• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Ben Jackson , David Leopold , Sarah Mortimer , Jon Parkin , Teresa Bejan , Sophie Smith
• Timing: Fridays, 12.30-2pm

Friday 16 October 2015

• 12:30 - Labour and the everyday: historical reflections on an academic's time in politics
  Marc Stears (Univ, Oxford))

Friday 23 October 2015

• 12:30 - Liberal Toleration?: Locke and Rawls on concord.
  Teresa Bejan (Oriel, Oxford)

Friday 30 October 2015

• 12:30 - Community and religion: Catholic visions of democratic world order in the 1940s
  Or Rosenboim (Queens', Cambridge)

Friday 6 November 2015

• 12:30 - Roman and neo-roman slavery in Milton's Samson Agonistes
  Martin Dzelzainis (Leicester)

Friday 13 November 2015

• 12:30 - The Proletariat in later C19th Political Thought: from Lorenz von Stein to Karl Kautsky
  Marc Mulholland (St Catherine’s, Oxford)

Friday 20 November 2015

• 12:30 - 1815 in Scottish Political Thought
  Anna Plassart (Open University)

Friday 27 November 2015

• 12:30 - Elie Halévy and the First World War
  Duncan Kelly (Jesus, Cambridge)

Friday 22 January 2016

• 12:30 - ‘How (Not) to Draw Contemporary Insights from the History of Political Thought’
  Adrian Blau (King’s College, London)

Friday 29 January 2016

• 12:30 - ‘A Democratic Nation? Scottish Nationalism and Scottish Philosophy, c. 1961-2014’
  Ben Jackson (University College, Oxford)

Friday 5 February 2016

• 12:30 - ‘International Law, Justice and Charity: from the Reformation to Hugo Grotius’
  Sarah Mortimer (Christ Church, Oxford)

Friday 12 February 2016

• 12:30 - ‘Ideological Struggle During the Formative Years of the Turkish Republic (1922-25)’
  Banu Turnaoğlu (Cambridge)

Friday 19 February 2016

• 12:30 - ‘Beyond Utopia: Thomas More as Political Thinker’
  Joanne Paul (New College of the Humanities, London)

Friday 26 February 2016

• 12:30 - Discussion of the 2016 Carlyle Lectures
  John Robertson (Clare College, Cambridge)

Friday 4 March 2016

• 12:30 - ‘Rethinking the Origins of Marxism in Modern France’
  Julia Nicholls (Queen Mary’s, London)

Friday 14 October 2016

• 12:30 - ‘The Civic Republican Response to Thatcherism’
  Stuart White (Jesus College, Oxford)

Friday 21 October 2016

• 12:30 - ‘The Idiosyncratic Socialism of Karl Polanyi’
  Gareth Dale (Brunel University)

Tuesday 25 October 2016

• 12:00 - ‘Plato’s Legacy and the Problem of Myth in Political Thought’
  Tae-Yeoun Keum (Christ Church, Oxford)

Friday 4 November 2016

• 12:30 - ‘Liberalism, Empire and Islam: The View From Colonised Egypt, 1882- 1919’
  Hussein Omar (Merton College, Oxford)

Tuesday 8 November 2016

• 12:00 - ‘Bringing the News From Nowhere: What is Utopia For?’
  David Leopol (Mansfield College, Oxford)

Friday 18 November 2016

• 12:30 - ‘Property, Inheritance and the Problem of Irish Land, 1798-1839’
  James Stafford (St Hugh’s College, Oxford)

Friday 25 November 2016

• 12:30 - ‘The Dangers of Contempt, From Descartes to Hobbes’
  Ross Carroll (Exeter University)

Tuesday 29 November 2016

• 12:00 - ‘The Person of the State: A Genealogy’
  Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary University of London)

Friday 20 January 2017

• 12:30 - J. S. Mill on Liberty, Dialectics and the Logic behind Political Discourse
  Kazutaka Inamura (Hirosaki University)

Friday 27 January 2017

• 12:30 - Moses Mendelssohn's Enlightenment and the Politics of Jewish Emancipation
  Charlotte Johann (King’s College, Cambridge)

Friday 3 February 2017

• 12:30 - The Republican Ideal of Fraternity in the Political Thought of Toussaint Louverture
  Sudhir Hazareesingh (University of Oxford)

Friday 10 February 2017

• 12:30 - A Case of Overlooked Communicative Interaction: Arendt’s Influence on Habermas’s Philosophical Project
  Peter Verovšek (Harvard & Sheffield Universities)

Friday 17 February 2017

• 12:30 - The Theological Foundations of the Spiritual Resistance to Nazism in France’
  Sarah Shortall (University Collge, Oxford)

Friday 24 February 2017

• 12:30 - John Adams and the Constitution de l'an III’
  Adam Lebovitz (Harvard University)

Friday 3 March 2017

• 12:30 - Roundtable: The French Reception of Owenism Socialism
  Various Speakers

Friday 10 March 2017

• 12:30 - Discussion of the 2017 Carlyle Lectures
  Kinch Hoekstra (UC Berkley)