Political Thought and Intellectual History Seminar Series
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
04 May
Title: The Intellectual Foundations of Ottoman Constitutionalism: The Political Thought of Namık Kemal
Speaker: Banu Turnaoğlu Açan (Magdalene College, University of Cambridge and Sabancı University)
Commentator: Samuel Zeitlin (University College London)
Venue: Long Room, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.
18 May
Title: Mater semper certa est. Matriarchal moments in early modern natural law.
Speaker: Anna Becker (Aarhus University)
Commentator: Annabel Brett (Gonville and Caius College)
Venue: Long Room, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.
Research Seminar Series 2
11 May
Title: Jacopo Aconcio and the Question of Religious Coercion
Speaker: Odile Panetta (Wadham College, University of Oxford)
Commentator: Angus Gowland (University College London)
Venue: Long Room, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.
25 May
Title: Machine Politics? Computers and AI in the History of Political Thought
Speaker: Amira Möding (University of Cambridge)
Commentator: Richard Staley (Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Long Room, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.