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Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS)

Lent Term 2026

All seminars start at 5pm every week and are held in the Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College unless otherwise noted.


 

Research Seminar Series 1

Research Seminar Series 2

26 January

Title: Rights, Freedom and Selfhood in Early Modern Feminism

Speaker: Hannah Dawson (King’s College London),

Commentator: Sagnik Dutta (Tilberg University)

Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.                                                                                      

02 February

Title: Does Art Have a Purpose? A Response from Aristotle's Poetics

Speaker: Katie Ebner-Landy (Utrecht University)

Commentator: TBC

Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.

09 February

Title: Chimera: Capitalism, Anti-Semitism and the Composition of the Modern Other

Speaker: Sophus Reinert (Harvard University)

Commentator: Martin Ruehl (University of  Cambridge)

Venue: Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College  

 

16 February

Title: TBC

Speaker: Julia McClure (University of Glasgow)   

Commentator: Milinda Bannerjee (University of St Andrews)

Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.

 
 

23 February

Title: Revolutionary Linkages across Iran, the Russian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire, 1904 - 1908

Speaker: Kayhan Nejad (University of Oklahoma)

Commentator: David Motadel (London School of Economics)

Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.

 

02 March

Title: Moral Geographies of Pan-Asian Sisterhood: Examining Elite Indian and Chinese Women's Political Thought c. 1920 - 45

Speaker: Shruti Balaji (London School of Economics)

Commentator: Kimberly Hutchings (Queen Mary University of London)

Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.

09 March

Title: TBC

Speaker: Melissa Lane (Princeton University)

Commentator: Benjamin Gray (University of Cambridge)

Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.     

16 March

Title: Schleiermacher on Masse and Monarch

Speaker: Olivier Higgins (New College, University of Oxford)

Commentator: TBC

Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.  


More information: www.polthought.cam.ac.uk/seminar