010-05-11 14:45: Phase Transitions:  Scaling, Universality and  Renormalization (Professor Leo P. Kadanoff University of Chicago and Perimeter Institute)

2010-05-11 17:00: ‘Statebuilding and the subject: tolerance, appropriation and resistance in Mozambique’ (Meera Sabaratnam (LSE))

2010-05-12 11:30: Modelling protrusion phenotypes and the force velocity relation to motile cells (Dr. Martin Falcke, Mathematical Cell Physiology, Max-Delbruck Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin)

2010-05-12 16:00: Music, Architecture and Acoustics in Renaissance Venice: Recreating Lost Soundscapes (Malcolm Longair and Braxton Boren)

2010-05-12 16:00: Music, Architecture and Acoustics in Renaissance Venice: Recreating Lost Soundscapes (Malcolm Longair and Braxton Boren)

2010-05-12 17:00: The First Historian of Human Rights (Prof. Samuel Moyn (Columbia University))

2010-05-13 14:00: What Explains Diverging Paths of Genocidal Violence? Evidence from Rwanda, Sudan, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Chad and Senegal (Scott Straus, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2010-05-13 14:15: Critical parameters from generalised multifractal analysis at the Anderson transition (Dr Alberto Rodriguez (Warwick))

2010-05-17 16:00: Gravitational Waves: A New Window onto the Universe (Kip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA.)

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

2010-05-18 13:00: Animal Suffering - Theological and Philosophical Perspectives (Prof. Michael Murray [Franklin and Marshall College])

2010-05-18 17:00: ‘Who is Guarding the Guardians? Patterns of Government Accountability in Bulgaria, Germany and Russia’ (Gergana Dimova)

2010-05-19 16:00: Gravitational-Wave Detectors above 10Hz: Weber Bars, LIGO, GEO, VIRGO, TAMA, LCGT, and Einstein Telescope (Kip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA.)

2010-05-20 17:00: Argentine-Chilean frontier dispute:  Conflict Escalation to Violence in the Beagle Channel (Andrés Villar-Gertner)

2010-05-21 16:00: Gravitational-Wave Detectors Below 10Hz: LISA, Pulsar Timing Arrays, CMB Polarization, Atom Interferometers, and the Big Bang Observer (Kip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA.)

2010-05-25 14:00: Point of No Return:  Kabila, Rwanda and the Internal Dynamics of Africa's Great War (Dr Philip Roessler and Mr Harry Verhoeven, University of Oxford)

2010-05-26 11:15: Quantum criticality and dynamical scaling in YbRh2Si2 (Sven Friedemann, QM group)

2010-05-26 16:00: The Dynamics of Observing and Controlling Epilepsy and Parkinson's Disease (Prof Steven Schiff, Director of the Penn State Centre for Neural Engineering)

2010-05-26 17:00: Political Legitimacy and the Management of Calendrical Time (Nomi Claire Lazar (University of Ottawa))

2010-05-26 17:00: 'Hoy Dista Mucho de Ayer': July 25th, 1936 and the Seeds of Republican Defeat in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (Pierpaolo Barbieri)

2010-05-27 16:30: From scientific instruments to musical instruments: the tuning fork, metronome and siren (Myles W. Jackson (Polytechnic Institute of New York University and the Gallatin School of NYU))

2010-05-28 11:00: Harnessing the Interactions of Ultrasound Waves and Acoustic Cavitation With Biological Tissue for Non-Invasive Therapy and Drug Delivery (Dr Constantin Coussios, Biomedical Ultrasonics & Biotherapy Laboratory, University of Oxford)

2010-06-01 13:00: "A Passion for the Universal": Science, Jews and Others (Dr Noah Efron [Bar Ilan University, Israel])

2010-06-01 16:30: IPE and Foreign Policy groups symposium (IPE and Foreign Policy research groups)

2010-06-01 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Samir Puri)

2010-06-02 16:00: LIQUID CRYSTALS: WHAT THEY ARE AND WHY YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THEM (Tom Lubensky, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania)

2010-06-04 14:15: Theoretic Study of Unitary Fermi Gas (Dr. Matthew Wingate, University of Cambridge)

2010-06-08 14:00: Health in Africa Workshop, panel on "Health and new Information and Communication Technologies" (Speaker to be confirmed)

2010-06-08 16:15: Paths to Discovery in Radio Astronomy – Prediction and Serendipity ( Professor Ron Ekers, Australia National Telescope Facility CSIRO, Australia)

2010-07-30 15:30: Marginal Fermi liquid behaviour and competing orders with topological  characteristics in bilayer graphene. (Rahul Nandkishore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

2010-09-22 11:15: Common behaviors of unconventional superconductors indicating non-BCS condensation and spin-mediated resonant pairing (Yasutomo J. Uemura, Columbia University, New York, USA)

2010-10-01 15:30: The Supramolecular Chemistry of the Homeopathic Remedy (John Benneth)

2010-10-07 14:15: Possibility of Hot Superconductivity in Charged Graphene (G Baskaran, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India)

2010-10-08 13:00: ‘La verità effettuale della cosa’: On the Practice-Dependence of Political Values (Andrea Sangiovanni (KCL))

2010-10-12 13:00: Neuronal Imaging of the Religious Brain (Revd Dr Alasdair Coles, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University)

2010-10-14 17:00: Deliberating new media: creating alternative politics in the Middle East and Africa? (Amy Saunderson-Meyer (Freedom Fone, Zimbabwe), Herman Wasserman (Rhodes University), Firoze Manji (Pambazuka News))

2010-10-15 09:00: New Media|Alternative Politics: Communications technologies and political change in the Middle East and Africa (Speaker to be confirmed)

2010-10-15 13:00: The Idea of Global Citizenship (David Miller (Oxford))

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

2010-10-21 14:15: Force generation in the lamellipod of crawling cells (Tom Duke, University College London)

2010-10-22 17:00: A World Order without Superpowers: Decentered Globalism (Barry Buzan (Professor of International Relations, LSE))

2010-10-25 13:00: The Politics of Naming and Responding to 'Genocide': The Practices of France, Germany and the UK from Biafra to Darfur (Karen Smith (Reader in International Relations, LSE))

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

2010-10-26 13:00: A Philosopher's Perspective on Anthropic Fine-Tuning (Dr Tim Mawson, Oxford University)

2010-10-27 16:00: The Dicke Quantum Phase Transition and Supersolidity (Prof. Tilman Esslinger, ETH, Zurich)

2010-10-28 14:15: The Dicke quantum phase transition with a superfluid gas in an optical cavity (Kristian Baumann, ETH Zurich)

2010-10-29 16:00: France and its Migrants Today: Facts, Fictions and Lies (Helen Drake, University of Loughborough)

2010-11-01 12:30: CGHR Governance and Human Rights Research Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

2010-11-01 12:30: Human Rights Obligations of Multinational Corporations in Weak States (Nicole Janz, PhD candidate, Department of Politics and International Studies)

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

2010-11-01 17:00: Europe as a Small Power (Asle Toje)

2010-11-03 17:00: The Relevance of National Security Cultures in International Studies (Professor Dr Emil Kirchner, Professor of Government at the University of Essex)

2010-11-04 14:15: Dynamics and critical behaviour of the spin-boson model (Andreas Alvermann, University of Cambridge)

2010-11-05 11:30: Layered Systems of Cold Polar Molecules (Nikolaj Zinner, University of Aarhus)

2010-11-05 13:00: Do we own our Bodies? More Thoughts on Property in the Person and in the Body (Anne Phillips (LSE))

2010-11-05 14:00: Intensifying European Military Cooperation: New Opportunities (Bjoern Seibert, Policy Planning and Advisory Staff, German MOD)

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

2010-11-09 13:00: Nanotechnology, Ethics and Religion (Prof. Russell Cowburn,  Cambridge University)

2010-11-09 17:00: 'What's in a Label? The Aid Community's Perceptions of Success and Failure' (Teresa A. Cravo, POLIS, University of Cambridge)

2010-11-10 11:15: Magnetic resonance in low dimensional organic conductors near the Mott-Hubbard metal-insulator transition (Andras Janossy, Technical University of Budapest)

2010-11-10 11:15: Magnetic resonance in low dimensional organic conductors near the Mott-Hubbard metal-insulator transition (Andras Janossy, Technical University of Budapest)

2010-11-10 16:00: Charge transport in molecular semiconductors – Bloch electron or hopping transport ? (Prof. Henning Sirringhaus, FRS, Cavendish Laboratory)

2010-11-11 14:15: Domain wall in a chiral p-wave superconductor: Majorana fermions and their transport properties (Dr Benjamin Beri, University of Cambridge)

2010-11-11 17:00: Development Cooperation Post-Lisbon: Challenges of Actualising the Joint Africa-EU Strategy (Oladiran Wasiu Bello, FRIDE)

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

2010-11-16 17:00: '1914 in World Historical Perspective: The "Uneven" and "Combined" Origins of the First World War' (Alex Anievas, POLIS, University of Cambridge)

2010-11-17 16:00: How English Libel Law Threatens Science (Simon Singh)

2010-11-17 17:00: Selling security in the risk society (Dr Elke Krahmann, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Bristol)

2010-11-18 14:15: Towards realistic calculations of molecular adsorption and desorption on surfaces (Prof. Dario Alfè, University College London)

2010-11-18 17:00: 'Working for the Palestinians, Accredited to Israel and Reporting to the EU - A case study in diplomatic confusion' (Paul Kernaghan)

2010-11-19 13:00: Responsibility for Refugees: A Duty to Do More Than One's Fair Share? (Zofia Stemplowska (Warwick))

2010-11-19 13:00: Preventing Violent Attacks on Education in Afghanistan: Considering the Role of Community-Based Schools (Dana Burde, Assistant Professor, New York University)

2010-11-19 14:00: Reproduction of National Identity: Norway's New National Library (Marianne Takle, NOVA, Norwegian Social Research)

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))

2010-11-23 13:00: Victor Stenger's Scientific Critique of Christian Belief (Prof. David Bartholomew, London School of Economics)

2010-11-23 17:00: Muslim Marriage in Western Courts : Lost in Transplantation ( Dr Pascale Fournier (Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa))

2010-11-24 16:00: The 2010 CU Canon Foundation Lecture : Creative tensions between science and technology (Prof Sir Richard Friend, The Cavendish Labortory)

2010-11-24 17:00: Reordering South African Townships (Laurent Fourchard.  Researcher, Sciences Po Bordeaux.)

2010-11-26 14:00: Socialisation and European Foreign Policy (Karolina Pomorska, University of Maastricht)

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

2010-11-30 12:30: One China, Two Sudans? Sovereignty, self-determination and the 'referendum for freedom' (Dan Large, Research Director, Asia Africa Centre (SOAS))

2010-11-30 17:00: 'The Treaty of Lisbon and the European Border Control Regime: Consequences for the UK and Norway' (Marianne Takle, NOVA, Norwegian Social Research, Visiting Fellow, POLIS, University of Cambridge)

2010-12-01 17:00: The UN Global Compact (2000-2010): What Has Been Achieved? ( Andreas Rasche (Assistant Professor of Business in Society, Warwick))

2010-12-02 17:00: Immigration Policy in Italy (Luca Einaudi, University of Cambridge, Harvard University)

2010-12-03 14:00: Trade-offs in aid effectiveness: coordination, ownership and EU development policy (Maurizio Carbone, University of Glasgow)

2010-12-06 12:30: State of Anxiety: Ongoing research on security and sovereign practices in Indonesia (Dr Laurens Bakker, Faculty of Law, University of Leiden)

2011-01-18 13:00: The Tunisian Crisis (George Joffe, CIS)

2011-01-20 14:15: Groebli solution for three magnetic vortices (Stavros Komineas, University of Crete, Heraklion)

2011-01-21 13:00: Human Rights as Constraints on States' Corporate Responsibility (Avia Pasternak, University of Essex)

2011-01-21 13:00: The resurgence of German capital in Europe: EU integration and the restructuring of Atlantic networks of interlocking directorates after 1991 (Kees van Der Pijl, University of Sussex)

2011-01-24 12:30: The integration of human rights into official development assistance: towards reorienting South Korea’s ODA policy (Soo Hee Choi, Visiting  Associate, Centre of Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge, International Relations Officer, Communications and Cooperation Division, National Human Rights Commission of Korea)

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

2011-01-25 17:00: 'Resilience: aiming for security in an age of risk' (Dr. Olaf Corry, Research Associate, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge)

2011-01-27 17:00: Has the Lisbon Treaty made the EU more democratic? (Michael Shackleton, UK Office of the European Parliament)

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

2011-02-01 17:00: Climate Change in Africa (Dr Camilla Toulmin (Director of the International Institute for Environment and Development))

2011-02-03 14:15: Quantum Monte Carlo approach to the full configuration interaction problem (Ali Alavi, University of Cambridge)

2011-02-03 17:00: EU and state-building in the Western Balkans (Dr. Spyros Economides (LSE))

2011-02-04 13:00: The Arrogance of Politics: A Hallmark of Thinking Politically (Michael Freeden, University of Oxford)

2011-02-04 14:00: The EU's Strategic Partnerships: What They Tell us about the World and about Europe (Joao Marques de Almeida, European Political Adviser to Commission President J.M. Barroso, Head of Global Dialogue Sector - BEPA))

2011-02-04 17:00: Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy (Professor John Loughlin, St Edmund's and  Professor John Dunn, King's College Cambridge)

2011-02-07 12:30: Beyond “Asian Values”: A Reassessment of Western and Asian Perspectives on Human Rights (Yvonne Tew, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law)

2011-02-07 13:00: The Egyptian Crisis (Dr George Joffe, POLIS and Dr Maha Abdel-Rahman, POLIS)

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

2011-02-08 17:00: The role of national parliaments in post-Lisbon Europe (Dr Julie Smith, Senior Lecturer, POLIS, University of Cambridge)

2011-02-09 17:00: The Comparative Politics of Human Rights (Dr Todd Landman (University of Essex))

2011-02-09 17:30: The Evolution of Telepathy (Perrott-Warrick Lecture) (Dr. Rupert Sheldrake (Perrott-Warrick Scholar in Psychical Research, 2005-2010))

2011-02-10 17:00: The EU as a Diplomatic Actor in the Post-Lisbon Era' (Michael Smith, Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics, University of Loughborough)

2011-02-11 14:00: Immigration management in Italy: A patchwork of contradicting approaches? (Elif Cetin , PhD Candidate, POLIS)

2011-02-11 17:00: Human Rights and Academic Freedom (Mr S Dakarai, Mrs Latefa Guemar, Dr Terrence Karran, Dr Julian Huppert)

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

2011-02-16 16:00: Molecular Soup* with  a twist : from Displays to Lasers for Holography (*Self-Organised Uniaxial Photonics) (Prof Harry Coles, Centre of Molecular Materials for Photonics & Electronics, Dept of Engineering, Cambridge)

2011-02-16 17:00: Screening of Oliver Stone's 'South of the Border' followed by Panel Discussion (Panel chaired by Brendan Simms (Director of CIS) including Par Engstrom (SAS, Uni London), Fabienne Viala, Marta de Magalhaes and Michael Kuczynski (CLAS))

2011-02-16 17:00: Screening of Oliver Stone's 'South of the Border' (Speaker to be confirmed)

2011-02-17 14:15: Quantum Ice (Dr Nic Shannon, University of Bristol)

2011-02-18 12:30: The G8/G20: the Core of Global Leadership? (Sir Jon Cunliffe, Prime Minister's Adviser on Europe and Global Issues)

2011-02-18 13:00: The Relevance of the Real World (Nic Southwood, ANU/Oxford)

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

2011-02-22 13:00: The rule of law in Afghanistan. Missing in inaction (Dr Whit Mason, The University of New South Wales, Sydney)

2011-02-22 17:00: Rising Powers and Global Order (Andrew Hurrell (University of Oxford) chaired by Amrita Narlikar (Director of CRP))

2011-02-24 13:00: The Case of Multilateralism (Sir Emyr Jones Parry - Former British Permanent Representative to the United Nations)

2011-02-24 14:15: Atom-dimer and dimer-dimer scattering in fermionic mixtures near a narrow Feshbach resonance (Jesper Levinsen, University of Cambridge)

2011-02-24 17:00: The politics of EU energy policy (David Buchan, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies)

2011-02-25 14:00: European civilian crisis management – the national dimension of supplying capacities (Hubertus Juergenlienk, PhD Candidate, POLIS)

2011-02-25 17:00: Why WTO? Forum Shopping for New Aid for Trade Regime (Dan Kim, PhD student (3rd year), POLIS, University of Cambridge)

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

2011-03-01 17:30: Kosovo's Emergence as a European Nation (HE Dr Muhamet Hamiti, Ambassador of the Republic of Kosovo to the United Kingdom)

2011-03-02 16:00: Cosmology and fundamental physics with the Square Kilometre Array (Prof Paul Alexander, Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

2011-03-03 14:15: Superconductor proximity effects in half-metallic ferromagnets (Prof Piet Brouwer, FU Berlin)

2011-03-04 13:00: Reality Lost, Reality Regained? Ethics, Politics and Realism in the Imagination of Raymond Geuss (David Owen, University of Southampton)

2011-03-04 13:00: In the Wake of War -  "Getting Out: Exit Strategies and Transitions" (Speaker to be confirmed)

2011-03-07 12:30: Human Rights education and the Palestinian Authority Security Services (Dr Lori Allen, University Lecturer in Contemporary Middle Eastern Politics and Society)

2011-03-07 16:00: Scott Lecture I - Quantum Interference (Prof Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS)

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

2011-03-08 17:00: Politics of international administration of post-conflict societies (Mateja Peter, PhD candidate (final year), POLIS, University of Cambridge)

2011-03-09 16:00: Scott Lecture II - Quantum Interference (Prof Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS)

2011-03-09 17:00: Human rights in employment: Definitions, applications, and future prospects (Prof Harry van Buren (University of New Mexico))

2011-03-09 17:00: Wine Reception (after talk) (Senior Common Room)

2011-03-11 16:00: Scott Lecture III - Quantum Interference (Prof Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS)

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

2011-03-15 17:00: From Path Dependence To Chinese Whispers: Institutions, Institutional Change, And EU Defence Policy (Anand Menon, Professor of West European Politics, University of Birmingham)

2011-03-16 17:30: The primacy of foreign policy in British history (Speaker to be confirmed)

2011-03-17 14:15: Magnetic field-induced anisotropy in specific heat and transport properties of unconventional superconductors. (Ilya Vekhter, Louisiana State University)

2011-03-18 14:00: How to Manage Europe's Decline (Richard Youngs, Director General, FRIDE and Assistant Professor, University of Warwick)

2011-03-25 15:00: Fusion Power: Sometime/Never, or This Year/Next Year? (Brian Josephson)

2011-04-26 17:00: Defining Dependence- The Hydrocarbon Society and the Dangers of Foreign Oil (Sebastian Herbstreuth, PhD candidate, POLIS, University of Cambridge)

2011-04-28 14:15: Ultracold atoms and fermionic simulations (Prof. Matthias Troyer, ETH Zürich)

2011-04-28 15:00: Europe's New Security Architecture  from a Transatlantic and Eurasian Perspective (Petros Efthymiou (President OSCE Parliamentary Assembly))

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))

2011-05-04 16:00: Flavour Physics at the Large Hadron Collider ( Prof. Valerie Gibson, High Energy Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

2011-05-09 12:30: Conspiracy Theories As Social Imaginary: The Case of Blackwater in Pakistan ( Dr. Humeira Iqtidar, Lecturer in Politics, King's College London)

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

2011-05-09 17:00: The transformation of Turkey from Empire to Republic (Fatma Müge Göçek, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor)

2011-05-10 14:15: Inside Immigration Law: Immigration Offices and Migration Management in Germany (Tobias Eule, PhD Candidate, Sociology)

2011-05-10 17:00: Migration Systems, Pioneers and the Role of Agency (Agnieszka Kubal, International Migration Institute (IMI), Research Fellow, Department of International Development, University of Oxford)

2011-05-12 14:15: Bulk-boundary correspondence of topological insulators (Prof. Victor Gurarie, University of Colorado at Boulder)

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

2011-05-18 16:00: Dynamics of soft interfaces, real and imagined (Sabyasachi Bhattacharya Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, IndiaSpeaker to be confirmed)

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))

2011-05-24 17:00: Sailing with the Sea Shepherds: Preliminary Findings from Participant Observation of Anti-whaling Direct Action in the Southern Ocean (Teale Phelps Bondaroff, PhD candidate, POLIS, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-26 14:15: Superconductivity in nanograins: smaller is different (Antonio M. Garcia-Garcia, Cavendish Laboratory)

2011-06-02 14:15: Topological phases in 1D: An entanglement point of view (Frank Pollmann, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden)

2011-06-06 12:30: Urban governance as labour rights: The case of transport workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Dr Matteo Rizzo, Smuts Researcher in African Studies, University of Cambridge)

2011-06-07 17:00: Exlusionary Rhetoric- Expansionist Policies? Reflections on the Italian Centre-Right Immigration Approaches (Elif Cetin, PhD Candidate, POLIS, University of Cambridge)

2011-06-09 14:15: Modelling non-classical mechanisms of crystal nucleation and growth (David Quigley, Warwick University)

2011-06-14 14:15: The topology of smectics (Prof. Randy Kamien, Physics Department, University of Pennsylvania)

2011-06-15 15:00: CISA Annual Garden Party (Garden Party)

2011-06-15 16:15: Building planets and the ingredients for life between the stars (Professor Ewine van Dishoeck Sterrewacht, Leiden)

2011-06-27 14:15: Geometrical Description of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (Prof F D M Haldane, Princeton University)

2011-09-05 17:00: Civilian personn for dp (Speaker to be confirmed)

2011-09-09 15:30: Interplay of disorder and interactions in 1d cold fermi gases (Prof. Masaki Tezuka, Kyoto University)

2011-10-06 14:15: Plasma Analogy and non-Abelian Braiding Statistics in Ising-type Quantum Hall States (Parsa Bonderson, Microsoft Station Q, Santa Barbara)

2011-10-07 13:00: The Idea of Immanent Criticism (Gordon Finlayson (Sussex))

2011-10-10 13:00: 'Facts on the Ground' and the Subversion of the Global in Israeli Activism (Fiona Wright, PhD Candidate, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge)

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

2011-10-12 13:00: State Control over Private Military & Security Companies in Armed Conflict (Dr. Hannah Tonkin, UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda)

2011-10-12 16:00: Following Function in Real Time: Towards the Next Generation of Batteries, Supercapacitors and Fuel Cells for Transport and Grid Applications (Professor Clare Grey FRS, The Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)

2011-10-12 17:00: Right to Information & Accountability: New Challenges in the Digital Era (Dr P.B. Anand, Bradford University)

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))

2011-10-19 17:00: A Quiet Media Revolution? Mediatization, altered media geographies and insurgent citizen tactics (Professor Thomas Tufte, Roskilde University)

2011-10-20 14:15: Structure and dynamics of water-solid interfaces (Prof. Angelos Michaelides, London Centre for Theory and Simulation of Materials)

2011-10-21 13:00: Egalitarian Theories of Religious Freedom (Cécile Laborde (UCL))

2011-10-24 14:15: Crystallography on curved surfaces (David Nelson, Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University)

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

2011-10-24 17:00: CISA Inaugural Lecture: "War - The Coming of the Machines" (Prof. Christopher Coker, LSE)

2011-10-26 17:00: Why Civil Resistance Works: The Future of Nonviolent Conflict (Prof. Erica Chenoweth, Wesleyan University)

2011-10-27 17:00: Phones, foreigners and the fluctuating digital divide in Southern Mozambique (Dr. Julie Soleil Archambault, University of Oxford)

2011-10-31 14:15: Numerical approach to structure, folding and aggregation of proteins (Prof. Chin-Kun Hu, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)

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))

2011-11-02 17:00: Corporate Social Responsibility and Business’ Contribution to Governance in Areas of Regulatory Void (Dr. Christian Thauer, Free University of Berlin)

2011-11-02 17:00: State of Citizenship: Contexts and Cultures of Public Engagement and Citizen Action (Professor Andrea Cornwall, Institute of Development Studies Sussex University)

2011-11-03 14:15: Quantum mechanical perspective on dynamical glass transitions (Dr Claudio Castelnovo, Royal Holloway University of London)

2011-11-04 13:00: On the Relationship between Principles of Justice in Schooling and Education (Philip Cook (Leicester))

2011-11-07 13:00: Political Change and the Politics of Small Things (Dr Mohammad M Mojahedi, CRASSH and CGHR Visiting Associate)

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))

2011-11-09 16:00: Towards a new paradigm for early-type galaxies. (Prof Roger Davies, The Philip Wetton Professor of Astrophysics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford)

2011-11-09 17:00:  The Stabilisation Unit's role in the UK Government's Integrated Approach (Sheelagh Stewart, Stabilisation Unit)

2011-11-10 14:15: Order-disorder in trajectory space and the glass transition (Prof. David Chandler, Dept. of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, USA)

2011-11-11 09:00: Beyond revolutions: the use of ICTs for political mobilization and participation in Sub-Saharan Africa (Speaker to be confirmed)

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))

2011-11-14 17:00: Marking the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor: How the US created the UN to win the war and the implications for IR (Dr Dan Plesch, Director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy School of Oriental and African Studies)

2011-11-17 14:15: Fluctuation-driven first order transition in the chiral magnet MnSi (Markus Garst, University of Cologne)

2011-11-18 13:00: Female Quotas, Egalitarianism, and Public Policy (Jude Browne (Cambridge))

2011-11-21 13:00: A Global Civics: Do we need one? What would it entail? (Hakan Altinay: Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution)

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

2011-11-22 17:00: The Judicialisation of Politics in Southern Africa (Peter Brett, PhD Candidate, SOAS)

2011-11-23 16:00: Polymer Solar Cells (Prof Neil Greenham, Cavendish Laboratory)

2011-11-23 17:00: Religion-State Relations in Comparative Perspective. How much Religion can Democracy take? (Prof. Mirjam Künkler, Princeton University)

2011-11-23 17:00: *CANCELLED* Ethnographic Approaches to the New Media: The Case of Ghana and Uruguay (Dr. Don Slater, London School of Economics)

2011-11-28 13:00: The Rule by law in Ethiopia: Rendering constitutional limits on government power nonsensical (Adem Kassie, CGHR visiting doctoral student from University of Pretoria)

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))

2011-11-29 13:00: Rising China and Global Justice (Professor Ian Holliday, University of Hong Kong)

2011-11-30 16:00: Do biological cells care about physics? (Dr Jochen Guck, Cavendish Laboratory)

2011-11-30 17:00: Relationalism in Political and Social Analysis: Promises, Problems and Prospects (Volker Schneider, Professor of Political Science, University of Konstanz)

2011-11-30 17:00: Human Rights and African Airwaves: Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio (Dr. Harri Englund, University of Cambridge)

2011-12-06 17:00: Democracy and Governance in Afghanistan:  What has been achieved? (Joseph Brinker USAID, Senior Democracy and Governance Advisor -  Afghanistan/Pakistan Affairs)

2011-12-15 14:15: Metastability and Coherence of Repulsive Polarons in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Mixture (Dr. Pietro Massignan, ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain)

2012-01-20 13:00: What is the Speech in 'Free Speech'? (Rae Langton (MIT))

2012-01-20 14:15: Observing holographic superconductivity in the laboratory (Jan Zaanen, Institute Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands)

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

2012-01-23 18:00: Study Trip Armenia Info Meeting (CISA Study Trip)

2012-01-25 16:00: The Polariton Condensate in Semiconductor Microcavities (Professor M S Skolnick, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield)

2012-01-25 17:00: The Renaissance theory of rhetorical invention (Prof. Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary, University of London)

2012-01-25 17:00: Egypt Study Trip (Egypt Study Trip organised by CISA)

2012-01-25 18:00: The EU as a Global Conflict Manager (Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham)

2012-01-26 18:00: On origins (Brian Josephson, Trinity College)

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

2012-01-31 17:00: The notion of incitement to hatred in international human rights law (Mona Elbahtimy, PhD Candidate, POLIS)

2012-02-01 12:00: David Miliband in conversation (David Miliband)

2012-02-01 17:00: Shakespeare on beginning to speak (Prof. Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary, University of London)

2012-02-01 17:00: CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development (Tom Porteous, Human Rights Watch - Deputy Program Director)

2012-02-02 17:00: Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark: How development has disappeared from today’s ‘development’ discourse (Dr. Ha-Joon Chang, Faculty of Economics University of Cambridge)

2012-02-03 13:00: Justifying the Special Significance of Equality of Opportunity (Martin O'Neill (York))

2012-02-06 13:00: CGHR Research Group seminar: Why do some countries retract extraterritorial jurisdiction over issues of human rights while others step forward? (Dr. Jodie Kirshner (Dr Markus Gehring, discussant))

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

2012-02-08 11:15: Hole Doping and Dimensionality in Geometrically Frustrated Magnets (Siân Dutton, QM Group, Cambridge)

2012-02-08 16:00: Graphene: Materials in the Flatland (Sir Konstantin S. Novoselov FRS, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, M13 9PL, UK)

2012-02-08 17:00: Shakespeare and the rhetoric of narrative (Prof. Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary, University of London)

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

2012-02-14 17:00: The Institutionalisation of the EU Defence Equipment Market (Julia Muravska, PhD Candidate, LSE)

2012-02-14 17:30: From Physics to Theology - a Personal Story (Prof. Jurgen Moltmann, University of Tubingen)

2012-02-15 17:00: Shakespeare and rhetorical closure (Prof. Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary, University of London)

2012-02-15 17:00: CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development (Sam Zarifi Amnesty International, Director of the Asia-Pacific Programme)

2012-02-16 17:00: Seminar after "Shakespearean Invention" lecture series (Prof. Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary, University of London)

2012-02-16 17:00: After Blue Labour? State and Democracy on the British Left (Prof. Marc Stears (Oxford))

2012-02-17 13:00: Revisiting Ruddick: Feminism, Non-violence and Pacifism (Kimberley Hutchings (LSE))

2012-02-17 13:00: Scotland out of the Union? The rise and rise of the Nationalist agenda (Dr David McCrone, University of Edinburgh)

2012-02-20 14:30: Hydrogen fuel cells (Winton community)

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

2012-02-23 17:00: Human Rights and Practice: February 2012 Crisis in the Maldives, with Dr. Farahanaz Faizal, Fmr High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (Dr. Farahanaz Faizal, Fmr High Commissioner to the United Kingdom)

2012-02-27 16:30: Tea time conversation (Winton community)

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))

2012-02-29 17:00: CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development (Sorcha O'Callaghan - British Red Cross, Head of Humanitarian Policy)

2012-03-02 12:30: ExPRESSion RePRESSion: Expert panel on international efforts to protect journalists at risk (Panel of experts (various))

2012-03-02 13:00: Living with the Enemy: Military Occupation (Cécile Fabre (Oxford))

2012-03-05 13:00: CGHR Research Group: Umar Salam, 'Foucault, Governmentality and the Knowledge Economy' (Umar Salam- DPhil candidate, Queen Elizabeth House (University of Oxford))

2012-03-05 16:00: Colouring the Noise (Prof Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich)

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

2012-03-07 16:00: Ab-initio simulation of water and its ions (Prof Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich)

2012-03-08 14:00: The Strategic Construction of the Urgency of Climate Change? The Role of Discourses in the Negotiations on the 'EU Energy and Climate Change Package (Pierre Bocquillon, POLIS)

2012-03-09 16:00: Metadynamics (Prof Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich)

2012-03-09 17:00: "The Formation of African Intellectuals" (Professor Simon Gikandi, Princeton University)

2012-03-13 17:00: A Dynamic Political Stakeholder Theory Model of Firms' Response Strategies Towards Marginalized Stakeholders (Rashedur Chowdhury, PhD Candidate, Judge Business School)

2012-03-14 14:00: The future of the CSDP (Dr Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, POLIS)

2012-03-14 17:00: CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development (Rebecca Dale - UK Department for International Development, Senior Conflict Advisor)

2012-03-15 17:30: 'Faltering alliances and emerging faultlines: the political complexities of EU immigration policy' (Elizabeth Collett Director, Migration Policy Institute Europe and Senior Advisor to the Transatlantic Council on Migration)

2012-03-16 00:00: Workshop - 'Managing Migration and Asylum in Europe: Current Challenges and Policy Responses' (For all speakers, see http://cambridgemigrationworkshop2012.blogspot.com/)

2012-04-16 16:30: Biofuels (Winton community)

2012-04-25 11:15: Superconducting phase and pseudogap in the high-temperature cuprate superconductors. (Patrick Rourke, University of Bristol)

2012-04-26 14:15: Quasiparticle Self-consistent GW Approximation as a Universal Framework for Electronic Structure (Prof Mark v. Schilfgaarde, King's College London)

2012-04-30 16:00: Energy Efficient Lighting (Winton Community)

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

2012-04-30 17:00: Does war change our DNA? Implications of recent research in epigenetics (Prof. Peter Pregelj, University of Ljubljana)

2012-05-01 10:00: Workshop: People’s Power in the Struggle for Freedom (Jack DuVall, International Center on Non-Violent Conflict (ICNC) President, Dr. Maciej Bartkowski, ICNC Senior Director, Hardy Merriman, ICNC Senior Advisor, Professor Howard Barrell, Arwa Hassan, International Development Specialist)

2012-05-01 17:00: Justice, Order and Anarchy: The International Political Theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (Dr. Alex Prichard, Fellow, Department of International Relations, LSE)

2012-05-02 14:00: Foundations of the American century: the Ford, Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations in the rise of American Power (Professor Inderjeet Parmar, University of Manchester)

2012-05-02 16:00: The End of the Standard Model & the Last Particle? (Professor John Ellis, FRS, Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics, Kings College London & CERN)

2012-05-02 17:00: Political Transition in Myanmar (Burma) (Sanjay Pulipaka (Pavate Visiting Fellow, Cambridge; Fellow, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata India))

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

2012-05-09 16:00: COSMIC RAYS, CLIMATE AND THE CERN CLOUD EXPERIMENT (Jasper Kirkby, CERN)

2012-05-09 17:00: CGHR Roundtable: Crisis in the Sudans (Dr Sarah Nouwen (Cambridge), Ms Benedetta De Alessi (SOAS), Dr Sharath Srinivasan (CGHR))

2012-05-11 15:30: Field-induced p-wave Superconductivity in Mesoscopic Systems (Prof Fuchun Zhang, Zhou Guangzhao Professor in Natural Sciences at Hong Kong University)

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

2012-05-16 11:15: Superconductors, multiferroic and magnetic materials (Geetha Balakrishnan)

2012-05-18 14:00: 'Human-centred' development? Rethinking 'freedom' and 'agency' (Professor David Chandler, Research Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of  Westminster)

2012-05-21 12:30: The exclusion effects of two partite power sharing: the link between Sudan's Comprehenisve Peace Agreement and the insurgency in Darfur (Dr Lovise Aalen (Senior researcher, Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway))

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

2012-05-23 11:15: Magnetothermopower in heavy fermion metamagnets CeRu2Si2 and YbRh2Si2 (Ramzy Daou)

2012-05-23 14:00: Hitler and the Have Nots (Professor Brendan Simms, POLIS)

2012-05-24 14:15: Quantum Order-by-Disorder Near Criticality and the Secret of the Partially Ordered Phase of MnSi (Frank Kruger, University of St Andrews)

2012-05-28 11:00: Sustainable Manufacturing and the Myth of Efficiency (Winton Community)

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

2012-05-28 17:00: Demand Driven Democratisation - the work of the UN Democracy Fund (Dr Roland Rich, Executive Head, United Nations Democracy Fund)

2012-05-28 17:00: ’Demand Driven Democratisation – the work of the UN Democracy Fund’ (Dr Roland Rich, Executive Head of the United Nations Democracy Fund)

2012-05-30 14:00: The transitions of the Arab Spring (Professor Marc Weller, POLIS)

2012-06-07 14:15: Status and Outlook of Quantum Hall Interferometry Experiments: Evidence of Nonabelions? (Steven H Simon, Oxford University)

2012-06-11 12:30: Rehearsing the state: the governance practices of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile (Dr Fiona McConnell (Department of Geography, University of Cambridge))

2012-06-12 17:30: Slobodan Milosevic: Legacy of an Unfinished Trial (Sir Geoffrey Nice)

2012-06-13 11:15: Emergent chirality in charge ordered materials (Jasper van Wezel, Argonne)

2012-06-13 14:00: The diplomacy of the Doha Development Round (Dr Amrita Narlikar, POLIS)

2012-06-13 16:30: The Hague Tribunal and the Serbian Elites (Sonja Biserko, Eric Lane Fellow - Clare College and President of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia)

2012-06-18 11:00: Scattering theory of topological insulators and superconductors (Anton Akhmerov, University of Leiden)

2012-06-22 17:30: Creative Mind and Physical Reality (Prof. Brian Josephson, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge)

2012-07-02 16:00: The limits to energy and material efficiency (Jonathan Cullen)

2012-07-18 11:15: Expanding the topological insulator horizon (Nicholas P. Butch, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA)

2012-07-23 16:00: What scientists can do for sustainability that CEOs and Ministers can't (Matthew Brown)

2012-08-15 11:15: Magnetic versus dielectric pairing in cuprate superconductors (Jeff Tallon,MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology)

2012-09-03 11:00: Codesign in action: the hardware and software architecture of Blue Gene/Q and its impact on scientific applications (Dr Jeff Hammond (Argonne National Laboratory))

2012-09-24 16:00: Climate finance: barriers and opportunities (Dr Aled Jones, Anglia Ruskin University)

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))

2012-10-10 16:00: Two Centenaries - the Wilson Cloud Chamber and the Discovery of Cosmic Rays” (Professor Malcolm Longair ( Department of Physics, Univerity of Cambridge))

2012-10-10 17:00: Keynote Lecture: Giancarlo Corsetti on the Politics and Economics of the Euro Crisis (Giancarlo Corsetti, Cambridge and European University Institute)

2012-10-11 14:15: The many structures of foams (Denis Weaire FRS, Trinity College Dublin)

2012-10-12 13:00: Freedom as Independence (Laura Valentini (UCL))

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))

2012-10-15 17:00: Collections, critique and contemporary art: Africa and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Nicholas Thomas, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge)

2012-10-17 17:00: Moral Externalities: Globalisation, Human Rights, and the Demand for Multinational Responsibility (Todd Landman, Director of the Institute for Democracy and Conflict Resolution, University of Essex)

2012-10-18 17:15: 'Flirting Classical Colours!* Greco-Roman figures, forms and structures in Victorian Trade Union Emblems'. (Dr. Paula James, Open University)

2012-10-19 14:00: The 2012 Obama-Romney Presidential Election: Issues, Voter Groups, Swing Districts, Projections (Stefan Halper, POLIS)

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

2012-10-22 17:00: Origins of the Afro comb Project: 6000 years of African combs (Sally-Ann Ashton, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge)

2012-10-22 17:00: Containment and territorial transnational actors: Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas (Dr Amnon Aran)

2012-10-23 14:15: From Topological Insulators to Majorana Fermions (Prof. Charles Kane, University of Pennsylvania)

2012-10-23 17:00: Beyond the Academy: Working with Think Tanks and Polling Organisations to Reach a Wider Audience (Tom Barker, 2nd Year PhD Candidate, POLIS)

2012-10-24 11:15: Title to be confirmed (Jason Lashley, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

2012-10-24 17:00: Dilemmas of the New Interventionism: Foreign Policy-Making and Civil Society in Europe (Christopher Hill, POLIS)

2012-10-26 13:00: Benefitting from the Wrongdoing of Others (Robert Goodin (Essex/ANU))

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

2012-10-29 17:00: Grace Note - a talk by artist ATTA KWAMI (Atta Kwami, Independent Artist, Art Historian and Curator)

2012-10-30 16:15: Instantaneous Mapping of Excitonic Transport in Biomimetic Systems by Multi-dimensional Coherent Spectroscopy (Prof. Elad Harel, Department of Chemistry: Northwestern University (USA).)

2012-10-31 11:15: Application of the Focused Ion Beam to Transport Measurements under High Pressure (Jakob Kanter, ETH Zurich)

2012-10-31 16:00: "Coherent Control of Electronic and Nuclear States in a Quantum Dot: A New Dimension for Modern Photonics" (Professor Duncan Steel, The Robert J. Hiller Professor, The Harrison M. Randall Laboratory of Physics, University of Michigan)

2012-11-01 14:15: Multicomponent Skyrmion lattices and their excitations (Dr Dimitry Kovrizhin, Imperial College London)

2012-11-01 17:15: 'Greek sculpture and ‘stuffed natives’ at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham.  Defining the classical body in 1850s London' (Dr. Kate Nichols, CRASSH, University of Cambridge)

2012-11-05 13:00: From Visible to Invisible: Tunisia's Gendered Democracy Paradox (Zoe Petkanas, POLIS)

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

2012-11-05 17:00: The Challenge of the Traditional Collection and the possibilities of "Tribing and Untribing the Archive: the Material Record of the Thukela-Mzimkulu region, c. 1750-1910” (Nessa Leibhammer Curator, Traditional Southern African Art at the Johannesburg Art Gallery)

2012-11-05 17:00: The fiscal politics of road building in China (Dr Kun-Chin Lin, POLIS)

2012-11-06 17:00: Community Based Organisations and the Reintegration of Ex-Combatants in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Carol Gallo, 2nd Year PhD Candidate, POLIS)

2012-11-07 16:00: “Precision Mass Measurement: ωcyclotron is not qB/m, does E=mc2?” (Professor Dave Pritchard, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, MIT)

2012-11-07 17:00: CANCELLED In Defence of Politics (Matthew Flinders, Sheffield)

2012-11-08 16:00: Talk on the American Presidency (Mr Robert Merry)

2012-11-08 17:00: The Art of Central Banking in Today‘s and Yesterday‘s Crises (Alessandro Rosselli, Bank of Italy)

2012-11-09 13:00: Limits to Growth: An Idea Whose Time has Come Again? (Diana Coole (Birkbeck))

2012-11-09 16:00: European Research Group meeting (Jost Henrik Morgenstern)

2012-11-12 16:00: Smart energy meters for all - sustainability panacea or waste of money? (Dr Michael Pollitt, Judge Business School)

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

2012-11-12 17:00: Northcote W Thomas and Northern Edo history (Ohioma Pogoson Honorary Curator, Museum of the Centre of African Studies, Ibadan University )

2012-11-15 14:15: Polarons: from models to materials to quantum simulation (Vladimir M. Stojanovic, University of Basel)

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

2012-11-19 17:00: A Museum for Heritage and Culture at Aba Island, Sudan (Ahmed Hussein Abdelrahman Adam, Department of Archaeology, Khartoum University)

2012-11-19 17:00: Cobden and the problem of war (Professor Anthony Howe, University of East Anglia)

2012-11-20 13:00: Africa’s Voices: Reflections on a pilot study using mobile phones and interactive radio to survey public opinion in Africa (Claudia Abreu Lopes, CGHR Post-doctoral Research Associate)

2012-11-20 17:00: An informal discussion about the 2012 US Elections (Shane Guy, PhD Candidate, POLIS)

2012-11-21 11:15: Initial New Domain Structures: Statics and Dynamics (Prof. J. M. Gregg, Queens University, Belfast)

2012-11-21 16:00: Bayesian inference and machine learning in cosmology and particle physics (Professor Mike Hobson, Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

2012-11-21 17:00: Panel on the Politics of Wellbeing (Avner Offer (Oxford), Jules Evans (Queen Mary, University of London), Felicia Huppert (Cambridge))

2012-11-22 18:15: ‘Performance as translation and translation as performance’ (Caroline Bird (poet and playwright); Dr. Henry Stead (Oxford; poet and translator)))

2012-11-23 13:00: Legitimacy in(between) Realism and Moralism (Matthew Sleat (Sheffield))

2012-11-26 13:00: A right to enjoy culture in face of climate change: Implications for climate migrants (Margaretha Wewerinke, Visiting Scholar, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law)

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

2012-11-26 17:00: The Art of the Bambui fondom/Kingdom (Mathias Alubafi Department of History of Art, University of the Witwatersrand)

2012-11-27 10:00: PhD Triangle: Research Day (Cambridge--LSE--Essex) (see schedule below)

2012-11-28 17:00: Fall and Rise of Keynesian Economics (Murray Milgate, Cambridge)

2012-11-29 14:15: Quantum Monte Carlo Modeling of π-bonded Transition-metal Organometallics (Prof Ivan Stich,Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia)

2012-11-30 11:00: "The role and place of Central Europe in the EU” (Dr Dávid Görömbölyi)

2012-12-07 14:00: Workshop: St Malo’s impetus for European Security and Defence: Much Ado about Nothing?! (CRASSH, in cooperation with POLIS, University of Birmingham and the Global Governance Institute)

2012-12-15 11:00: One-day Colloquium on 'German Philhellenism' (Prof. Simon Goldhill, Dr. Katherine Harloe, Dr. Damian Valdez, Dr. Stefano Evangelista)

2013-01-21 13:00: From Suez to Sudan: UN Peacekeeping in Africa (Dr. Adekeye Adebajo, Executive Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa)

2013-01-21 13:00: Must Criticism be Constructive? (Raymond Geuss (Cambridge))

2013-01-21 16:00: Improving industrial energy efficiency through technology, process and behaviour innovation - policy applications of research (Niall Mackenzie, DECC)

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

2013-01-23 11:15: Fermi surface and superconductivity in URhGe and other     nonsymmorphic crystals (Ed Yelland, University of Edinburgh and University of St Andrews)

2013-01-23 16:00: “The Evolution of High-Frequency Radio Astronomy” (Prof Richard Hills, Cavendish Astrophysics)

2013-01-23 17:00: CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development (Joanna Oyediran, Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa)

2013-01-24 14:15: Exact Density-Functional Potentials for Time-Dependent Quasiparticles (Rex Godby, University of York)

2013-01-25 16:00: Sudan: Regional Impacts and Strategic Challenges (H.E. Michel Raimboud, Former French Ambassador to Sudan)

2013-01-28 17:00: Russia and the Origins of the First World War: Time to Re-consider? (Prof. D. Lieven)

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

2013-01-30 11:15: Visualization of Novel Electronic Structures in Topological Quantum Matter (Yulin Chen, Physics Department, University of Oxford)

2013-01-31 14:15: Quantum limited transport in ultracold atomic gases (Tilman Enss, TU München)

2013-01-31 17:15: ‘The Other Classical Past: Germans and Romans 1800-1819’ (Hanna Weibye (Cambridge, History).   )

2013-02-01 13:00: Legitimate Authority in the Morality of War (Seth Lazar (ANU))

2013-02-04 13:00: Research Group: Rethinking the Role of Ideology in Atrocities (Jonathan Leader Maynard (University of Oxford))

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

2013-02-05 17:00: Politics and The Sacred (Dr Harald Wydra, St Catharine's College/POLIS)

2013-02-06 12:00: Fluctuation-induced pair density wave in itinerant ferromagnets (Gareth Conduit, Research Fellow, University of Cambridge)

2013-02-06 16:00: Metamaterials and the Science of Invisibility (Professor Sir John Pendry, FRS , Imperial College, London)

2013-02-06 17:00: CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development (John Morrison, Executive Director of the Institute for Human Rights and Business)

2013-02-07 14:15: Statistical Topological Insulators (Dr Jonathan Edge, Leiden University)

2013-02-07 17:15: Freud, Classics and Cryptomnesia (Rodrigo Vivas Pinto (Cambridge, Classics))

2013-02-11 17:00: Italy’s missing holocaust museum: memory, amnesia and post war Italian politics (Professor Robert Gordon (Department of Italian))

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))

2013-02-13 11:15: Electronic Structure of LuRh2Si2: ”Small“ Fermi Surface Reference of YbRh2Si2 (Sven Friedemann, University of Cambridge)

2013-02-14 14:15: Heavy quasiparticles in Yb compounds: The Renormalized Band approach (Gertud Zwicknagl, University of Braunschweig)

2013-02-14 14:15: Heavy quasiparticles in Yb compounds: The Renormalized Band approach (Dr Gertrud Zwicknagl, TU Braunschweig)

2013-02-18 13:00: Research Group: Increasing Citizen Demand for Good Government in Kenya (Kelly Zhang, Stanford University)

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

2013-02-19 17:00: Hybrid-networks: Elements of Hierarchy in Transnational Advocacy Networks Alexandra Bocse, PhD Candidate, POLIS (Alexandra Bocse, PhD Candidate, POLIS)

2013-02-19 17:30: 'What is British foreign policy for?’  (Prof. Christopher Hill)

2013-02-19 17:30: 'What is British foreign policy for?’  (Prof. Christopher Hill)

2013-02-20 11:15: Spin-resolved momentum densities:  What we can learn from magnetic Compton scattering.  (Jonathan Duffy, University of Warwick)

2013-02-20 16:00: CMS Results and the Quest for the Higgs Boson (Professor Tejinder (Jim) Virdee, Imperial College, London & CERN)

2013-02-20 17:00: CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development (Gino Henry, Independent Consultant in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) )

2013-02-21 14:15: Entanglement spectra: A novel spectroscopic tool to investigate quantum many body wave functions (Prof. Andreas Läuchli, Universität Innsbruck)

2013-02-21 17:15: 'The Resurrection, Rejection and Reincorporation of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura in Early Modern Europe’ (Dr. David Butterfield (Cambridge, Classics).)

2013-02-25 16:00: Sustainability and Architecture (Prof Koen Steemers, Head of the Department of Architecture)

2013-02-25 17:00: Before the Democratic Peace: Racial Utopianism and the Elimination of War (Dr Duncan Bell (POLIS))

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

2013-02-27 12:15: Lawlessness in low dimensions: Violations of laws, limits and symmetries in quasi-one-dimensional Li0.9Mo6O17 (Nigel Hussey, University of Bristol)

2013-02-28 14:15: Helical correlations and unbroken symmetry in FCC-stacked triangular Ising antiferromagnets (Dr Fiona Burnell (All Souls, Oxford))

2013-02-28 17:00: When Authoritarianism fails in the Arab World: understanding the recourse to the Muslim lexicon (Dr Francois Burgat, director of research at the CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research))

2013-03-01 13:00: Well-Being Policy and Paternalism - CANCELLED (Anna Alexandrova (Cambridge))

2013-03-04 13:00: Demonisation’s Implications for Britain-Zimbabwe Diplomatic Relations (1997-present) (Dr Blessing-Miles Tendi, University of Oxford)

2013-03-04 17:00: Buddha and the ballot in South East Asia (Dr Tomas Larsson (POLIS))

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

2013-03-05 11:15: Terahertz radiation from Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 interlayer Josephson junctions:  Progress and future strategies. (Tim Benseman, Argonne National Laboratory, U.S.A.)

2013-03-05 17:00: The Political Economy of Military Organization? (Mark T. Fliegauf, PhD Candidate, POLIS)

2013-03-06 11:15: Fictitious spin waves in a frustrated classical antiferromagnet (Stefan Schnabel, University of Leipzig)

2013-03-06 17:00: CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development (Dr Tom Ling, Save the Children)

2013-03-07 14:15: Is the theory of neutral evolution right? (Thomas Fink, CNRS / LIMS)

2013-03-09 17:30: International Women's Day Film Screening - Peace Unveiled  (Weeda Mehran, POLIS)

2013-03-11 13:00: Reflections on the Kenyan Elections - A Panel Discussion  (Professor John Lonsdale (Trinity College, Cambridge); Professor Bruce Berman (Queen's University, Ontario; Smuts Visiting Research Fellow); Njoki Wamai (PhD Student, POLIS))

2013-03-13 11:15: Magnetic Properties of the Spin Chain Antiferromagnet Ca3Co2O6 (Martin Lees, University of Warwick)

2013-03-14 14:15: Towards a quantitative analysis of core-level and valence photoemission spectra of dye-sensitized solar cell interfaces (Dr Feliciano Giustino (University of Oxford))

2013-03-18 16:00: Can you build a computer without using roads? Where we are going we don't need roads! (Dr Chris Forman, Institute for Manufacturing (IfM))

2013-04-25 14:15: Vortices and the BKT transition in regions of competing order (Dr Sam Carr, Kent University)

2013-04-25 17:15: Gender and Classical Reception (Jennifer M.B. Wallace (University of Cambridge))

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

2013-04-29 17:00: ‘The return of the sacred in politics’ (Dr Harald Wydra (POLIS))

2013-04-30 17:00: Stylised Facts on Fiscal Rules, Fiscal Outcomes and Political Institutions in OECD Countries (Christian Bluth, PhD Candidate, POLIS)

2013-05-01 11:15: Fermi surface determination using positron annihilation (Stephen Dugdale, University of Bristol)

2013-05-01 16:00: The Infinity Puzzle - The story of the Higgs Boson:From QED to the LHC via Higgs and the Gang of Six (Professor Frank Close,  Elementary Particles Research Group, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics 1 Keble Road Oxford, OX1 3NP England )

2013-05-02 14:15: Thermopower in the Quantum Hall Regime (Dr Nicholas d'Ambrumenil, University of Warwick)

2013-05-04 10:30: CRDG Symposium on "Greece and/or Rome" (Edith Hall (KCL), Shelley Hales (Bristol), Emily Kneebone (Cambridge), Jennifer Wallace (Cambridge), Ingo Gildenhard (Cambridge))

2013-05-06 13:00: Research Group: Human rights and South-South Development Cooperation: reflections on the "rising powers" as international development actors (Dr Emma Mawdsley (Department of Geography))

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))

2013-05-08 16:00: Exoplanet Science, the way forward (Professor Didier Queloz, Astrophysics Group, University of Cambridge)

2013-05-08 17:00: Ending the Deadly Conflict: A Naive Dream? (Humanitas Visiting Professor: Gareth Evans)

2013-05-09 14:15: Lattice modulation of a two-dimensional superfluid: could it be…the Higgs particle? (Prof. Lode Pollet, LMU München)

2013-05-09 17:15: ‘The History of Authenticity: aka the 19th-century Western origins of the “original”'  (Clare Foster (University of Cambridge))

2013-05-10 17:00: Ending Mass Atrocity crimes: A Hopeless Dream (Humanitas Visiting Professor: Gareth Evans)

2013-05-13 16:00: The Opto-Electronic Physics Which Just Broke the Efficiency Record in Solar Cells (Professor Eli Yablonovitch of UC Berkeley,)

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

2013-05-13 17:00: Eliminating Nuclear Weapons: An Impossible Dream? (Humanitas Visiting Professor: Gareth Evans)

2013-05-14 14:00: Symposium on The Future of Deadly conflict is Optimism Defensible (Humanitas Visiting Professor: Gareth Evans)

2013-05-14 17:00: The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Labour Rights: A Sectoral Approach (Nicole Janz, PhD Candidate, POLIS)

2013-05-15 16:00: Energy Efficient Electronics; Searching for the milli-Volt Switch (Professor Eli Yablonovitch of UC Berkeley )

2013-05-16 14:15: Hamiltonian Theory of Fractional Chern Bands (Prof. R. Shankar, Yale University )

2013-05-17 16:00: The Two Conflicting Narratives of Metal-Optics; aka Plasmonics (Professor Eli Yablonovitch of UC Berkeley)

2013-05-20 16:00: Biological photovoltaic systems (Prof Chris Howe, Department of Biochemistry)

2013-05-20 17:00: ‘The American tributary system in international politics’ (Dr Yuen Foong Khong (Nuffield College, Oxford))

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

2013-05-22 17:00: CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development (Mona Sadek, International Committee of the Red Cross)

2013-05-23 14:15: Correlated electrons on the nanoscale: models, issues, reality. (Prof. David Logan, Oxford University)

2013-05-27 13:00: Research Group: The Kenyan Elections of 2013: A triumph of democracy? (Dr Nic Cheeseman (University of Oxford))

2013-05-27 17:15: 'Modern Greek political uses of Theodorakis' ancient Greek music in recent film and opera' (Prof. Gail Holst Warhaft, Cornell University)

2013-05-28 17:00: Contested Narratives of the Past: Politics of Regret vs Myths of Self-Pity (Mano Toth, PhD Candidate, POLIS)

2013-05-29 17:00: CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development (Richard Moncrieff, Principal Analyst for Central Africa, Foreign and Commonwealth Office)

2013-05-30 14:15: Stable and unstable equilibrium points in the quantum Gaudin model (Dr Benoit Doucot, CNRS / LPTHE Jussieu, France)

2013-05-31 16:15: Fiction and Reality of Mobility in Africa (Francis B Nyamnjoh, University of Cape Town)

2013-06-03 17:00: ‘The Politics of Nation-building: Making Co-nationals, Refugees and Minorities’ (Professor Harris Mylonas (George Washington University))

2013-06-03 17:15: 'The Dialectics of the Antiquities Rush' (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-06-04 17:00: Exploring the Contours of African Sexualities: Statutory, Customary and Religious Laws (Professor Sylvia Tamale, Makerere University )

2013-06-05 17:00: Alcuin Lecture 2013, Is there a future for the European Union - and with Britain in it? (Professor Loukas Tsoukalis, University of Athens, President of ELIAMEP)

2013-06-06 11:15: Superconductivity and magnetism in doped graphene (Andrey Chubukov, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,  USA)

2013-06-06 14:15: Bad metals (Prof. Alexei Tsvelik)

2013-06-06 17:15:  'A Twenty First century ancient Greek play': an interview with Helen Eastman, director of the 2013 Cambridge Greek play in Greek, currently in rehearsal.   (Helen Eastman)

2013-06-10 17:00: ‘Rising Powers in the Western Imagination’ (Dr Ayse Zarakol (POLIS))

2013-06-12 11:15: Disorder driven superconductor-insulator transition: Do Cooper pairs still exist in the insulator? (Nandini Trivedi, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, USA.)

2013-06-13 14:15: Charge and exciton dynamics in organic devices (Alessandro Troisi, University of Warwick)

2013-06-13 17:15: 'Directing the Cambridge Greek Play' (Helen Eastman)

2013-06-17 16:00: Creating Impact from Research (Dr Andrea Cantone and Dr Gillian Davis, Cambridge Enterprise)

2013-06-19 11:15: Insulators, metals, pseudogaps and cuprate superconductivity (Andre-Marie Tremblay, University of Sherbrooke, Canada.)

2013-06-21 15:00: Towards a general theory for pyrochlores: dimensional reduction, ground-state selection and new emergent electromagnetism (Ludovic Jaubert)

2013-07-15 16:00: Energy efficient magnetic cooling technology (Dr Sibel Ozcan)

2013-08-12 16:00: The Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the Environment (Dr Rosamunde Almond)

2013-09-09 16:00: Using sunlight-activated photo-catalysts to disinfect water (Dr Vasant Kumar)

2013-09-11 11:15: Universal behaviour in critical current density in HTS conductors (Dr Jeffery Tallon - CallaghanInnovation and MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials&  Nanotechnology Wellington, New Zealand)

2013-09-19 14:00: Materials design and functionality in oxide heterostructures   (Christos Panagopoulos, Division of Physics and Applied Physics, Nanyang Technological,University, Singapore)

2013-09-30 09:00: Winton 2nd Annual Symposium on Materials Discovery (For full list of speakers visit  http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/materialsdiscovery)

2013-10-09 11:15: The New Superconducting Quantum Devices (Phil Meeson, Royal Holloway, University of London.)

2013-10-10 14:15: Non-equilibrium dynamics of open quantum system (Dr Igor Lesanovsky, University of Nottingham)

2013-10-11 13:00: Moral and Institutional Desert (Jules Holroyd (Nottingham))

2013-10-11 17:15: Panel ‘2013 German Elections’ (Dr. Waltraud Schelkle, (LSE);  Dr. Pieter Van Houten (Cambridge))

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

2013-10-15 17:00: Executive Privilege Reaffirmed? Patterns in Parliamentary Scrutiny of the CFSP and CSDP (Dr Ariella Huff, POLIS, University of Cambridge)

2013-10-16 13:00: 'Africa's Voices' project seminar (Dr Sharath Srinivasan (CGHR) and Dr Claudia Abreu Lopes (CGHR) )

2013-10-16 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Steve Simon)

2013-10-16 16:00: Topological Matter and Why You Should Be Interested (Prof Steve Simon, Oxford Theoretical Physics)

2013-10-17 15:00: Climate change and energy scarcity (Dr. Joerg Friedrichs (Oxford))

2013-10-18 09:00: Craash Conference: Iraq: A Decade of New Governance (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-10-18 14:00: Policy-Making in EU Security and Defense: An Institutional Perspective (Dr Hylke Dijkstra, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford)

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

2013-10-21 17:00: Culpable Identities: Homicide Jurisdiction and the Politics of Culture in Late-Colonial Northern Nigeria (Steven Pierce, University of Manchester)

2013-10-22 17:00: If You Are Not A Conspiracy Theorist Then You are an Idiot (Charles Pigden )

2013-10-23 11:15: Critical dopings and superconducting domes in doped SrTiO3 (Kamran Behnia, ESPCI, Paris.)

2013-10-23 17:30:  In Hobbes's Wake: Theorising Agency and Language in International Politics (Charlotte Epstein, University of Sydney)

2013-10-23 17:30: In Hobbes's Wake: Theorising Agency and Language in International Politics (Dr. Charlotte Epstein, University of Sydney)

2013-10-24 14:15: The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis (Prof. R. van Grondelle, VU University)

2013-10-24 15:45: The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis II (Elisabet Romero, VU University)

2013-10-25 13:00: Benificence and Blackmail (Ben Colburn (Glasgow))

2013-10-25 17:00: Panel “What’s left? The European left beyond the Third Way” (Dr. Stephen Driver (Roehampton); Prof. Marc Lazar   (SciencesPo Paris); Prof. Luke Martell (Sussex); Prof. William  Paterson (Aston))

2013-10-28 17:00: The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Bangladesh Genocide (Prof. Gary Bass, Princeton University )

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

2013-10-28 17:00: The Permeability of Prison: Maurice Nyagumbo in  Rhodesia, 1959-1979 (Jocelyn Alexander, University of Oxford)

2013-10-29 17:00: European budgetary politics, a Parliamentary Paradox? (Dr Julie Smith, POLIS, University of Cambridge)

2013-10-30 16:00: "Exploring Flatland with Cold Atoms" (Prof Jean Dalibard Laboratoire Kastler Brossel)

2013-11-04 13:00: Research Group: Framing Peace: The case of conciliatory radio programming in Burundi and Uganda  (Dr. William Tayeebwa)

2013-11-04 17:00: Legal Layering and Substitution: A Theory of Strategic Behaviour around International Treaty Membership  (Prof. Tonya Putnam, Columbia 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) )

2013-11-04 17:00: Narratives of Violence: Historicizing Representations of Child Combatants in African Conflict, c. 1980-2010 (Stacey Hynd, University of Exeter)

2013-11-05 17:00: Value Added Diplomacy? The European External Action Service and the EU Member States. (Chris Kendall, European External Action Service (Brussels) )

2013-11-05 17:00: The Stab in the Back Legend (Boris Barth)

2013-11-07 14:15: Bosons in Synthetic Gauge Fields (Ryan Barnett, Imperial College)

2013-11-08 13:00: How Should We Aggregate Competing Claims? (Alex Voorhoeve (LSE))

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

2013-11-11 17:00: The Prosecution of Rape in Wartime: Evidence From  Kenya, 1952-1960 (David Anderson, University of Warwick)

2013-11-12 17:00: Norms Resistance in European Foreign Policy: The Case of the European External Action Service (Prof Sophie Vanhoonacker, University of Maastricht and Visiting Fellow at Pembroke College)

2013-11-13 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton )

2013-11-14 14:15: The Part is Greater than the Sum of the Wholes: How to Spin Light Into Anyons (Eliot Kapit, Oxford University)

2013-11-15 12:00: King Rama X: The Thai Monarchy and Democracy (Pavin Chachavalpongpun (Kyoto University))

2013-11-15 14:00: War Without Americans: the real challenge for the European Council on Defence (Professor Sven Biscop, Egmont – The Royal Institute for International Relations)

2013-11-18 17:00: The Morality of Private War: The Challenge of Private Military and Security Companies (Dr James Patterson, University of Manchester)

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) )

2013-11-18 17:00: Transition and Justice in Sierra Leone and Liberia (Gerhard Anders, University of Edinburgh)

2013-11-20 11:15: How supersolids melt: vortices near a high-symmetry phase coexistence point. (Chris Hooley - Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA), University of St Andrews)

2013-11-21 14:15: Accurate Effective Hamiltonians via Unitary Flow in Floquet space (Florian Mintert, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies)

2013-11-21 17:15: Creative Copies: Eudocia's 'Homerocentones' and the Scribe as Author in Christian Late Antiquity (Francesca Middleton)

2013-11-21 18:00: Africa's digital communications revolution: Valuing new voices in African public spheres (Dr Sharath Srinivasan (Fellow of King's College, Cambridge); Director, Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR), Cambridge)

2013-11-22 13:00: Crimes Against Humanity, and Future People (Catriona McKinnon (Reading))

2013-11-25 17:00: Contestation, Backlash, and the Politics of International Justice Twenty Years on (Dr Leslie Vinjamuri, SOAS)

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

2013-11-25 17:00: Overlapping Sovereignties and the Politics of Legal  Pluralism in Mozambique (Helen-Maria Kyed, Danish Institute of International Studies)

2013-11-26 17:00: ‘Leading’ Europe’s Foreign Policy? Britain, Germany and the CFSP (Dr Nick Wright, University of East Anglia)

2013-11-28 14:15: Dynamics in one dimension: from fractional excitations to new out-of-equilibrium states of matter (Jean-Sébastien Caux, University of Amsterdam)

2013-11-28 17:15: Fragmentation and Unity: Psychoanalytical adaptations of the Hippolytus (Tori McKee, OU/Oxford)

2013-11-29 15:00: How different are the 'nonaligned' and 'harmonious' worlds? (Rityusha Mani Tiwary)

2013-12-02 13:00: Research Group: When the state kills, the boundaries of state responsibilities and the right to life (Thomas J.W. Probert)

2013-12-02 16:00: Jugaad Innovation: A Frugal, Flexible and Inclusive Way to Grow (Prof Jaideep Prabhu, Judge Business School)

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

2013-12-02 17:00: The Permeability of Prison:  Maurice Nyagumbo in Rhodesia, 1959-1979 (Jocelyn Alexander, University of Oxford)

2013-12-04 16:00: Cosmic Reionization (Dr Chris Carilli, NRAO)

2013-12-05 14:15: Adiabatic reaction forces in mesoscopic systems (Silvia Viola Kusminskiy, Freie Universität Berlin)

2013-12-12 14:15: Transport theory of pyrochlore conductors (Masafumi Udagawa, University of Tokyo)

2013-12-12 17:00: Evidence-Based Policy: Doing it Better (Dr. Nancy Cartwright, Professor of Philosophy at Durham University, LSE, and University of California at San Diego; Director of the Durham Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society; Fellow of the British Academy)

2013-12-16 16:00: Open-ended inorganic nanotubes: band-gap and bands-engineering of a photo-catalyst (Dr Gilberto Teobaldi)

2014-01-15 17:00: CGHR Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development (Ken Banks, Founder: kiwanja.net | FrontlineSMS | Means of Exchange)

2014-01-16 14:15: Nucleation pathways in partially disordered lattice models (David Quigley, University of Warwick)

2014-01-17 13:00: Theory Construction in Political Theory: A Philosophy-of-Science Perspective (Christian List (LSE))

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

2014-01-22 13:00: Conflict and Crisis in South Sudan: Roundtable (Dr Sharath Srinivasan (CGHR/POLIS, University of Cambridge), Peter Ajak (PhD Student, POLIS) and Dr Laura James (Independent Consultant and Former Economic Adviser to African Union High-Level Implementation Panel for Sudan))

2014-01-23 14:15: Stationary Behaviour of Observables after a Quantum Quench (Maurizio Fagotti, University of Oxford)

2014-01-27 16:00: Business-oriented Solutions for Resource Recovery and Reuse at Scale in Developing Countries (Luca Di Mario)

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

2014-01-27 17:00: Was the First World War a just war? (Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, Oxford University)

2014-01-29 16:00: Special CPS lecture : MAKING EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS BITE:  JAMES CLERK MAXWELL AND THE FOUNDING OF THE CAVENDISH LABORATORY (Dr. Isobel Falconer, Honorary Reader in the History of Mathematics, St Andrews University)

2014-01-29 17:00: CGHR Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development (Polly Rossdale - Reprieve,  Project Coordinator: Life After Guantánamo)

2014-01-30 14:15: First-principles dynamics applied to energy materials (Keith Refson, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

2014-01-31 13:00: Migration and Distributive Justice (Sarah Fine (KCL))

2014-01-31 16:00: The future of EU Defence Policy. (Daniel Keohane, Senior Researcher and Head of Strategic Affairs, FRIDE)

2014-02-03 13:00: CGHR Research Group: The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the African Fingerprint: An ethnographic re-visitation ( Niklas Hultin, University of Cambridge)

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

2014-02-03 17:30: Does Stealing from Foreigners Increase Quality of Life?  How Expropriation Affects Domestic Human Rights (Dr Noel P. Johnston, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford)

2014-02-05 16:00: Soft Matter in Motion (Dr Eric Lauga, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2014-02-06 14:15: Pairing symmetry and dominant band in Sr2RuO4 (Thomas Scaffidi, University of Oxford)

2014-02-06 17:00: Transforming European diplomacy abroad: insights from Washington D.C (Dr Heidi Maurer, Maastricht University, the Netherlands)

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

2014-02-10 17:00: Making China strong: the role of nationalism in Chinese thinking on Democracy and Human Rights (Dr Robert Weatherley, POLIS)

2014-02-12 17:30: CGHR Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development (David Whitty, Producer at BBC World Service Radio)

2014-02-13 14:15: What’s the point of linear-scaling electronic structure methods? (Prof. Peter Haynes, Imperial College London)

2014-02-13 17:00: From nation-states to member states: European integration as state transformation (Dr Chris Bickerton, POLIS, University of Cambridge)

2014-02-14 08:30: Researching Public Opinion and Political Accountability: Broadcasting and New Media in Contemporary African Context (CGHR's Politics and Interactive Media in Africa (PiMA) project roundtable (invitation/registration only))

2014-02-14 13:00: Deaths That Matter: NOTE: SEMINAR CANCELLED (Moya Lloyd (Loughborough))

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

2014-02-19 16:00: Improving cancer survival through molecular imaging (Dr Sarah Bohndiek, Biological & Soft Systems Sector, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory)

2014-02-20 14:15: The nature of the quantum spin-liquid state in Herbertsmithite (Matthias Punk, Universität Innsbruck)

2014-02-20 17:00: How ´European´ is the European Security and Defense Policy? Parliamentary Oversight of the EU NAVFOR Operation Atalanta (Dr Aleksandra Maatsch, POLIS, University of Cambridge)

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

2014-02-24 17:00: Using courts to build states: The uneven geography of justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Dr. Alex Jeffrey, University Lecturer in Human Geography)

2014-02-25 12:00: the next Rising Power Reading Group will be taking place next Tuesday 25th February (12:00-13:00) in room 119. (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-02-26 17:30: CGHR Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development  (A staging of Wole Soyinka’s ‘Jero’s Metamorphosis’)

2014-02-27 14:15: Exploring Thermal Transport via Gauge-Gravity Duality and Hydrodynamics (M. Joe Bhaseen, King's College, London)

2014-02-27 17:00: The Role of Embassies in European Climate Diplomacy (Katrin Buchmann, POLIS, University of Cambridge)

2014-02-27 17:15: 'Nothing like Roehampton': Hercules and the Englishing of classical myth (Susan Deacy, Roehampton)

2014-02-28 13:00: Torture, Morality, and Law (Matthew Kramer (Cambridge))

2014-03-03 13:00: CGHR Research Group: Advocacy Groups and the New Political Dispensation in Kenya and Zambia  (Bonfas Owinga, City University London)

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

2014-03-05 13:00: PhD colloquium  'RMB Internationalization and the Dilemma of East Asian Currency Cooperation' (Prof Yonghui Wang)

2014-03-05 17:30: CGHR Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights, Peacebuilding, Humanitarian Aid and Development (Dr Imogen Parsons, Lead Humanitarian Advisor at DFID)

2014-03-06 17:00: The European Union's engagement in reforming the Security Sector in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2003-2013 (Hubertus Juergenliemk, POLIS, University of Cambridge)

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

2014-03-10 17:00: Egypt and the Arab Spring (Dr Maha Abdel-Rahman, Centre of Development Studies and POLIS)

2014-03-13 14:15: Paradigms of the interaction effects in Fermi surface topological reconstruction (Dr Joseph Betouras, Loughborough University)

2014-03-13 17:15: The Classical Basis of Renaissance Rhetoric: The Case of Rudolph Agricola (1443-1485) (Peter Mack, Warburg Institute)

2014-03-17 16:00: Electric buses - can they really compete on the front line? (Professor John Miles)

2014-03-31 16:00: The future of Artificial Photosynthesis - academic curiosity or real-world application? (Dr. Erwin Reisner (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge))

2014-04-24 14:15: Topological Kondo Insulators and SmB6: magnetism meets topology. (Piers Coleman, Center for Materials Theory, Rutgers, New Jersey, USA)

2014-04-29 17:00: Comparative study on europeanisation of party politics. (Dr. Erol Külahci, (Associate member) Centre for the study of Politics, Université Libre de Bruxelles)

2014-04-30 16:00: Molecular Motors and Switches at Surfaces (Prof Petra Rudolf, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials  University of Groningen)

2014-05-01 14:15: Odd Times for Triplet Pairing (Prof. James Annett, University of Bristol)

2014-05-05 13:00: CGHR Research Group: Human rights education and training programmes in Mexico: A cross-case analysis of practitioners’ professional knowledge and practice (Gabriela Martínez Sainz (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge))

2014-05-05 16:00: Scott Lecture I : Juggling with photons in a box and raising Schrödinger cats of radiation  (Professor Serge Haroche, College de Franceand and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)

2014-05-05 17:00: Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced displacement, coercion and foreign policy (Professor Kelly Greenhill  (Tufts University & Belfer Centre, Harvard))

2014-05-06 17:00: Reforming the European Court of Auditors: the challenges of financial accountability in the EU (Dr Paul Stephenson, Sciences Po, Paris)

2014-05-07 16:00: Scott Lecture II : Counting and controlling photons non-destructively. (Professor Serge Haroche, Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)

2014-05-08 14:15: Topological order from strong correlations in two-dimensional lattice models (Stefanos Kourtis, IFW Dresden)

2014-05-08 16:00: POLIS Seminar on the First World War  (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-05-08 16:00: The Great War: causes and consequences (Professor Dominic Lieven with Dr Alex Anievas, Professor Brendan Simms, and Dr Ayse Zarakol Chair:  Professor Andrew Gamble)

2014-05-08 16:00: 20 years after the genocide in Rwanda: Presentation and reflections on the judicial process (Martien Schotsmans, Hélène Morvan and Andrew Swindells)

2014-05-08 17:15: The topography of decline: Gibbon and the city of Rome (Catharine Edwards, Birkbeck)

2014-05-09 16:00: Scott Lecture III : Rydberg atoms in interaction : a new kind of quantum matter. (Professor Serge Haroche, College de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)

2014-05-12 16:00: Current Issues in Energy Policy (Dr Chi-Kong Chyong (Energy Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge))

2014-05-14 16:00: Higgs Vortices and Black Hole Hair (Professor Ruth Gregory, Department of Physics, Durham University)

2014-05-15 14:15: IS GREEN TEA GOOD FOR YOU? INSIGHTS FROM ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS (Carla Molteni, King's College London)

2014-05-16 13:00: Internet Communication Technologies Guarding the Truth in 2013-14 Ukraine (Anna Bilous (Associate at Beyond Violence))

2014-05-19 17:00: TBC (Dr Martin Jacques  (Senior Fellow, POLIS, & author of When China rules the world))

2014-05-22 14:15: Active nematics and topological defects (Prof. Julia Yeomans, University of Oxford)

2014-05-22 17:00: Waiting for Emancipation:  The Prospects for Liberal Revolution and  a Human Economy in Africa (Professor Keith Hart)

2014-05-26 13:00: CGHR Research Group: Suspending Rights: The State of Emergency in armed conflicts, legal exception and case-law practice (Federico Zumpani, University of Palermo)

2014-05-26 17:00: Darcus Howe and Black Power in Britain, 1967-1974 (Dr. Robin Bunce (Homerton))

2014-05-27 17:00: European Defence-Industrial Cooperation: Theory and Practice (Daniel Fiott, Institute for European Studies - Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

2014-05-28 14:00: Probing many-body physics with cold atoms: The Higgs boson and quantum hexatic order.  (Georg Bruun, Aarhus University)

2014-05-28 16:00: Back to the Beginning in Cosmology and Experimental Radio Astronomy (Professor Tony Readhead, CALTECH, USA)

2014-05-29 14:15: Calculation of NMR parameters in the solid-state: the importance of special relativity (Dr Jonathan Yates, Department of Materials, University of Oxford)

2014-06-02 17:00: A balancing act: China-India relations as managed protracted frienimosity (Professor Yaacov Vertzberger (Hebrew University))

2014-06-03 12:30: 'Summit diplomacy, top level of the Council or emerging European government? The European Council's role in the EU institutional system of governance after Lisbon' (Pierre Bocquillon, POLIS, University of Cambridge)

2014-06-04 11:15: Spin-orbit coupled quantum magnets (Giniyat Khaliullin, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany.)

2014-06-04 12:00: ‘The Triumph of Democracy and the Eclipse of the West’ (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-06-05 16:00: Daniel Drezner on How the World Stopped Another Depression (Daniel Drezner, professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University)

2014-06-05 17:15: Asking the Audience: using museological theory and visitor studies techniques to explore museum visitors' responses to classical antiquities (Victoria Donellan, UCL)

2014-06-06 17:00: The 2014 Alcuin Lecture: The UK in or out of the EU: an Italian/European point of view (Mr Enrico Letta (former Italian Prime Minister))

2014-06-09 09:00: Conference: The Italian Left and Foreign Policy (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-06-10 17:00: A strategic-relational analysis of foreign policy: evidence from the Italian case (Elisabetta Brighi, POLIS)

2014-06-11 11:15: Exploring quantum magnetism using molecules, magnetic fields and pressure. (Paul Goddard, University of Warwick.)

2014-06-12 11:15: Intermetallic compound for demagnetisation refrigeration just below 0.2K (Thomas Gruner, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden)

2014-06-12 14:15: Many-body state preparation and quantum simulation with cold atoms (Prof. Andrew Daley, University of Strathclyde)

2014-06-13 13:00: CGHR Photography Competition (Entries will be judged by a panel (TBC))

2014-06-18 13:15: Making sense of the Whipple Museum’s Muggletonian astronomical prints (Dr Joshua Nall, Assistant Curator, Whipple Museum of the History of Science)

2014-06-18 17:30: "Autonomous Weapons Systems: The Future?" | A Public Lecture by the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (Prof. Christof Heyns, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions)

2014-06-19 14:15: First-principles Materials Applications and Design to Nonlinear Optical Crystals (Prof. Zheshuai Lin, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

2014-06-19 15:00: Unlawful Killings in Africa: Launch of a CGHR Study for the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (Prof. Christof Heyns, UN Special Rapporteur)

2014-06-23 16:00: Energy vs materials availability. Equivalent or different? (Professor David Cahen, Weizmann Institute of Science)

2014-06-25 11:15: Thermodynamics and critical current density in HTS superconductors and beyond  (Jeff Tallon, Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University, New Zealand.)

2014-07-04 14:15: Critical Casimir Forces in a Magnetic System: An Experimental Protocol (Prof. Peter Holdsworth, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon)

2014-07-10 14:15: The density is not enough  (Professor Nicola Marzari, EPFL)

2014-07-11 02:15: 'Surface states and topology in Kondo insulating SmB6 and superconducting Tl5Te3' (Tyrel McQueen, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.)

2014-07-24 14:15: Spin Hall Effect (Guang-Yu Guo, National Taiwan University,)

2014-09-01 16:00: Meeting the challenges of cancer through nanotechnology. (Quentin Harmer)

2014-09-05 15:30: CALYPSO: A Useful Tool for Discovering Novel Structures and Properties of Materials at Extreme Conditions (Yanming Ma, Jilin University)

2014-09-27 09:30: Alumni Festival 2014: Africa's Digital Communications Revolution (Dr Sharath Srinivasan)

2014-10-09 14:15: One-dimensional boson flow between weakly couple reservoirs (Professor Igor Lerner, University of Birmingham)

2014-10-10 13:00: Republicanism and Global Politics: Three Requirements in Tension (Miriam Ronzoni (Manchester))

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

2014-10-15 11:15: The heavy-fermion compound CeRhIn5: d-wave superconductivity and density waves (Dr Philip Moll, Solid State Physics Laboratory, ETH Zurich.)

2014-10-15 16:00: The Early History of the Cavendish Laboratory (Malcolm Longair, Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy Emeritus, Cavendish Laboratory)

2014-10-16 12:30: Distributive Conflict and the Transition to Democratic Rule (Prof. Stephan M. Haggard (UCSD))

2014-10-16 14:15: Spectroscopic signatures of collective modes in superconductors (Lara Benfatto, University of Rome, La Sapienza)

2014-10-17 15:00: The State of War (Professor Jens Bartelson, Lund University, Sweden)

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

2014-10-20 17:00: Zonk! Magazine; Black Modernity and the Marketplace in South Africa  (Dr Nicholas Grant,  University of East Anglia)

2014-10-23 14:15: Strong-coupling ansatz for the one-dimensional Fermi gas in a harmonic potential (Jesper F. Levinsen, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark)

2014-10-23 17:30: Game of Zones: The Quest for Influence in Europe's Neighbourhood (Dr Sven Biscop (Egmont Institute, Brussels))

2014-10-24 13:00: Reading Shakespeare Politically (Elizabeth Frazer (Oxford))

2014-10-24 17:15: Homer's Deep (Professor Shane Butler, Bristol University)

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

2014-10-27 17:00: The Roots Of Impermanence; Farm Life, Labour, And Migration On The Zimbabwean-South African Border  (Dr Maxim Bolt,  University of Birmingham)

2014-10-28 12:30: Poland and Ukraine: Passages to Democracy (Dr Harald Wydra (POLIS, St Catz) and Dr Rory Finnin (Cambridge, Ukranian Studies))

2014-10-29 16:00: High magnetic fields as a tool for discovery (Dr Suchitra Sebastian, Cavendish Laboratory)

2014-10-30 12:10: Africa's Voices Project (Sharath Srinivasan, Director, Centre of Governance and Human Rights)

2014-10-30 14:00: Seminar: Big Data, Communications and Media Theory: Conceptual Challenges (Wendy Pullan (Architecture) John Naughton (CRASSH, Wolfson), Sharath Srinivasan (POLIS))

2014-10-30 14:15: Non-equilibrium processes from an ab-initio perspective: generalized Hedin's equations and ultra-fast processes in paradigmatic materials (Andrea Marini, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche)

2014-10-31 15:00: Opting Out of the European Union: Diplomacy, Sovereignty and European Integration (Dr Rebecca Adler-Nissen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

2014-11-03 13:00: CGHR Research Group: The Future in Mind: Aspirations and Forward-Looking Behaviour in Rural Ethiopia (Kate Orkin, Clare Hall. Discussant: Dr Claudia Abreu Lopes, CGHR)

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

2014-11-03 17:00: Spaces of Exile and Solidarity; Conviviality, Contention and Transnational Activism for Zimbabwe 1965-1980  (Professor Jo Ann McGregor,  Sussex University)

2014-11-04 11:00: The Place of Religion in the European Public Square (Prof. Joseph Weiler (EUI))

2014-11-04 15:00: Book launch: The Workers' Movement and Egypt's Long Revolution (Dr Maha Abdelrahman (Centre of Development Studies and POLIS), Anne Alexander (CRASSH)

2014-11-06 13:00: US Midterm Elections: Domestic and International Implications (Professor Stefan Halper)

2014-11-06 17:00: Authority after Emergency Rule (Dr Jonathan White (LSE))

2014-11-07 13:00: Where do we Find Ourselves? Hawthorne and the Actuality of Political Space (Tracy Strong (UC San Diego))

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))

2014-11-10 17:00: From 'Nairobi East' to 'Little Mogadishu'; Migration and Diaspora in the History of Nairobi's Eastleigh Estate  (Dr Neil Carrier, University of Oxford)

2014-11-13 14:15: Majorana metals and quantum spin liquids (Maria Hermanns, University Köln)

2014-11-13 17:00: Degrees of inclusion. Free movement of labour and the unionization of migrant workers in the European Union (Dr Adrien Thomas (CEPS, Luxembourg))

2014-11-13 17:15: Asking the Audience: exploring museum visitors' responses to classical antiquities (Victoria Donnellan, University College London )

2014-11-14 15:00: Three Approaches to Concept Analysis in International Relations (Dr Felix Berenskoetter, SOAS, University of London)

2014-11-14 17:00: CGHR film screening: We Are Many, followed by a Q&A with Producer-Director Amir Amirani (Amir Amirani)

2014-11-17 13:00: CGHR Research Group: Presidential succession crises in Africa: lessons from South Africa and Namibia (Dr Ian Cooper, POLIS. Discussant: Prof. Laurie Nathan, University of Pretoria)

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

2014-11-17 17:00: Sovereignty Rules:  Human Rights Regimes and State Sovereignty (Prof. Laurie Nathan, Centre for Mediation in Africa, University of Pretoria)

2014-11-17 17:00: Cultivating Intergenerational Ideals; The Exchange of Photographs between Migrant Parents in Britain and their Children in The Gambia  (Dr Pamela Kea,  Sussex University)

2014-11-18 13:00: International Mediation as the Management of  Complexity (Prof. Laurie Nathan, Centre for Mediation in Africa, University of Pretoria)

2014-11-20 13:00: The Rise of UKIP and its implications (Dr Helen Thompson, Department of POLIS)

2014-11-20 14:15: Fermions in two dimensions (Meera Parish, University College London)

2014-11-21 13:00: Naming Abscence: The Politics of Body Counts (Moya Lloyd (Loughborough))

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

2014-11-24 17:00: The Paradox of Parallel Lives; Immigration Policy and Transnational Polygyny between Senegal and France (Dr Helene Neveau-Kringelbach,  Oxford University)

2014-11-27 14:15: Long-time behaviour of periodically driven many-body quantum systems (Achilleas Lazarides, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems)

2014-11-28 15:00: The Global Transformation (Dr George Lawson, London School of Economics)

2014-12-01 13:00: CGHR Research Group: What is being targeted when women become the victims of anti-Muslim hate crime? Religion, or gender, or both? (Julian Hargreaves, Centre of Islamic Studies, Cambridge)

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))

2014-12-01 17:00: Diasporic Romance; Marriage, Consumerism and Ghanaian Experiences in Botswana  (Rijk van Dijk,  ASC Leiden, AISSR Amsterdam, Centre of Excellence University of Konstanz)

2014-12-01 17:30: Asylum Monologues  (Performed by Ice and Fire (Script by Sonja Linden))

2014-12-03 11:00: Making quantum chemistry work for metals (James Shepherd, Rice University)

2014-12-03 11:15: High-pressure studies into the thermal properties of MnSi (Dr Anna Kusmartseva, Dept. of Physics, University of Loughborough.)

2014-12-04 14:15: The winding road to topological insulators (Eugene Mele, University of Pennsylvania)

2014-12-04 17:15: Borges: After the Classics (Laura Jansen, Bristol University)

2014-12-11 11:15: Quantum criticality in iron-based superconductors (Antony Carrington, HH Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol)

2015-01-12 14:00: "We are all Charlie?" Lunchtime Seminar (Professor Robert Tombs, a Fellow of St. John's College)

2015-01-15 14:15: Non-Fermi-liquid behaviour in nearly ferromagnetic metals: a new fixed point (Dr Chris Hooley, University of St Andrews )

2015-01-15 17:00: Contentious politics and public services in the European Union (Dr Amandine Crespy (Free University, Brussels/Queen Mary's, London))

2015-01-16 13:00: Levels of Non-Ideality (Prof. Hillel Steiner (Manchester))

2015-01-22 14:15: From Materials to Cosmology: Studying the early universe under the microscope (Prof. Dr. Nicola Spaldin, ETH Zürich)

2015-01-22 16:00: An ideal limit for the performance of large wind farms (Dr Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz)

2015-01-27 17:30: CGHR Practitioner Series: Defending Human Rights (James Savage, Amnesty International; Valdênia Paulino Lanfranchi, University of York; Mikdam Turkey, London South Bank University )

2015-01-28 17:00: The Future of Human Rights in the UK (Professor Sir David Edward)

2015-01-29 14:15: Two-dimensional Valence Bond Solid (AKLT) states from t2g electrons (Maciej Koch-Janusz, Weizmann Institute)

2015-01-29 17:00: Europeanizing Territoriality – Towards Soft Spaces (Professor Phil Allmendinger (University of Cambridge))

2015-01-29 17:15: Can the Subaltern Speak (Professor Phiroze Vasunia, UCL)

2015-01-30 13:00: Liability, Proportionality, and the Number of Aggressors (Prof. Jeff McMahan (Oxford))

2015-01-30 15:00: Labour in Opposition (Tim Bale (Queen Mary University of London))

2015-02-02 13:00: CGHR Research Group "The Performative Core of Power and Legitimacy in Human Rights Organisations: the Case of the Russell Tribunal" (Dr. Javier Perez Jara, Professor Patrick Baert (Discussant) )

2015-02-02 15:30: From x-ray tubes to storage rings and beyond (Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd.)

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

2015-02-03 19:00: CGHR Film Screening: The Awra Amba Experience, preview screening followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers (Filmmakers: Paulina Tervo and Serdar Ferit)

2015-02-04 16:00: Fractionalised excitations in spin ice materials (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-02-05 14:15: TCM's "Dragon's Den" (multiple internal speakers - see abstract)

2015-02-05 17:00: Dissident Voices in Theorising Europe: Another Theory is Possible  (Professor Richard Whitman (University of Kent, Canterbury))

2015-02-09 15:30: Interaction of x-rays with matter (Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd.)

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

2015-02-10 13:00: #ICT4HR - Expert Panel on the Uses of Information Communication Technology to Foster Accountability for Human Rights Violations (Christof Heyns, Christina Ribeiro, Christoph Koettl, Eliot Higgins, Ella McPherson (chair))

2015-02-10 17:30: CGHR Practitioner Series: Tech Innovators Working in Human Rights (Tanya O'Carroll, Adviser, Technology and Human Rights Team, Amnesty International, and Harlo Holmes, Research Fellow, Head of Metadata, The Guardian Project and technical lead for InformaCam.)

2015-02-12 14:15: Topological order from parafermions (Paul Fendley, Oxford University, All Souls College)

2015-02-12 16:00: Beyond the pit latrine - developing new tools for organic waste management in the global south (John Mullet - SOWTech Ltd)

2015-02-12 17:00: National and Regional Institutional Dynamics in the Aftermath of Non-Traditional Security Crises in Southeast Asia. What role for the EU? (Dr Naila Maier-Knapp (University of Cambridge))

2015-02-13 13:00: Social Contribution Injustice (Prof. Kimberlee Brownlee (Warwick))

2015-02-13 15:00: Parliament and the Law (Dawn Oliver (University College London))

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

2015-02-18 16:00: Terahertz Science and Technology – from challenges to opportunities (Professor Edmund Linfield, School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds)

2015-02-19 17:00: New Governance and the European Union: An Empirical and Conceptual Critique (Professor Kenneth Armstrong (University of Cambridge))

2015-02-20 11:30:  Charge, spin and vacancy ordering in perovskites obtained from  high pressure and reductive chemistry. (Dr Angel Arevalo Lopez, CSEC, University of Edinburgh)

2015-02-20 14:00: Modelling DNA organisation by  DNA-binding proteins: the bridging-induced attraction and chromatin reconstitution (Davide Marenduzzo, University of Edinburgh)

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

2015-02-24 13:00: Ujamaa: from 1960s Tanzania to 21st century Europe (Selma James. Dr. Felicitas Becker (discussant))

2015-02-24 17:00: Political Theory and Real Politics in the Age of the Internet (Professor David Runciman (Professor of Politics, POLIS))

2015-02-24 18:00: CGHR Practitioner Series: Selma James, Global Women's Strike (Selma James)

2015-02-26 17:00: The Struggle for EU Legitimacy: Public Contestation, 1950-2005 (Dr Claudia Schrag Sternberg (University of Oxford))

2015-02-27 13:00: Moral Equality, Respect, and Cruelty (Dr Andrea Sangiovanni (KCL))

2015-02-27 15:00: Recall of MPs (Tony Wright (Birkbeck, University of London, University College London))

2015-03-02 13:00: CGHR Research Group "Acephalous Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa: The real basis for change?" (Dr. Marta Iñiguez de Heredia (POLIS), Dr. Justin Pearce (Discussant))

2015-03-02 15:30: Synchrotron radiation and beamlines at 3rd generation synchrotrons (Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd.)

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

2015-03-04 16:00: New directions in liquid crystals (Professor Helen Gleeson, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds)

2015-03-04 17:00: What to do with the 'insoluble' foreign policy problems facing the UK (Charles Clarke)

2015-03-05 17:00: The EU and migration: A call to action (Charles Clarke (former Home Office minister))

2015-03-05 17:00: Talha Ahsan: the Power of Poetry and the Arts in Extradition Campaigns (Hamja Ahsan, Julian Huppert MP, Kate Honey (Green Party))

2015-03-05 17:15: Revolutionizing Greek Tragedy in Cuba ( Dr Rosa Andújar, UCL)

2015-03-09 15:30: X-ray diffraction techniques to obtain structural information (powder and single crystal)  (Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd.)

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))

2015-03-10 17:00: CGHR Practitioner Series, Freddie Carver, DFID (Freddie Carver, Head of Security and Justice Group, Stabilisation Unit, DfID)

2015-03-11 17:30: The Antcliffe Lecture: Thatcherism Today (Rt Hon. The Lord Howard of Lympne, CH QC)

2015-03-12 14:15: Non-equilibrium steady states in many-body quantum systems (Benjamin Doyon, King's College London)

2015-03-12 16:00: A remarkable set of contemplations (Craig Bennett - Friends of the Earth)

2015-03-13 15:00: Continuities in French Industrial Organisation from Vichy to the Monnet Plan, 1940-1946 (Luc Brunet (LSE))

2015-03-25 11:15: Spin and Orbital Order in the vanadium spinels (Elisa Wheeler,  Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France)

2015-03-26 17:00: Give a Man a Fish: From Patriarchal Productionism to the Politics of Distribution in Southern Africa (and Beyond) (Professor James Ferguson, Stanford University)

2015-04-16 16:00: Patents in theory and in practice (Dr Anwar Gilani - Venner Shipley)

2015-04-22 17:30: GENDER & SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN THE U.S. MILITARY (Elizabeth L. Hillman)

2015-04-23 14:15: Exploiting locality: large-scale first-principles simulations of nanostructures (Dr Arash Mostofi, Imperial College London)

2015-04-27 15:30: Resonant x-ray diffraction techniques to probe magnetic and electronic properties (Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd.)

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

2015-04-29 17:00: CGHR Film Screening: Kashmir's Torture Trail, followed by a Q&A with film maker Jezza Neumann  (Jezza Neumann)

2015-05-01 15:00: Emotional Diplomacy: Official Emotion on the International Stage and in Peace Negotiations (Dr Todd Hall, associate professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford and Tutor in Politics at St Anne’s College)

2015-05-01 15:00: Phase diagram of the interacting Majorana chain model (Prof Ian Affleck)

2015-05-04 13:00: CGHR Research Group: We Know Them: Images of the enemy and decision making in the Sudan-South Sudan secession negotiations (Dr. Laura James (POLIS), Discussant: Dr. Hazem Kandil (Sociology))

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

2015-05-06 17:30: Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola since the Civil War (Ricardo Soares de Oliveira)

2015-05-06 17:30: MAGNIFICENT AND BEGGAR LAND: ANGOLA SINCE THE CIVIL WAR (Dr. Ricardo Soares de Oliveira)

2015-05-07 12:30: Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention (Séverine Autesserre, Barnard College, Columbia University)

2015-05-07 14:15: Graphene: the good, the bad, and the beauty (Prof. Christiane Morais Smith, University of Utrecht)

2015-05-08 15:30: Stifling the Arab Spring: The GCC Perspective (Professor Dr Malik Dahlan, Principal of Institution Quraysh for Law & Policy (iQ); Chief Lawyer, MBR Legal and; International Chair of the Harvard Law School Association.)

2015-05-08 17:00: The House of Commons select committee system: present and future (Ariella Huff, Committee Specialist at the Foreign Affairs Committee, House of Commons and Cambridge alumna)

2015-05-11 15:30: X-ray spectroscopic methods to measure energy response function (absorption techniques) (Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd.)

2015-05-11 17:00: Waterloo: the first NATO operation? (Professor Brendan Simms, POLIS and Peterhouse)

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

2015-05-14 14:00: Subnational peripheries and the comparative method (Thomas B Pepinsky, Associate Professor of Government, Cornell University)

2015-05-14 14:15: Wavefunctions of symmetry protected topological phases and conformal field theories (Zohar Ringel, Oxford University)

2015-05-15 14:30: WHEN GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH: WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM DISAPPOINTMENTS AND DISASTERS IN RECENT CONFLICTS (Christopher Kolenda)

2015-05-15 15:00: International and Regional Approaches to Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in Africa: The Cases of Zimbabwe and the DRC (Ambassador Matthew Neuhaus)

2015-05-18 15:30: X-ray Spectroscopy: Photoemission and magnetic dichroism (Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd.)

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

2015-05-20 13:00:  Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change (Zachariah Mampilly, co-author of 'Africa Uprising' (Zed Books, 2015))

2015-05-20 13:00: Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change (book launch) (Zachariah Mampilly)

2015-05-21 13:00: INTERGENERATIONAL ENGAGEMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (Dr. Malik Dahlan and Alex Just)

2015-05-21 13:45: Phase transitions in non-Abelian string nets (Julien Vidal, CNRS, LPTMC Paris)

2015-05-21 15:30: Talking To Terrorists (Jonathan Powell, CEO of Inter Mediate)

2015-05-21 16:00: Piezoelectric nanogenerators: Power solutions for autonomous devices (Dr Sohini Kar-Narayan, Lecturer Department of Materials Science)

2015-05-22 15:00: Innovative Human-Centred Development Approaches: Learn How the UN is Engaging Youth in Peace Building and Development. (Mr. Andrew Russell is the UN Development Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Kosovo.)

2015-05-25 14:30: Overreach: Delusions of Regime Change in Iraq (Prof. Michael MacDonald, Frederick L. Schuman Professor of International Relations at Williams College)

2015-05-27 11:15: Magnetic Structure Solution of Frustrated Spin Systems (Joe Paddison, University of Oxford and STFC-ISIS Facility, UK.)

2015-05-28 14:15: Trions and Biexcitons in Two-Dimensional Semiconductors (Dr Neil Drummond, Lancaster University)

2015-05-28 17:00: CISA seminar on "UN peacekeeping reform from the operational perspective" (Jonathan Marley (LSE, Irish Defence Forces Military College) and Edward Burke (University of St Andrews, FRIDE))

2015-05-29 14:00: The role of the European Union External Action Service in peace, conflict and security (Maciej Popowski, Deputy Secretary General for the External Action Service)

2015-06-01 12:00: CGHR Research Group: The Art of Justice and the Justice of Art  (Eliza Garnsey (POLIS), Discussant: Dr. Duncan Bell (POLIS))

2015-06-04 13:00: Brexit: consequences for the EU (Dr Christopher Bickerton, POLIS)

2015-06-05 17:00: 2015 Alcuin Lecture - 'Our infinite Scotland small?' Choosing worlds to join. (Neal Ascherson)

2015-06-09 14:00: The Developmental State as Firm-Level Competitive Disadvantage: Evidence from China’s Outward Foreign Direct Investment (Marc Szepan)

2015-06-10 15:30: Imaging techniques - Some spectroscopy techniques  (Heribert Wilhelm, Diamond Light Source Ltd.)

2015-06-10 17:00: CISA panel event: 'The Labour Party and political culture: a post-election analysis' (Prof. Alan Finlayson (East Anglia University), Prof. Andrew Gamble (University of Cambridge), Dr. Ben Jackson (University of Oxford))

2015-06-11 17:30: Bodies of Violence: Theorizing Embodied Subjects in International Relations (Dr Lauren Wilcox)

2015-06-12 17:00: The United States of Europe: myth or reality? (Pietro De Matteis, President, European Federalist Party and Cambridge alumnus)

2015-06-18 14:15: Z4 parafermions in time-reversal invariant topological insulators (Prof. Thomas Schmidt, University of Luxembourg)

2015-06-25 17:00: Drowning Humanity: Panel Discussion on the Mediterranean Migrant Crisis (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-08-06 14:15: Superconducting states in time reversal invariant Landau levels (Prof. Bruno Uchoa, Oklahoma)

2015-08-14 14:00: Thermalization vs localization in a solvable circuit model (Anushya Chandran, Perimeter Institute)

2015-09-17 14:00: Can the Fermi surface reconstruction in YBCO at high fields be explained  by the observed Charge Density Wave (CDW) structure? (Ted Forgan, University of Birmingham)

2015-09-17 14:15: Can the Fermi surface reconstruction in YBCO at high fields be explained  by the observed Charge Density Wave (CDW) structure? (Ted Forgan, University of Birmingham)

2015-09-30 10:00: Emergent phenomena from topological magnets (Professor Yoshinori Tokura, RIKEN and University of Tokyo)

2015-10-09 13:00: Family Values (Prof. Adam Swift (Warwick))

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

2015-10-14 11:15: Complexity and self-organization in superconducting metamaterials. (Prof Giorgos Tsironis, University of Crete and Nazarbaev University)

2015-10-14 16:00: More is different - Quantum Many-Body physics in Optical Lattices (Dr Ulrich Schneider, Atomic, Mesoscopic and Optical Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

2015-10-14 17:00: CGHR Book Launch: Political Identity and Conflict in Central Angola 1975-2002 (Dr Justin Pearce (POLIS))

2015-10-15 14:15: Four-Dimensional Quantum Hall Effect with Ultracold Atoms (Dr Hannah Price, Universita di Trento)

2015-10-16 13:00: Conference: Organisation, Networks and Policymaking in European Foreign Ministries in the Twentieth Century (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-10-19 16:00: CGHR Report Launch: ICTs and Human Rights Practice (Dr Ella McPherson and Dr Thomas Probert)

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

2015-10-19 17:00: Disruptive listening in times of conflict: the poetics of war and citizenship in Dinka cattle songs in South Sudan (Dr Angela Impey (SOAS) )

2015-10-21 16:00: Manipulating quantum fluids of light in semiconductor microcavities (Professor Jacqueline Bloch, Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures LPN/CNRS Route de Nozay)

2015-10-21 17:00: BP, Colombia, Oil & Ethics (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-10-22 14:15: Experiments with the iterated stockholder atoms procedure in intermolecular interaction models (Alston Misquitta, Queen Mary University, London)

2015-10-22 15:00: Africa's peacemakers: Nobel peace laureates of African descent (Dr Adekeye Adebajo Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town)

2015-10-23 13:00: Forms of Differential Social Inclusion (Prof. Jonathan Wolff (UCL))

2015-10-24 11:00: The Festival of Ideas @ POLIS: ELECTION Live! (David Runciman and co)

2015-10-24 13:00: The Festival of Ideas @ POLIS: Claiming Rights at Sea (KC Lin)

2015-10-24 14:30: The Festival of Ideas @ POLIS: Unusual suspects (James Montague, Sophie Roborgh and Hazem Kandil)

2015-10-24 16:00: The Festival of Ideas @ POLIS: Future Worlds, future security threats (Ian Shields)

2015-10-26 16:00: Scott Lecture I - Was Einstein Right?  A Centennial Assessment (Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida)

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

2015-10-26 17:00: Crime fiction, mythomania, and the criminalisation of the South African state (Dr Christopher Warnes (University of Cambridge))

2015-10-27 16:00: Hiding in Plain Sight: Putin's Wars & the Power of Open Source  (Maks Czuperski (Atlantic Council) & Elliot Higgins (Brown Moses))

2015-10-28 16:00: Scott Lecture II - The Cosmic Barber: Counting Gravitational Hair in the Solar System and Beyond (Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida)

2015-10-29 14:15: Dynamical constraints, metastability and many-body localisation (Juan P Garrahan, University of Nottingham)

2015-10-30 15:00: Narrative and the Making of US National Security (Prof Ronald R. Krebs, University of Minnesota)

2015-10-30 16:00: Scott Lecture III - On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of post-Newtonian Theory in Gravitational Physics (Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida)

2015-11-02 13:00: CGHR Research Group: ‘This man does not even know the meaning of peace': conflicting understandings of peace and legitimate violence in Gulu, northern Uganda (Partha Moman (University of Cambridge). Discussant: Dr Adam Branch (POLIS))

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

2015-11-02 17:00: The rifle, the quill, and the rosary; competing sources of political legitimacy in Mali  (Professor Dorothea Schulz (University of Cologne))

2015-11-04 14:15: Tensor Network Representation of Strongly Correlated States of Matter (Didier Poilblanc, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, IRSAMC, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse)

2015-11-04 18:00: The Hinsley Lecture 2015: General Sir Mike Jackson (General Sir Mike Jackson GCB, CBE, DSO, DL)

2015-11-05 12:30: Cambridge Public Policy Research Seminar (Dr Lucy Kimbell, University of the Arts London)

2015-11-05 17:30: CRP Talk: Brazilian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century by Ambassador Celso Amorim (Ambassador Celso Amorim)

2015-11-06 13:00: It's Not Just the Politics that Are Missing: Realist Political Theory and the Everyday (Prof. Marc Stears (Oxford))

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

2015-11-09 17:00: On folles, swageurs and other ambiançeurs; popular culture and queer extraversion in urban Congo  (Dr Thomas Hendriks (KU Leuven))

2015-11-11 11:15: Emergence of the nematic state in FeSe (Dr. Amalia Coldea, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford.)

2015-11-11 16:00: Thermodynamics beyond equilibrium -- the physics of periodically driven quantum systems" (Prof. Dr. Roderich Moessner, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden)

2015-11-11 16:00: The Syria Series: War, disasters and data: the need for an evidence-based humanitarian response (Jesse Berns, Data Collection Lab Director)

2015-11-12 12:30: Policy and Politics: synergy or dysergy? (Lord Lansley)

2015-11-12 14:15: Powerful and deceptive Feynman diagrammatic series (Evgeny Kozik, King's College London)

2015-11-12 17:00: Paul Ginsborg on "Recent Italian Politics in Historical Perspective" (Paul Ginsborg)

2015-11-12 17:00: Global Capitalism and its Critics: Discussion Group (Guy Standing, Professor of Development Studies at SOAS)

2015-11-12 19:30: Problematic Politics: is the notion of human rights imperialistic? (Dr Sharath Srinivasan (CGHR), Lucy Wake (Amnesty International), Prof. Stephen Hopgood (CCRI, SOAS), Dr Arath Sriprakash (Cambridge), Srishti Krishnamoorthy (Cambridge) )

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

2015-11-16 17:00: Media influences in contemporary Rwandan dance performances  (Dr Carine Plancke (University of Roehampton))

2015-11-17 16:30: Media Reading Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-11-17 17:15: Metalepsis and Metaphysics (Professor Duncan Kennedy, Bristol University)

2015-11-18 11:15: Effects of interactions on Lifshitz transition: taking sodium cobaltate as a possible example. (Dr. Jospeh Betouras, Dept. of Physics, Loughborough University.)

2015-11-18 17:00: Geopolitics and European Business: The New German Question (Rainer Neske)

2015-11-19 14:15: Recent progress in linear scaling DFT: Molecular dynamics, basis sets and applications (Prof. David Bowler, University College London)

2015-11-19 17:00: Special panel discussion on Paris attacks (Professor Christopher Hill, Dr Christopher Bickerton, Dr Aaron Rapport and Professor Robert Tombs)

2015-11-20 13:00: Revolutionary Partisanship (Prof. Lea Ypi (LSE))

2015-11-20 15:00: Shared Threat, Executive Constraints, and War (Dr Phil Arena, University of Essex)

2015-11-20 16:00: Ranking Digital Rights Project (Rebecca Mackinnon (New America))

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

2015-11-23 17:00: Social media and the making of the New-Baraza; mediatisation of Kenya’s local administration  (Dr Duncan Omanga, (Moi University, Kenya))

2015-11-25 11:15: Ionitronic Effects in Strongly Correlated Oxide Thin Films (Professor Judith Driscoll, Dept. Materials Science, University of Cambridge.)

2015-11-25 15:30: Theorising Borders in an Era of Globalization and Securitization  (Professor David Newman, Ben-Gurion University, Israel)

2015-11-26 14:15: Dragons' Den (Various members of TCM)

2015-11-27 15:00: Inequality and Democratization: An Elite-Competition Approach (Professor Ben Ansell, University of Oxford)

2015-11-30 13:00: CGHR Research Group: Pax Academica and the Art of the (Im)possible: Investigating habitus, field and capital with lecturers in peace studies (Kevin Kester (Faculty of Education), Dr. Arathi Sriprakash (Discussant))

2015-11-30 13:00: Taking a wolf by the ears: What is Putin up to in Syria and Ukraine? (Sir Tony Brenton ( Former British Ambassador to Russia; Governing Body Fellow, Wolfson Colleg))

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

2015-11-30 17:00: Writing a history of African popular culture (Professor Karin Barber (University of Birmingham))

2015-12-02 11:15: Complexity at High Pressure   From Pure Elements to Thermoelectrics (Dr. Ingo Loa, CSEC Edinburgh.)

2015-12-02 17:00: US Ambassador Matthew Barzun speaks to POLIS and Clare Politics (US Ambassador Matthew Barzun)

2015-12-02 18:30: CGHR Film screening: Enemies of the People (Rob Lemkin (Co-Director))

2015-12-03 14:15: Coupling Spin and Charge Transport in Complex Materials (Dr Martin Gradhand, University of Bristol)

2015-12-08 16:30: Charlie Hebdo and the Arab Shia: Instrumental rhetoric and freedom of expression (The Cambridge Media Reading Group)

2016-01-11 19:00: Fresh Brew: Exploring Science, Social Impact, & the Third Wave of Coffee (Mr Rory Loyd, Dr Katy Wheeler, Dr John O'Neill)

2016-01-13 12:00: Health and Policy Research in Africa: Gathering opinions using interactive radio and SMS in East Africa (Dr Claudia Abreu Lopes (Africa's Voices Foundation))

2016-01-15 13:00: Anarchist Feminism/Anarchism and Feminism: Waves, Exclusions and Intersections (Ruth Kinna (Loughborough University))

2016-01-18 12:30: Rating Companies on Responsible Sourcing: Data Sprint (Amnesty International and WikiRate)

2016-01-19 13:00: Technological Displacement of White-collar Employment: Political and Social Implications (Robert Madelin, Daniel Susskind, Willy Brown, Gerrard de Vis)

2016-01-19 15:00: Multiferroic hexagonal RMnO3: a model system for 2D triangular lattice antiferromagnets (Prof. Je-Geun Park. 1-Center for Correlated Electron Systems, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Seoul. 2-Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul )

2016-01-20 11:15: The magnetic structure and dynamics of the MPS3 family (M=Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) (Dr Andrew Wildes - Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble.)

2016-01-20 16:00: "Probabilistic Language in Quantum Field Theory" (Professor Yuri Dokshitzer, LPTHE, Paris and PNPI, St Petersburg, Russia)

2016-01-20 17:30: Forum on Geopolitics: The Geopolitics of Ukraine - a public lecture by Yulia Osmalovska (Yulia Osmalovska, former Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine official)

2016-01-21 12:30: Public Policy Research Seminar: ‘What’s Wrong with the British Constitution? Implications of the Scottish and EU Referendum Votes’ (Iain McLean, Professor of Politics, University of Oxford, Vice-President for Public Policy, British Academy)

2016-01-21 15:30: Spectral statistics of chaotic many-body systems (Sebastian Müller, University of Bristol)

2016-01-21 16:00: Living Laboratory for Sustainability (Emily Dunning - Coordinator of the Living Laboratory for Sustainability)

2016-01-22 09:00: WHAT NOW? CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY AFTER PARIS  (Speaker to be confirmed)

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

2016-01-27 17:00: CGHR Practitioner Series: Fredrik Galtung, President & Co-founder, Integrity Action (Fredrik Galtung, President & Co-founder, Integrity Action)

2016-01-28 12:30: Public Policy Research Seminar: 'Using Research to Influence Government Policy' (Jo Casebourne, Programme Director, Institute for Government)

2016-01-29 13:00: Reparations and Historic Injustice (Catherine Lu (McGill University))

2016-01-29 14:15: Application of CFT to spin chains and the Fractional quantum Hall wave functions on the lattice. (German Sierra, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas)

2016-02-01 13:00: CGHR Research Group: Inter-Faith Dialogue for the Sake of Governance and Human Rights (Arthur J. Keefer (Faculty of Divinity))

2016-02-02 13:00: The Cambridge Review of International Affairs Presents: My Hair is Pink Under This Veil (Cllr Rabina Khan)

2016-02-02 13:00: Orbital Angular Momentum and Spectral Flow in Two Dimensional Chiral Superfluids (Masaki Oshikawa, ISSP Tokyo)

2016-02-03 16:00: Polymer models of cellular nucleus dynamics (Prof David Holcman (Ecole Normale Superieure))

2016-02-03 17:00: Roundtable: Digital Publics and Counterpublics in Africa (Harri Englund (Cambridge), Florence Brisset-Foucault (Paris-Sorbonne), Duncan Omanga (Moi University, Kenya))

2016-02-04 12:30: Public Policy Research Seminar: 'Being a Special Adviser (SPAD)' (Giles Wilkes, Financial Times  Former Special Adviser to Vince Cable)

2016-02-04 14:15: Geometric responses of Quantum Hall systems. Bulk and boundary. (Alexander Abanov, Stony Brook University)

2016-02-08 16:30: What's in Cameron's Baskets and Why Does It Matter? Renegotiating the UK's Relationship with the EU (Professor Kenneth Armstrong, Dr Julie Smith, Professor Catherine Barnard, Dr Markus Gehring, Dr Albertina Albors-Llorens)

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

2016-02-10 17:00: CGHR Practitioner Series: Pamela Aall, Senior Advisor for Conflict Prevention and Management, US Institute of Peace (Pamela Aall, Senior Advisor for Conflict Prevention and Management, US Institute of Peace)

2016-02-11 12:30: Public Policy Research Seminar: 'Skills and Techniques of an NGO' (Dame Barbara Stocking, President, Murray Edwards College, former CEO Oxfam GB)

2016-02-11 13:00: Minding the Gap: African Conflict Management in a Time of Change (Funmi Olonisakin (Director, African Leadership Centre); Pamela Aall (Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation); Sharath Srinivasan (Director, CGHR). Chaired by Devon Curtis (POLIS))

2016-02-11 14:15: Ultracold dipolar gases with quantum Monte Carlo (Stefano Giorgini, Università degli Studi di Trento)

2016-02-11 17:00: Special screening of 'A Syrian love story' plus Q and A with director (Sean McAllister)

2016-02-12 13:00: Rhetorical Performances (Alan Finlayson (UEA))

2016-02-12 15:00: POLIS Department Seminar - More Integration, Less Federation: The European Integration of Core State Powers (Professor Philipp Genschel, European University Institute, Florence)

2016-02-15 16:00: Book launch: Security: Dialogue across Disciplines, Philippe Bourbeau (Lisa Stampnitzky, Philippe Bourbeau)

2016-02-16 17:00: The World is not Enough: developing social entrepreneurship in academia and real life (Dr Nir Tsuk- Adjunct Professor, Social Capital & Entrepreneurship, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

2016-02-17 14:00: State Structures, State-Business Relations and Multinational Corporate Behaviour: A Case Study of Chinese Multinational Oil Companies (Dr Jin Zhang, Judge Business School)

2016-02-18 12:00: Directed Assembly of Active Colloidal Devices (Professor Mike Cates (DAMTP))

2016-02-19 16:00: POLIS Department Seminar - The Reconfiguration of the State (Professor Patrick Le Gales)

2016-02-19 17:00: The World Bank Global Agenda on Jobs and Implications for the Middle East and North Africa region after the Arab Spring (Diego F. Angel-Urdinola, senior economist in the Human Development Department of the Middle East and North Africa Region of the World Bank)

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

2016-02-23 17:00: Centre for Gender Studies: Book Launch - Juliet Mitchell and the Lateral Axis (Dr Robbie Duschinsky and Dr Susan Walker)

2016-02-23 17:30: Complications during pregnancy in Uganda: Researching socio-cultural drivers using innovative methods (King's/Cambridge-Africa Seminar) (Dr Claudia Abreu Lopes, Head of Research and Development, Africa's Voices Foundation)

2016-02-24 11:15: Large non-saturating magnetoresistance in a novel superconductor Ca3.2Co4Sn12.8 (Dr. Monika Gamza, University of Central Lancashire)

2016-02-24 14:15: Computational Designs for Homogeneous Catalysts for Chemo-, Regio- and Stereoselectivity (Prof. Robert Paton, University of Oxford)

2016-02-24 17:00: CGHR Practitioner Series: The UN from Within (Stephanie La Hoz Theuer,  MPhil candidate Cambridge, former Associate Programme Officer, UNFCCC; Victoria Stewart-Jolley, PhD candidate, POLIS, former UNV, UNDP;  Chair: Dr Devon Curtis, POLIS.)

2016-02-25 12:30: Public Policy Research Seminar: Doing Development Differently (Mr Andy Ratcliffe, Deputy CEO and Director of Strategy and Development, Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative (AGI).)

2016-02-26 13:00: The Art of Solidarity (Mihaela Mihai (Edinburgh))

2016-02-26 15:00: POLIS Department Seminar - Rising Powers and State Transformation: The Case of China (Dr Lee Jones, Queens Mary's London)

2016-03-03 12:30: Public Policy Research Seminar: 'Policy, Politics and Morality in the Regulation of Gambling: the UK Experience' (Professor David Runciman, POLIS)

2016-03-04 11:00: ALGORITHMIC PREDICTION IN POLICING: ASSUMPTIONS, EVALUATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY (Lyria Bennett Moses, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales)

2016-03-07 13:00: The European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights  as a Yardstick for the Domestic Law of the Member States (Clara Rauchegger (Faculty of Law))

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

2016-03-07 19:00: World Outside My Shoes: Carl Wilkens (Speaker to be confirmed)

2016-03-08 16:00: Citizen Media Research and Verification: An Analytical Framework for Human Rights (Christoph Koettl, Senior Analyst, Amnesty International)

2016-03-08 17:15: Decolonising Higher Education: From South Africa to the UK (Adam Branch (Politics, Cambridge) and others)

2016-03-09 17:00: CGHR Practitioner Series (Nadia Kevlin (Humanitarian Aid Worker); Daniella Ritzau Reid (Humanitarian Aid Worker))

2016-03-10 14:15: Frustration meets topology: from C>1 fractional Chern insulators to tilted Weyl semimetals (Emil Bergholtz, Freie Universität Berlin)

2016-03-14 17:00: Nightmare Series Lecture 2: The "Big Freeze" - exploring the consequences of a Russian "zero gas" supply disruption (Professor Nick Butler, KCL)

2016-03-16 16:00: Comets, Rosetta and the origin of the solar system (Professor Willy Benz, Director, Physics Institute, University of Bern)

2016-03-17 16:00: Nurturing a political economy for a sustainable future: technology, innovation, and science (David Bent - Forum for the Future)

2016-04-21 16:00: Fuel cells and hydrogen – moving towards a low carbon economy (Gareth Hinds, National Physical Laboratory (NPL))

2016-04-26 14:00: "Social media and political turbulence" (Professor Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute))

2016-04-27 11:00: First-Principles Study of Frequency-Dependent Resonant Raman Scattering (Yannick Gillet, Université catholique de Louvain)

2016-04-27 16:00: Kinetic challenges in solar energy conversion (Professor James Durrant )

2016-04-28 17:30: The 2016 Antcliffe Lecture with Tristram Hunt MP (Tristram Hunt MP)

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) )

2016-05-04 17:00: What is left of the international? Professor Hill's valedictory lecture.  (Professor Christopher Hill, Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations)

2016-05-05 14:15: Stripe Phases in Quantum Dipolar Gases (Prof. Jordi Boronat, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya)

2016-05-09 13:00: Research Group: 'Convening citizen engagement: why mediation matters for audience participation in interactive broadcast shows' (Dr Claudia Abreu Lopes; Dr Sharath Srinivasan (Africa's Voices; CGHR))

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

2016-05-10 17:15: Coming down with the Classics: a case report (Aristophanes, Lucian, C.M. Wieland et al.) (University of Cambridge/University of Basel)

2016-05-10 17:30: Drinking the Sea: The Technopolitics of Pilgrimage, Potable Water, and Petroleum in Arabia (Professor Michael Christopher Low, Iowa State)

2016-05-12 14:15: New understanding of liquid thermodynamics and supercritical state (Kostya Trachenko, Queen Mary, University of London)

2016-05-12 15:00: POLIS Department Seminar: Patronage Explanations for the Survival of International Organizations (Julia Gray, LSE)

2016-05-13 13:00: Book launch: 'United States Law and Policy on Transitional Justice: Principles, Politics, and Pragmatics' (Zachary D Kaufman (Harvard University); Adam Branch (respondent, Cambridge))

2016-05-13 13:00: CGHR Book launch: United States Law and Policy on Transitional Justice: Principles, Politics and Pragmatics (Zachary D Kaufman, Harvard University)

2016-05-16 16:00: Scott Lecture I - You may find yourself with a beautiful Higgs Boson and 6 beautiful quarks, and you may ask yourself – Well… How did I get here? (Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University)

2016-05-17 17:30: Bad Boy in Rough Neighbourhood: North Korea and the Challenges of East Asian Security (Dr Victor Teo)

2016-05-18 16:00: Scott Lecture II - These are a few of my favorite Things: Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings. (Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University)

2016-05-18 17:00: Political Economy of China Graduate Discussion Group (Professor Fu Xiaolan)

2016-05-19 14:15: Fermionic spinon and holon statistics in the pyrochlore quantum spin liquid (Bruce Normand, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland)

2016-05-19 15:00: POLIS Department Seminar - Data Shadows and Digital Divisions of Labour: Who Creates and Controls the Digital City? (Dr Mark Graham, Oxford Internet Institute)

2016-05-19 16:00: Energy Catalyst (Michael Priestnall, Lead Technologist in Energy for Innovate UK)

2016-05-19 17:00: Freedom Without Equality: Liberated Africans in the Indian Ocean World (Matthew S. Hopper Smuts Visiting Research Fellow in Commonwealth History Wolfson College, Cambridge )

2016-05-20 16:00: Scott Lecture III - What, Where. … and How? The future of the LHC and beyond. (Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University)

2016-05-24 16:00: The Marikana Commission of Inquiry: Investigations and Accountability for Right to Life Violations CGHR in conversation with the lead counsel for the Human Rights Commission, Toby Fisher (Toby Fisher, Barrister, Lead Counsel South African Human Rights Commission - Marikana Commission; Dr Thomas Probert Research Consultant, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions; CGHR Research Asociate)

2016-05-25 14:00: Political Economy of China Graduate Discussion Group (Dr Debin Ma)

2016-05-25 14:00: Political Economy of China Graduate Discussion Group: Ruling like Qing China, modelling State Capacity in an Absolutist State (Dr Debin Ma (LSE))

2016-05-26 14:15: Many-body interaction effects in Dirac-Weyl semimetals (Edwin Barnes, Virginia  Tech)

2016-05-31 12:30: The Political Sociology of Human Rights (PROF KATE NASH (Goldsmiths, University of London))

2016-05-31 17:15: Myth, Misogyny, and Magic: Mansplaining Medea in the Middle Ages (Dr Adam Goldwyn)

2016-06-01 14:00: Political Economy of China Graduate Discussion Group (Dr Arthur Kroeber)

2016-06-02 12:30: Public Policy SRI Seminar: Whitehall, Hearts, Minds and the Ghost of Sefton Delmer: British Information Warfare in the 21st Century (Stephen Jolly, Senior Fellow of the Defence Academy)

2016-06-02 14:15: How to describe inhomogeneous quantum systems in one dimension with (conformal) field theory: lessons from non-interacting Fermi gases (Jerome Dubail, CNRS, Institut Jean Lamour, Nancy)

2016-06-02 15:00: POLIS Department Seminar: When war is oikonomia by other means (Patricia Owens, University of Sussex)

2016-06-06 13:00: Research Group: 'Governing the slums: Lessons from Kenya and Rwanda' (Thomas H. Stubbs (Department of Sociology); Discussant: Dr. Graham Denyer Willis)

2016-06-06 17:00: Cambridge Public Policy Seminar and Book Launch: Naked Diplomacy: Power and Statecraft in the Digital Age (Tom Fletcher CMG and Former British Ambassador to Lebanon)

2016-06-09 14:15: Non-local density functional theory (Prof. Stewart Clark, Durham University)

2016-06-10 11:15: Frustration and Correlations in Stacked Triangular Lattice Ising Antiferromagnets (John Chalker (Theoretical Physics, Oxford University))

2016-06-10 12:00: Researching Obama's White House: the case of the healthcare bill (Speaker to be confirmed)

2016-06-17 09:00: Taxonomy, Translatability and Intelligibility of Scientific Images (For a list of speakers please see http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26682)

2016-06-18 09:30: Taxonomy, Translatability and Intelligibility of Scientific Images (For a list of speakers please see http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26682)

2016-06-23 14:15: Liquid-crystalline states of ultracold atomic systems (Sarang Gopalakrishnan)

2016-06-23 15:45: Workshop: European Migration and the Refugee Crisis: Contested Politics of Social Integration and Identity (Speaker to be confirmed)

2016-06-24 09:00: Workshop on European Migration and the Refugee Crisis: Contested Politics of Social Integration and Identity (Speaker to be confirmed)

2016-06-30 00:00: POLIS workshop - Europe and its crises (Speaker to be confirmed)

2016-07-01 00:00: POLIS workshop - Europe and its crises (Speaker to be confirmed)

2016-10-05 16:00: On Feeding the Masses: The Politics of Regulatory Failure in China (Professor John Yasuda, School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University)

2016-10-07 13:00: Political Liberalism, Science, and Faith: The Case of Intelligent Design (Timothy Fowler (Bristol))

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))

2016-10-12 16:00: The Odyssey of Galaxies throughout the Cosmic Epochs (Professor Roberto Maiolino,  Director of the Kavli Centre for Cosmology, University of Cambridge)

2016-10-12 17:00: Book launch: Why Comrades Go To War (Harry Verhoeven (Georgetown), Philip Roessler (College of William and Mary), Christopher Clapham (discussant, Cambridge))

2016-10-13 14:15: Current trends in cold atom physics (Prof. Nigel Cooper, University of Cambridge)

2016-10-13 16:00: France’s Nuclear Energy Transition: Turning Points in National Policy and Innovation (Dr. Kathleen Araújo, Stony Brook University)

2016-10-14 12:30: Whither South Sudan? Prospects for war, peacebuidling and politics in the world's newest state (Majak D'Agoot (former Deputy Defence Minister), Peter Biar Ajak (POLIS, PhD))

2016-10-14 14:00: China's Economy: Powerhouse, Menace, or the Next Japan? (Dr Arthur Kroeber)

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

2016-10-17 17:00:  'Borders, frontiers, crossroads. Making the Sudanese-Ethiopian borderland' (Dr Alfredo González-Ruibal, Incipit-CSIC, Spain)

2016-10-17 19:30: Should human rights be apolitical? A debate (Angela Patrick, Dr Ayça Çubukçu, Dr Stephanie Palmer, Dr Sharath Srinivasan and Julian Huppert)

2016-10-19 11:15: The next generation of Dirac materials, from discovery to new physical phenomena realized in the solid state (Leslie Schoop, Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany.)

2016-10-19 12:00: Decolonizing the Curriculum (Launch) (Dr Kehinde Andrews  (Birmingham City University), Dr Kerem Nisancioglu (SOAS) and Professor Sarah Radcliffe (University of Cambridge))

2016-10-20 17:00: Alcuin Lecture 2016: Global Britain? The future of British trade after Brexit with Greg Hands, MP (Greg Hands, MP)

2016-10-21 13:00: Civil Disobedience and the Disaggregation of Political Authority (Robert Jubb (Reading))

2016-10-22 12:30: Festival of Ideas - British Movement in the Middle East: 60 years since the Suez Crisis (Dr Aaron Rapport)

2016-10-22 14:00: Festival of Ideas - Moving the Tipping Point (Panel Discussion)

2016-10-22 18:30: Film screening: Things of the Aimless Wanderer (Kiev Ruhorahoza (film Director), Piotr Cieplak and Dr Andrea Grant)

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

2016-10-25 16:00: In conversation: Richard Leakey FRS on Kenyan politics, African politics  (Professor Richard Leakey (Stony Brook University, Turkana Basin Institute))

2016-10-27 14:15: Quantum Criticality, Strange Metals and High Temperature Superconductors (Chandra Varma, University of California, Riverside)

2016-10-27 14:15: Quantum Criticality, Strange Metals and High Temperature Superconductors (Chandra Varma, University of California, Riverside)

2016-10-28 16:00: Searching for – and finding!  gravitational waves (Gabriela Gonzalez, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University        )

2016-10-28 16:00: Covering the Presidential Election (John Prideaux, US Editor of the Economist)

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

2016-10-31 17:00:  'The Long Southern African Past: Enfolded Time and the Challenges of Archive' (Prof Carolyn Hamilton, University of Cape Town)

2016-11-03 14:15: Upside Down and Inside Out: The Biomechanics of Cell Sheet Folding (Prof. Ray Goldstein, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-04 13:00: "Cultural v. Clinical v. Cosmetic Surgery: Challenging the Distinction" (Clare Chambers (Cambridge))

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

2016-11-07 17:00: 'The "colonial moment" in the lives of Swahili objects'  (Dr Sarah Longair, University of Lincoln)

2016-11-09 17:00: Democracy in Africa (Dr Nic Cheeseman): book talk (Dr Nic Cheeseman (Oxford))

2016-11-10 14:15: Title to be confirmed (Prof Michael J Hartmann)

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

2016-11-14 17:00: 'Addressing the Spirit of Discernment: Pentecostal transformation of demonic objects into modern heritage in Sierra Leone  (Dr Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp, MAA, Cambridge)

2016-11-14 18:00: Hinsley Memorial Lecture (Sherard Cowper-Coles)

2016-11-16 11:15: Spin orbit coupling and magnetism in low dimensions for room temperature applications     (Christos Panagopoulos.  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.)

2016-11-17 13:00: Campaign strategy in a rally-intensive campaign: rallying supporters and canvassing swing voters in Tanzania (Dan Paget (Oxford))

2016-11-17 14:15: Theoretical Physics in the Cavendish Laboratory: from the Beginning to 1962 (Prof. Malcolm Longair, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-17 17:00: CRP Panel - From Followers to Leaders: The Challenges of Innovation in East Asia Edit Event (Speaker to be confirmed)

2016-11-18 13:00: The Doctrine of Gender Identity - A Critical Examination (Rebecca Reilly-Cooper (Warwick))

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

2016-11-21 17:00: 'War, displacement, and heritage: a post-conflict material culture in northern Uganda' (Dr John Giblin, British Museum)

2016-11-23 11:15: Phase diagram and spin dynamics of the  frustrated pyrochlore magnet   Yb2Ti2O7 in applied field (Paul McClarty, Wadham College, University of Oxford. Science & Technology Facilities Council.)

2016-11-23 12:30: Righteously Bellicose: The Mental Habits of Religious Violence (Matthew Rowley)

2016-11-23 16:00: Visualizing Quantum Matter (J.C. Séamus Davis, Cornell University;  Brookhaven Nat. Lab and St Andrews University)

2016-11-24 11:45: Quantum criticality and Fermi surface instabilities in the ferromagnetic superconductor UCoGe (Gael Bastien, 1. Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France.  2.INAC/SPSMS, CEA-Grenoble, France.)

2016-11-24 14:15: The intimate relation between mechanics and geometry (Prof. Mark Warner, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-25 12:30: Public Policy Seminar: Criminal. Why people do bad things. Edit Event (Tom Gash, Institute for Government)

2016-11-28 13:00: CGHR Research Group: "Digital Media as Experimental Governance: Shifting the Accountability Paradigm in International Human Rights?" (Matthew S. Mahmoudi (University of Cambridge); Discussant: Dr. Srinivasan)

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

2016-11-28 17:00: 'Livelihood strategies and signatures of vulnerability and resilience in eastern African landscapes' (Prof Paul Lane, Uppsala University)

2016-11-30 11:15: Coordination Frameworks: New routes to multiferroics and low dimensional magnetism (Paul Saines, School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent.)

2016-12-01 13:00:  CGHR Salon: Politics of Choice in Eastern and Southern Europe (Dr. Marcin Smietana, Dr. Robert Pralat, and Dr. Katie Dow; Reproductive Sociology Research Group)

2016-12-06 17:00: 2016 Annual Public Policy Lecture: Smart and Inclusive Growth, a New Narrative on Wealth Creation (Professor Mariana Mazzucato, University of Sussex)

2017-01-19 14:15: TCM Dragons' Den (First year PhD students)

2017-01-20 13:00: The Dancer of the Future from a Socialist Point of View: Eleanor Marx, Isadora Duncan, and Choreographing Socialist Feminism (Dana Mills (NYU))

2017-01-20 17:00: The End of the Asian Century?: Trump, Europe, and the Race to Manage the Risks Threatening Asia's Future (Michael Auslin, American Enterprise Institute )

2017-01-20 17:00: British Politics Seminar: "Does the environment still matter in the age of Trump?" (Chris Smith, Pembroke College)

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

2017-01-23 17:00: From Rebel Movement to Political Party: UNITA's Social Engagement in Post-War Angola (Justin Pearce, University of Cambridge:)

2017-01-24 13:00: Departmental Seminar: Destination still unknown - the UK's relations with the EU (Dr Julie Smith, Department of Politics and International Studies)

2017-01-25 17:00: CGHR Practitioner Series: Sandrine Tiller, Humanitarian Adviser (MSF-UK) (Sandrine Tiller, Humanitarian Adviser (MSF-UK))

2017-01-26 14:15: Counting the Uncountable (Prof. Daan Frenkel)

2017-01-27 17:00: British Politics Seminar: UK Foreign Policy (Peter Ricketts)

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

2017-01-30 17:00: What Is Supreme about the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (SUPKEM)? Challenging the practices of representativeness amongst Muslims in Kenya  (Hassan Mwakimako, Pwani University and CAS Visiting Fellow)

2017-02-02 11:00: Graduate Reading Group Series: ‘Challenges to European Unity’ (Ariadna Ripoll Servent, the University of Bamberg)

2017-02-02 14:15: Curl forces and beyond (Professor Sir Michael Berry, University of Bristol))

2017-02-03 12:30: Public Policy Seminar: Inequality and Education Policy (Professor Anna Vignoles, Faculty of Education)

2017-02-03 13:00: Should we genetically select for the beauty feature of fair skin? Procreative Beneficence versus Procreative Justice (Herjeet Marway (Birmingham))

2017-02-03 17:00: British Politics Seminar: “Wales, the UK and the EU” (Dafydd Wigley)

2017-02-03 17:30: Dealing with Extremism (Professor David Runciman, University of Cambridge)

2017-02-06 13:00: Life Beside the State: Refusing citizenship in Rio de Janeiro's Pentecostal Subúrbios (Laurie Denyer-Willis (CGHR, POLIS) with discussant Professor Sarah Radcliffe (Geography))

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

2017-02-06 17:00: From Hidden Dissent to Open Renegotiation and Contestation: Local Actors Interacting with Agrarian Modernisation in Rural Rwanda (An Ansoms, Catholic University of Leuven)

2017-02-08 17:00: Departmental Seminar: Constitution and Contestation of Norms in Global Governance (Professor Antje Wiener, University of Hamburg)

2017-02-09 13:00: CGHR Open Discussion Group: Fighting Female Genital Cutting in India (Reetika Subramanian)

2017-02-09 16:00: Why the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P) Backfires (And How to Fix It) (Professor Alan Kuperman, University of Texas, USA)

2017-02-09 16:00: Greening up the Cavendish and the University: the Maxwell Centre as a test case (Ottavio Croze)

2017-02-10 17:00: British Politics Seminar: the Coalition Government with Lynne Featherstone (Lynne Featherstone)

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

2017-02-13 17:00: The Politics of Moving On:  Legitimacy and Contestation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Kenya (Njoki Wamai, University of Cambridge)

2017-02-14 12:00: The challenge of justice in transnational contexts of human rights violations: reflections on the case of Giulio Regeni (Dr Antonio Marchesi (Professor of Law at Università di Teramo and President, Amnesty Italy) )

2017-02-15 17:00: CGHR Practitioner Series: Marcus Lenzen, Senior Conflict Adviser, DFID (Marcus Lenzen, Senior Conflict Adviser, DFID)

2017-02-16 14:15: Unravelling the Mysteries of the Water-Solid Interface with Statistical Mechanics and Ab Initio Simulations (Angelos Michaelides, University College London)

2017-02-17 13:00: Institutions, Growth, and Global Justice (Chris Armstrong (Southampton))

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

2017-02-20 17:00: ZANU’s Post-1980 Legitimation Strategies: Post-Liberation Demobilization via Development Discourse (with Book Launch) (Sara Rich Dorman, University of Edinburgh)

2017-02-21 13:00: Departmental Seminar: Reconstruction: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Politics (Dr Duncan Kelly, Department of Politics and International Studies)

2017-02-22 16:00: How can researchers better engage with national and global policymaking? (Charlotte Watts (DfID), Peter Sellen (Education Policy Institute), Roy Head (CEO of DMI) and Pauline Rose (University of Cambridge))

2017-02-22 17:00: CGHR Practitioner Series: Fiona O'Brien, Foreign Correspondent, Academic, Communications Consultant (Fiona O'Brien (foreign correspondent and academic, Kingston University))

2017-02-22 19:15: "Obliterated Families" Film Screening, In Conjunction with PalSoc (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-02-23 13:00: CGHR Salon: Sex, Drugs and Mafioso: The rise of illicit economies in the wake of the refugee crisis (Emily Kassie, International Relations and Politics)

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

2017-02-27 17:00: 'It's Not My Story to Tell': Ownership, Legitimacy, and the Politics of History in Mocimboa da Praia, Mozambique (Ana Margarida Santos, University of Durham)

2017-03-01 11:15: The pervasive influence of strain coupling and dynamic strain relaxation associated with ferroic, multiferroic and superconducting phase transitions. (Prof. Michael Carpenter, University of Cambridge, Dept. of Earth Sciences)

2017-03-02 14:15: The Times They Are A-Changin' (Prof. Nicola Marzari, EPFL)

2017-03-02 17:00: State Security, Torture and the Law (Dr. Onder Ozkalipci (Medical Expert), Dr. Carla Ferstman (REDRESS) and Dr. Lutz Oette (SOAS))

2017-03-03 12:30: Public Policy Seminar: The Politics of Fiscal Squeeze over Time in the UK - Eternal Verities or a Changing Game? (Professor Christopher Hood, University of Oxford)

2017-03-03 13:00: States, Corporations, Robots (David Runciman (Cambridge))

2017-03-06 13:00: Radio and Political Change: Everyday Life Listening in Morocco (Dr Ali Sonay, POLIS, University of Cambridge, with Discussant Lorena Gazzotti (Centre of Development Studies, Cambridge))

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

2017-03-06 17:00: Party Politics, Capital Mobilization and the Rise of ‘Small Boys’ Capitalists in Ghana’s Fourth Republic (George Bob-Milliar, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology and CAS Visiting Fellow)

2017-03-08 11:15: Engineering Approach to Instrumentation Development for High-Pressure Research (Prof. Konstantin Kamenev, University of Edinburgh, Schl of Engineering & Electronics and Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions)

2017-03-08 17:00: Departmental Seminar: The Religionization of Israeli Society (Professor Yoav Peled, Tel Aviv University & Horit Herman Peled)

2017-03-09 13:00:  CGHR Salon: Parliamentary Engagement and the Syrian Conflict (Dr Hayley Hooper and Dr Veronika Fikfak)

2017-03-09 19:00: Wallah Je Te Jure Screening + Q&A (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-03-11 14:00: Asylum Monologues (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-03-13 17:00: Corporate Social Responsibility and Political Control in Kenya and South Africa (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-03-15 11:15: Hidden fluctuations close to a quantum bicritical point (Corenting Morice, CEA, University of Paris-Saclay.)

2017-03-15 17:00: POSTPONED: Book launch: The Horn of Africa, State Formation and Decay (Professor Christopher Clapham (Cambridge); Dr Harry Verhoeven (Georgetown, Qatar))

2017-03-16 16:00: Thinking of becoming an Entrepreneur: What questions will you be asked? (Paul Mantle, Frontier IP Group)

2017-03-17 12:30: Public Policy Seminar: A Strategy for the UK Steel Industry (Professor Julian Allwood, Faculty of Engineering)

2017-03-22 11:15: High pressure synthesis of novel perovskite-type oxides with unusually high valence Co(IV) and Cu(III) ions (Shintaro Ishiwata, University of Tokyo.)

2017-03-27 17:00: Cultural Diversity and International Order Seminar Professor Christian Reus-Smit (Chair of International Relations, University of Queensland) (Professor Christian Reus-Smit (Chair of International Relations, University of Queensland))

2017-03-27 17:30: Beyond Clicktivism: New Models for Exposing Human Rights Violations in the Digital Age (Sam Dubberley, manager of Amnesty International's Digital Verification Corps, and Alexa Koenig, Executive Director of the Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley School of Law)

2017-04-27 13:00: CGHR Salon: Human Rights Violations and the 2016 Rio Olympics (Cerianne Robertson, MPhil Candidate, Department of Sociology)

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

2017-05-03 16:00: Tipping Points & Crises  From statistical physics to social sciences  (Professor Jean-Philippe BOUCHAUD, Ecole Polytechnic and Capital Fund Management plc)

2017-05-04 14:15: Emergent phenomena in classical spin liquids (Ludovic Jaubert, University of Bordeaux)

2017-05-05 12:30: Public Policy Seminar: Cycles of Invention and Discovery (Professor Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences )

2017-05-05 12:30: A Day in the Life: Bede Sheppard from Human Rights Watch (Bede Sheppard (Human Rights Watch))

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

2017-05-10 11:00: The Status of Mini-Grids:  Are they the 'next' big thing, or an un-economic diversion? (Daniel Kammen, Professor of Energy, UC Berkeley)

2017-05-10 12:00: Decolonising the Curriculum in Theory and Practice (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-05-10 16:00: “Topology in materials science” (Prof Claudia Felser, MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden)

2017-05-11 14:15: Transformation optics, surface plasmons, and metasurfaces (Professor Sir John Pendry, Imperial College, London)

2017-05-11 16:00: Photo-induced superconductivity and other stories  (Prof Andrea Cavalleri, MPI for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Munich)

2017-05-15 15:00: Religious Leaders and Conflict Transformation: A Discussion  (Dr Nukhet Ahu Sandal, Ohio University)

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

2017-05-16 16:00: Scott Lecture I: Making of Sustainable Smart Society by Transformative Electronics 1 - Blue LED Story (Prof Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University)

2017-05-17 11:15: Scattering, Fermi surface reconstruction and the gap above Tc in cuprate superconductors (James G. Storey.  Robinson Research Institute & MacDiarmid Institute,  Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

2017-05-17 16:00: Scott Lecture II: Making of Sustainable Smart Society by Transformative Electronics 2 - Future Electronics  (Prof Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University)

2017-05-17 17:00: Authority, Expertise and Race in the South African TRC (Dr. Deborah Posel, Professor of Sociology at the University of Cape Town)

2017-05-18 14:00: Magnetic Moment Fragmentation in Spin Ice and Artificial Spin Ice (Prof. Peter Holdsworth, ENS Lyon)

2017-05-18 14:00: Strain-tuning of the magnetic compounds Sr3Ru2O7, CeAuSb2, and PdCrO2 (Clifford Hicks. Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany)

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

2017-05-23 15:00: Digital Fact-Finding Without Borders: Transnational Advocacy in the 21st Century (Steven Livingston (Carr Center, Harvard University; George Washington University))

2017-05-24 17:00: The Whigs and Jacobins of Africa: Traditional Authorities across Francophone and Anglophone Sub- Saharan Africa and the Different Conceptions of Political Order (Jan Erk, Jan C. Smuts Visiting Fellow 2016-17, Centre of African Studies and Clare Hall )

2017-05-25 13:00: CGHR Salon: Justice, Human Rights and the Changing International Order - Is Cosmopolitan Progress under Threat? (Daniel Wand, University of Leeds)

2017-05-25 14:15: Correlated electronic structure: What can physicists and chemists learn from each other? (Dr George Booth)

2017-05-31 11:15: Superfluid density, universal scaling of critical current and the quest for room-temperature superconductivity (Jeffery Tallon, Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington and MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials & Nanotechnology, New Zealand.)

2017-06-01 14:15: On signatures of Majorana fermions (Dr Benjamin Béri (University of Birmingham) )

2017-06-01 15:00: Religious Leaders and Conflict Transformation: A Discussion (Speaker to be confirmed)

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

2017-06-07 16:00: "Dark Matter (at the LHC and other experiments)" (caterina.doglioni@hep.lu.se)

2017-06-08 13:00: CGHR Salon: Duterte’s War on Drugs (Last CGHR Salon of Easter Term!) (Sharmila Parmanand, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies)

2017-06-08 14:15: Magnetic moments in superconductors: From Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states, to topological superconductors and frustrated magnetism (Prof. Jens Paaske, University of Copenhagen)

2017-06-13 12:00: Breaking Aleppo: Facts and Fictions of the Conflict (Maksymilian Czuperski, Director, Digital Forensic Research Lab & Special Advisor to the President, Atlantic Council)

2017-09-13 18:00: 'Politics in Uncertain Times: What will the world look like in 2050 and how do you know? (Speaker to be confirmed)

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

2017-10-05 14:15: Topological electronic properties of silicon (Prof. Claudio Chamon, Boston University)

2017-10-06 13:00: The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Making Use of the Stilts? (Tom Shakespeare (UEA))

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

2017-10-11 16:00: No Physicist is an Island:  Looking for TeV Physics in a peV Transition (Professor Eric Cornell, University of Colorado, Boulder)

2017-10-12 14:15: Scaling laws for spreading the quantum information (Dr Adam Nahum, University of Oxford)

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

2017-10-16 17:00: Africa as a “Dissimilar” System? Knowledge Production on Africa in the UK (Prof Wale Adebanwi, University of Oxford)

2017-10-19 14:15: Surprises from 'simple' metals -- a case study of layered delafossites (Prof. Andrew Mackenzie, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids)

2017-10-20 13:00: Criminal Accountability, Restorative Justice, and the Moral Standing of States (Avia Pasternak & Jeff Howard (UCL))

2017-10-23 17:00: Global Governance and Grand Corruption: The International Politics and Policy of Looted Wealth (Professor Jason Sharman)

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

2017-10-23 17:00: Epistemology and the Dance Archive in Colonial Central Kenya (Dr Cécile Feza Bushidi, University of Cambridge)

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))

2017-10-26 14:15: Entanglement and thermodynamics in out-of-equilibrium systems (Vincenzo Alba)

2017-10-30 17:00: Youth and generational conflict in South African historiography (Prof Clive Glaser, University of the Witwatersrand)

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

2017-11-01 13:00: Departmental Seminar- "The Jehovah's Witnesses of social policy"? Explaining the rise, fall, and revival of Universal Basic Income in British politics, 1918-2017 (Dr Peter Sloman)

2017-11-03 13:00: Philosophical Racism (Katrin Flikschuh (LSE))

2017-11-06 17:00: Henri Breuil and the Imagination of Prehistory in Southern Africa  (Saul Dubow (Faculty of History))

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

2017-11-08 17:00: What's next for Kenya after the 2017 Elections? The good, the bad and the ugly (Njoki Wamai (CGHR, POLIS, University of Cambridge), Patrick Mutahi (University of Edinburgh), Kamau Wairuri (University of Edinburgh) )

2017-11-09 14:15: Anharmonic and quantum effects in (bio)organic systems with first-principles accuracy (Dr Mariana Rossi, Fritz Haber Institut)

2017-11-13 13:00: CGHR Research Group: "A murdered journalist and the puncturing of a culture of impunity in Burkina Faso: the pursuit of justice for Norbert Zongo" (Dr. Thomas Probert, CGHR Research Associate)

2017-11-13 17:00: Can We Decolonise the Academy from Within?  (Dr Zoe Marks, University of Edinburgh)

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

2017-11-15 17:00: Departmental Seminar- 'Descriptive Representation Revisited' (Professor Anne Phillips, LSE)

2017-11-16 14:15: Exploring Chemical Space with Random Matrix Theory (Dr Alpha Lee, University of Cambridge)

2017-11-17 13:00: When the Rules Run Out: Informal Taxonomies at the Front Lines of Public Service (Bernardo Zacka (Cambridge & MIT))

2017-11-20 17:00: Fashion as Transnational Feminist Methodology for African Studies  (Dr Simidele Dosekun, University of Sussex)

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

2017-11-22 11:15: Thermodynamics of high-Tc superconductors as related to other spectroscopies – the legacy of John Loram (Professor Jeff Tallon Robinson Research Institute,   Victoria University of Wellington and MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials & Nanotechnology)

2017-11-23 12:00: Can the Digital Revolution Transform our Productivity? (Gilles Babinet, Tech entrepreneur and former President of the French Digital National Council)

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))

2017-11-23 14:15: Unconventional Order in some Framework Materials (Prof. Andrew Goodwin, University of Oxford)

2017-11-23 19:00: Let’s Talk: Power and Powerlessness in Academia (no speaker)

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

2017-11-28 17:00: Corruption as a global threat (Laurence Cockcroft, Independent Writer and Economist & Prof Jason Sharman, POLIS)

2017-11-29 10:00: Incorporating Meaning into Fundamental Physics (Brian Josephson, Physics Department, University of Cambridge)

2017-11-29 11:15: Advanced neutron diffraction for functional materials (Pascal Manuel: Isis Neutron and Muon Source)

2017-11-29 13:00: Departmental Seminar- 'A New Global Politics of Religion: Religious Harmony, Public Order, and Securitisation in the Post-colony' (Dr Iza Hussin)

2017-11-29 16:00: A physicists perspective on osteoarthritis: From hydration lubrication to gene regulation (Jacob Klein, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel )

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

2017-11-30 15:00: Stratification, Centralization, and the Structures of International Societies (Professor Jack Donnelly (University of Denver))

2017-12-01 17:00: The Weaponisation of Human Rights (Chase Madar, attorney, author and journalist)

2017-12-06 11:15: Emergent quantum coherent state on the border of ferroelectricity (Dr Matt Coak: Institute for Basic Sciences , Center for Correlated Electron Systems Department of Physics & Astronomy, Seoul National University, Korea)

2018-01-16 18:00: Film screening 'Chauka, please tell us the time' and Q&A (Arash Kamali Sarvestani, director)

2018-01-17 11:00: Historiography (Speaker to be confirmed)

2018-01-18 14:15: Coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism at the nanoscale (Prof. Alexandre Buzdin, University of Bordeaux)

2018-01-18 18:00: Policing with Human Rights - promoting peaceful and inclusive societies (Christof Heyns, Member of the UN Human Rights Committee & former UN Special Rapporteur on summary executions, Anneke Osse, Consultant on policing and human rights, Stuart Maslen Honorary Professor, Faculty of Law (University of Pretoria)  )

2018-01-19 13:00: Liberal Egalitarianism and the Critique of Religion (Cecile Laborde (Oxford))

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

2018-01-24 11:15: Thermal Conductivity in Quantum Materials Research (Prof. Robert Hill, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo)

2018-01-25 14:15: Metastability in open quantum dynamics (Dr Katarzyna Macieszczak, University of Nottingham)

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))

2018-01-31 17:00: CGHR Practitioner Series: Alix Dunn, The Engine Room (Alix Dunn, Executive Director, The Engine Room)

2018-02-01 14:15: TCM Dragon's Den (TCM first year students)

2018-02-02 13:00: Structural Injustice and the Rising Demands of Beauty (Heather Widdows (Birmingham))

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

2018-02-07 11:15: Magnetic van der Waals Materials: Potentials and Applications (Professor Je-Geun Park: Center for Correlated Electron Systems, Institute for Basic Science, Seoul & Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul )

2018-02-08 14:15: Using molecular orbital arguments to explain acene-based chromophore spectra (Dr Tim Hele, University of Cambridge)

2018-02-09 13:00: The Doctor’s Plot: How Philosophizing Human Rights Began (Samuel Moyn (Yale))

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))

2018-02-14 17:00: CGHR Practitioner Series: Andrea Coomber, JUSTICE (Andrea Coomber, Director, JUSTICE)

2018-02-15 14:15: Topological Materials with liquid electrons (Prof. Claudia Felser, Max Planck Institute)

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)

2018-02-21 11:15: Crystal growth, structure and magnetic frustration in rare earth pyrochlore oxides (Monica Ciomaga Hatnean, University of Warwick)

2018-02-21 17:00: Fear and Democracy: Reflections on Security and Freedom (Ira Katznelson, Columbia University)

2018-02-22 14:15: Ergodicity, dissipation, and large-deviation theory in non-equilibrium systems (Dr Robert Jack, University of Cambridge)

2018-02-28 17:00: CGHR Practitioner Series: Sharath Srinivasan, Africa's Voices  (Sharath Srinivasan, Director, Africa's Voices)

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)

2018-03-01 14:15: Delocalised atoms and electrons in quasi-periodic lattices, their edge modes and interactions with heavy impurities (Dr Manuel Valiente, Heriot-Watt University)

2018-03-01 17:30: A Certain Idea of Britain: Writing the political history of one's own country in one's own times (Lord Peter Hennessy (Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London))

2018-03-02 13:00: Procreative Justice and Genetic Selection for Non-Disease Traits: The Case of Fair Skin (Herjeet Marway (Birmingham))

2018-03-07 11:15: Inelastic neutron scattering and µSR investigations of an anisotropic hybridization gap in the Kondo insulators: CeT2Al10 (T=Fe, Ru and Os) (Dr. Adroja Devashibhai, ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

2018-03-08 14:15: Dirac and Weyl Semimetals: Synthesis and Characterization  (Ivan Kokanović: Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia )

2018-03-08 14:15: Dirac and Weyl Semimetals: Synthesis and Characterization  (Dr Ivan Kokanovic, University of Zagreb)

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 17:00: Teach-out! Practitioner Series: Elizabeth Davies, BBC World Service (Elizabeth Savies, BBC World Service)

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

2018-03-15 14:15: Quantum modelling of the interiors of rocky and icy planets (Dr Andreas Hermann, The University of Edinburgh)

2018-03-17 09:00: Teach-Out! Conference! Post-Truth Phenomenon (15-17 March) (      )

2018-04-13 14:15: What is really extraordinary in superconducting cuprates? (Professor Ivan Bozovic, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Applied Physics Department, Yale University)

2018-04-19 14:15: Multi-scale dynamic disorder in halide perovskite solar cells (Prof. Aron Walsh, Imperial College London)

2018-04-20 14:15: Semimetals Unlimited: Unbounded electrical and thermal transport properties in three-dimensional nodal semimetals (Dr Brian Skinner, MIT)

2018-04-23 17:00: Gender, UN Peacebuilding and the Politics of Space (Prof Laura Shepherd, Sydney University &  Dr Maria Martin de Almagro, POLIS)

2018-04-26 14:15: Quantum Thermalization Dynamics (Prof. Dr. Frank Pollmann, Technische Universität München)

2018-04-30 17:00: Film Screening UNSEEN ENEMY with the director Janet Tobias  (Janet Tobias, Director, Sierra Tango Productions & Dr Laurie Denyer Willis, CGHR Research Associate)

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

2018-05-02 11:00: Magnetic-field Induced Pair Density Wave State in the Cuprate Vortex Halo (Dr. Stephen Edkins, Stanford)

2018-05-03 14:15: Magnetism and topology in strongly correlated metals (Prof. Qimiao Si, Rice University)

2018-05-03 17:00: Climate Change & Human Rights: Let's talk interdisciplinary action (Dr Stephen Humphreys (LSE), Dr Shailaja Fennell (Centre of Development Studies), chaired by Dr Mette Eilstrup- Sangiovanni (POLIS))

2018-05-07 12:00: Law and International Religious Freedom: The Rise and Decline of the American Model (Dr Pasquale Annicchino)

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

2018-05-08 17:00: Brexit: What happens and where do we go from here?  (Professor Anand Menon)

2018-05-08 17:00: Decolonising African Studies: Revisiting Archie Mafeje on Theory and Method (Professor Lungisile Ntsebeza, University of Cape Town)

2018-05-08 17:00: Alcuin Lecture 2018- Brexit: What happened and where do we go from here? (Professor Anand Menon, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs, Kings College London and Director of UK in a Changing Europe)

2018-05-08 17:00: Alcuin Lecture 2018- Brexit: What happened and where do we go from here? (Professor Anand Menon, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs, Kings College London and Director of UK in a Changing Europe)

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

2018-05-10 16:30: From Discord to Cooperation? Armenia and Turkey in the 21st Century (Dr Geoffrey Edwards (University of Cambridge))

2018-05-14 14:15: Fractons (Prof. Rahul Nandkishore, Boulder)

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

2018-05-15 16:30: CRASSH Impact: Reni Eddo-Lodge and Priyamvada Gopal in Conversation (Reni Eddo-Lodge)

2018-05-16 17:15: CRASSH Impact: Reni Eddo-Lodge and Heidi Mirza in Conversation (Reni Eddo-Lodge)

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

2018-05-18 13:00: Democratic Competition: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Ian Shapiro (Yale))

2018-05-21 16:00: A TALE OF TWO METALS: CONTRASTING CRITICALITIES IN THE CUPRATES AND PNICTIDES (Prof. Nigel Hussey, Director of the Nijmegen High Magnetic Field Laboratory)

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

2018-05-23 17:00: Practical Competition Policy Implications of Digital Platforms: Taking Schumpeter Seriously (Departmental Seminar) (Professor Diane Coyle (POLIS))

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)

2018-05-24 11:30: Artistic Representations (List of speakers below)

2018-05-24 14:15: Computationally Driven Design of New and Improved Transparent Conducting Oxides (Dr David Scanlon, University College London)

2018-05-25 09:30: Artistic Representations (List of speakers below)

2018-05-30 11:00: Wave propagation in complex media: Branching, chimeras and machine learning predictions (Professor G. P. Tsironis - Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece)

2018-05-30 16:00: A physicist's spin on data science (Deborah Berebichez, Chief Data Scientist at Metis)

2018-05-31 17:15: Nine Dots Prize Book Launch (James Williams)

2018-06-07 14:15: Effective Edge State Dynamics in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (Prof. Steve Simon, University of Oxford)

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

2018-06-14 14:15: Nonextensivity in classical inertial XY and Heisenberg models (Dr Antonio Rodríguez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)

2018-06-15 16:00: Hidden problems in the global wind industry (Dr Jim Platts, Institute of Manufacturing, University of Cambridge)

2018-06-22 16:00: FINDING BETTER MATERIALS FASTER: THE EXAMPLE OF MAGNETOCALORICS (Prof. Ram Seshadri, University of California, Santa Barbara)

2018-06-26 14:30: The impact of policy on the low-carbon transition: opening the black box of energy technologies (Professor Laura Diaz Anadon, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge)

2018-06-28 14:15: Bridging the gap between atomistic and macroscopic models of homogeneous nucleation (Bingqing Cheng, EPFL)

2018-07-03 15:30: Law and the Arts: Staging Law, Performing Trials (Adele Thomas, Carey Young, Farah Karim-Cooper, Subha Mukherji, Nicola Padfield QC, Richard Sherwin, and Caroline Williams)

2018-07-04 11:00: High temperature superconductors from fundamental science to hybrid electric aircraft (Prof. Jeff Tallon, Victoria University of Wellington)

2018-07-16 09:00: The Visual Worlds of the Royal Society (Alexander Marr, Matthew Walker, Rebekah Higgitt, Henrietta McBurney Ryan, Sietske Fransen, Kate Bennett, Karin Leonhard & Elisa von Minnigerode, Spike Bucklow, Andrew Burnett, Frances Hughes, Katherine M. Reinhart, Katy Barrett)

2018-07-20 14:15: New tools to simulate strongly correlated systems (Dr Norman Tubman, UC Berkeley)

2018-07-26 14:15: An overview of topological crystalline phases, defect physics and novel Floquet systems (Dr Robert-Jan Slager, MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems )

2018-09-20 11:00: Theology (For list of speakers see programme)

2018-09-25 16:00: Computational and experimental force multipliers for the discovery of new thermoelectric and photovoltaic materials (Prof Eric Toberer: Physics Dept., Colorado School of Mines)

2018-09-28 11:15: Topological Kondo semimetals  (Prof. Huiqiu Yuan: Center for correlated Matter and Department of Physics, Zhejiang University)

2018-09-29 10:00: Reinventing, Rethinking, and Representing Menopause  (For list of speakers see programme)

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

2018-10-12 13:00: A Just Theory of Riots (Jonathan Havercroft (Southampton))

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

2018-10-15 17:00: Metabolic disorder, global health and ‘noncommunicable’ disease in Malawi (Prof Megan Vaughan, UCL)

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))

2018-10-18 13:00: Recent developments in EU energy and climate policy (Dr Alex Bocse (LSE) )

2018-10-18 14:15: Predicting the atomic structure of interfaces and extended defects using Ab Initio Random Structure Searching (Dr Georg Schusteritsch, University of Cambridge )

2018-10-19 16:00: Turning the global history of ‘technology’ upside down: the supremacy of Uruguay (David Edgerton (KCL))

2018-10-22 16:00: Scott Lecture I : Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter using Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices (Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching)

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

2018-10-22 17:00: Policy of No Policy: Disability and Technology Translation Dilemmas in Uganda  (Dr Herbert Muyinda, Makerere University)

2018-10-23 18:00: Political Policing in Uganda: Surveillance, Mobilisation and Police-NRM Party nexus (Dr Jude Kagoro, Research Fellow at the Institute of Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS), Bremen University)

2018-10-24 13:00: Book launch with Nanjala Nyabola - in conversation with Dr Duncan Omanga (CGHR) (Nanjala Nyabola, writer, indepentent researcher and political analyst)

2018-10-24 16:00: Scott Lecture II : Realizing and Probing Topological Matter using Ultracold Quantum Gases (Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching)

2018-10-24 17:00: Panel Discussion: Crime, Human Rights and Police-Community Relations: Law Enforcement in Post-Colonial Worlds (Kaitlin M. Ball (University of Cambridge), Nanjala Nyabola (Kenyan writer & Political Analyst), Dr Jude Kagoro (University of Bremen))

2018-10-25 14:15: Uni-axial Negative Thermal Expansion in Layered Perovskites (Prof. Arash Mostofi, Imperial College London)

2018-10-26 13:00: Disturbing the "One Size Fits All' Feudal Approach to Data Governance: Bottom-up Data Trusts (Sylvie Delacroix (Birmingham))

2018-10-26 16:00: Scott Lecture III : Beyond Statistical Mechanics - Probing Quantum Matter out of Equilibrium (Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching)

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

2018-10-29 17:00: Towards a Relational Understanding of Participation in Social Health Protection  (Prof Brigit Obrist, University of Basel)

2018-11-01 14:15: Second-Principles DFT methods and current applications (Dr Pablo García Fernández, University of Cantabria)

2018-11-01 17:00: ‘Facing the Pressures of Internationalisation and Securitisation: National Governments as the Weaker Actors?’  (Dr Tomáš Weiss (Charles University Prague) )

2018-11-01 17:15: Lecture by Homi Bhabha (Homi Bhabha (Harvard))

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

2018-11-02 17:30: Homi Bhabha in Conversation (Homi Bhabha (Harvard), Phiroze Vasunia (UCL))

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

2018-11-05 17:00: Problematizing The Ebola Virus Disease in the Mano River Basin: Sierra Leone Health Infrastructure on the Eve of Ebola  (Prof Ibrahim Abdullah, University of Sierra Leone)

2018-11-08 14:15: Dynamical quantum phase transitions (Dr Markus Heyl, Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden)

2018-11-09 13:00: Bleak Dreams, not Nightmares: Critical Dystopias and the Necessity of Melancholic Hope (Mathias Thaler (Edinburgh))

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

2018-11-12 17:00: Atomic Junction: The Road to Nuclear Power (documentary film, 30 mins) (Abena Dove Osseo-Asare)

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))

2018-11-15 13:00: ‘What is “Global Britain”? Brexit and Britain's World Role’ (Dr Oliver Daddow (Nottingham University) )

2018-11-15 14:15: Theory of photon- and electron-stimulated surface chemistry (Dr Reinhard Maurer, University of Warwick)

2018-11-19 17:00: Power, authority, and community participation in primary health-care centres: contrasting evidence from health facility committees in South Kivu (DR Congo) and Burundi  (Dr Jean-Benoit Falisse, University of Edinburgh)

2018-11-20 12:30: Political Theory for the Real World (Michael Goodhart (Pittsburgh))

2018-11-20 17:00: Cogs and Monsters: economists, experts and measuring progress (Professor Diane Coyle (POLIS))

2018-11-21 11:15: Ballistic electrons on the hexagonal Fermi surface of PdCoO2 (Maja Bachmann, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden)

2018-11-22 14:15: Dissipative transition in synthetic matter (Prof. Rosario Fazio, ICTP)

2018-11-22 16:00: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Global Governance of Migration (Dr Sara Silvestri, City, University of London)

2018-11-23 13:00: The Compatibility of Constitutional Democracy with International Law (Carmen Pavel (KCL))

2018-11-23 15:30: Brexit and Conspiracy Theories (Dr Hugo Leal (Cambridge) and Dr Hugo Drochon (Cambridge))

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

2018-11-26 17:00: Memories of Ashura: A photographic essay from Zanzibar before and after the Revolution  (Dr Sloan Mahone, University of Oxford )

2018-11-26 17:30: The Itinerary -Tracing the Refugee Routes (Dimitrios Bouras)

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

2018-11-29 13:00: ‘Why should one care about European Parliament's elections in the post-Brexit European Union?’ (Dr Donatella Viola (University of Calabria) )

2018-11-29 14:15: Quantum many-body scars (Dr. Zlatko Papić, University of Leeds)

2018-12-04 17:00: Geographies of knowledge in ancient and modern Iraq: the Nahrein Network and the intellectual infrastructure of heritage (Prof Eleanor Robson (UCL))

2018-12-21 11:15: High pressure Fermiology studies of YBCO (Audrey Grockowiak, NHMFL Tallahassee)

2019-01-17 10:00: Historiography (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-01-17 13:00: Seizing the Crisis and Using Europe: The Politics of EU Defence Integration Cooperation after Brexit’ (Dr Lucie Béraud-Sudreau)

2019-01-17 14:15: Phonon assisted luminescence in hexagonal Boron Nitride (Dr Elena Cannuccia, University of Rome "Tor Vergata")

2019-01-18 13:00: The Logic of Legitimacy (Amanda Greene (UCL))

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

2019-01-22 10:00: Materiality of Early Modern Optical Instruments (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-01-23 17:00: CGHR Practitioner's Series with Sam Dubberley, Amnesty International (Sam Dubberley, Amnesty International)

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))

2019-01-24 14:15: 3D quantum Hall effects in Dirac loops (Prof. Bruno Uchoa, The University of Oklahoma)

2019-01-25 12:30: The Timeless Appeal of Technocracy in Global Governance (Prof. Jens Steffek (Darmstadt))

2019-01-25 12:30: The Timeless Appeal of Technocracy in Global Governance (Prof. Jens Steffek (Darmstadt))

2019-01-25 17:00: Economic Adjustment and Political Transformation in Europe and the United States (Alcuin Lecture 2019) (Professor Erik Jones)

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

2019-01-30 11:15: Delafossite oxides: natural, ultra-pure metal-insulator heterostructures (Veronika Sunko, University of St Andrews and MPI-CPfS Dresden)

2019-01-31 14:15: 50 years on. Recollections of a former young theoretical physicist (Prof. David Khmelnitskii, University of Cambridge)

2019-02-01 13:00: Emancipation for the Unjust Past (Alasia Nuti (York))

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

2019-02-05 13:00: Liberalism and Democracy in Myanmar (Professor Ian Holliday, The University of Hong Kong)

2019-02-07 13:00: The Humanitarian Club (Professor Michael Barnett (George Washington University))

2019-02-07 14:15: Minimal models for chaotic quantum dynamics in spatially extended many-body systems  (Prof. John Chalker, University of Oxford)

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

2019-02-13 17:00: 'Appointment with God'; Facebook, Digital-Deathworlds and Extra Judicial Killings of Criminal Gangs in Eastlands Nairobi (Dr. Duncan Omanga, British Academy Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge (2018/9); Senior Lecturer of Media Studies in Moi University, Kenya)

2019-02-14 13:00: The Power of Political Arguments in Understanding Referendums (European Centre Seminars) (Dr Ece Özlem Atikcan)

2019-02-14 14:15: Non-linear response of two dimensional crystals and layered materials (Dr Claudio Attaccalite, CNRS)

2019-02-15 13:00: Hannah Arendt in Baddawi: Political Identity without Sovereignty in Refugee History (Lyndsey Stonebridge (Birmingham))

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))

2019-02-20 17:00: CGHR Practitioner's Series with Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen O’Brien KBE (Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen O’Brien KBE, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator)

2019-02-21 14:15: Undecidability of the Spectral Gap in One Dimension (Dr Johannes Bausch, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

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

2019-02-26 17:00: CGHR Panel - The Streets Don't Forget: Photojournalism and Creative Research on the Philippine Drug War (Raffy Lerma - freelance photographer; Ica Fernandez - urban planner; Inez Feria - founder of NoBox Philippines )

2019-02-28 14:15: Enhancing materials design using microscopy and modelling (Dr Rebecca Nicholls, University of Oxford)

2019-02-28 17:00: The Future of British Foreign Policy (Book launch celebration) (Professor Christopher Hill)

2019-02-28 17:00: “Knowledge and War: Paper Technologies in Early Modern Empires” - gloknos Annual Lecture Series (Dr Erica Charters (University of Oxford))

2019-03-01 13:00: Left Critiques of Equality (Anne Phillips (LSE))

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))

2019-03-06 11:15: Chemical Control of Correlated Metals as Transparent Conductors (Dr. Jonathan Alaria, University of Liverpool)

2019-03-06 13:00: BOOK TALK - Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism (Professor Jelena Subotic (Georgia State University))

2019-03-06 17:00: CGHR Practitioner's Series with Clive Baldwin, Human Rights Watch (Clive Baldwin, Senior Legal Advisor at Human Rights Watch)

2019-03-07 12:00: Legitimacy and eectiveness of the European Semester: does the parliamentary involvement make a dierence? (Ivana Skazlic)

2019-03-07 12:00: Learning Europe at its borders: how deployments to migration hotspots aect Europeans’ understandings of themselves and society (Gil Thompson)

2019-03-07 17:00: How can AI be used for Social Good? Lessons from Africa’s Voices Foundation (Sharath Srinivasan; Luke Church )

2019-03-08 17:00: “The Political Economy of Nutrition in the 18th Century” - gloknos Annual Lecture Series (Prof Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick))

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

2019-03-14 13:00: Britain in Europe, 1973–1975: From Hope to Uncertainty (Dr Lindsay Aqui)

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

2019-03-24 11:00: CGHR at the Cambridge Science Festival - Health crises, digital media and community voices (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-03-28 17:00: How should the UK govern itself in the time of Brexit? (Professor Mike Kenny (POLIS))

2019-03-29 14:00: Mini Colloquium on Itinerant Electron Ferromagnetic Superconductors and Related Materials - Chair and Discussion Lead: Malte Grosche (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-04-25 14:15: Spontaneous non-equilibrium magnetism via "Berryogenesis" in driven electronic systems (Prof. Mark Spencer Rudner, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)

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))

2019-05-01 17:00: CGHR Practitioner Series presents: Reporting Human Rights Today (Suyin Haynes, Haley Joelle Ott, Dr Maha Rafi Atal)

2019-05-02 14:15: Non-Hermitian symmetry-protected topological band theory (Simon Lieu, Imperial College London )

2019-05-02 17:00: "Accra to Lagos; Lagos to London": African Engagements with the Higher Education industry *culled from the titles of two music volumes by Mr Eazi (Prof Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon )

2019-05-02 17:00: Circulating Public Knowledge: Towards a New History of the Postwar Humanities – gloknos Annual Lecture Series (Dr Johan Östling (Lund University))

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

2019-05-09 14:15: Screening materials from high-throughput ab initio calculations (Prof. Gian-Marco Rignanese, UCLouvain)

2019-05-13 14:15: Flexoelectricity from first principles (Prof. Cyrus E. Dreyer, Stony Brook University and Flatiron Institute)

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

2019-05-14 14:00: The Power of Agnosis and the Politics of the Unknown - gloknos cum panis seminar (Dr Maria Birnbaum (University of Oslo))

2019-05-16 14:15: Computational modelling of itinerant electrons and fluctuating local moments in magnetic materials - permanent magnets, caloric effects and spintronics (Prof. Julie Staunton, University of Warwick)

2019-05-20 15:00: Book Launch – 'Canguilhem' (Prof Stuart Elden (University of Warwick))

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))

2019-05-23 14:15: Many-electron quantum simulation of matter: insight from exact time-dependent real-space model systems (Prof. Rex Godby, University of York)

2019-05-30 10:30: Political Science and Political Thought (Various)

2019-05-30 14:15: Dissipative "time crystals" (Dr. Achilleas Lazarides, Loughborough University)

2019-05-31 09:30: Political Science and Political Thought (Various)

2019-06-03 14:15: Ab initio thermodynamics with the help of machine learning (Dr. Bingqing Cheng, Trinity College, the University of Cambridge)

2019-06-06 14:15: Nonequilibrium Materials Engineering (Dr. Michael Sentef, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg)

2019-06-10 14:00: Consent, Prosent and Biomedical Data in the Era of Blockchain– gloknos seminar (Sebastian Porsdam Mann (University of Copenhagen))

2019-06-11 15:00: Book Launch – 'Making the World Global: US Universities & the Production of the Global Imaginary' (Dr Isaac A Kamola (Trinity College, Connecticut))

2019-06-13 14:15: Vestigial order in quantum materials (Prof. Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

2019-06-14 17:00: Heavens and Earth: An Empirical Approach to Knowledge Across Cultures– gloknos Annual Lecture Series (Sonja Brentjes (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin))

2019-06-17 15:00: Book Launch – 'The Transforming Power of Cultural Rights: A Promising Law and Humanities Approach' (Prof Helle Porsdam (University of Copenhagen))

2019-06-18 11:00: The enigmatic pseudogap phase of cuprate superconductors (Louis Taillefer - Institut Quantique, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada Canadian Institute for Advanced Research)

2019-06-20 15:00: The Burning Issue: Hazy Relations and the Construction of Knowledge in the Land Management Fires of Southeast Asia - gloknos seminar (Julia L Cassaniti (Washington State University))

2019-08-09 14:15: Accelerating Materials Science through High-throughput First Principles Computations and Machine Learning (Prof. Shyue Ping Ong, UCSD)

2019-08-26 15:00: The Science and Politics of Food in Human History: Open Knowledge Summer School in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities 2019 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-08-28 11:15: A Square-Lattice Spin Liquid Candidate (Dr Otto Mustonen from Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Sheffield)

2019-09-15 15:30: Migrant Knowledge, Early Modern and Beyond: an event at the Crossroads (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-09-16 14:15: Towards the design of molecular materials (Dr Gerit Brandenburg, Heidelberg University and UCL)

2019-10-03 00:00: Literature of Loss (3-4 October 2019) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-10-10 14:15: Photonic topological anomalies (Prof. Henning Schomerus, Lancaster University)

2019-10-11 13:00: Hypocrisy and Anti-Hypocrisy (Emma Mackinnon (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))

2019-10-15 17:30: Meat and Potatoes: Changing Diets for Changing Times? (Cambridge Festival of Ideas) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-10-16 16:00: Information Session for new Student Group 2019/20 members and coordinator (Dr Ella McPherson; Dr Sharath Srinivasan)

2019-10-17 14:15: Spin Transport in 2D Materials and Topological Matter (Prof. Stephan Roche, Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology)

2019-10-17 17:30: Whither the Globalists? The Changing Imaginaries of 'The Global' and What This Means for Transnational Solidarity (Cambridge Festival of Ideas) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-10-18 17:15: Exhibition opening- War in Raqqa: Rhetoric versus Reality (Donatella Rovera, Sam Dubberly, Matt Mahmoudi)

2019-10-21 00:00: Exhibition: Leonardo da Vinci 500 Years On: Visions of Future Imaginaries (Speaker to be confirmed)

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

2019-10-21 17:00:  Co-creating “Effective” Archaeologies: Reflections from a Digital Heritage Initiative in Banda, Ghana  ( Prof Ann Stahl, University of Victoria, Canada )

2019-10-23 11:15: Charge-Density-Wave: Fermi-surface Reconstruction and Competing Orders (Dr. Sven Friedemann)

2019-10-23 17:00: Cambridge Festival of Ideas - Citizen Voice, Social Change and Africa’s Digital Revolution: Power to the People (Dr Sharath Srinivasan; Luke Church)

2019-10-24 14:15: Axial anomalies in Weyl semimetals (Prof. Jens Bardarson, KTH Royal Technical Institute in Stockholm, Sweden)

2019-10-25 09:00: Student recruitment for research team - "THE RIGHT OF PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY ONLINE" (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-10-25 13:00: Radical Reparations (Daniel Butt (Oxford))

2019-10-28 15:00: Prehistory: Agriculture and the Societal Imaginary (Global Imaginaries through the Ages) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-10-28 17:00: Novelty and the Emergence of the Western Global in the Early Sixteenth Century – gloknos Lecture (Speaker to be confirmed)

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

2019-10-28 17:00: Archaeology, Hybrid Knowledge and Community Engagement in Africa: Thoughts on Decolonizing Practice  (Prof Paul Lane, McDonald Institute, University of Cambridge)

2019-10-29 13:00: Drake, Maroons and the Predation of Spanish Imperial Connectivity in the Sixteenth Century – gloknos seminar (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-10-29 17:00: Knowledge Beyond Discipline • Global Epistemics Book Series Launch (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-10-30 12:00: Consent, Prosent and Biomedical Data in the Era of Blockchain– gloknos seminar (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-10-30 16:00: Book Launch – Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future (Speaker to be confirmed)

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 )

2019-10-31 14:15: Introducing Topological Quantum Chemistry and Topological Materials Data Base (Dr Maia Vergniory, Donostia International Physics Center)

2019-11-04 15:00: Domestication and the Origins of Agriculture (Domestication Practices across History) (Speaker to be confirmed)

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

2019-11-04 17:00:  Decolonising the Missionary Road? An Archaeology of Heritage at the Kuruman Moffat Mission, South Africa (Dr Chris Wingfield, UEA)

2019-11-06 17:00: CGHR and CAS event - Decolonising African Studies? (Professor Christopher Clapham, University of Cambridge)

2019-11-08 13:00: Justification and Vindication in Political Philosophy (David Owen (Southampton))

2019-11-11 15:00: Mobile Knowledges before the Classics (Global Imaginaries through the Ages) (Speaker to be confirmed)

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

2019-11-11 17:00: Decolonise what? Archaeology, heritage and the elusive pursuit of locally centred African past(s)  (Prof Shadreck Chirikure, University of Oxford/University of Cape Town)

2019-11-14 14:15: Comprehensive modeling of materials for solar applications from first principles (Prof. Julia Wiktor, Chalmers University of Technology)

2019-11-18 15:00: Classical Heredity in the Roman and Medieval Worlds (Domestication Practices across History) (Speaker to be confirmed)

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

2019-11-18 17:00: Sermonizing on Archaeology and Heritage Studies in Post Colonial Sub Saharan Africa  (Prof Caleb Folorunso, University of Ibadan, Nigeria (Ex-officio World Archaeological Congress))

2019-11-19 17:00: Digital Verification Workshop  (Ray Adams Row Farr and Rebekah Lyndon, students at the University of Cambridge)

2019-11-20 11:15: Visualizing Landau Orbits, Quantum Hall Nematics, and Topological Edge Modes (Prof. Ali Yazdani, Princeton University)

2019-11-20 14:00: Late-Victorian Economists and Empire: Jevons, Marshall and the Cultural Political Economy of Trade (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-11-21 14:15: Sub-ballistic growth of Rényi entanglement in quantum systems with diffusive transport (Dr. Curt von Keyserlingk, University of Birmingham)

2019-11-22 13:00: Conceptual Change and Political Judgment: A Wittgensteinian Approach (Desiree Weber (College of Wooster))

2019-11-22 17:30: Decolonisation in International Law: What Does It Mean? (Professor Susan Marks, LSE)

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

2019-11-25 17:00: How do African states think about heritage? Historical and ethnographic views from southern Africa  (Dr Rachel King, UCL)

2019-11-25 17:00: Teach-out! The Ripples of Violence against Women and Girls Across Time and Spaces (Dr Manali Desai, Dr Tiffany Page, Dr Holly Porter, Ilaria Michelis)

2019-11-26 16:00: Scott Lecture I : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move (Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory)

2019-11-27 11:15: The unusual phase boundary of the magnetic-field-tuned valence transition in CeOs4Sb12 (Dr Kathrin Götze, Department of Physics, University of Warwick)

2019-11-27 16:00: Scott Lecture II : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move (Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory)

2019-11-28 00:00: *RELOCATED* Documentary Filming of Cultural Interaction (28-29 November 2019) (Speaker to be confirmed)

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

2019-12-02 17:00: Title TBC (Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann, Hampshire College, USA)

2019-12-05 14:15: Stochastic Approach to Quantum Spin Dynamics (Dr Joe Bhaseen, King's College London)

2019-12-09 15:00: Global Classics? (Global Imaginaries through the Ages) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-12-10 17:00: The Future of History: From Cliodynamics to Degenerative Dystopia, via Science Fiction – gloknos Annual Lecture  (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-12-12 09:00: Lets Talk About Sex (and Reproduction): Counselling for Reproductive Health in Post-war Europe (12-13 December) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-12-12 11:15: Spectroscopy of Strongly Correlated Electronic State in Twisted Bilayer Graphene (Prof. Ali Yazdani, Princeton University)

2019-12-12 16:00: The XVII C. Safavid Diplomatic Envoy to Siam: A Politics of Knowledge Formation (Speaker to be confirmed)

2019-12-16 15:00: Commanding Nature in Early Modern Europe (Domestication Practices across History) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-01-13 15:00: Economic Globalisation in the late First Millennium (Global Imaginaries through the Ages) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-01-16 14:15: Topology and scale invariance in atomic Flatland (Prof. Jean Dalibard, Collège de France and Laboratoire Kastler Brossel)

2020-01-17 13:00: The Grounds of Political Legitimacy (Fabienne Peter (Warwick))

2020-01-20 15:00: Empires of Acclimatisation (Domestication Practices across History) (Speaker to be confirmed)

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

2020-01-23 14:15: Quantized optical responses in chiral insulators and metals (Dr Adolfo G. Grushin)

2020-01-24 09:00: Climate Fictions / Indigenous Studies (24-25 January 2020) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-01-24 15:00: "Measuring Peace: Principles, Practices and Politics"- Book Discussion with Professor Richard Caplan (Richard Caplan - Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford)

2020-01-24 16:00: Neoliberalism's Literary Rhythms: Engaging with Canonical Texts to Vanquish the Market Myth (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-01-27 15:00: Imperial Imaginaries and the Making of Modernity (Global Imaginaries through the Ages) (Speaker to be confirmed)

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

2020-01-28 14:00: Revisiting the North/South Binary: Towards a Thirding Lens (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-01-30 14:15: Moiré superlattices in twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (Prof. Vladimir Fal'ko, University of Manchester)

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 )

2020-01-31 13:00: Political Responsibility (Jude Browne (Cambridge))

2020-02-03 15:00: The Mendelian Gene Goes Global (Domestication Practices across History) (Speaker to be confirmed)

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

2020-02-06 00:00: Journalism and News Media (6-7 February 2020) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-02-06 14:15: Emergent Black Hole Dynamics in Critical Floquet Systems (Prof. Dr. Titus Neupert, University of Zurich)

2020-02-07 17:30: From Epistemicide to Global Knowledge: Reconstructing a Decolonised Academy – gloknos Annual Lecture (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-02-10 15:00: Towards the Modern Subject (Global Imaginaries through the Ages) (Speaker to be confirmed)

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 14:15: Topology by non-unitary quantum dynamics ( Prof. Dr. Jan Carl Budich, TU Dresden )

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 )

2020-02-14 13:00: Grudge Informers Revisited: On Accountability for Collaborators with Repressive Regimes (Colleen Murphy (Illinois))

2020-02-17 14:15: Assessment of Approximate Methods for Anharmonic Free Energies (Venkat Kapil, EPFL)

2020-02-17 15:00: Politics of Hybridisation (Domestication Practices across History) (Speaker to be confirmed)

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

2020-02-20 09:00: Power, Promise, Politics: The Pineapple from Columbus to Del Monte (20-21 February) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-02-20 14:15: Simulating Disordered Supramolecular Materials for Organic Electronics using Linear Scaling Density Functional Theory (Dr Laura Ratcliff, Imperial College London)

2020-02-24 15:00: The Imaginaries We Were Born Into (Global Imaginaries through the Ages) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-02-27 12:30: Book Launch - "Digital Witness: Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation and Accountability" (Oxford University Press, 2019)  (Dr Ella McPherson, Sam Dubberley, Dr Alexa Koenig, Dr Daragh Murray, Matt Mahmoudi, Isabel Guenette Thornton)

2020-02-27 14:15: Chemical equilibrium in the Earth's core (Prof. Dario Alfè, University College London)

2020-02-28 13:00: "We" Exiles: Edward Said and Political Theory (Jeanne Morefield (Birmingham))

2020-03-02 15:00: Alternate Twentieth-Century Biotechnologies (Domestication Practices across History) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-03-05 09:00: Cambridge: City of Scholars, City of Refuge (1933-1945) (See website for full listing)

2020-03-19 00:00: CANCELLED - Can You Live Without Chocolate? (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-03-25 12:00: POSTPONED: Social Power and Mental Health: Evolving Research Through Lived Experience (25-26 March 2020) (Full speaker listing on the website)

2020-03-26 00:00: CANCELLED Film and News Media II (26-27 March 2020) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-04-01 00:00: CANCELLED The Right to Science Symposium (1-2 April) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-04-15 17:00: CANCELLED Heavens and Earth: An Empirical Approach to Knowledge Across Cultures– gloknos Annual Lecture Series (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-04-16 09:00: POSTPONED: Late Antiquity’s Library: Re-assessing the Classical Canon in the Age of Synesius (Full speaker listing on website)

2020-05-18 00:00: ONLINE Agrarian Relations: Towards an Epistemology of Land (18-19 May 2020) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-06-04 14:00: Cascaded quantum systems - strongly correlated transport and remote interactions (Prof. Klemens Hammerer, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leibniz Universität Hannover)

2020-06-12 15:00: The Commons is Dead. Long Live the Commons! (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-06-15 17:00: CANCELLED  gloknos Annual Lecture – Prof Sarah de Rijcke (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-06-15 17:00: CANCELLED Towards a Global History of Knowledge? Premises, Promises, Concerns – gloknos Annual Lecture (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-06-25 14:00: Fostering Ethics: Islam, Adoption and the Care of Children (See programme)

2020-06-25 16:00: Hall Viscosity in Quantum Systems with Discrete Symmetry (Barry Bradlyn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

2020-08-06 11:00: Emergent topological phenomena in strained pyrochlore iridate thin films (Bohm Jung Yang (Seoul National University))

2020-09-10 14:00: Solving the Many-Electron Schrödinger Equation with Deep Neural Networks  (Matthew Foulkes (Imperial College))

2020-10-09 13:00: Fabulation and the Right to the City: The Bacchae with Saidiya Hartman and Hannah Arendt (Bonnie Honig (Brown))

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

2020-10-14 16:00: 'Exactly what is Computational Multiphysics?' (Prof Nikos Nikiforakis, Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Cavendish Laboratory)

2020-10-15 14:00:  High-fidelity description of spectral functions in correlated materials (Mark van Schilfgaarde, King's College London)

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

2020-10-21 16:00: Space photovoltaics challenges: fundamental to applied (Dr Louise Hirst, Semiconductor Physics, Cavendish Laboratory & Department of Materials Science, Cambridge)

2020-10-22 14:00: Topological Proximity Effects (Karyn Le Hur, CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique)

2020-10-22 17:00: (Un)Settling Epistemologies Through Digital Tools (Speaker to be confirmed)

2020-10-23 13:00: Artificial Intelligence and the Exploitative Optimization Problem (Annette Zimmermann (York))

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

2020-10-28 16:00: Hidden structures in a model of many-body quantum chaos (Dr Benjamin Beri, Cavendish Laboratory & DAMTP)

2020-10-29 14:00: A Supramolecular Approach to Templating Hybrid Perovskites (Jovana Milic, University of Fribourg)

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

2020-11-04 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Oleg Brandt, High Energy Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2020-11-05 14:00: Order within disorder: approaching phase boundaries in high-entropy systems (Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University)

2020-11-06 13:00: The Meaning of "Rich Individuality" in Marxist Theory (Vanessa Wills (George Washington))

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

2020-11-11 16:00: ’Seeing early cancer in a new light’  (Prof Sarah Bohndiek, BSS, Cavendish Laboratory and CRUK Cambridge Laboratory)

2020-11-12 14:00: Topology, Molecular Simulation, and Machine Learning as Routes to Exploring Structure and Phase Behavior in Molecular and Atomic Crystals (Mark Tuckerman, NYU)

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

2020-11-18 16:00: Looking for signatures of quantum entanglement: spin liquids at finite temperature (Prof Claudio Castelnovo, Theory of Condensed Matter, Cavendish Laboratory)

2020-11-19 14:00: Open Markovian Quantum Many-Body Systems (Marco Schiro', CNRS, Institut de Physique, College de France &  IPhT-CEA Saclay)

2020-11-19 17:00: Spreading Disinformation in Brazil: the Amazon Fires Case  (Rebekah Lyndon, Victoria Tse, Lena Moore, Mo May-Hobbs)

2020-11-20 13:00: Thinking About Black Republicanism: An Introduction (Melvin Rogers (Brown))

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

2020-11-23 17:00: Queer Migrations: Transnational Sexualities in Theory and Practice (Prof Gayatri Gopinath (NYU))

2020-11-26 17:00: Tackling COVID-19 in Kenya and Somalia: Interdisciplinary innovations out of CGHR (Sharath Srinivasan (POLIS/CGHR, Katikati, Africa's Voices Foundation), Luke Church (Computer Lab/CGHR, Katikati, Africa's Voices Foundation))

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))

2020-12-03 17:00: Measurable signatures of quantum chaos and patterns of volume-law entanglement in quantum dynamics (Sagar Vijay, UC Santa Barbara)

2021-01-14 17:00: Ron Deibert and David Runciman on Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society (Speaker to be confirmed)

2021-01-15 14:00: Talking Heads: Humanities Futures (Steven Connor, Ludmilla Jordanova, Mary Jacobus, Simon Goldhill, Andrew Webber)

2021-01-21 14:00: The challenge to deliver high accuracy for material science on large computer simulations (Andrea Zen, UCL)

2021-01-22 13:00: Intra-Party Party Democracy: A Contextualist Account (Udit Bhatia (Oxford))

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

2021-01-28 14:00: Machine-learning interatomic potentials as computational technology (Alexander Shapeev, Skoltech)

2021-01-28 17:00: Practitioner Series: Deborah Brown [Human Rights Watch] (Deborah Brown)

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

2021-02-05 13:00: We Who Must Fight in the Shade: Derrick Bell’s Philosophy of Racial Realism as the Basis of a Black Politics of Disempowerment  (Tommy Curry (Edinburgh))

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

2021-02-11 14:00: Irradiation-induced defect engineering in two-dimensional materials (Mahdi Ghorbani-Asl, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf )

2021-02-11 17:00: Practitioner Series: Lysa John [CIVICUS] (Lysa John)

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

2021-02-18 14:00: Machine-learning interatomic potentials as computational technology (Alexander Shapeev, Skoltech)

2021-02-19 13:00: Normative Powers (Laura Valentini (KCL))

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

2021-02-25 17:00: Practitioner Series: Aleksandra Dier [CTED] (Aleksandra Dier)

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

2021-03-04 14:00: Nonlinear topological photonics (Mikael Rechtsman, Penn State)

2021-03-05 13:00: Audre Lorde on Care (Kathryn Sophia Belle (Penn State))

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

2021-03-11 14:00: Exploring the Mysteries of Collective Quantum Dynamics (Michael Knap, TU Munich)

2021-03-11 17:00: Practitioner Series: Mária Patakyová [Public Defender of Rights] (Mariá Patakyová)

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

2021-03-22 16:00: Queering Authoritarianisms (Speaker to be confirmed)

2021-03-25 11:00: Ships in the Proletarian Night: Contemporary Marxist Thought in France and Britain (Speaker to be confirmed)

2021-04-15 17:00: Strauss in Beijing - Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer [gloknos lecture] (Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer (University of Chicago))

2021-04-26 15:00: Sakshi Aravind - gloknos 'Epistemologies of Land' Webcast (Sakshi Aravind (University of Cambridge))

2021-04-29 14:00: Topology vs. interaction in fragile bands (Ady Stern, Weizmann Institute of Science)

2021-04-30 15:00: Eloisa Berman-Arévalo - gloknos 'Epistemologies of Land' Webcast (Eloisa Berman-Arévalo (Universidad del Norte, Colombia))

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))

2021-05-05 16:00: Physical models to predict the evolution of viruses and bacteria (Dr Diana Fusco, BSS, Cavendish Laboratory)

2021-05-06 14:00: Thermodynamics in the presence of coherences and strong coupling corrections (Janet Anders (University of Exeter))

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

2021-05-13 14:00: Thwarting long-lived dark states to speed up dynamic polarization (Anushya Chandran (Boston University))

2021-05-13 17:00: The View from the Land, 1947-1981: ‘Modernity’ in British Agriculture, Farm, Nation and Community - Karen Sayer [gloknos lecture] (Karen Sayer (Leeds Trinity University))

2021-05-13 18:00: Journalism in Colonial Settings: The case of Puerto Rico (Dr Federico Subervi-Vélez, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Sandra Rodríguez Cotto, Journalist, Puerto Rico; Dr Jairo Lugo-Ocando, Northwestern University)

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))

2021-05-18 17:00: Book launch: The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider’s Guide to Changing the World (Severine Autesserre, Barnard College- Columbia University). (Speaker to be confirmed)

2021-05-20 14:00: Low-temperature quantum bounds in simple models (Jorge Kurchan, ENS Paris)

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

2021-05-26 15:00: Leo Steeds - gloknos 'Epistemologies of Land' Webcast (Leo Steeds (University of Warwick))

2021-05-27 17:00: Women’s International Thought: Toward a New Canon? - Patricia Owens [gloknos lecture] (Patricia Owens (University of Oxford))

2021-05-27 17:00: Exploring the implications of online assemblies (Francesca Fanucci (ECNL), Evelyn Douek (Harvard Law School), Dr Ella McPherson (Cambridge Sociology/CGHR), Dr Thomas Probert (Univ. Pretoria/CGHR), )

2021-06-02 22:00: Indigenous Data Sovereignty - Tahu Kukutai [gloknos lecture] (Tahu Kukutai (University of Waikato))

2021-06-03 14:00: Non-conservative forces in nanoscale conductors (Tchavdar Todorov, Queen's University Belfast)

2021-06-03 15:00: Anna Wolkenhauer - gloknos 'Epistemologies of Land' Webcast (Anna Wolkenhauer (Universität Bremen))

2021-06-09 17:00: Ali Al-Sharafi’s Oeuvre as Something Other Than Simply Local or Global - Sonja Brentjes [gloknos lecture] (Sonja Brentjes (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin))

2021-06-10 12:00: COVID-19 and Seafarers: A Humanitarian Crisis?  (Dr Momoko Kitada (World Maritime University), Dr Birgit Pauksztat (Uppsala University), Dr Sanley Abila (University of the Phillipines Visayas), Dr Helen Devereux (Solent University), )

2021-06-10 14:00: Symmetric Jordan-Wigner transformation on the square lattice (Adrian Po (MIT))

2021-06-10 15:00: Louisa Prause - gloknos 'Epistemologies of Land' Webcast (Louisa Prause (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin))

2021-06-11 15:00: Eduardo Machicado - gloknos 'Epistemologies of Land' Webcast (Eduardo Machicado (University of Cambridge))

2021-06-16 17:00: Islamicate Territorial Imaginations: Maps, Birds, and Related Machinations - Karen C Pinto [gloknos lecture] (Karen C Pinto)

2021-06-17 00:00: Shailaja Fennell - gloknos 'Epistemologies of Land' Webcast (Shailaja Fennell (University of Cambridge))

2021-06-17 14:00: Detecting fractional chern insulators of few-bosons (Cécile Repellin (CNRS Grenoble))

2021-06-17 14:00: Kalwant Bhopal [gloknos lecture] (Kalwant Bhopal (University of Birmingham))

2021-06-23 17:00: Salvage, Service, or Militancy: Missions, unions, and states in maritime Arab world - Laleh Khalili [gloknos lecture] (Laleh Khalili (Queen Mary University of London))

2021-06-24 00:00: Laksmi Savitri - gloknos 'Epistemologies of Land' Webcast (Laksmi Savitri (Bogor University of Agriculture))

2021-07-09 14:00: Sarah de Rijcke [gloknos lecture] (Sarah de Rijcke (Leiden University))

2021-10-06 16:00: Global Medical Humanities: Exploring the ‘Milieu’ (Speaker to be confirmed)

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))

2021-10-19 17:00: The cost of data: making sense in digital society (Gina Neff (Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy))

2021-10-20 11:15: Unconventional superconductivity and quadrupolar-density- wave phases in the locally noncentrosymmetric compound CeRh2As2 (Dr. Manuel Brando, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden/Germany)

2021-10-20 15:00: 'Ethno-Science': Nineteenth Century Travel Instructions | gloknos Research Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

2021-10-21 14:00: Water flows in carbon nanochannels: from quantum friction to carbon memories (Lyderic Bocquet, Ecole Normale Superieure)

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))

2021-11-05 13:00: Forced Marriage and Modern Slavery (Helen McCabe (Nottingham))

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

2021-11-10 17:00:  Book Launch: Searching for a New Kenya: Politics and Social Media on the Streets of Mombasa, Stephanie Diepeveen (Stephanie Diepeveen)

2021-11-11 14:00: New understanding of liquid thermodynamics, viscosity and its lower bounds (Kostya Trachenko ( Queen Mary, University of London))

2021-11-11 17:00: Book Launch: ‘When Peace Kills Politics: International Intervention and Unending Wars in the Sudans’, by Sharath Srinivasan. (Sharath Srinivasan)

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

2021-11-17 14:15: From hyperbolic drum towards hyperbolic topological insulators (Tomáš Bzdušek (Paul Scherrer Institute))

2021-11-18 14:15:  Magneto-enhancement of superconductivity in composite D-wave superconductors (Boris Spivak (University of Washington))

2021-11-19 13:00: A Reductionist Account of Relationship Duties (Adam Swift (UCL))

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

2021-11-24 15:00: 'Ethno-Science': Economic Botany in the Nineteenth Century | gloknos Research Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

2021-11-24 16:15: 'Taste and Knowledge': Senses and Taste | gloknos Research Group (Irene de Vette & Agnieszka Wołodźko)

2021-11-24 17:00: At the Crossroads: The Digital Rights Movement in Times of Data Coloniality, Sebastián Lehuedé (Sebastián Lehuedé)

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

2021-11-26 00:00: 'Epistemologies of Soil' gloknos Symposium (Maarten Meijer (University of Groningen))

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

2021-12-01 10:00: Giant suppression of thermal Hall effect in SrTiO3 by isotopic substitution (Sangwoo Sim, Seoul National University )

2021-12-01 16:00: Senses and Taste: 'Taste and Knowledge' | gloknos Research Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

2021-12-01 17:00:  CANCELLED: The Rights of People with Disabilities in the Climate Crisis,  Sébastien Jodoin (Sébastien Jodoin)

2021-12-02 13:00: POSTPONED (Flore Kunst, MPL Erlangen)

2021-12-03 16:00: Book Launch – The Right to Science: Then and Now (See list)

2021-12-07 10:00: FeSb2: a riddle, inside an insulator, wrapped in a metal Electric and magnetic properties of the unconventional insulator iron diantimonide (Alex Eaton)

2022-01-19 15:00: 'Ethno-Science': Translations between Field and Lab | gloknos Research Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-01-20 14:00: Order by disorder and phase transitions  (Laura Messio, LPTMC Paris)

2022-01-21 13:00: Anger and Remorse (Adam Etison (St. Andrews))

2022-01-27 13:00:  Non-Hermitian topological phenomena: Exceptional points, symmetry and breakdown of the bulk-boundary correspondence (Flore Kunst, MPL Erlangen)

2022-02-02 11:15: Exploring the vortex melting transition in cuprate superconductor YBCO (Alexander Hickey)

2022-02-02 17:00: Practitioner Series: JONATHAN COHEN (Exec Director, Conciliation Resources) (Jonathan Cohen (Director, Conciliation Resources))

2022-02-04 12:00: Seminar series I Beyond cooking: global histories of food-making and gender across the early modern world (Various)

2022-02-04 13:00: TBC (Gulzaar Barn (Utrecht))

2022-02-09 13:00: Shifting landscapes of the medieval world: Landscape as history (Emily Lethbridge (Árni Magnússon Institute, University of Iceland),  Heide Estes (Department of English, Monmouth University))

2022-02-10 17:00: Seminar Series: Music cognition and the language(s) of interdisciplinarity (Speaker to be confirmed)

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

2022-02-16 17:00: Teach-out: RENATA ÁVILA (CEO, Open Knowledge Foundation) (RENATA ÁVILA (CEO Open Knowledge Foundation))

2022-02-17 14:00: The inevitable emergence of density-dependent diffusion in expanding phage populations (Diana Fusco, University of Cambridge)

2022-02-18 13:00: Doubt as a Political Virtue (Quassim Cassam (Warwick))

2022-02-18 15:00: Soil research and practice of ethnopedology | gloknos annual lecture series (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-02-23 15:00: 'Ethno-Science': Guest Speaker – Esther Jean Langdon | gloknos Research Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-02-23 16:00: Qualifying Taste: 'Taste and Knowledge' | gloknos Research Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-02-24 14:00: Path integral molecular dynamics for indistinguishable particles (Barak Hirshberg, Tel Aviv University)

2022-02-24 17:00: Seminar Series: Where do we go when we play? Attention, embodiment, and ensemble performance (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-02-28 16:00: : "Topological Solitons for Quantum Operations" (Prof Christos Panagopoulos, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

2022-03-02 13:00: Shifting landscapes of the medieval world: Landscape as knowledge (Mary Franklin-Brown (Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and Linguistics and Christ’s College, Cambridge),  Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic and St John’s College, Cambridge))

2022-03-02 16:00: Neutron scattering studies of quantum magnets’" (Prof Bella Lake, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin)

2022-03-03 14:00: Kagome metals (Ronny Thomale, University of Würzburg)

2022-03-04 13:00: Should we have kids in the climate emergency? (Elizabeth Cripps (Edinburgh))

2022-03-09 11:15: High-temperature Superconductivity in Hydrides at High Pressures (Dr. Sven Friedemann)

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

2022-03-09 17:00: Book Launch: "Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni's Uganda" (Rebecca Tapscott, Ambizione Research Fellow, the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)

2022-03-10 17:00: Seminar Series: Embodied song: Then and now (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-03-11 17:00: Seminar series I Beyond cooking: global histories of food-making and gender across the early modern world (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-03-14 14:00: Global Epistemological Politics of Religion: Session One | gloknos Research Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-03-14 16:00: New Physics in Driven Quantum Materials  (Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg GERMANY and Department of Physics, University of Oxford)

2022-03-16 11:15: Orbital-dependent scattering in Sr2RuO4 and FeSe probed by uniaxial stress (Dr. Clifford Hicks, University of Birmingham, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany)

2022-03-16 15:00: 'Ethno-Science': Ethno-Science and historiography | gloknos Research Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-03-16 16:00: POSTPONED Training Taste: 'Taste and Knowledge' | gloknos Research Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-03-16 16:00: Cavendish Physical Society Lecture - title tbc (Prof Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University)

2022-03-16 16:00: Cavendish Physical Society Lecture - title tbc (Prof Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University)

2022-03-16 17:00: Practitioner Series: Young Alumni Practitioners Working in Health & Humanitarian Response (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-03-18 17:00: Seminar series I Beyond cooking: global histories of food-making and gender across the early modern world (Various)

2022-03-24 17:00: Seminar Series: Early modern ears (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-03-25 11:00: Seminar series I Beyond cooking: global histories of food-making and gender across the early modern world (Various)

2022-04-01 17:00: Seminar Series: The classroom, the chamber, the concert hall: Situated musicking (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-04-06 16:00: Training Taste: 'Taste and Knowledge' | gloknos Research Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-04-19 17:00: Topological pumping in new territory (Prof Tilman Esslinger, ETH Zurich)

2022-04-21 16:00: To see a world in a grain of sand (Professor Nicola Marzari, EPFL)

2022-04-25 14:00: Global Epistemological Politics of Religion: Session Two | gloknos Research Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-04-27 13:00: Shifting landscapes of the medieval world: Landscape as literature (Miranda Griffin (Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and Linguistics and Murray Edwards College, Cambridge),  Leo Mellor (Faculty of English and Murray Edwards College, Cambridge))

2022-04-28 14:00: Novel Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Quantum Fluids of Light ( Marzena Szymanska, UCL)

2022-04-28 16:30: The physics of how humans build models of the world (Prof Dani Bassett, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania)

2022-05-04 10:00: Symmetry breaking and entanglement transitions in driven-dissipative systems (Rosario Fazio, ICTP)

2022-05-05 12:30: Why do women leave philosophy? (Catherine Herfeld)

2022-05-06 10:00: The post-Windrush generation: black British voices of resistance (See full programme)

2022-05-11 14:00: Global Epistemological Politics of Religion: Session Three | gloknos Research Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

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

2022-05-18 13:00: Shifting landscapes of the medieval world: Landscape as theory (Marilynn R. Desmond (Department of English, General Literature and Rhetoric, Binghamton University),  Matt Lampitt (St John’s College Cambridge))

2022-05-18 15:00: 'Ethno-Science': Guest Speaker – Graham Dutfield | gloknos Research Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-05-19 14:00: Theories of Cross phenomena and Zentropy (Zi-Kui Liu (Penn State))

2022-05-19 16:00: The causal analysis of racial discrimination (Naftali Weinberger)

2022-05-25 14:00: Global Epistemological Politics of Religion: Session Four | gloknos Research Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-05-26 09:00: Beyond cooking: global histories of food-making and gender across the early modern world (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-05-26 14:00: Photon-Instanton Collider Implemented by a Superconducting Circuit: Splitting a Single Photon (Moshe Goldstein (Tel Aviv University))

2022-06-11 09:00: Saffron: global history, Cambridge stories (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-06-13 14:00: Topological skyrmion phases of matter (Ashley Cook (MPI PKS Dresden))

2022-06-15 15:00: 'Ethno-Science': Recent reflections on bioprospecting | gloknos Research Group (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-06-15 16:00: In Search for the Next Magic Stone (Prof Z X Shen, Stanford)

2022-06-21 13:00: Toward discovering novel physics with a NISQ processor (Pedram Roushan (Google))

2022-06-22 14:00: Measurement-induced transitions with symmetries (Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Penn State University )

2022-07-06 08:45: Comics and the Global South (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-09-13 13:00: Shifting landscapes of the medieval world  (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-10-07 13:00: Commemorating the Dead (Zofia Stemplowska (University of Oxford))

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))

2022-10-11 13:45: Precarious lives: inequalities in health through the lens of the filmmaker (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-10-13 14:00:  A Spiral Twist to the "Normal" State of Magic-Angle Bilayer Graphene (Siddharth Parameswaran (University of Oxford))

2022-10-20 14:00:  Quantum measurement protocol for many-body systems through projective measurements on ancillary sites (Elmer Doggen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology))

2022-10-21 13:00: Democratic Futures: Towards a Critical Political Theory of Finance (Steven Klein (King’s College London))

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))

2022-11-03 14:00: Active Matter: a new approach to mechanobiology? (Julia Yeomans (University of Oxford))

2022-11-04 13:00: Is Drag Morally Objectionable? (Simon Kirchin (University of Kent))

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

2022-11-10 14:00: Ferroelectricity and topological polarization in twisted bilayers (Danny Bennett (University of Liège))

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

2022-11-17 14:00: A constructive approach to dualities in quantum spin systems (Frank Verstraete (DAMTP and Ghent University))

2022-11-18 13:00: Decolonizing Cultural Globalization: Césaire and the Hierarchy of Creator and Consumer (Shuk Ying Chan (University of Oxford & UCL))

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

2022-11-23 11:15: Magnetotransport of pyrochlore spin ice Sm2Ir2O7 across the pressure-induced quantum-critical phase boundary (Dr. Matthew Coak, London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London)

2022-11-24 11:15:  Quantum thermodynamics in open quantum systems (Géraldine Haack (Université de Genève))

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))

2022-12-01 14:00: Dynamic Nature: a Better Basis for Physics? (Brian Josephson (University of Cambridge))

2022-12-01 14:00: Dynamic Nature: a Better Basis for Physics? (Brian Josephson (University of Cambridge))

2023-01-20 13:00: The Politics of Architecture: Designing a More Hospitable Welfare State (Bernardo Zacka (MIT))

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))

2023-01-25 17:00: CGHR Practitioner Series: Jason McCue on Lawfare—Human Rights Litigation (Jason McCue (Senior Partner of McCue Jury & Partners LLP))

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

2023-02-02 17:00: The Space of the World: Digital Platforms and the Prospects for Human Solidarity in the 21st Century  (Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science)

2023-02-03 13:00: Reparations Unbound: Dismantling Systemic Racial Injustice in the 21st Century (Lawrie Balfour (Virginia))

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))

2023-02-08 17:00: CGHR Practitioner Series: Clea Kahn on Conflict and Humanitarianism (Clea Kahn (Humanitarian Consultant and Visiting Fellow, International Institute of Social Studies))

2023-02-09 14:00: Understanding Metallic Bonding (Volker Heine)

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

2023-02-16 14:00: Thermalization bounds and a universal collapse of the viscosities of glass forming liquids (Zohar Nussinov (Oxford, Sorbonne, Washington U))

2023-02-17 13:00: We Are As Gods: Eschatological Ambiguity and the Politics of Apocalyptic AI (Elke Schwarz (Queen Mary))

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

2023-02-22 00:00: POSTPONED: CGHR Practitioner Series: Richard Solly on Extractivism and Mining (Richard Solly (Coordinator, London Mining Network))

2023-02-23 14:00: Solving Continuum Physics Equations with OpenFOAM (Hrvoje Jasak (Cambridge))

2023-03-01 17:00: Podcasting and Social Justice (Matt Mahmoudi and Eleanor Drage)

2023-03-02 14:00: Molecular simulations of high-efficiency perovskite solar cells (Paramvir Ahlawat (Cambridge))

2023-03-03 13:00: The Empire of Women: Rousseau on Domination and Sexuality (Lori Watson (Washington, St. Louis))

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

2023-03-08 17:00: CGHR Practitioner Series: Carly Kind on Tech, Data and AI (Carly Kind (Director, Ada Lovelace Institute))

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

2023-03-16 14:00: Reinforcement learning to manipulate many-body quantum systems (Marin Bukov (PKS Dresden))

2023-04-03 13:00: Suffering, Progress, and Precarity in the West   (Professor Michael Barnett, George Washington University)

2023-04-06 14:00: Liouville conformal blocks and Stokes Phenomena (Babak Haghighat (Tsinghua University))

2023-04-21 16:30: Exploring practices between the arts, sciences, and humanities (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-04-24 09:00: Workshop by Voices 4 Workers in Tech (V4WT) (Dr Hong Yu Liu, Lu Wang, Muhammed Alakitan and Anusha Arumugam)

2023-04-25 11:15: Magneto-optical probes shed light on the unconventional transport and magnetism of Eu – based semi-metals (Dr. Veronika Sunko, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley)

2023-04-27 14:00: Cavity Magnonics (Silvia Viola Kusminskiy (RWTH Aachen/MPL Erlangen))

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

2023-05-04 14:00: Planckian dissipation in metals (Sean Hartnoll (University of Cambridge))

2023-05-04 17:00: Book talk: Women and Power in Africa - Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing (Melanie L. Phillips and Martha C. Johnson)

2023-05-10 15:00: A novel framework for electron and phonon transport predictions from first-principles  (Jenny Coulter (Harvard))

2023-05-11 14:00: Pseudo-Goldstone modes and order-by-disorder (Jeffrey G. Rau (University of Windsor))

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

2023-05-16 17:00: Book Launch: Human Rights for Pragmatists, by Jack Snyder (Jack Snyder (Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations at Columbia University), and Emma Mackinnon and Sharath Srinivasan (University of Cambridge))

2023-05-18 14:00: Quantum computers challenged by many-body chaos (Alexander Altland (University of Cologne))

2023-05-25 14:00: Magnetic excitations from TDDFT: the case of the CrI3 2D magnet (Tommaso Gorni (CINECA))

2023-06-01 14:00: Strong Correlation and Unconventional Superconductivity in  Bulk and Trilayer Alkali-Doped Fullerides (Changming Yue (University of Fribourg))

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

2023-06-08 14:00: Theoretical magneto-optical spectroscopy for solid state defect quantum bits (Adam Gali (Wigner Research Centre for Physics & Budapest University of Technology and Economics))

2023-06-12 12:00: Critical Data Research in Praxis (Professor Mirca Madianou (Goldmisths University); Professor Nick Couldry (LSE); Professor Ulises Ali Mejia (SUNY Oswego); and Dr Andrea Medrado (University of Westminster))

2023-06-16 10:30: Quantum materials in and beyond equilibrium (Prof Christian Rüegg, Director, Paul Scherrer Institute)

2023-06-27 14:00: Autocrats at the Cutting Edge: China, Innovation, and the Global Balance of Power (Dr. Jennifer Lind, Dartmouth College & Chatham House)

2023-06-28 14:00: Quantum anomalous Hall effect in intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 (a joint Winton seminar) (Prof Yuanbo Zhang (Fudan University))

2023-07-03 09:00: Queer Hispanisms now (events@crassh.cam.ac.uk)

2023-07-27 14:00: The quantum Mpemba effect (Pasquale Calabrese (SISSA))

2023-08-17 14:00: Imparting the generalised Toric Code with hopping dynamics (Siddarth Vadnerkar (UC Davis))

2023-08-23 14:00: Bulk-interface correspondence from quantum distance in flat band systems (Chang-geun Oh (University of Tokyo))

2023-09-07 14:00: Searching for Quantum Spin Liquids in Cerium-based Pyrochlores (Benedikt Placke, Max Planck Institute)

2023-09-14 14:00: Eigenstate thermalization, quantum designs and free probability (Jorge Kurchan (Ecole Normale Superieure, lpens, Paris, France))

2023-10-05 14:00: Non-reciprocal active matter across the scales (Ramin Golestanian (MPI & Oxford))

2023-10-06 13:00: Protective Falsehoods (Maxime Lepoutre (University of Reading))

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

2023-10-11 12:30: CGHR Student Group 2023-24: Introductory Meeting  (CGHR Co-Director Dr Sharath Srinivasan)

2023-10-12 14:00: Schrödinger in Oxford (and Cambridge) (Professor Sir David Clary FRS (Oxford & 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))

2023-10-17 15:00: Research Culture seminar 1: How do we foster good research culture in our departments? (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-10-18 17:00: The Right of Peaceful Assembly Today: Technology, Policing, Politics (Dr Sharath Srinivasan, Dr Ella McPherson and Dr Thomas Probert)

2023-10-18 18:30: CGHR Welcome Drinks! (Dr Sharath Srinivasan and Dr Ella McPherson)

2023-10-19 14:00: Waves topology in geophysical flows (Antoine Venaille (ENS de Lyon, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique))

2023-10-19 15:30: The impact and innovation of research (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-10-20 13:00: Futures of Critique in International Political Theory (Kimberley Hutchings (Queen Mary University of London))

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

2023-10-25 17:00: Elemental Ethics for AI: Mobilising Water in Data Centres and Lithium Activism in Chile (Dr Sebastian Lehuede)

2023-10-26 14:00: Theoretical minimum (David Khmelnitskii)

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

2023-10-31 15:00: Research Culture seminar 2: Do the arts, humanities and social sciences need their own conception of open research? (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-11-01 11:15: Moving in a dynamically changing free energy landscape: strain, heterostructure and optical control of the correlation-driven metal-insulator transition (Prof. Andrew Millis, Columbia University; co-Director, Center for Computational Quantum Physics, The Flatiron Institute)

2023-11-01 14:15: Seminar on Superconductivity enhancement in polar metals  ( Isao H. Inoue from National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan)

2023-11-02 14:00: Nonlinear breathers with crystalline symmetries (Frank Schindler, Imperial College London)

2023-11-02 15:00: Revolutions, counterrevolutions, and (un)making of order in Europe: the case of Ukraine (Dr Michael John Williams, Maxwell School, Syracuse University)

2023-11-03 13:00: Freedom, Spontaneity, and the Value of our Encounters (Emily McTernan (UCL))

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

2023-11-08 17:00: Tech Design and Human Rights: Six Provocations (and a Card Game!) (Dr Sharath Srinivasan, Dr Ella McPherson and Dr Sebastian Lehuede)

2023-11-09 14:00: Diversity, tolerance, and maturation of the adaptive immune response (Mehran Kardar (MIT))

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

2023-11-14 15:00: Research Culture seminar 3: How should research be evaluated? (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-11-15 11:00: Kinetic magnetism of fermions in triangular lattices (Eugene Demler, ETH Zurich)

2023-11-16 14:00: Quantum Melting of Spin 'Solids' in 2D (Andriy Nevidomskyy (Rice University))

2023-11-17 11:00: Quantum reaction-diffusion dynamics ( Gabriele Perfetto, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen)

2023-11-17 13:00: A Taxonomy of Injustice (Duncan Ivison (University of Sydney))

2023-11-20 16:00: Exploring Superconductivity under High Pressure  (Prof Katsuya Shimizu, Osaka University)

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

2023-11-21 17:30: Film premiere and directors Q&A: C’è un soffio di vita soltanto / A breath of life (2022) (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-11-22 09:00: Queer and trans testimonies: from the Holocaust to 2023 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-11-23 14:00: Bulk-boundary correspondence in quantum chains (Nick Jones, University of Oxford)

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

2023-11-28 15:00: Research Culture seminar 4: Should I consider publishing my monograph open access?  (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-11-30 13:00: Deep learning, Monte Carlo and Quantum Mechanics (Alex Matthews, DeepMind)

2023-12-04 16:30: Crip Camp: A film screening and conversation (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-12-05 11:00: “IT FROM BIT”  How does information shape the structures in the universe? (Saeid Davatolhagh (Shiraz University))

2024-01-18 14:00: Atomic scale modelling of magnetic materials (Joseph Barker (Leeds))

2024-01-19 13:00: Uncivil Protest, Civil Participation, and Uncivil Non-Participation in Steve Biko’s Ethics of Just Struggle (Ẹniọlá Ànúolúwapọ́ Ṣóyẹmí (Oxford))

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

2024-01-24 11:15: Mysteries in the superconductivity of Sr2RuO4 (Dr. Clifford Hicks, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham)

2024-01-25 14:00: The statistical properties of eigenstates in chaotic many-body quantum systems (John Chalker (Oxford))

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

2024-02-01 11:00: Thermodynamic Integration, fermion sign problem, and real-space renormalization (Werner Krauth, ENS Paris, Oxford )

2024-02-01 14:00: State engineering of a mesoscopic spin system (in a quantum dot) (Dorian Gangloff, University of Cambridge)

2024-02-02 13:00: Face/Body Equality: Should We Aspire to It? (Andrew Mason (Warwick))

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

2024-02-07 11:15: Upper bounds on superfluid stiffness and superconducting critical temperature - applications to flat bands, FeSe/STO, cold atoms and connections to quantum geometry (Dr. Tamaghna Hazra, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

2024-02-07 17:00: CGHR Practitioner Series: Albert Fox Cahn (Albert Fox Cahn )

2024-02-08 14:00: Field control of many-body phases in frustrated moiré bilayers (Laura Classen, MPI Stuttgart)

2024-02-15 14:00: Topology in lattices of semiconductor microcavities (Jacqueline Bloch (Université Paris-Saclay & CNRS))

2024-02-16 13:00: Tenure Neutrality and State Neutrality, or Can States Promote Home Ownership? (Katy Wells (Warwick))

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

2024-02-21 17:00: CGHR Practitioner Series: Victor Sibaja (Victor Sibaja)

2024-02-22 11:15: New insights at ultra-low temperatures: superconductivity and nuclear-electronic quantum criticality (Prof. Alix McCollam, School of Physics, University College Cork, Ireland)

2024-02-22 14:00: Bosonic Quantum Solvation Enabled by Machine Learning (Dominik Marx (Ruhr-Universität Bochum))

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

2024-02-28 17:00: Book Launch! Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: Trump and the Voice of America (Kate Wright)

2024-02-29 14:00: Non-conservation of the valley density and its implications for the observation of the valley Hall effect (Alessandro Principi, University of Manchester)

2024-03-01 13:00: Race, Dissociated Labour, and Social Reproduction in the Shadow of Amazon (Paul Apostolidis (LSE))

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

2024-03-05 16:00: Clark Lecture 1. The ‘inhuman’ aspect of lyric poetry (Denise Riley)

2024-03-06 11:15: The Many Frontiers of High Magnetic Field Research (Prof. Greg Boebinger)

2024-03-07 16:00: Clark Lecture 2. ‘The impersonal personal’ (Denise Riley)

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

2024-03-12 16:00: Clark Lecture 3. ‘Something there is that talks within’ (Denise Riley)

2024-03-14 16:00: Clark Lecture 4. On the ‘voice of the poem’ (Denise Riley)

2024-03-15 16:00: Practitioner Series: Comfort Ero  (Comfort Ero (President, International Crisis Group))

2024-04-24 11:00: Some aspects in many-body quantum dynamics: from multi-channel Kondo impurities to entanglement transition in SU(1,1) periodically driven systems (Po-Yao Chang, National Tsing Hua University)

2024-04-25 14:00: Resonant Bloch oscillations in transmons embedded in high-impedance circuits   (Benjamin Remez (Yale))

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

2024-05-02 14:00: The entanglement membrane in exactly solvable lattice models (Michael Rampp, MPIPKS)

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))

2024-05-06 17:00: Movie Screening: The Cost of Convenience (David Donnelly (Director), Dr Ella McPherson and Michael Csanyi-Wills (Composer))

2024-05-07 17:30: AI and Human Rights (Mathias Risse; Jude Browne; Sebastian Lehuede; Matt Mahmoudi)

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

2024-05-15 15:30: MATAR (2023) film screening and Q&A with Director Hassan Akkad (Speaker to be confirmed)

2024-05-15 16:00: Alfred Dubs Lecture: race, corporate “sovereigns” and corporate borders (E. Tendayi Achiume (Alicia Miñana Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles and former UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance))

2024-05-16 09:00: Debordering futures: racial capitalism, coloniality and migrant justice (Speaker to be confirmed)

2024-05-16 14:00: Exact many-body dynamics in quantum circuits via space-time duality (Bruno Bertini, University of Nottingham)

2024-05-17 13:00: Rescuing Democracy from Oligarchic Capture (Samuel Bagg (South Carolina))

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

2024-05-22 14:00: Topological defects in spiral spin liquids (Han Yan, University of Tokyo)

2024-05-23 14:00: Orbital and spin Hall effect in altermagnetic RuO2 (Dr Lishu Zhang (Forschungszentrum Jülich))

2024-05-24 14:00: Active Elasticity in non-reciprocal robotic metamaterials (Dr. Jack Binysh, University of Amsterdam)

2024-05-29 11:15:  Superconductivity in Thin-film Infinite-layer Nickelates (Professor Danfeng Li, Department of Physics, City University of Hong Kong)

2024-05-29 14:00: Unravelling emergent quantum phenomena from first-principles (Mohammad saeed Bahramy (University of Manchester))

2024-05-30 14:00: Entanglement Rényi entropies from Ballistic Fluctuations Theory: the free fermionic case (Paola Ruggiero, Kings College London)

2024-06-03 11:15: Exploring the ordered states of the multi-phase superconductor CeRh2As2 (Dr. Konstantin Semeniuk, MPI-CPfS Dresden/Germany)

2024-06-06 17:30: Africa's Voices' 10 Year Anniversary Celebration (Samuel Kimeu, Executive Director of Africa’s Voices)

2024-06-13 14:00: Disorder-tunable entanglement at infinite temperature (Zlatko Papic, University of Leeds)

2024-07-01 14:00: Dynamical Many-body Freezing in Periodically Driven Quantum Systems (Sayan Choudhury, Harish-Chandra Research Institute)

2024-07-31 14:00: EELS and Optical Properties of Layered and 2D Materials (Shangpeng Gao)

2024-08-27 14:00: Solid state defects for quantum information processing (Song LI (Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences))

2024-09-27 11:30: Chiral Wigner crystal phases induced by Berry curvature (Brian Skinner, Ohio State University )

2024-10-09 11:15: Structures, superconductivity, and soft chemistry in anti-cuprate square lattice materials (Nicola Kelly)

2024-10-10 13:00: Two countries at birth: The century that co-created Canada and the United States (Jeff Colgan, Brown University)

2024-10-10 14:00: Recent progress on emergent quantum electrodynamics in dipolar-octupolar quantum spin ice (Yong Baek Kim, University of Toronto)

2024-10-11 13:00: Food as a Problem for Multicultural Theory and Practice (Daniel Weinstock (McGill))

2024-10-11 14:00: Texture-induced spin-orbit coupling and skyrmion-electron bound states in a Néel antiferromagnet (Revaz Ramazashvili (Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier))

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

2024-10-16 17:00: Governance and Smart Policing in Kerala, India: Towards a Kerala Model of Algorithmic Governance? (Dr Ashwin Varghese, CGHR Postdoctoral Scholar)

2024-10-17 14:00: Electron-phonon, electron-electron and phonon-phonon interactions: applications to equilibrium and non-equilibrium spectroscopy (Giovanni Marini (University Of Trento))

2024-10-18 13:30: Superfluidity and superconductivity: their defeat, fluctuation, and respect to U(1) symmetry (Prof. Wei Ku (Shanghai Jiao Tong University))

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

2024-10-23 11:15: Topology: a new twist to electrons in quantum materials (Andrew Boothroyd)

2024-10-24 14:00: Interfacial Engineering of the magnetism and spin transport in two-dimensional materials (Prof. Haichang Lu (Beihang University))

2024-10-25 13:00: Colonizing Free Will (Bernard Forjwuor (Notre Dame))

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

2024-10-29 13:00: Quantum geometry on physical properties in quadratic band touching (Changgeun Oh (University of Tokyo))

2024-10-29 17:00: Algorithmic Governance: Theory and Practice (Dr. Christian Katzenbach, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), University of Bremen)

2024-10-31 14:00: Tuning the Electronic Phases of Graphene Nanoribbons (Michele Pizzochero (University of Bath))

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

2024-11-07 14:00: Quantum and Classical Dynamics with Random Permutation Circuits (Katja Klobas, University of Birmingham)

2024-11-08 13:00: Does the Baker Have a ‘Free Speech’ Case? The Expansion of Speech-as-Conduct and Risks to Free Speech (Katherine Gelber (Queensland))

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

2024-11-13 17:00: Digital Development Dilemma: From Progress to Control (Dr Azadeh Akbari,  University of Twente)

2024-11-14 14:00: A gapless 1D spin liquid as a critical point between fragile Kondo insulators (Nick Bultnick, University of Ghent)

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

2024-11-20 11:15: Non-equilibrium effects in superconducting thin films probed by time-domain THz spectroscopy. (Chiara Ciccarelli)

2024-11-20 14:00: Dynamically localized but deconfined excitations in strained classical spin ice (Jonathan Nilsson Hallen (Harvard))

2024-11-20 17:00: What Interests do Algorithms Serve? Is Algorithmic Colonisation Inevitable? (Dr Tony Roberts,  Institute of Development Studies)

2024-11-21 14:00: Twist to the M-ax(is): A New Moiré Platform Based on M-Point Twisting (Dumitru Calugaru, Princeton and Oxford)

2024-11-22 13:00: From 'Racial Capitalism' to 'Capitalist Racialization': A Marxist View (Onur Ulas Ince (SOAS))

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

2024-11-28 14:00:  Categorical Landau Paradigm: Phases, Transitions and Lattice Models (Apoorv Tiwari, Niels Bohr Institute)

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))

2024-12-05 14:00: Chiral spin model: geometry, chaos & quantum teleportation (Jiannis Pachos, Leeds University)

2025-01-22 11:15: Tuning dimensionality, magnetism and conduction in van-der-Waals Mott insulators FeP(S,Se)3 (Dr. Matthew Coak (School of physics and astronomy, University of Birmingham))

2025-01-23 14:00: The second law of thermodynamics and its mesoscopic interpretation (Professor Mike Cates (DAMTP))

2025-01-24 13:00: Spaces on the Move: Transforming the Politics of Spatial Mobilities in a Changing World (Irit Katz (Cambridge))

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))

2025-01-28 17:00: Sudan's Tragedy: Popular Revolution to War, Famine, Genocide (Raga Makawi (LSE), Dr Matthew Benson (LSE), Prof. Sharath Srinivasan (University of Cambridge))

2025-01-29 17:00: CGHR Practitioner Series: Being a political organiser and non-profit founder (Tigs Louis-Puttick)

2025-01-30 14:00: Real Space Approaches to Topological Band Systems (Ryan L Barnett (Imperial College London))

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

2025-02-06 16:00: Informers Up Close: Why Do People Report Others to Secret Police? (Professor Mark Drumbl, Washington & Lee University Law School)

2025-02-07 13:00: The Politics of Spontaneity  (Jonathan Gingerich (Rutgers))

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

2025-02-12 17:00: CGHR Practitioner Series: Meet a United Nations Special Mandate Holder (Dr Matthew Gillet)

2025-02-13 12:30: Beyond the Wilsonian Moment – Empire and order in world history (Peter Fibiger Bang, University of Copenhagen)

2025-02-13 14:00: Quantum phases of matter under non-unitary dynamics (Izabella Lovas, ETH Zurich)

2025-02-14 14:00:  Anomalous fluctuations in stochastic cellular automata (Takato Yoshimura, Oxford)

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

2025-02-21 13:00: Ghosting and Decency (Katy Wells (Warwick) )

2025-02-24 12:30: Beyond infotainment and digital-only paradigms: Conservative talk radio in rural USA (Dr Rebekah Larsen)

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

2025-02-26 17:00: CGHR Practitioner Series: Working on Human Rights' Watch Responses to Major Crises (Fred Abrahams)

2025-02-27 14:00: Kekule Spirals in Twisted Graphene (Steve Simon, Oxford)

2025-03-03 16:00: 2025 Scott Lectures - Lecture 1 New field of quantum science and engineering (Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University)

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

2025-03-05 11:15: Emergent phenomena in nanosculpted devices of quantum materials (Max Birch - RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science)

2025-03-05 16:00: 2025 Scott Lectures - Exploring quantum computing frontier with programmable atom arrays (Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University)

2025-03-05 17:00: World of the Right - Radical Conservatism and Global Order (Prof. Rita Abrahamsen (University of Ottawa), Prof. Michael C. Williams (University of Ottawa))

2025-03-06 11:00: 2025 Scott Lectures - Quantum science with atom-like systems in diamond (Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University)

2025-03-06 14:00: The Rise of Density Functional Theory......or.....Millions of Lucky Flukes (and counting)! (Prof. Mike C. Payne, FRS (Cambridge))

2025-03-07 13:00: Search Engines and Democracy's Information Dilemma (Zeynep Pamuk (Oxford))

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

2025-03-12 11:00: Quantum circuits models for free independence (Pieter Claeys, MPIPKS Dresden)

2025-03-12 17:00: CANCELLED: CGHR Practitioner Series: Working as an International Journalist (Mary Harper)

2025-03-13 13:00: The End of Engagement: America's China Experts and U.S. Strategy Since 1989 (Professor David McCourt, UC-Davis)

2025-03-13 14:00: Generative models, rare events and tensor networks (Juan Garrahan (University of Nottingham))

2025-03-14 14:00: From two to three dimensions: Impact of stacking order on electronic properties of graphene and graphite (Marcin Mucha-Kruczynski (Bath))

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

2025-03-18 17:00: Playing with Fire - Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India (Dr Aditi Malik (College of the Holy Cross))

2025-03-19 11:15: Multi-layer Crystal Field Effect in locally non-centrosymmetric compounds (Marie-Aude Measson - CNRS Institut Neel)

2025-03-20 13:00: Bounding War: the Institutional Logic of Prohibitions on Militarized Bargaining (Dr Anatoly Levshin, Harvard University)

2025-03-24 14:00: Nonlinear transport and photocurrent in 2D electronic liquids (Habib Rostami (Bath))

2025-03-26 16:00: Fractional Charge and Fractional Statistics  &  how they are connected (Prof. Thors Hans Hansson (Stockholm))

2025-03-27 14:00: Field-induced Multi-Q⃗ States in a Pyrochlore Heisenberg Magnet (Cecilie Glittum (Helmholtz-Zentum Berlin))

2025-04-11 15:00: Quantum geometry and topology with (a) spin (Dr Gunnar Lange (Oslo))

2025-04-14 11:15: Modified Cu-charge density wave, altermagnetic property and non-reciprocal transport at manganite/cuprate interface  (Subhrangsu Sarkar, University of Fribourgo)

2025-04-15 14:00: Quantum geometry effects in flat bands  (Bruno Uchoa, University of Oklahoma)

2025-04-24 14:00: Gibbs state preparation on digital quantum simulators (Dominik Hahn, Oxford)

2025-05-01 14:00: Modelling Interactions in Biology (Prof. Sarah Teichmann, FMedSci, FRS (Cambridge))

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

2025-05-06 14:00: Cocktail Effects in Superconductivity: High-Entropy Approach to Antimonide Compounds (Professor Daigorou Hirai, Nagoya University)

2025-05-08 14:00: An integrated computational physics approach for magnetically confined plasma (Prof. Nikos Nikiforakis (Cambridge))

2025-05-09 14:00: Photonic Pseudomagnetism and Landau Levels (Mikael Rechtsman, Penn State)

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

2025-05-14 11:15: Pathways towards High-Temperature Superconductivity (Sven Friedemann - HH Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, UK)

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

2025-05-22 14:00: Walter Kohn: the theoretical physicist who created DFT and won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (Prof. Sir David Clary, FRS (University of Oxford))

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

2025-06-04 11:00: Exploring charge density waves in twisted bilayer NbSe2 with machine learning (Dr Zac Goodwin (Oxford))

2025-06-05 14:00: “Old and new physics in the J1-J2 Heisenberg spin chain” (Prof. Chris Hooley (Coventry))

2025-06-06 14:00: Deep Learning many-body electronic structure (Prof. Ji CHEN (Peking University))

2025-06-11 11:00: Time-Resolved Collapse and Revival of the Heavy-Fermion State by Pulsed Light (Michael Turaev, University of Bonn)

2025-06-12 14:00: Exciton (De)Localization and Dissociation in Heterogeneous Semiconductors from First Principles Computational Modeling (Prof. Marina Filip (Oxford))

2025-06-17 15:00: Chronopolitics across the West and non-West Divide: Populism, History and Historical IR in Turco-European Relations (Professor Bahar Rumelili, Koç University)

2025-06-19 14:00: Four Generations of High-Dimensional Neural Network Potentials (Prof. Jörg Behler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum))

2025-06-23 13:00: Book Talk: Contesting Pluralism(s) Islamism, Liberalism, and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond (Nora Fisher Onar, San Francisco State Universiy)

2025-06-25 11:00: Entrepreneurship as a Career Option for Physicists (Benat Mencia)

2025-07-04 14:00: Approaching precise device scale all-atom simulations of crystallisation of halide perovskites (Paramvir Ahlawat (Cambridge))

2025-07-09 11:15: The effect of staggered local environments on quantum spin chains (Paul Goddard - University of Warwick)

2025-07-10 14:00: Control of spin current in a canted antiferromagnet (Prof. Haiming Yu (Beihang))

2025-07-22 14:00: Fluid dynamics and quantum geometry in the quantum Hall effect (Duncan Haldane (Princeton))

2025-07-24 14:00: Unveiling emergent phenomena in "digital" quantum trajectories (Dr Federico Carollo (Coventry University))

2025-08-04 11:00: Complexity beyond entanglement - magic of many-body systems (Marcello Dalmonte (ICTP Trieste))

2025-08-07 15:00: First-principles Investigation of Nonlinear Optical Crystals using CASTEP (Ming-Hsien Lee  (Department of Physics, Tamkang University; TCM, 1991-1995))

2025-08-19 14:00: Quantum Hydrodynamics (Dylan Reynolds, ICTS Bangalore)

2025-10-02 14:00: Artificial Kitaev chains in quantum dots coupled through superconductors (Prof. Greg Mazur)

2025-10-09 14:00: Electronic response to ion projectiles traversing matter from first principles (Prof. Emilio Artacho (Cambridge & Nanogune))

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

2025-10-16 14:00: Disorder and Symmetries in Lindbladian models (Arijeet Pal, UCL)

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

2025-10-23 14:00: Quantum Coherence of Diamond NV Centers Near Surfaces, Interfaces, and Dislocations (Jonah Nagura (Chicago))

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

2025-10-30 14:00: Quantum transport in disordered Chern insulators (Benoit Doucot (LPTHE, CNRS and Sorbonne University))

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

2025-11-05 14:00: Exciton-phonon interaction in semiconductors: theory, coding and applications (Dr Fulvio Paleari (CNR Istituto Nanoscienze, Modena))

2025-11-06 14:00: Altering electrical transport in 2D materials through sub-wavelength cavities (Marco Polini, University of Pisa)

2025-11-07 14:00: Hyperbolic Fracton Models: Bridging AdS/CFT and Self-Correcting Code (Prof. Han YAN (Tokyo))

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

2025-11-13 14:00: Witnessing the Quantum Spin Liquid in Herbertsmithite (Prof. Felix Flicker (Bristol))

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

2025-11-20 14:00: Publishing in Nature Journals: An editor’s insight (Dr Giulia Pacchioni (Nature Review Materials))

2025-11-24 14:00: Topological Non-Abelian Gauge Structures in Cayley–Schreier Lattices (Tomáš Bzdušek (Zurich))

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

2025-11-27 14:00: Topology at Scale:  Bridging Topological Phases, Critical Phenomena, and Real-Space Embedding (Antimo Marrazzo (SISSA))

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))

2025-12-02 15:30: First Steps Toward Understanding Ice Formation in Plants (Prof. Gabriele C. Sosso)

2025-12-04 14:00: Extracting Anyon Statistics from Neural Network Fractional Quantum Hall States (Andres Perez Fadon, Imperial College)

2025-12-11 14:00: Are the Ce pyrochlores quantum spin liquids - and how could we know for sure? (Owen Benton, Queen Mary University of London)

2025-12-12 15:15: First-principles open quantum dynamics based on a density-matrix formalism for spin-optotronic properties in solids  (Yuan PING (University of Wisconsin - Madison))

2026-01-15 14:00: Leveraging theory and simulation to decode and design multidimensional  electronic spectroscopies in the condensed phase (Prof. Thomas E. Markland (Stanford))

2026-01-22 14:00: Topological design of light beams: vortices, knots, textures & beyond (Mark Dennis (Birmingham))

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))

2026-02-05 13:00: Biophysics of motility of unicellular organisms (Prof. Antonio De Simone)

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

2026-02-12 14:00: From Anderson to Many-Body localization: Instabilities in the random-field XXZ chain (Dr Jeanne Colbois (CNRS))

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

2026-02-19 14:00: Functional theory of the occupied spectral density and solution of its dynamical Euler-Lagrange equations (Prof. Andrea Ferretti)

2026-02-23 16:15: 2026 Scott Lectures: Spintronics for massive data memory-storage – past present and future (Prof Stuart Parkin (Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics))

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

2026-02-25 16:15: 2026 Scott Lectures: 2D van der Waals materials for spintronics (Prof Stuart Parkin (Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics))

2026-02-26 14:00: Exciton Self-Trapping, Frozen Disorder, and Morphotropic Phase Boundaries in Halide Perovskites (Prof. Julia Wiktor (Chalmers))

2026-02-27 11:00: 2026 Scott Lectures: Superconducting Spintronics for Racetrack Memory (Prof Stuart Parkin (Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics))

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))

2026-03-03 14:15: Kagome spin ice and strange metal phases (Prof. Philipp Gegenwart, Universität Augsburg)

2026-03-05 14:00: The saga of chiral transitions in arrays of Rydberg atoms (Natalia Chepiga (Oxford))

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

2026-03-12 14:00: Superconducting pairing correlations on a 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer (Henrik Dreyer (Quantinuum))

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

2026-03-19 14:00: Fractional Chern and topological insulators (Prof. Titus Mangham-Neupert (Zurich))

2026-03-26 14:00: Shift current response in 2D materials – A study in moiré graphene systems and Janus transition-metal dichalcogenides (Dr Yuncheng Mao (Aix-Marseille Université))

2026-04-23 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Lukasz Fidkowski (Washington))

2026-04-30 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Adrian E. Feiguin (Northeastern))

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

2026-05-07 14:00: Synthesizing Diverse Policies for Multi-Agent Coordination (Prof. Amanda Prorok (Cambridge))

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

2026-05-14 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Raul Perea-Causin (Stockholm))

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

2026-05-21 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Marko Ljubotina (TUM))

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

2026-06-02 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Emil J. Bergholtz (Stockholm))

2026-06-04 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. José J. Baldoví (University of Valencia))

2026-06-11 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Tomáš Bzdušek (UZH))

2026-06-25 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Denis Bartolo (ENS, Lyon))

2026-07-02 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Teuta Pilizota (Cambridge))