• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Teresa Bejan , Ben Jackson , Sarah Mortimer , Jon Parkin , Sophie Smith , David Leopold
• Timing: Friday 12:00-13:00, except Week 5 which will be Thursday 16:00-17:00

Friday 13 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - 'Before On Liberty: Samuel Bailey and the Nineteenth-Century Theory of Free Speech'
  Greg Conti (Cambridge)

Friday 20 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - 'Hayek's Political Thought: Development, Problems and Heritage'
  Jeremy Shearmur (ANU)

Friday 27 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Discussion of Peter Ghosh, 'Constructing Marx in the History of Ideas'
  Peter Ghosh (Oxford), David Leopold (Oxford), Marc Mulholland (Oxford), Julia Nicholls (KCL)

Friday 3 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - 'Alienation and Racial Hegemony'
  Sarah Bufkin (Oxford)

Friday 10 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - 'Thomas More's Utopia and utopian writing in Arabic in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries'
  Peter Hill (Oxford)

Friday 17 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - 'Political Theory and the Dark Arts'
  Steven Smith (Yale)

Friday 24 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - 'History and Judgment in the thought of Hannah Arendt'
  Waseem Yaqoob (Cambridge)

Friday 1 December 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - 'The People Trap'
  Sofia Näsström (Uppsala)

Friday 19 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Chains and Invisible Threads: Marx on Domination and Republican Liberty
  Bruno Leipold (Goethe University Frankfurt / Free University of Berlin)

Friday 26 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Problems of Socialist Strategy Redux
  Madeleine Davis (Queen Mary University of London)

Friday 2 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Dominus before Domination: Harriet Jacobs on Property and Slavery
  Desmond Jagmohan (Princeton)

Friday 9 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Constitutions before Constitutionalism: A Discussion of the Carlyle Lectures
  Melissa Lane (Princeton)

Friday 23 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Eduard Bernstein on the "Republic of Peoples": Socialism, Patriotism, and the Rise of International Institutions
  Marius Ostrowski (All Souls)

Friday 2 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Thomas Hobbes and Reformed Ethics
  Noah Dauber (Colgate)

Friday 9 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Street-Level Bureaucracy and Democratic Theory
  Bernardo Zacka (Cambridge / MIT)

Friday 12 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - 'Hobbes on the Definition of a Legal Sphere'
  Signy Gutnick Allen (LSE)

Friday 19 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - 'Listening for silence: absence and lack in political thinking'
  Michael Freeden (Oxford)

Friday 26 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - 'The Federalist Vision of Eric Williams'
  Adom Getachew (Chicago)

Friday 2 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - ' Coercion in a Subjective World'
  Dan Luban (Oxford)

Friday 9 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - In Conversation: History, Philosophy and Feminism
  Please note the change in location: this week's seminar will be held in the Sir Michael Dummett Lecture Theatre in Christ Church.
  Martha Nussbaum (Chicago)

Friday 16 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - 'Political Theory for the Real World'
  Michael Goodhart (Pittsburgh)

Friday 23 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - 'Human Rights on Trial'
  Justine Lacroix and Jean-Yves Pranchère (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Friday 30 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - 'Moral possibility'
  Annabel Brett (Cambridge)

Friday 18 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - 'Merze Tate on Religion, Imperialism, and Anglo-American Relations in the Pacific
  Barbara Savage (Pennsylvania)

Friday 25 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Thucydides on the Corruption of Language, or The Unbearable Lightness of Logos
  Mark Fisher (Georgetown)

Friday 1 February 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Locke versus Filmer revisited
  James Harris (St Andrews)

Friday 8 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - The mundane in a spectacular era: #metoo and #blacklivesmatter
  Shatema Threadcraft (Dartmouth)

Friday 15 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Socialism's heart of darkness: the origins of 'Eurafrica' in dissident Social Democracy, 1918-32
  Marius Ostrowski (Oxford)

Friday 22 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - The End of Enlightenment: A Discussion of the Carlyle Lectures
  Richard Whatmore (St Andrews)

Friday 1 March 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Natural right theory in Kant’s legal metaphors
  Sofie Møller (Frankfurt)

Friday 8 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - The Origins of the End of Ideology Debate: An Alternative History
  Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (Yale)

Friday 18 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - In the Shadow of Justice
  Katrina Forrester (Harvard)

Friday 25 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - 'Heterodoxy and Political Economy in Sir William Petty: 1623-1687
  Shannon Stimson (Georgetown)

Friday 1 November 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Rivers are People Too?: On Legal Personhood for Nature
  Sean Fleming (Cambridge)

Friday 8 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - 'Colonialism vs Imperialism
  Barbara Arneil (UBC)

Friday 15 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Early British Socialism and the "Religion of the New Moral World"
  Edward Lucas (Oxford)

Thursday 21 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The Neo-Liberal Turn
  Note this week's talk is on THURSDAY
  Angus Burgin (Johns Hopkins)

Friday 29 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - A utopian feminist in the French Revolution: J. H. Lawrence against marriage
  Due to industrial action this seminar has been cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Anne Verjus (CNRS)

Friday 6 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The Paradox of Loss: Reading Edward Said for Political Theory
  Jeanne Morefield (Birmingham)

Wednesday 22 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - 'Republicanism and Anti-Trinitarianism in John Milton's Poetry and Prose'
  Deni Kasa (Tel Aviv)

Friday 24 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - 'Socialist Internationalism and the Problem of Islam'
  Faridah Zaman (Oxford)

Friday 31 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - 'Theorizing Political Resistance to Racism: From Occasioning Sight to Constituting Power'
  Ainsley LeSure (Occidental)

Friday 7 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - 'The Stateless in the History of International Political Thought'
  Mira Siegelberg (Cambridge)

Friday 14 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - 'The Mixing Body: A Theory of Property in Locke'
  Hagar Kotef (SOAS)

Friday 28 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - 'Republicanism and Anti-Trinitarianism in John Milton's Poetry and Prose
  Deni Kasa (Tel Aviv)

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - 'Re-framing Islam: Submission, Reformation, Pacification’
  Murad Idris (UVA)

Wednesday 11 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Discussion of the Carlyle Lectures: 'Don't Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy'
  Peter Adamson (Munich)

Thursday 15 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Roundtable on The Case for Scottish Independence
  Ben Jackson (Oxford)

Friday 23 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Laws, liberties and the will of the people (right and wrong): political thought in the wars of religion
  Sarah Mortimer (Oxford)

Monday 26 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Graduate Political Theory Conference - Day 1
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 27 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Graduate Political Theory Conference - Day 2
  Various Speakers

Friday 13 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - Re-Framing Islam: Submission, Reformation, Pacification
  Murad Idris (UVA/Michigan)

Friday 20 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Kant, Empiricism, and the Fate of Nations at the Dawn of the Nineteenth Century
  Morgan Golf-French (Oxford)

Friday 27 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Politics, Time and East German Identity in the Era of Late Socialism
  Marcus Colla (Oxford)

Friday 29 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State
  Steven Klein (KCL)

Friday 5 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Freedom: An Unruly History
  Annelien de Dijn (Utrecht)

Thursday 11 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Contesting Conformity: Democracy and the Paradox of Political Belonging
  Jennie Ikuta (Missouri)

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - African American Political Thought: A Collected History
  Melvin Rogers (Brown)

Friday 5 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
  Sudhir Hazareesingh (Oxford)

Friday 12 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - John Locke and Empire (Carlyle Lectures)
  Mark Goldie (Cambridge)

Thursday 13 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement
  Erin Pineda (Smith College)

Thursday 20 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Louis Blanc: Republican Socialism in 19th Century France
  Pablo Scotto (Barcelona/Oxford)

Thursday 27 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Statelessness: A Modern History
  Mira Siegelberg (Cambridge)

Friday 15 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - New Book: The Right to Sex
  Amia Srinivasan (Oxford), Commentator: Shai Agmon, Commentator: Jenny Huang, Commentator: Kushti Westwood

Friday 22 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - New Book: Political Thought in the French Wars of Religion
  Sophie Nicholls (Oxford), Commentator: Connor Grubaugh, Commentator: Kate Shore

Friday 29 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - New Book: John Stuart Mill: Socialist
  Helen McCabe (Nottingham), Commentator: Oliver Gough, Commentator: Charlie Richards

Friday 5 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - New Book: The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of the Revolution
  Mitchell Dean (Copenhagen Business School), Daniel Zamora (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Commentator: Owen Coughlan, Commentator: Emily Dyson

Thursday 11 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - New Book: Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought
  Tae-Yeoun Keum (UC Santa Barbara), Comentator: Audrey Borowski, Comentator: Jamie Ranger

Friday 19 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - English News Culture and Classical Republican Thought in the 1640s
  Jamie Gianoutsos (Mount St Mary's)

Friday 26 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - New book: Spinoza and the Freedom of Philosophizing
  Mogens Laerke (CNRS)