• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Ben Jackson , David Leopold , Sarah Mortimer , Jon Parkin , Anton Jäger (University of Oxford) , Jeanne Morefield

Friday 13 October 2017

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

Friday 20 October 2017

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

Friday 27 October 2017

• 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

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

Friday 10 November 2017

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

Friday 17 November 2017

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

Friday 24 November 2017

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

Friday 1 December 2017

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

Friday 19 January 2018

• 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

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

Friday 2 February 2018

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

Friday 9 February 2018

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

Friday 23 February 2018

• 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

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

Friday 9 March 2018

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

Friday 12 October 2018

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

Friday 19 October 2018

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

Friday 26 October 2018

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

Friday 2 November 2018

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

Friday 9 November 2018

• 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

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

Friday 23 November 2018

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

Friday 30 November 2018

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

Friday 18 January 2019

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

Friday 25 January 2019

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

Friday 1 February 2019

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

Friday 8 February 2019

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

Friday 15 February 2019

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

Friday 22 February 2019

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

Friday 1 March 2019

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

Friday 8 March 2019

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

Friday 18 October 2019

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

Friday 25 October 2019

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

Friday 1 November 2019

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

Friday 8 November 2019

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

Friday 15 November 2019

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

Thursday 21 November 2019

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

Friday 29 November 2019

• 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

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

Wednesday 22 January 2020

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

Friday 24 January 2020

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

Friday 31 January 2020

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

Friday 7 February 2020

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

Friday 14 February 2020

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

Friday 28 February 2020

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

Friday 6 March 2020

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

Wednesday 11 March 2020

• 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

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

Friday 23 October 2020

• 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

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

Tuesday 27 October 2020

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

Friday 13 November 2020

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

Friday 20 November 2020

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

Friday 27 November 2020

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

Friday 29 January 2021

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

Friday 5 February 2021

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

Thursday 11 February 2021

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

Thursday 25 February 2021

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

Friday 5 March 2021

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

Friday 12 March 2021

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

Thursday 13 May 2021

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

Thursday 20 May 2021

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

Thursday 27 May 2021

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

Friday 15 October 2021

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

Friday 22 October 2021

• 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

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

Friday 5 November 2021

• 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

• 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

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

Friday 26 November 2021

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

Friday 21 January 2022

• 12:00 - Discussion of Sarah Mortimer's Reformation, Resistance and Reason of State (1517-1625): the Oxford History of Political Thought
  Sarah Mortimer, Geertje Bol, Jacob Chatterjee

Friday 28 January 2022

• 12:00 - City, faction, and tyranny: Bartolus of Sassoferrato's three treatises on city government
  If you are planning to attend in person please book a ticket at the link below
  George Garnett (Oxford), Magnus Ryan (Cambridge)

Thursday 3 February 2022

• 17:15 - The Gender of Critical Theory
  Extra Session with the Critical Theory Seminar
  Lois McNay (University of Oxford), Commentator: Liz Frazer (Politics)

Friday 4 February 2022

• 16:00 - Claudia Jones' "Triple Oppression" Concept and the interrelation of Race, Gender, and Class
  Vanessa Wills (George Washington University)

Friday 11 February 2022

• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Tim Stuart-Buttle (York)

Friday 18 February 2022

• 12:00 - Rereading An American Dilemma
  Emma MacKinnon (Cambridge)

Tuesday 22 February 2022

• 13:00 - Birth of Neoliberal Anti-Environmentalism in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s
  Extra session with American History Research Seminar
  Niklas Olsen (University of Copenhagen)

Friday 25 February 2022

• 12:00 - Reconsidering Racial Capitalism: From Necessity to Entanglement
  Emily Katzenstein (Oxford)

Friday 4 March 2022

• 12:00 - The rule of merit and the merit of rules
  Benjamin Straumann (Zurich/NYU)

Friday 11 March 2022

• 12:00 - The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism: A Discussion of the Carlyle Lectures
  Sam Moyn (Yale)

Monday 10 October 2022

• 16:00 - New Book: Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
  Sophie Lewis (UPenn)
• 16:00 - New Book - Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
  Sophie Lewis (UPenn)

Monday 17 October 2022

• 16:00 - Miltonic Monsters among the British Moralists: The Imagination of AI from Hobbes to Shelley
  Eileen M Hunt (Notre Dame)

Monday 24 October 2022

• 16:00 - Painting Political Philosophy
  Emma Planinc (Notre Dame)

Monday 31 October 2022

• 16:00 - Parliamentary institutions in the political thought of Jean Bodin
  Paulina Kewes (Oxford)

Monday 14 November 2022

• 16:00 - Languages of republicanism: res publica and swaraj
  Manjeet Ramgotra (SOAS)

Tuesday 22 November 2022

• 16:00 - From Cyberspace to the Metaverse: Toward an Intellectual History of the Internet
  Please note this seminar will be on Tuesday at the Rothermere American Institute
  Angus Burgin (Johns Hopkins)

Monday 16 January 2023

• 16:00 - Carl Schmitt, Political Theology, and the History of Political Thought
  Samuel Zeitlin (Colgate)

Monday 23 January 2023

• 16:00 - Harriet Jacobs and Ida B. Wells on (Black) Loss: Egalitarian Witness Against Pornographic Pain
  Juliet Hooker (Brown)

Monday 30 January 2023

• 16:00 - Discussion of the Carlyle Lectures: Custom, Common Law and Civil Law
  John Hudson (St Andrews)

Monday 6 February 2023

• 16:00 - Economies of Conspiracy: Hidden Power and the Erosion of Democracy in Athenian Political Thought
  Demetra Kasimis (Chicago)

Monday 13 February 2023

• 16:00 - Toleration, Time and the Other
  Marietta van der Tol (Oxford)

Monday 20 February 2023

• 12:00 - Discussion of The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes
  Please note this seminar is at 12:00-13:30
  Stefan Eich (Georgetown)

Monday 27 February 2023

• 16:00 - Forward Ever: Nkrumah’s Conception of Anticolonial Speed
  Musab Yunis (Queen Mary University of London)

Monday 6 March 2023

• 16:00 - Discussion of Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory
  Jeanne Morefield (Oxford)

Monday 15 January 2024

• 17:00 - New Book: Toni Morrison: Imagining Freedom
  Lawrie Balfour (University of Virginia)

Monday 22 January 2024

• 17:00 - José Sarria’s performance archive and the making of nelly queens, 1953-1963
  Mori Reithmayr (Oxford)

Wednesday 31 January 2024

• 17:00 - Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
  Please note this talk is on Wednesday
  Jennifer Burns (Stanford)

Monday 5 February 2024

• 17:00 - Paolo Sarpi’s History of the Council of Trent (1619/20) and early modern conciliar thinking
  Eloise Davies (Oxford)

Monday 12 February 2024

• 17:00 - Feminism Re-Scaled: From Subject and Ethics to Structures and Politics
  Kathi Weeks (Duke)

Monday 19 February 2024

• 17:00 - Discussion of the Carlyle Lectures
  Paul Seaward (History of Parliament)

Monday 26 February 2024

• 17:00 - Hobbes, Reception, and the Politics of Freethinking
  Elad Carmel (Edinburgh)

Monday 4 March 2024

• 17:00 - Political Cooperation in Hell: Bonaventure, Suarez, and Milton
  Daniel Schwartz (Hebrew University)

Monday 14 October 2024

• 17:00 - Book Discussion: The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation
  Isaac Nakhimovsky (Yale)

Monday 21 October 2024

• 17:00 - Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900
  Fernanda Gallo (Cambridge)

Monday 28 October 2024

• 17:00 - Making Equality Strange: Reflections on the History of an Elusive Idea
  Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth)

Monday 4 November 2024

• 17:00 - Populism for End Times: Norman Cohn, Vera Broido, and ‘Political Religion'
  Nicolas Guilhot (EUI)

Monday 11 November 2024

• 17:00 - Bernard Mandeville’s Critique of Epicurus and the ‘Easie Divines’ of the Church of England, 1705–1732
  Jacob Chatterjee (Oxford)

Monday 18 November 2024

• 17:00 - Book Discussion: Citizen Marx: Karl Marx and Republicanism
  Bruno Leipold (LSE)

Monday 25 November 2024

• 17:00 - How Did the Enlightenment Rights of Man Become Christian?
  Alexander Schmidt (Vanderbilt)

Wednesday 27 November 2024

• 17:00 - Colonialism, Cosmopolitanism, and Kant’s Justification of Territorial Rights
  Lea Ypi (LSE)

Monday 2 December 2024

• 17:00 - Rights in Roman Republican Thought
  Valentina Arena (Oxford)

Wednesday 4 December 2024

• 17:00 - Berlin Lectures Discussion
  Melissa Lane (Princeton)

Monday 20 January 2025

• 17:00 - Carl Schmitt and the History of the First World War: State Composition and the Collapse of the Second Reich (1934)
  Dr Samuel Zeitlin (UCL)

Monday 27 January 2025

• 17:00 - Beyond Antagonism: Converging Radicalisms in the 1930s Caribbean
  Dr Leslie James (Queen Mary University)

Monday 3 February 2025

• 17:00 - Jacobus Acontius's Stratagemata Satanae (1564) and the question of religious coercion
  Dr Odile Panetta (University of Oxford)

Monday 10 February 2025

• 17:00 - The Divorce Tracts and Milton's Radical Affections
  Dr Michal Zechariah (University of Oxford)

Monday 17 February 2025

• 17:00 - Kashmir Without History: Sheikh Abdullah, Jinnah and Indian Political Thought
  Dr Amar Sohal (KCL)

Monday 24 February 2025

• 17:00 - Book Presentation: Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal
  Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary University), Cécile Laborde (Oxford), Shiru Lim (Leiden), Iain McDaniel (Sussex)

Monday 13 October 2025

• 17:00 - State Destruction, 1689-1815
  Felix Waldmann (Cambridge)

Monday 20 October 2025

• 17:00 - Critical Theory and the Political Economy of Colonialism
  Gurminder K Bhambra (University of Sussex)

Monday 27 October 2025

• 17:00 - Marriage as Slavery: Oroonoko, the Slave Trade, and Mary Astell
  Mary Jo MacDonald (University of Jyväskylä)

Monday 3 November 2025

• 17:00 - “...Spirit [Geist] Has Broken with the World”
  Susan Buck-Morss (Cornell University)

Tuesday 4 November 2025

• 14:30 - Book Discussion Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
  Please note this Joint Session with Nuffield Political Theory Workshop, will be held at 14:30 at Nuffield College
  Alyssa Battistoni (Barnard College)

Friday 7 November 2025

• 16:00 - Book Discussion Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men
  Patricia Owens (Somerville College, Oxford)

Monday 10 November 2025

• 17:00 - Levelling Monsters: Monopoly, Rights, and Public Authority
  Kaarish Shah Maniar (Columbia University)

Tuesday 18 November 2025

• 16:00 - Sarah Wambaugh and the Experimental Modernism of Interwar Plebiscites
  Duncan Kelly (Cambridge)

Monday 24 November 2025

• 17:00 - Book Discussion The Revolution to Come
  Joint Session with Enlightenment Workshop
  Dan Edelstein (Stanford)

Monday 1 December 2025

• 17:00 - Erudition and Moral Science in the Thought of Samuel Pufendorf
  Thomas Ahnert (Edinburgh)