Political Thought and Intellectual History

Violence against Women in Feminist Re-Readings of Marx in Socialist Contexts

Zsófia Lóránd (University of Vienna).

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

Monday 11 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The United States of Europe, 1848–1914

Christopher Brooke (Homerton College, University of Cambridge).

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

Monday 04 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Des Moulins à Paroles. The Battle for the Meaning of Democracy in France, 1850–1851

Lucia Rubinelli (Yale University).

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

Monday 26 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roman Law between Scholasticism and Humanism

Magnus Ryan (Peterhouse, University of Cambridge).

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

Monday 19 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Slavery in the Society of Equals: Winstanley and the Diggers

Teresa Bejan (Oriel College, University of Oxford).

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

Monday 05 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Pre-History of British Gramscianism. A Transnational Perspective

Marzia Maccaferri (Queen Mary University of London).

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

Monday 29 January 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable on Hegel's World Revolutions

Richard Bourke (King’s College, University of Cambridge).

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

Monday 22 January 2024, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Luis de Molina (1535–1600) and Atlantic Slavery

Daniel Allemann (University of Lucerne).

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

Monday 27 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Loving and Killing Children: Jeremy Bentham on Adult-Child Sex, Infanticide, and Abortion

Philip Schofield (University College London).

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

Monday 20 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

An Angry Warning: Pareto and Elite Circulation

Natasha Piano (University of California, Los Angeles).

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

Monday 13 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hobbes on People and Multitude: Context and Argument

James Harris (University of St Andrews).

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

Monday 06 November 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Technology, Environment, and Crisis: “Catastrophic Technology” and the Environmental Movement

Caroline Ashcroft (Queen Mary University of London).

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

Monday 30 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

John Locke and Slavery

Mark Goldie (Churchill College, University of Cambridge).

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

Monday 23 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

What did Simón Bolívar Owe to Charles V?

Edward Jones Corredera (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg).

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

Monday 16 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable on Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word

Michael Sonenscher (King’s College, University of Cambridge).

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

Monday 09 October 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Moral Personality in Machiavelli

Peter Stacey (UCLA).

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

Monday 05 June 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Political Theory of Restauration

Béla Kapossy (University of Lausanne).

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

Monday 15 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Saving the language of William the Conqueror: The Revitalisation of Sark's Norman tongue

Martin Neudörfl (Charles University, Prague).

Davidson Room, Peterhouse.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Beauvoir and Rousseau on Theatrical Consciousness

Kate Kirkpatrick (Oxford).

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

Monday 01 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Problem of Taqiyya: Invisible Subjects in Indian Political Thought

Taushif Kara (King's College London).

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

Monday 13 March 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Truth and Loyalty

Matt Sleat (University of Sheffield).

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

Monday 06 March 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Plato's Longue Durée: the Politics of Time in the Later Dialogues

Carol Atack (Newnham College, Cambridge).

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

Monday 20 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

TBA

Stefan Eich (Georgetown University).

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

Monday 13 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Afterlives of François de Callières: Secrecy, Espionage and the Twentieth-Century Law of Diplomatic Relations

Megan Donaldson (University College London).

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

Monday 06 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Untimely Consciousness: Reading Modernity Through the White-Collar Lens

Emily Steinhauer (Royal Holloway).

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

Monday 30 January 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Democracy and Caesarism in Histories of Progress: G. F. Kolb and the Politics of Nineteenth-Century Cultural History

Iain McDaniel (University of Sussex).

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

Monday 23 January 2023, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable on 'The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance'

Jamie Martin (Harvard), with comments by Mira Siegelberg (Cambridge), Madeline Woker (Cambridge), and Duncan Bell (Cambridge).

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

Monday 28 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

From Cyberspace to the Metaverse: Toward an Intellectual History of the Internet

Angus Burgin (Johns Hopkins University).

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

Monday 21 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

On the Liberties of the Ancients: Licentiousness, Equal Rights, and the Rule of Law

Benjamin Straumann (University of Zurich).

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

Monday 14 November 2022, 17:15-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Friedrich Carl von Savigny and the Politics of Legal Knowledge

Charlotte Johann (Churchill College, Cambridge).

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

Monday 07 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hans Kelsen, Imperial Dissolution, and the History of Modern Legal Thought

Natasha Wheatley (Princeton).

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

Monday 31 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Virtue Beyond Law? Christian Ethics and Political Duties in Reformation Europe

Sarah Mortimer (Christ Church, Oxford).

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

Monday 24 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable on Jessica Patterson’s (Cambridge) Book, 'Religion, Enlightenment and Empire'

Jessica Patterson (Cambridge), with comments by Ian Stewart (QMUL), Niall O’Flaherty (KCL), and Shruti Kapila (Cambridge).

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

Monday 10 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Ceylon Portuguese: Survival Against All Odds

Professor Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya (Visiting Fellow, Lucy Cavendish College and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies School of Advanced Study, University of London).

Zoom.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 17:00-17:50

Second Language Education Group

Participative multilingual identity education: Theory, evidence and impact of the ‘We Are Multilingual’ Campaign

MEITS WAM Project Team, University of Cambridge, Linda Fisher, Michael Evans, Karen Forbes, Angela Gayton (Glasgow), Yongcan Liu, Dee Rutgers (Sheffield Hallam).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqd-mtqT0rE9Bsoi8plgq-jMoq1ExWFPv4.

Monday 16 May 2022, 16:00-17:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

Law Made Immortal: Inheritance and Personhood in Modern German Legal Thought

Draft paper will be circulated from up to one week in advance

Charlotte Johann, Churchill College, Cambridge .

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 17:00-18:15

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Postponed to ET] 'Lying, bullshit and Desinformatsiya'

To register for the talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvduuuqTkpHN2xDSsRYUvE0ePfHgq0xzc7. You will immediately be provided with a link to the talk upon registering. Please do not share these links with third parties.

Christopher Heffer (Cardiff University).

Online.

Thursday 24 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

'When can you passivize causatives? A phase-based analysis'

To register for the talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYud-murjwjEt3yZ3AXJkcFOOK85zwVBmB3. You will immediately be provided with a link to the talk upon registering. Please do not share these links with third parties.

Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle University).

Online.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

Traditional Medicine Goes Global: Pan-African Precedents, Cultural Decolonization, and Cold War Rights/Properties’

Paper available for pre-reading

Helen Tilley, Northwestern University .

Zoom + TBC venue.

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 17:00-18:15

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Living in Kriolu, Learning in Portuguese: language ideologies and language education in Cape Verde

To register for this talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElceCqqj8rHNCNkScsQHH_2tNV69WzD3ga

Dr Nicola Bermingham, University of Liverpool.

Online.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

Second Language Education Group

Seeking Education for All through Multilingual Mother Tongue Education (Cambridge Masterclass in Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy 2021-2022)

Professor Wayne Wright, Purdue University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqf-6trz0uG9DxjoGEqB7OzPbk_Mg7KK2K.

Monday 21 February 2022, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

V2, V3, and the left periphery of Finnish and Estonian

To register for this talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kcu2rrTMvE9FQR6ffKaOVTIUt5w4zGx8V. You will receive a link immediately after signing up.

Anders Holmberg (Newcastle University), Heete Sahkai (Institute of the Estonian Language), and Anne Tamm (Károli Gáspár University).

Online.

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

Protection-Shopping among Empires: Suspended Sovereignty in the Cocos-Keeling Islands

The paper will be made available before the seminar

Lauren Benton, Yale University .

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius .

Tuesday 15 February 2022, 17:00-18:15

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Dugald Stewart and Political Economy after Enlightenment

Lina Weber (University of St Andrews).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 29 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

Slavery and empire in early modern Iberian thought

Draft paper will be circulated from up to one week in advance

Daniel Allemann, University of Lucerne .

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius .

Wednesday 24 November 2021, 17:00-18:15

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Post-dissident Liberalism as Politics and Culture: East-Central Europe after 1989

Michal Kopeček (Cambridge).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 22 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The Role of Root Semantics in Determining Argument Alternations

To register for this talk, please use this link: https://forms.gle/E5rAVyaoMM4BbxKJ6

Dr. John Beavers (University of Texas).

Online.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Revitalising Jèrriais: The Norman Language of Jersey

Please register for this webinar at: https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/centres/celc/conference-series

L'Office du Jèrriais.

Zoom.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 17:00-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Reason of State beyond the Canon: Political Argument and Calculation in early Stuart Projects

Vera Keller (University of Oregon).

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College.

Monday 15 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Ideophone patterns across Kiranti languages (Eastern Nepal),

Please register for this talk at https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/centres/celc/conference-series

Dr Aimée Lahaussois (Université Paris 7).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 16:30-17:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Political Thought of Charles Malik

Chloe Kattar (Darwin College, Cambridge) .

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 08 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Motivational persistence in multiple language learning: Identities, vision, and goal self-concordance (Cambridge Distinguished Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching 2021-2022)

Professor Alastair Henry, University West.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctcuCrrjItHdEYjDLBdE4XNnQ1UOUj4-HS.

Monday 08 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Phonotactics and rules interacting in change: understanding Mid-Scots θ-Debuccalisation and Late Middle English Syncope

To register for this link, please follow this link: https://forms.gle/5GCRb7HT8RUjJbvQA

Patrick Honeybone (University of Edinburgh).

Online.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 16:30-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Democracy and Representation in Early Modern England, 1531–1653

Markku Peltonen (Academy of Finland).

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College.

Monday 01 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Freedom, Slavery, and Empire in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy

Adam Woodhouse (Robinson College, Cambridge).

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College.

Monday 25 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Empirical Results on Morphological Convergence in English

Dr. Péter Rácz (Central European University, Budapest University of Technology, University of Canterbury)..

Online.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 16:30-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Volk against Kaste: Non-Democratic Popular Sovereignty in Nazi Germany

Luna Sabastian (Centre for South Asian Studies, Cambridge).

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College.

Monday 18 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics: A Roundtable Discussion

Sylvana Tomaselli (St. John’s College, Cambridge).

Keynes Hall, King’s College.

Monday 11 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

How (not) to do (areal) phonological typology

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/vCtCxURPtUbranv57

Pavel Iosad (University of Edinburgh).

Online.

Thursday 10 June 2021, 17:30-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Pandemic scholarship: Hobbes's translation of Thucydides' 'Plague of Athens'

Kinch Hoekstra (UC-Berkeley).

Zoom.

Monday 24 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Revitalising Kanyen’kéha (Mohawk)

Various.

Zoom.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 17:30-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable: Max Skjönsberg, "The Persistence of Party"

Max Skjönsberg (University of Liverpool).

Zoom.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 16:00-17:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Birth of the People: Liberalism and the Origins of the Anticolonial Democratic Project in India

Nazmul Sultan (Christ’s College, University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Monday 17 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Ecological links between L2 learning and L1 change

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/XdoC5YnNfbS5USeb7

Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh).

Online.

Thursday 13 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

James Bryce and the concepts of constitution

Pasquale Pasquino (CNRS) .

Zoom.

Monday 10 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Sir William Petty’s Treatise of Taxes and Contributions: Politics and Political Economy in the Interregnum and Restoration State

Shannon Stimson (Georgetown University).

Zoom.

Monday 03 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Language contact in syntax: The view from Romanian

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/k4VN9jrfoq9z2FC9A

Adnana Boioc Apintei, Adina Dragomirescu, Alexandru Nicolae (Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti Institute of Linguistics & University of Bucharest).

Online.

Thursday 29 April 2021, 16:30-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Separation of Powers as a New Theory

Jeffrey Tulis (University of Texas at Austin).

Zoom.

Monday 15 March 2021, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Internal arguments disguised as external arguments: Lessons from an active alignment system

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/ofRcLr4aBxyZh7yP6

Dr Matthew Tyler (University of Cambridge).

Online.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 16:45-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hegel and Italian Political Thought

Fernanda Gallo (Homerton College, University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Monday 08 March 2021, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The Future of Louisiana Creole

Various.

Zoom.

Friday 05 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Not Being Kantian about Moral Justification

Luc Foisneau (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS).

Zoom.

Monday 01 March 2021, 17:00-19:00

Second Language Education Group

Language Teacher Wellbeing: Dispelling Myths, Complexifying Constructs, and Setting an Agenda (Cambridge Distinguished Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching 2020-2021)

Professor Sara Mercer, University of Graz.

No list.

Monday 01 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The role of language professionals in minority language revitalisation: Variation in rhotic production

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/bcgdZgxu4PbNjAqn6

Dr Claire Nance (Lancaster University).

Online.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 16:30-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Experiencing Republican Texts

Rachel Hammersley (Newcastle).

Zoom.

Monday 22 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Kant's 'True Politics'

Susan Shell (Boston College).

Zoom.

Monday 15 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Thucydides’ Tragic Science of Democratic Defeat

Mark Fisher (Georgetown University).

Zoom.

Monday 08 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Carl Schmitt in Leipzig – Defence of Democracy or Autocratic Subversion?

Lars Vinx (Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Monday 01 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

Second Language Education Group

Raising multilingual autistic children: Challenges and opportunities

Dr. Jenny Gibson and Dr. Napoleon Katsos, University of Cambridge.

On-line.

Monday 01 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Heritage grammars and linguistic complexity: A view from grammatical gender

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/hhmex2pjepqHeZpr6

Professor Terje Lohndal (NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

Online.

Thursday 28 January 2021, 16:30-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Democracy Requires Organized Collective Power

Steven Klein (King's College London).

Zoom.

Monday 25 January 2021, 17:00-19:00

Second Language Education Group

Translanguaging: A Critical Analysis of Theoretical Claims (Cambridge Masterclass in Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy (2020-2021)

Professor Jim Cummins, University of Toronto.

On-line.

Monday 18 January 2021, 15:00-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Focus Association with ONLY

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/By3XNQtaYLUksF1S9

Dr Ksenia Zanon (Slavonic Section MMLL, University of Cambridge).

Online.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 16:30-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Between Virtue and Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, ca 1590-1650

Lisa Kattenberg (Gonville & Caius, University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Monday 30 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Poetry, Mores, and Laws: Herder's response to Montesquieu

Eva Piirimae (University of Tartu).

Zoom.

Monday 23 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Bilingual Brains

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/bTVzfMTKSVwyaJRHA

Professor Brendan Weekes (University of Hong Kong, HKU).

Online.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'The Greatest of All Plagues': Plato on Economic Inequality

David Lay Williams, (DePaul University)..

Zoom.

Monday 16 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Second Language Education Group

English Medium Education (EME) in Basic and Higher Education: Lessons learned from across the globe

Mark Levy, John Simpson, Ann Veitch (British Council).

On-line.

Monday 16 November 2020, 16:00-17:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement

Brandon Terry (Harvard University).

Zoom.

Monday 09 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Revolutionary Republicanism: Robespierre, Condorcet, Grouchy

Geneviève Rousselière (Duke University).

Zoom.

Monday 02 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Politics and Salus Populi: Hobbes and the Sovereign as Physician of the State

Raffaella Santi (University of Urbino).

Zoom.

Monday 26 October 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Revitalizing Louisiana Creole

Various.

Zoom.

Friday 23 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Revisiting contact-induced change in creole languages

Please pre-register for this talk by noon on Oct 22nd https://forms.gle/4QF4qiepxGDVEWky6

Dr Oliver Mayeux (University of Cambridge).

Online.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Thomas Paine in the French Revolution

Adam Lebovitz (Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Monday 19 October 2020, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Statelessness: A Roundtable Discussion

Mira Siegelberg (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Monday 12 October 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Polysemy: Pragmatics and Linguistic Conventions

Please pre-register for this event by noon on Thursday October 8th : https://forms.gle/QsDW2EdTzjNC2d6i7

Professor Robyn Carston, UCL.

Online.

Thursday 08 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Online talk] - Peircean Semiotics, Archaeology, and the Origin of Human Language: Was Homo erectus the first talking human?

Please SIGN UP for the event (deadline Thursday, 11th of June, 12pm BST): https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cJeqCnIOH9BcVTv -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

Prof Daniel Everett (Bentley University).

Online.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Prof Brendan Weekes (University of Hong Kong).

TBC.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Online talk] - The Syntax of Verbs: Language Typology, Language Change and a little bit of Language Acquisition

Please SIGN UP for the event following the link: https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_25lZ6rde33jG62h -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

Prof Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge).

Online.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Online talk] - Linguists who use probabilistic models love them: An introduction to Functional Distributional Semantics

Please sign up via the link in order to receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk: https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_50YGCrYnFdptyU5

Dr Guy Emerson (Dept. of Computer Sciences and Technology, University of Cambridge).

Online.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - Intonational phonology in the light of cross-linguistic evidence of variability

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Prof Amalia Arvaniti (University of Kent).

English Faculty Building, ground floor, GR06/07.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - Title: How Language Began: A Peircean Approach to Language Evolution

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Prof Daniel Everett (Bentley University).

English Faculty Building, second floor, SR24.

Thursday 02 April 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Cancelled: I know what you don't know: egophoricity and Jejuan morphosyntax

Dr Soung-u Kim (SOAS, University of London).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 17:00-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

By Virtue of Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy

Lisa Kattenberg (Gonville and Caius, Cambridge). Commentator: Richard Serjeantson.

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 09 March 2020, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Revolution and Charisma in the Thought of Max Weber

Edith Hanke (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 02 March 2020, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Carl Schmitt in Leipzig - Constitutional Guardianship or Authoritarian Subversion?

Lars Vinx (Hughes Hall, Cambridge). Commentator: Josh Smeltzer.

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 24 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

North-eastern Neo-Aramaic narrative techniques and their areal parallels (Kurdish and Arabic)

Prof Eleanor Coghill (Uppsala University, Sweden).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Second Language Education Group

The Role of Metalinguistic Awareness in Multilingual Learning and Teaching

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

Professor Ulrike Jessner-Schmid, University of Innsbruck.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 17 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

"The English Always Disregarded Abstract Theories”: Constructing “Tory Democracy”, 1881-1931

Emily Jones (Manchester).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 17 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

The corporation and law in the making of global capitalism

There will be a pre-circulated reading for this talk. Please contact Surabhi at sr496@cam.ac.uk if you would like a copy

Dr Grietje Baars, The City Law School, City, University of London .

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 17:00-18:15

Second Language Education Group

Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice

ALL WELCOME, Drinks reception from 6.30pm

Emeritus Professor Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark..

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 1S3.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Conceptualizations of Labour and the Making of the French Working Class, 1830-1848

Samuel Hayat (CNRS). Commentator: Julia Nicholls.

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 10 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hypocrisy, Sociability and Virtue: Mandeville vs Shaftesbury

Robin Douglass (KCL).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 03 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

Thinking Inside the Box: ‘Modular’ Historiography, the Ethiopian Empire and Other Subjects of International Law

There will be a pre-circulated reading for this talk. Please contact Surabhi at sr496@cam.ac.uk if you would like a copy

Dr Rose Parfitt, Kent Law School, University of Kent .

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 17:00-18:15

Second Language Education Group

Micro-level Language Policy and Planning: Levels, Agency and Structure (Cambridge Masterclass in Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy 2019-2020)

Open to staff and students of Cambridge University. Booking is required and please contact Yongcan Liu ( yl258@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Anthony J. Liddicoat, University of Warwick.

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room GS5.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-16:00

Second Language Education Group

Developing a Text Editor to Help Writers with Academic English Collocations

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

Dr. Ana Frankenberg-Garcia, Centre of Translation Studies, University of Surrey.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 27 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Fortitude: Spinoza on living in the light of our knowledge

Susan James (Birkbeck).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 27 January 2020, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Empire and Sovereignty in "Democracies of the East"

Tejas Parasher (King's College, Cambridge).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 20 January 2020, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Freedom, Slavery and Empire in Machiavelli's 'Discourses on Livy'

Adam Woodhouse (University of Chicago). Commentator: Quentin Skinner.

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 02 December 2019, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Neoliberal Turn

Angus Burgin (Johns Hopkins University).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 25 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Second Language Education Group

Plurilingualism and Assessment (with reference to the new Common European Framework of Reference for Languages Companion Volume)

Dr. Nick Saville, Cambridge English Assessment.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Interpreting the French Revolution with Germaine de Staël

Adela Halo (QML).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 18 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Sociolinguistic Vulnerability: Disaster Linguicism and Crisis Translation

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Prof. Federico Federici (University College London).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Second Language Education Group

Cambridge Annual Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching 2019 Specificity, Academic Writing and EAP

Professor Ken Hyland, University of East Anglia.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 11 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Ecce Homo: Nietzsche on the Philosophic Life

Heinrich Meier (LMU).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 11 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Making circles out of lines: A view of the evolving relationship between academia and language communities

Ebany Dohle (SOAS, University of London) & Maria-Olimpia Squillaci (University of Naples "L'Orientale").

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Can diverse research concepts of metalinguistic activities be harmonized? Language management theory, its scope and potential for language policy research

Dr Vit Dovalil.

Sidgwick Site, Faculty of English, GR04.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in Multilingual Classrooms: From Conceptualisation to Implementation to Professional Development

Professor Rick de Graaff, University of Utrecht, Dr.Dieuwerke Rutgers, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 04 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Acting, Artifice, and the Political Sphere in Eighteenth-Century French Thought

Shiru Lim (Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 04 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

Use, war, and commercial society. Changing paradigms of human relations with animals in the early modern law of nature and of nations

Organised jointly with the Centre for History and Economics

Professor Annabel Brett, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge .

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 17:00-18:15

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Marx, Arendt and the Temporalities of Revolution

Miriam Leonard (UCL).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 28 October 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Complete loss of case and gender within a generation: evidence from Stamford Hill Hasidic Yiddish

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

Kriszta Eszter Szendrői (UCL).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 24 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Complete loss of case and gender within a generation: evidence from Stamford Hill Hasidic Yiddish

Dr. Kriszta Eszter Szendrői (UCL).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 24 October 2019, 16:00-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Empire, Freedom and Violence: Theories of Political Pluralism and Dante's Monarchy

Serena Ferente (KCL).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 21 October 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Working with communities on language revitalisation: Some Australian experiences

Prof Peter Austin (SOAS, University of London).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 17:30-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Roundtable on In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy

Katrina Forrester (Harvard University).

Keynes Hall, Kings College.

Monday 14 October 2019, 17:00-19:00

Second Language Education Group

Promoting multilingual literacy and reader identity:Global Storybooks and open technology

Bonny Norton , FRSC, Professor and University Scholar , Department of Language & Literacy Education, UBC, Canada.

Murray Edwards College, Lecture Theatre.

Friday 13 September 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Bilingualism in the community: Code-switching and grammars in contact

There will be a tea reception from 4:30pm.

Catherine Travis (The Australian National University).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Wednesday 19 June 2019, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Nexus Analysis: A Natural Fit for Linguistic Ethnography

N.A. Wendte (Tulane University).

Faculty of English, Board Room.

Monday 10 June 2019, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Out in the Field with the Remaining Speakers of Neo-Aramaic in Northern Iraq

Dr Paul Noorlander (University of Cambridge), Dorota Molin (University of Cambridge).

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 17:30-18:30

Language, Policy and Identity in India

Abhimanyu Sharma (University of Cambridge).

Sidgwick Site, Faculty of English, GR04.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Chair of Ethics in the University of Naples and Giambattista Vico’s La Scienza Nuova

Dr Felix Waldmann (Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 20 May 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

On the multidimensionality of natural language semantics and the myth of conventional implicature

Dr. Yasutada Sudo (University College London).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 16 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Paradoxes of multilingualism in public policy in conjunction with the launching of Cambridge Masterclass Series on Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy

Please book with Ann Waterman on aw244@cam.ac.uk if you would like to attend

Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 10:00-12:00

Second Language Education Group

How can usage-based SLA invigorate language education?

in conjunction of the launching Cambridge Annual Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching

Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA .

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 13 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Seeing though lies: Plato on how to avert tyranny

Jill Frank (Cornell University).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 13 May 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Motivations for speaker intervention in phonetic implementation: Meanings and forms

Professor Carlos Gussenhoven (Radboud University).

GR05, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 09 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

Dictionaries and Linguistic Nationalism

Sheila Watts (Department of German and Dutch).

Sidgwick Site, Faculty of English, GR04.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Francis Bacon on Peace and the 1604 Treaty of London

Samuel Zeitlin (Chicago) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 06 May 2019, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Plantation’s Colonial Modernity in Comparative Perspective

Adom Getachew (University of Chicago).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 29 April 2019, 17:00-19:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

American States of Nature: The Origins of Independence

Dr Mark Somos (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law).

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 17:15-18:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

International Law's Objects: A Conversation

Dr Jessie Hohmann (QMUL) and Dr Daniel Joyce (University of New South Wales).

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 18:00-19:15

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Languages of Constituent Power

Lucia Rubinelli (Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 11 March 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

TBC

There will be a tea reception from 4:30pm.

Dr Francesca Martina Branzi (University of Cambridge).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 07 March 2019, 18:00-19:30

International Relations & History Working Group

Malcolm X, Human Rights, and A New World Picture

Emma Mackinnon (University of Cambridge).

Room 138, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Three Pillars of Liberalism: Freedom, Markets, and Morals from the Enlightenment to the Present

Alan Kahan (University of Versailles/St. Quentin).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 04 March 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Predictors of listening comprehension skills in bilingual children

There will be a tea reception from 4:30pm.

Prof Ludovica Serratrice (University of Reading).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 28 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Affairs of Humanity: Arguing for Humanitarian Intervention in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Catherine Arnold (Memphis).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 25 February 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Endangered languages, cultures and ecosystems: The case of Modern South Arabian

Prof Janet Watson, Leeds University.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 18:30-19:30

International Relations & History Working Group

'Global History and the Place of the International'

Andrew Hurrell ( Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, Oxford University).

Room 138, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Karl Marx and the Cycles of American Capitalism

Andrew Hartman (Illinois State University).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 18 February 2019, 17:00-19:00

Second Language Education Group

The Listening Zones of NGOs: Languages and cultural knowledge in development programmes

There will be a drinks reception after the seminar

Professor Hilary Footitt, University of Reading.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 11 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

1789 in 1954: Human Rights and the Algerian Revolution

Emma Mackinnon (Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 11 February 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

What can endangered creoles tell us about language change? Three centuries of Louisiana Creole

Oliver Mayeux, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 18:30-19:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Spectacular Black Death: Lynching, Lethal Police Violence and the Black Female Body

Shatema Threadcraft (Dartmouth).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 04 February 2019, 17:00-19:00

International Relations & History Working Group

Social Pressure and the Making of the Wartime Civilian Protection Rules

Giovanni Mantilla (Lecturer, University of Cambridge).

Room 138, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Second Language Education Group

Creativity in the languages classroom: Learners' responses to literary text

Dr.Linda Fisher, University of Cambridge , Professor Suzanne Graham, Reading University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 28 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

The Rise of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission, the OAS and Responses to the Cuban Revolution: Towards a Humanitarian and Geopolitical Genealogy of Human Rights in the Americas

Juan Pablo Scarfi (Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina; Visiting Professor, Institut des Hautes Études de l'Amérique Latine, Université Paris 3).

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 17:15-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Max Weber's Political Thought and the First World War

Duncan Kelly (University of Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 21 January 2019, 17:00-19:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

Act of State and the Limits of Adjudication

Professor Pat Capps (University of Bristol Law School).

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 17:15-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'Reform or Revolution', redux: Eduard Bernstein on the 1918-19 German Revolution

Marius Ostrowski (University of Oxford).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 26 November 2018, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

On the impact of debasilectalization in language documentation: insights from the "missing Spanish creoles"

Danae Perez, University of Zurich.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 18:30-19:30

Second Language Education Group

EMI in Francophone Cameroon: What can we learn from victims of English?

There will be a drinks reception after the seminar

Dr. Harry Kuchah Kuchah, University of Leeds.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 19 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Timing in dyslexia: Language, reading and writing

Professor Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 15 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Timing in dyslexia: Language, reading and writing

Professor Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 15 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

International Relations & History Working Group

"Leveraging 'Publicness' at the League of Nations: The Minority Question and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom"

Molly Cochran (Reader, Oxford Brookes University).

Seminar Room 138 Alison Richard Building.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

Debating the rise and fall of the first East African Community in East Africa’s public sphere, 1960s-1970s

Dr Emma Hunter (Senior Lecturer, African History, University of Edinburgh).

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 17:15-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Coercion in a Subjective World

Daniel Luban (Yale University).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 12 November 2018, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The push to pool: Testing the effects of matched and mismatched reference populations in forensic voice comparison

Dr Dominic Watt (The University of York).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 08 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Languages, speakers and history: Romance and Greek in Southern Italy

Cristina Guardiano.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 18:30-19:30

Second Language Education Group

Pardon my French! Exploring the myths and realities of Second Language Education in Canada

Dr Shawn Bullock, University of Cambridge, Dr Cecile Sabatier, Simon Fraser University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 05 November 2018, 17:30-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Race Man: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas

Corey Robin (CUNY).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 05 November 2018, 17:00-19:00

International Relations & History Working Group

“Cold Wars and the Academy: An Oral History of Russian and Eurasian Studies”

George Gavrilis, Columbia University.

Seminar Room S3 Alison Richard Building.

Friday 02 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Patagonian Afrikaans: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Andries Coetzee (University of Michigan).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Friday 02 November 2018, 14:30-16:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Can we write an ethical history of the early common law?

Philippa Byrne (University of Oxford).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 29 October 2018, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hobbes on the Definition of a Legal Sphere

Signy Gutnick Allen (LSE).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 22 October 2018, 17:00-19:00

Second Language Education Group

The role of medium of instruction for multilingual children: a study of primary school children in India".

Professor Ianthi Tsimpli, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 22 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

'The consciousness of a duty done': British attitudes towards self-determination and the case of the Sudan

Dr Sarah Nouwen (University Senior Lecturer in International Law) & Orfeas Chasapis-Tassinis (doctoral candidate, Lauterpacht Centre of International Law).

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 17:15-18:30

International Relations & History Working Group

Order Projects and Resistance in the Global Political System: A Framework for International Relations History with Case (1851-67)

Dan Green (University of Delaware).

Seminar Room 138 Alison Richard Building.

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Constitutionalism of Imperial Expansion

Stephen Holmes (NYU).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 15 October 2018, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

W(h)ither Language Diversity? The Perspective of Linguanomics

Gabrielle Hogan-Brun, University of Bristol.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 18:15-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Dilemmas of Sovereignty: Law, Politics and Moral Reasoning in Hugo Grotius

Annabel Brett (University of Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 08 October 2018, 17:00-19:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

Histories of International Law, History within International Law: Questions of Method

Dr Kate Purcell.

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 17:15-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Grammatical innovations in Multicultural London English

David Hall (Queen Mary, University of London).

Room B4, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 16:30-18:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

Civitas and Regnum: Grotius’ account of the sovereign entity in the De Iure Belli ac Pacis

Dr Emile V Simpson.

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 17:15-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Human nature as capacities in Hobbes's political theory

Alexandra Chadwick (University of Groningen).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 21 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Elfdalian, a divergent Nordic dialect now and throughout the ages

Guus Kroonen, University of Copenhagen/Leiden University.

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 18:00-19:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

Universalizing the Promise of Empire

Dr Emma Mackinnon.

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 17:30-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Liberty and Economic Independence in the Roman Republic (CANCELLED)

Valentina Arena (UCL).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 14 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

Nationality, Alienage and Early International Rights

León Castellanos Jankiewicz.

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 17:15-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Chains and Invisible Threads: Liberty and Domination in Marx's Account of Wage-Slavery

Bruno Leipold (Frankfurt).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 07 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Singing in tone: text-setting constraints in tone languages

Dr James Kirby (University of Edinburgh).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 03 May 2018, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

An extinct coastal Sami musical tradition – How, when and why?

Ola Graff, University of Tromsø.

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 18:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Representation and the Fall

Eric Nelson (Harvard) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 30 April 2018, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

CANCELLED - Diversity of Expression in Utterance and the Idea of Language

This talk has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.

Prof Adam Kendon (University of Cambridge).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 22 March 2018, 16:30-18:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

CANCELLED IN SYMPATHY WITH STRIKE Nationality, Alienage and Early International Rights

León Castellanos Jankiewicz.

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 17:15-18:30

International Relations & History Working Group

Raymond Aron, Jimmy Carter and the Neoconservative Origins of the Critique of International Human Rights

Daniel Steinmetz Jenkins, Yale University.

Wine Room King's College.

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Louisiana Creole - a creole at the periphery

Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh (Universität Regensburg).

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

Friday 09 March 2018, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

Multilingual Identities and Heterogeneous Language Ideologies in the New Latino Diaspora

Professor Stanton Wortham, Boston College.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Tuesday 06 March 2018, 17:00-18:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

CANCELLED in solidarity with strike action: Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources and the Unsettling of Mainstream Narratives of International Legal History

Dr Lucas Lixinski; Dr Mats Ingulstad.

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

Wednesday 28 February 2018, 17:15-18:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Speak white, speak black, speak American

Darryl G Barthe Jr (Universiteit van Amsterdam).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 18:15-19:00

International Relations & History Working Group

Shifting Patterns of Contemporary Globalization

Professor Yale Ferguson.

(Note venue change) Seminar Room S3 Alison Richard Building.

Tuesday 20 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Whence the force of the law? John Rawls and the course of American legal philosophy

Kenzie Bok (Harvard).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 19 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

"To hold oneself, like a sliver, to the heart of the world": the Political Thought of the Palestinian Revolution

Karma Nabulsi (Oxford).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 12 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Third language acquisition at the initial stages: An event-related potential study probing for transfer

Jason Rothman, David Miller and Eloi Puig-Mayenco (University of Reading / UiT the Arctic University of Norway).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 08 February 2018, 16:30-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Changing languages in European Higher Education: from official policies to unofficial classroom practices

Dr. Emma Dafouz, Complutense University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Tuesday 06 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hobbes (and Weber) on the Jury

Richard Tuck (Harvard).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 05 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Second Language Education Group

Multilingual practices and attitudes among university students in Europe and the US: implications for the teaching of languages

Professor Anne Pauwels, School of Asian and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 29 January 2018, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

John Stuart Mill on Universal History

Callum Barrell (New College of the Humanities).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 29 January 2018, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

"As God Rules the Universe": Reflections on the People and the State in Early America

Pitt Professor Inaugural Lecture, with American History Seminar

Ira Katznelson (Columbia) .

Queens Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Grammar as a Maturationally Controlled Behavior: Minimality in language Development and Impairment

Maria Garraffa (Heriot-Watt University).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 25 January 2018, 16:30-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Democracy and Republicanism: A Difficult Partnership

Nadia Urbinati (Columbia).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Blue Boar Court, Trinity College.

Monday 22 January 2018, 17:00-19:00

Legal Histories beyond the State

Constructing International Law: Property, Commerce, and "Expectations"

Dr Kate Miles (Fellow and Lecturer in Law, Gonville & Caius).

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 17:15-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Law, morality and the Rechtsstaat in post-war West Germany

Clara Maier.

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 27 November 2017, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Twitter evolution: Birdsong, speech and language

Johan Bolhuis (Utrecht University).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 23 November 2017, 16:30-18:30

International Relations & History Working Group

Writing the History of Transnational Spaces:A New Approach to the Study of Pan-European Organisations and Norms

Marco Duranti (University of Sydney).

Wine Room King's College.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 13:00-14:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Jon Elster's Sour Grapes

Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 20 November 2017, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Whistled Speech and Language Discrimination

Mary Ann Walter (Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus) .

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 18:10-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

A Good Man or a Good Citizen? Aristotelian Politics and the Italian Renaissance Courts

Grace Allen (Manchester).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 13 November 2017, 17:00-19:00

Second Language Education Group

Multilingualism in foreign language learning: students' and teachers' perspectives in the Norwegian context

Dr. Åsta Haukås, University of Bergen.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room GS1.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Plato's Legacy and the Problem of Myth in Political Thought

Tae-Yeoun Keum (Harvard).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 06 November 2017, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Grammar, pragmatics and referential interpretation in English

Julia Kolkmann (University of York).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 02 November 2017, 16:30-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Vocabulary: Principles and Practice

Professor Norbert Schmitt, University of Nottingham.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 30 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'As God Rules the Universe': Reflections on the People and the State in Early America

CANCELLED

Ira Katznelson (Columbia).

Bateman Auditorium , Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 30 October 2017, 17:00-19:00

International Relations & History Working Group

Go East: Sovereignty Question in IR Revisited

Dr Ayse Zarakol (University of Cambridge).

Wine Room King's College.

Thursday 26 October 2017, 13:00-14:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

Transnational Conflicts: A New Kind of War?

Dr Ziv Bohrer (Bar-Ilan University; visitor, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law).

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 5 Cranmer Rd.

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 17:15-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The End of Enlightenment: death and the philosophers, 1776-1809

Richard Whatmore (St Andrews) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 23 October 2017, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Culture-based literacy: improving access to Lakota texts at Standing Rock

Elliot Bannister (Standing Rock Sioux Tribe).

Faculty of English, Boardroom.

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 17:15-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Flowers of the Crown in English Legal Thought

Edward Cavanagh, University of Cambridge.

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 16 October 2017, 17:00-19:00

Second Language Education Group

The Influence of Multilingual Identity on Foreign Language Learning

AHRC MEITS Project Team, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Endangered languages in contact: Domari in its ethnographic and cultural context

Yaron Matras (University of Manchester).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 18:10-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Selfish Systems: Hobbes and Locke

David Wootton (York).

Adrian House Seminar Room, Trinity College.

Monday 09 October 2017, 17:00-19:00

International Relations & History Working Group

Hitler's biography

Prof. Brendan Simms ( History of International Relations, Cambridge University).

Wine Room King's College.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

How children break into language and become interesting talkers within 3 years.

Danielle Matthews (University of Sheffield).

Room B3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 08 June 2017, 16:30-18:30

Legal Histories beyond the State

The Grand Dichotomies: Sovereignty, the Public/ Private Divide, and Company States

For the paper in advance, please contact md718@cam.ac.uk

Professor Jason Sharman (POLIS).

Venue to be confirmed.

Thursday 01 June 2017, 15:30-16:45

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

A cluster of Aromanian varieties in North-Western Greece

Dr. Marios Mavrogiorgos, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 17:15-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Learning Syntax with Deep Neural Networks

Shalom Lappin (University of Gothenburg, King's College London and Queen Mary University of London).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 25 May 2017, 16:30-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Commercial treaties and understandings of 'free trade' in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe

James Stafford (Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 22 May 2017, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Emergence of the Sovereign Consumer – from Adam Smith to the Socialist Calculation Debate

Niklas Olsen (Copenhagen).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 15 May 2017, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Norwegian Romani - the 'languageness' of a Para-Romani variety

Tea and biscuits from 16.45

Jakob Wiedner, University of Oslo.

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 17:15-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

"The New World" of Karl Barth: Legacies of a political theologian

Liisi Keedus (York).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 08 May 2017, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Using smartphones to collect big data on English dialects

Adrian Leemann (Lancaster University).

GR06/7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 04 May 2017, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

VO-OV alternations and information structure in North Sami

Tea and biscuits from 17.45

Kristine Bentzen, University of Tromsø.

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 18:15-20:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Islam, Toleration and the Enlightenment

John Marshall (Johns Hopkins) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 01 May 2017, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

A tale of one city: A sociophonetic study of 100+ years of Glaswegian vernacular

Prof Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow.

Room B3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The Arbëresh linguistic archipelago: a natural laboratory of contact-induced variation and change

Borana Lushaj (Leiden University).

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

Monday 13 March 2017, 17:15-19:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

English dialects: geographical perceptions, language regard and listener reactions

Dr Chris Montgomery (University of Sheffield) .

GR05, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 09 March 2017, 16:00-17:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The future of the world. A new history of the future

Jenny Andersson (Paris, Sciences Po).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 06 March 2017, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The (socio)linguistics of Cypriot Greek as a heritage language in present-day London

Dr Petros Karatsareas, University of Westminster.

GR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 16:30-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Grotius on natural law and supererogation

Johan Olsthoorn (Leuven) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 27 February 2017, 17:00-18:45

Second Language Education Group

Cross-linguistic Transfer of Learning Strategies between First and Foreign Language Classroom Contexts: Making a Case for a Multilingual Approach to Writing Pedagogy

Dr Karen Forbes, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 27 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Title to be confirmed

Professor Hedde Jeijlstra (University of Göttingen) .

Lecture Block room 4, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 23 February 2017, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The revival of Italo-Greek: language ideologies and folklorization

Maria Olimpia Squillaci (University of Cambridge) and Manuela Pellegrino (Brunel University).

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 18:15-19:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Legalism: A Reconstruction and Critique of Judith Shklar's Concept and its Contemporary Import

Seyla Benhabib (Yale).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 20 February 2017, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Cajetan, Suarez and republican liberty: A theme in later scholastic political thought

Ben Slingo (Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 13 February 2017, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Canonical morphological complexity: a balancing act between lexicon and grammar

Professor Dustan Brown (University of York).

GR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 09 February 2017, 16:00-17:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

In His Veins the Blood of Kings: Thucydides in the Renaissance

Kinch Hoekstra (Berkeley).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 06 February 2017, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Notes on the verbal domain in Meadow Mari

Dr Diane Nelson, University of Leeds.

GR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 16:30-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Transformation of International Economics during the Great Depression

Jamie Martin (Sydney) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 30 January 2017, 17:00-18:45

Second Language Education Group

On the Margins: Slovak Roma Children Negotiating Language and Education in Sheffield

Dr Mark Payne, University of Sheffield.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 30 January 2017, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The discriminative nature of human communication

Dr Michael Ramscar (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen).

GR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 26 January 2017, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The hidden multilingualism of Italy: issues and challenges

Dr. Marco Tamburelli, Prifysgol Bangor/Bangor University.

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 18:15-19:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Emperor's Two Bodies: Mirrored Sovereignty, the Code Civil, and Napoleon's New Men

Stefanos Geroulanos (NYU) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 23 January 2017, 17:00-18:45

Second Language Education Group

Cognitive Discourse Functions as joint concern in language and content pedagogy

Professor Christiane Dalton-Puffer, University of Vienna.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Morphological characteristics of Medieval Code Switching

Dr Mareike Keller (University of Manheim).

GR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Fox's son, they slept five, imitation of people: Kuikuro numerals and counting

This talk is held in conjunction with the Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc; http://camlingsoc.soc.srcf.net/)

Bruna Franchetto, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Monday 05 December 2016, 17:15-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Fox's son, they slept five, imitation of people: Kuikuro numerals and counting

This talk is held in conjunction with the Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group (http://groups.ds.cam.ac.uk/celc/)

Bruna Franchetto (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro).

GR06/7 English Faculty.

Monday 05 December 2016, 17:15-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Misreading and language change: a foray into cognitive historical linguistics?

Sylvia Adamson (University of Sheffield, University of Cambridge).

GR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 01 December 2016, 16:30-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

From royalism to the mystical body of Christ: The interwar revolution in French Catholic political theology

Sarah Shortall (Oxford) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 28 November 2016, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The Creole Language and its Relationship to Regional French in Louisiana

Thomas A. Klingler, Tulane University.

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 8/9.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 17:15-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Colonialism, Race and Slavery in Raynal's Histoire des Deux Indes

Ann Thomson (EUI).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 21 November 2016, 17:00-18:45

Second Language Education Group

Language Development and School Achievement of EAL Students: EALead Project II

EALead Project Team, University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 21 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Awakening Dreaming Beauties: Language Reclamation and Social Wellbeing

Ghil‘ad Zuckermann, University of Adelaide.

Nightingale Room, Peterhouse.

Monday 14 November 2016, 17:15-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

French revolutionary thought and the early Third Republic

Julia Nicholls (Oxford) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 14 November 2016, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Foucault and Shakespeare: Ceremony, Theatre, Politics

Stuart Elden (Warwick).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 07 November 2016, 17:00-18:45

Second Language Education Group

Lexical Patterns of Austerity in UK Broadsheet Text 2007-15

Dr Mike Scott, Aston University and Lexical Analysis Software Ltd..

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 07 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Creativity and discourse strategies in recent Spanish social protest movements

Manuela Romano Mozo (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid).

GR06/7 English Faculty.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 16:30-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Theorising Democracy beyond ‘State’ and ‘Society’

Aline-Florence Manent (UCL).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 31 October 2016, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

From state to society, through sacred history: Hobbes and Spinoza

John Robertson (Clare College, Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 24 October 2016, 17:00-18:45

Second Language Education Group

The Value of Languages: Towards a UK Strategy for Languages

Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 24 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The origins of speech and anti-rhythms

Laurence White (Plymouth University).

GR06/7 English Faculty.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 16:30-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Democracy confronts diversity: Deliberation and representation in Victorian Britain

Greg Conti (Cambridge) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 17 October 2016, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Reflections on Inequality, Respect, and Love in the Political Writings of Mary Wollstonecraft

Sylvana Tomaselli (St. John's College, Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 10 October 2016, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The granularity of social action ascription in conversational interaction

Professor Michael Haugh (University of Queensland).

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 09 June 2016, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

English dialects: Geographical perceptions, language regard, and listener reactions

Dr Chris Montgomery (University of Sheffield).

GR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 26 May 2016, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Phonotactics with[awt] rules: the learnability of a simple, unnatural pattern in English

John Harris, UCL (in collaboration with Nick Neasom (UCL) and Kevin Tang (Yale)).

GR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 19 May 2016, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

A head movement approach to the manner-of-directed-motion parameter

Professor Raffaella Folli (University of Ulster).

GR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 12 May 2016, 16:00-17:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

A Taste for Virtue: Eighteenth-Century Epicureanism and Rousseau's Political Thought

Jared Holley (Chicago).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 09 May 2016, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The Kvens and planning of a minority language

Eira Söderholm, University of Tromsø.

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Wednesday 04 May 2016, 17:15-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

From “Enemies of the Cross” To “Brethren in Faith”: Empire, Decolonization, and the Curious End of Europe’s Religious Wars

Udi Greenberg (Dartmouth) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 02 May 2016, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

How neurophysiological investigations of bilingual processing have shaped my conception of human freedom

Professor Guillaume Thierry (University of Bangor).

GR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 28 April 2016, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Morphological complexity in Skolt Saami, an endangered Finno-Ugric language

Tim Feist, University of Surrey.

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 17:15-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The language of higher-order uncertainty

Dan Lassiter, Stanford University.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 21 April 2016, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Statistical learning of words and syntax: The role of learning context and individual differences

Dr Patrick Rebuschat (University of Lancaster).

GR05, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 10 March 2016, 16:00-17:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The cause of all our troubles: the American invention of isolationism in World War II

Stephen Wertheim (Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 07 March 2016, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Rumours, Diseases and Drugs: Tackling Textual Data for Knowledge Discovery in Health

Nigel Collier, University of Cambridge.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 03 March 2016, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Cantonese: the biggest endangered language?

Cherry Lam (PhD candidate, DTAL, Cambridge) & Ricky Chan (PhD candidate, DTAL, Cambridge).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 17:15-19:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Why phonology is flat: the role of concatenation and linearity

Dr Tobias Sheer (Directeur de Recherche au CNRS, University of Nice, Sophia-Antipolis).

GR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 25 February 2016, 16:00-17:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Polis and the Res Publica: Two Arendtian Models of Political Violence

Caroline Ashcroft (University of Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 22 February 2016, 17:00-18:45

Second Language Education Group

English as a Lingua Franca: Past, Present, and (Possible) Future

Professor Jennifer Jenkins, Southampton University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS4.

Monday 22 February 2016, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Language variation and change within the individual

Laurel MacKenzie, University of Manchester.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 18 February 2016, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Bricks and mortars for building meanings

Dr Hugh Rabagliati (University of Edinburgh).

GR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 16:00-17:30

Second Language Education Group

Native speaker and learner language data in Applied Linguistics: what's next?

Dr Pascual Pérez-Paredes, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS4.

Monday 08 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Francois Chatelet and the Spatial Turn in French Postwar Thought

Danilo Scholz (Sciences Po) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 08 February 2016, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Language families and language contact: Latin, Sabellian and Greek

James Clackson, University of Cambridge.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 04 February 2016, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Degrees of ergativity in Romance causatives

Dr Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin University).

GR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 28 January 2016, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Shawi, Quechua and Spanish: a Sea of Languages

Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics – Department for Language and Cognition.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 17:15-19:00

Second Language Education Group

Marking progression in second language production: EAL pupils’ use of spoken and written English

Dr Michael Evans, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS4.

Monday 25 January 2016, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Constitution and Sovereignty in Tocqueville's Democracy in America

Giulia Oskian (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 25 January 2016, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Reconceptualising conditionals

Chi-Hé Elder, University of East Anglia.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 21 January 2016, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

On the cartography of the clause in Old Celtic

Joe Eska, Virginia Tech.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 14 January 2016, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism

How on Earth? Welcome to a Post-Growth, Not-For-Profit World

Jennifer Hinton.

Little Hall Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 03 December 2015, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism

Economic History for Economists: Why?

Professor Nick Crafts.

Venue to be confirmed.

Monday 30 November 2015, 17:30-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

How to run the world: conceptions of imperial rule between republicanism and technocracy’

Eva Marlene Hausteiner (Humboldt) .

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 30 November 2015, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Eliminating A/A'-positions

Coppe van Urk, Queen Mary University of London.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 26 November 2015, 16:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Negotiating 'applied science' in the early 1930s: new media, new discourses, new ideology

Robert Bud (Science Museum, London).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

“Human Towers for Democracy:” The Use of Cultural Performances for Catalan Nation Building and Independence

Mariann Vaczi.

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 17:15-19:00

Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism

Econophysics: The Future of Economics

Dr Christophe Schlnckus.

Venue to be confirmed.

Tuesday 24 November 2015, 17:30-19:00

Second Language Education Group

Born Global: Rethinking Language Policy for 21st Century Britain

Bernardette Holmes MBE, Director of Speak To The Future; Bye-Fellow of Downing College.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS4.

Monday 23 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Max Weber and some intellectual consequences of the war

Dr Dina Gusejnova (University of Sheffield).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 23 November 2015, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Representation, generalisation, and innovation in the lexicon.

Professor Janet Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford).

Lecture Block, Room 1, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism

Corbynomics: The Solutions to Britain's Problems?

Speaker to be confirmed.

Little Hall Sidgwick Site.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Understanding the function dimension of language endangerment with specific evidence from Runyakitara

Fridah Katushemererwe, Department of Linguistics, English Language Studies and Communication Skills Makerere University.

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 17:15-19:00

Second Language Education Group

The ‘Multilingual Turn’ in Languages Education - a future for EAL?

Dr Jean Conteh, School of Education, University of Leeds.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 16 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Beyond Utopia: Thomas More as Political Thinker?’

Joanne Paul (New College of the Humanities).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 16 November 2015, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Turn-taking, language processing and the evolution of language

Registration is required for this event

Prof. Stephen Levinson (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen).

Queen's Building, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Visual Constructions of South Asia (2015-16)

In the shadow of Mt Kailash: The politics of visual constructions in a trans-boundary cultural landscapes

Abhimanyu Pandey, Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative & ICIMOD.

S2 Seminar Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, 7 West Rd..

Thursday 12 November 2015, 15:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism

What is wrong with modern economics?

Tony Lawson Cambridge University.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 17:30-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Governing America: John Locke in the 1690s

Prof Mark Goldie (University of Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 09 November 2015, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Mwani, freely picking and choosing from tone and stress?

Dr Maud Devos (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium).

GR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 05 November 2015, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism

The Economy for the Common Good

Christian Felber, Tomas Sedlacek.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 17:30-19:00

Department of Geography - Distinguished International Fellows

Public lecture: The fugitives - blackness as urban method

Professor AbdouMaliq Simone (Professor of Sociology and Urbanism, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 17:00-19:00

Department of Geography - Distinguished International Fellows

Department Seminar: Urbanisation at the interface of the habitable and uninhabitable: on redescription and detachment

Professor AbdouMaliq Simone (Professor of Sociology and Urbanism, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity).

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

From Cameralism to nineteenth-century socialism: Lorenz Stein's idea of a science of society

Diana Siclovan (Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 02 November 2015, 17:00-18:45

Organization Theory Seminar Series

‘A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words’: Visually Assigned Meaning and Meta-Narratives of the Global Financial Crisis

Professor Markus Hoellerer, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.

Judge Business School, W2.02.

Friday 30 October 2015, 12:00-13:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Anaphora resolution in young and not-so-young adults: the role of language experience and cognitive skills

Ianthi Maria Tsimpli, University of Cambridge.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 29 October 2015, 16:30-18:30

Visual Constructions of South Asia (2015-16)

The Imperial Aesthetic: Photography, Samuel Bourne and the Indian Peoples in the post-Mutiny era

Dr Xavier Guégan, Senior Lecturer in Colonial and Postcolonial History, University of Winchester.

S2 Seminar Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, 7 West Rd..

Thursday 29 October 2015, 16:00-18:00

Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism

Rethinking the Relationship Between Economics and Geopolitics

Dr Leonhardht van Efferink.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 17:30-19:00

Second Language Education Group

Task-based Language Teaching with Technology: The EU-Funded CAMELOT Project

Dr Michael Thomas, University of Central Lancashire.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Tuesday 27 October 2015, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

How (Not) To Draw Contemporary Insights From The History of Political Thought

Dr Adrian Blau (King’s College, London).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 26 October 2015, 17:00-18:45

Visual Constructions of South Asia (2015-16)

'Savages’ in Sketchbooks: Tribal Portraits of Colonial India

Anshul Avijit, PhD Candidate in History of Art, King's College, University of Cambridge,.

S3 Seminar Room, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, 7 West Rd..

Friday 23 October 2015, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Perceived Voice Similarity and the Construction of Voice Parades

Dr Kirsty McDougall (University of Cambridge).

GR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Writing vernacular languages online: a case study of writing strategies of Taiwanese on social network sites among young generation

Chi-Cheng Tsai .

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 17:15-19:00

Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism

An Introduction to Post-Keynesianism

Victoria Chick, Engelbert Stockhammer.

The McGrath Centre, St Catharine's College.

Tuesday 20 October 2015, 18:00-19:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Smith and Rousseau, After Hume and Mandeville

Paul Sagar (Cambridge).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 19 October 2015, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Phonetics from blog to book

John Wells, UCL.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 15 October 2015, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism

Is Austerity a Necessity?

Dr Steve Keen, Diego Lugana, Mark Gilbert.

The McGrath Centre, St Catharine's College.

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 17:30-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The American States and Their Police Power, 1789-1931

Prof Gary Gerstle (University of Cambridge).

Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Monday 12 October 2015, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Emergent Syntax: a new (unifying) perspective

Note: This talk will take place in GR04

Dr Theresa Biberauer (DTAL, University of Cambridge).

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 11 June 2015, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Long-distance agreement for person: Some new data from Icelandic

Note: This talk will take place in GR04

Professor Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh).

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 04 June 2015, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Saami in Russia: "Kuess ne poluchaetsja samas, rushas polegche"

David Pineda Dijkerman.

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

Wednesday 03 June 2015, 17:15-19:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Unmasking Philosophers’ Fiction: First-Person Reference, Monster Operators, and the Indexical/Nonindexical Distinction

Professor Katarzyna Jaszczolt (DTAL, Universtiy of Cambridge).

GR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 28 May 2015, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Laterals in Estonian Swedish

Professor Francis Nolan, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics.

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Wednesday 27 May 2015, 17:15-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The neural correlates of intonation

Brechtje Post, University of Cambridge.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 21 May 2015, 16:30-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Problem of Political Order in Classical Confucian Thought

Loubna El-Amine.

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 18 May 2015, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Language, identity and attainment of EAL students in schools in the East of England

Dr Michael Evans (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge).

GR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 14 May 2015, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Language situation and endangerment in Uganda: Facts and perspectives

Dr. Saudah Namyalo.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 13 May 2015, 17:15-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Conceptions of Social Pathology in Hobbes, Rousseau, and Kant

Prof. Frederick Neuhouser (Columbia University).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 11 May 2015, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Sovereignty and Representation in Rousseau's Considerations on the Government of Poland

Graham Clure (Harvard).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 04 May 2015, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The American States and Their Police Power, 1789-1931

Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.

Prof. Gary Gerstle (University of Cambridge).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Blue Boar Court, Trinity College.

Monday 27 April 2015, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The Cultural Origins of Structure

Simon Kirby, University of Edinburgh.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 23 April 2015, 16:30-18:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The phonetic building blocks of speech

Professor Francis Nolan (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 12 March 2015, 16:00-17:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

On Political Responsibility in Post-Revolutionary Times: Kant and Constant’s Debate on Lying

Dr. Genevieve Rousseliere (University of Chicago).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 09 March 2015, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Scalar Particles as Alternative-Sensitive Expressions

Malte Zimmermann, University of Potsdam.

Lecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Early Hobbes

Prof. Alan Cromartie (University of Reading).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 02 March 2015, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The Sami Health Transition - a Success Story in an Indigenous Culture Context

Peter Sköld, Centre for Sami Research, Umeå University.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 17:15-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

"The art of ruling minds": Jeremy Bentham and the Public Opinion Tribunal

Dr. Paola Rudan (University of Bologna).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 23 February 2015, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The importance of SLA theory when designing L2 corpora

Florence Myles, University of Essex.

Lecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Language development, social integration and achievement of recently-arrived EAL children in schools in the East of England

Educational Achievement, Language Education and Disadvantage (EALead) research team at the University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS4.

Monday 16 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Is there a republican model of democracy?

Prof. Andreas Niederberger (University of Duisberg-Essen).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 16 February 2015, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The L1 influences the L2 processing and acquisition of tense/aspect

Professor Leah Roberts (University of York).

GR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 16:00-17:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Political Science before Hobbes: the Aristotelian tradition

Dr. Sophie Smith (University of Oxford).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 09 February 2015, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Disentangling focus constructions in Luganda

Jenneke van der Wal, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

CANCELLED: Task-based language teaching with technology: the EU-Funded CAMELOT project

Dr Michael Thomas, University of Central Lancashire.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS4.

Monday 02 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The city and the soul in James Harrington's Republicanism

Dr. Rachel Foxley (University of Reading).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Trinity College.

Monday 02 February 2015, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Irish language policy from its beginnings to the 20-year strategy - An assessment

Harold Flohr.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 17:15-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Negation and negative concord in Greek: evidence for a tripartite 'cycle' for negative indefinites

Geoff Horrocks, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 22 January 2015, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Self-efficacy in foreign language learning

Dr Nicole Mills, Harvard University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS4.

Monday 19 January 2015, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Catalan: past, present and future

Dr Víctor Acedo Matellán, University of Cambridge, Queens' College.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 03 December 2014, 17:15-19:00

Second Language Education Group

Shaping language policy and practice in South Africa : the next twenty years

Professor Robert Balfour, North-West University .

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS4.

Monday 01 December 2014, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Bureaucracy and Moral Agency: Practices of the Self at the Frontlines of Public Service

Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.

Bernardo Zacka (Christ's College, University of Cambridge).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Blue Boar Court, Trinity College.

Monday 01 December 2014, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Phylogenetic approaches to language history and diversity

Annemarie Verkerk, University of Reading.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 27 November 2014, 16:30-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Examining child language brokering in schools: Developing guidance for good practice

Dr Sarah Crafter, Institute of Education, University of London.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS4.

Monday 24 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Dystopia: For Dummies

Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.

Professor Greg Claeys (Royal Holloway, University of London).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Blue Boar Court, Trinity College.

Monday 24 November 2014, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Presuppositions vs. implicatures: what reaction times really tell us

Dr Jacopo Romoli (University of Ulster).

Lecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 20 November 2014, 16:00-17:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Thomas Paine's Democratic Thought

Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.

Dr Robert Lamb (University of Exeter).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Blue Boar Court, Trinity College.

Monday 17 November 2014, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

I saw, I unsaw, I resaw: how we access and make use of unconscious knowledge about verbal roots

Linnaea Stockall, Queen Mary University of London.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 13 November 2014, 16:30-18:30

Centre for Commonwealth Education (CCE)

MASTERCLASS: Case study research in applied linguistics: What can case studies of L2 learners tell us?

Places are limited. If you would like to attend, please email rmk33@cam.ac.uk.

Patricia A. Duff, University of British Columbia.

Room GS4 Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 15:00-17:30

Centre for Commonwealth Education (CCE)

Multilingual socialization: Negotiating multiple languages, identities, ideologies, and practices

All welcome. If you would like to attend, please email rmk33@cam.ac.uk

Patricia A. Duff, University of British Columbia.

Room GS4 Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Monday 10 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

A strange afterlife: Pierre Berault and the meaning of Aristotelianism in the late seventeenth century

Dr Michael Edwards (University of Cambridge).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 10 November 2014, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Women's names and the shift to Latin in ancient Italy

Nicholas Zair (University of Cambridge).

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Thursday 06 November 2014, 17:15-19:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Informativeness, familiarity and the modulation of perceptual biases

Professor Charles Chang (University of Boston and SOAS).

GR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 06 November 2014, 16:00-17:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

The Great War and the British Problem, 1914-2014

Professor David Reynolds.

Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

Wednesday 05 November 2014, 17:30-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Communication in a globalised world: English is necessary but not sufficient

This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast

Dr Nick Saville - Director of the Research and Validation Group, Cambridge English Language Assessment.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Tuesday 04 November 2014, 17:45-19:15

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Raymond Aron and the Origins of the "End of Ideology"

Dr Iain Stewart (Queen Mary, University of London).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 03 November 2014, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Disjunction at prosodic boundaries

Sam Hellmuth, University of York.

Lecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 30 October 2014, 16:30-18:30

Second Language Education Group

The 'social' in English language teaching: Situated accomplishments

Professor Constant Leung, King's College London.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 27 October 2014, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Concern for Oneself and for Others in Porphyry's Ethics of "On Abstinence"

Please note the change of venue: this seminar will be held in the WINSTANLEY LECTURE THEATRE at Trinity College, the entrance to which lies directly opposite the Trinity porters' lodge.

Dr Miira Tuominen (University of Helsinki).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Blue Boar Court, Trinity College.

Monday 27 October 2014, 17:00-18:45

Your personal list

Struggle to maintain Kabyle identity in Algeria

Bashir Saoudi.

Alliance Française, 60 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 1AL.

Sunday 26 October 2014, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2014

How language shapes our identity

Dr Esther-Miriam Wagner.

Law, Faculty of, LG17, 10 West Road, CB3 9DZ .

Saturday 25 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Phonological domains in morphology and syntax: evidence from Huave

Dr Yuni Kim (University of Manchester).

Lecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 23 October 2014, 16:00-17:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Nietzsche's Perfect State

Dr Hugo Drochon (University of Cambridge).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 20 October 2014, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Morphosyntactic complexity: a typology of lexical splits

Grev Corbett, University of Surrey.

GR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 16 October 2014, 16:30-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Michael Oakeshott and the Idea of Totalitarianism

Professor Andrew Gamble (University of Sheffield).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 13 October 2014, 17:00-18:45

Caius MCR/SCR research talks

Greek in Italy: Is Language Always Important to Identity?

Katherine McDonald (Faculty of Classics, Cambridge).

Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Tuesday 07 October 2014, 21:00-21:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The Dialects of Campania. A Perspective of Linguistic Echology

Rosanna Sornicola, Giovanni Abete, Margherita Di Salvo, Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II.

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

Wednesday 07 May 2014, 17:15-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Feature sharing in agreement? Evidence from Latin nominalized participles

Dag Haug, University of Oslo.

Faculty of Law, Room LG19.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The decipherment of some recently found ostraca from Post-Roman North Africa

Dr Sabine Ziegler, Saxonian Academy of Sciences at Leipzig / Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 17:15-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Towards empiricist models of language acquisition

Alexander Clark (King's College London).

Faculty of Law, Room LG19.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

`What on earth’ in Chinese Speakers' L2 English Grammars

Boping Yuang (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Block, Room 1, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 13 March 2014, 16:00-17:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Statelessness in International Political and Legal Thought, 1921-1935

Comment: Duncan Kelly (Jesus College, Cambridge)

Mira Siegelberg (Harvard University).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 10 March 2014, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Change, Choice and Functional Ecology: The case of the historical present

Sylvia Adamson, University of Sheffield.

GR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 06 March 2014, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Edmund Burke and the French Revolution before the Reflections

Richard Bourke (Queen Mary, University of London).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 03 March 2014, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Rethinking Comparative Syntax

Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge).

Room GR06/07, Faculty of English, Sidgwick Site, West Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 27 February 2014, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

'A language to catch birds with': Sami values and world-view as expressed in traditional terminology, art and poetry.

Prof. Harald Gaski, Universitetet i Tromsø.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 26 February 2014, 17:15-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'If it be without contention': Hobbes on Difference without Disagreement

Comment: Richard Tuck (Harvard University)

Teresa Bejan (Columbia University).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 24 February 2014, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The role of semantic and structural constraints in ellipsis

Klaus Abels, UCL.

GR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 20 February 2014, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Constructing identities in multilingual classrooms: the experiences of immigrant-background children in primary schools in France and England

Dr. Oakleigh Welply, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

Monday 17 February 2014, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Bentham as Conspiracy Theorist

David Runciman (University of Cambridge).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 17 February 2014, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

French adjectival liaison: evidence for underlying representations

Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (University of Manchester).

Room GR06/07, Faculty of English, Sidgwick Site, West Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 February 2014, 16:00-17:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Philosophical History in Hannah Arendt’s Political Thought

Comment: Robert Fine (University of Warwick)

Waseem Yaqoob (Pembroke College, Cambridge).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 10 February 2014, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Towards a model of morphological processing grounded in principles of discriminative learning

Harald Baayen, Eberhard Karls University, Tuebing and University of Alberta.

GR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 06 February 2014, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Postmarxism, Radical Democracy, and the Machiavellian Moment

Warren Breckman (University of Pennsylvania/Humboldt University).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 03 February 2014, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Parallelingualism. What can Nordic language policy learn from its past?

Andrew Linn, University of Sheffield.

Room GR06/07, Faculty of English, Sidgwick Site, West Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 30 January 2014, 16:00-17:30

Second Language Education Group

New times, researcher mobility and multilingual research practice: opportunities, innovation and constraints

Professor Marilyn Martin-Jones, University of Birmingham .

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS4.

Monday 27 January 2014, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Radical Atheism: Jean Meslier in Context

Comment: Michael Sonenscher (King’s College, Cambridge)

Charles Devellennes (University of Kent).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 27 January 2014, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Which take which?

Richard Holton, University of Cambridge.

GR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 23 January 2014, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Art and Elevation: Distance and History Painting in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain

Mark Phillips (Carleton University, Ottawa).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 20 January 2014, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The problem of finding sources for the study of Norn, the Scandinavian language of Caithness and the Northern Isles.

Dr Ragnhild Ljosland, Centre for Nordic Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands.

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Friday 17 January 2014, 17:15-19:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Probabilistic ergative case in the languages of Manang (Nepal)

Dr. Oliver Bond, University of Surrey.

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 7.

Wednesday 04 December 2013, 17:15-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

E. P. Thompson, Judith Shklar and the Implications of 'Antipolitics'

Comment: Stefan Collini (Cambridge)

Tim Rogan (St Catharine's College, Cambridge) .

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 02 December 2013, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Language Learning and the brain

Matt Davies, University of Cambridge.

GR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 28 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

‘Intercultural citizenship’ – a purpose for foreign language education?

Professor Mike Byram, University of Durham .

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

Monday 25 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Kant on Rebellion and the Mere Idea of Popular Rule

Christopher Meckstroth (University of Cambridge).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 25 November 2013, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Complexity as L2-difficulty: Implications for syntactic change

George Walkden, University of Manchester.

Lecture Block, Room 1, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 21 November 2013, 16:00-17:30

Second Language Education Group

Literacy Instruction and the Bilingual Learner

Professor Catherine Wallace, Institute of Education, University of London .

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

Monday 18 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Tracing a Meridian through the Map of Time: Fact, Conjecture and the Scientific Method in William Robertson's *History of America*

Comment: John Robertson (Cambridge)

Charlotte Roberts (University College London) .

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 18 November 2013, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Distribution of processing capacities across bilateral and left-lateralised language networks

Mirjana Bozic Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge .

GR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 14 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Traditional and Contemporary Torres Strait Languages and Dialects

Tanisha Pabai, Stephen Yamashita, Zach Bani, Amelia Mari and Valent Kirk.

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 7.

Wednesday 13 November 2013, 17:15-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

English Republicanism in Transnational Context: Edmund Ludlow’s Protestant Network in Seventeenth-Century Switzerland

Gaby Mahlberg (Northumbria University) .

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 11 November 2013, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Multicultural London English: the rise of a new phonological variety?

Paul Kerswill, University of York.

Room GR06/07, Faculty of English, Sidgwick Site, West Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 07 November 2013, 16:00-17:30

Second Language Education Group

How can you help your students become autonomous learners? One-on-one counselling-based teaching through an autonomous learning model

Professor Akiko Kochiyama, Meisei University .

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

Tuesday 05 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Citizenship, War and the Origins of International Ethics in American Political Philosophy 1960-1975

Comment: Christopher Brooke (University of Bristol)

Katrina Forrester (St John's College, Cambridge) .

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 04 November 2013, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Sign language in Burma: Yangon Sign language and its relationship with spoken Burmese

Justin Watkins, SOAS.

GR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 31 October 2013, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

What Makes Representation Democratic?

Sofia Näsström (Uppsala University).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 28 October 2013, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Learning theory and language change: the evolution of phonological scope

Bert Vaux and Yining Nie, DTAL.

Room GR06/07, Faculty of English, Sidgwick Site, West Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 24 October 2013, 16:00-17:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Not Talking But Thinking: Democratic Deliberation in Classical Athens

Comment: David Runciman (POLIS)

Daniela Cammack (Harvard Society of Fellows) .

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 21 October 2013, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The onset of borrowing: Somali and English

Jeanette Sakel, University of the West of England.

GR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 17 October 2013, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

What is Liberalism?

Duncan Bell (Christ's College).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 14 October 2013, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Is there anyone out there who really is interested in the speaker?

Professor I Kecskes (State University of New York, Albany) .

Room GR06/07, Faculty of English, Sidgwick Site, West Road, Cambridge.

Monday 24 June 2013, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

'The challenges of documenting an endangered dialect group spoken by diaspora communities: The case of Modern Aramaic'

Last talk of term

Professor Geoffrey Khan (Regius Professor of Hebrew, University of Cambridge).

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 8/9.

Thursday 30 May 2013, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Building abstractions in Language Development

Professor E Lieven (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig/School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester).

Room GR06/07, Faculty of English, Sidgwick Site, West Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 30 May 2013, 16:00-17:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Thomas Willis and the Religious Context of the First Neurology

Comment: TBC

Louis Caron.

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 20 May 2013, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Dialect syntax as a testbed for models of innovation and change

David Willis (University of Cambridge).

GR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 16 May 2013, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Aspects of Indirect Democracy in Ancient Greece, in particular in Aristotle's Politics

Mogens Herman Hansen.

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 13 May 2013, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Constructionalization and constructional changes

Dr Graeme Trousdale (Edinburgh University).

Lecturer's Common Room, Raised Faculty Building.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 16:00-17:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

J. G. A. Pocock and the Idea of the 'Cambridge School' in the History of Political Thought

Comment: Richard Bourke (Queen Mary)

Sam James (Jesus College, Cambridge).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 06 May 2013, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Realism Tamed or Liberalism Betrayed? The Dystopic Liberal Imagination in Political Thought

Nicholas Rengger.

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 29 April 2013, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The role of dynamic pragmatics in negation processing

Richard Breheny (UCL).

GR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 25 April 2013, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Allochthonous languages, Brazilian Zeeuws, and Dummy Auxiliaries

Andrew Nevins (co-authored with Gertjan Postma and Elizana Schaffel-Bremenkamp).

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 8/9.

Wednesday 20 March 2013, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Transitive psych-predicates In Chinese

Professor Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng, Leiden University/LUCL.

Lecture Block, room 3, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 14 March 2013, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Distinguishing two routes to silent meaning through hemodynamic and electrophysiological techniques

Matt Husband (University of Oxford).

Bowett Room, Queens' College.

Thursday 07 March 2013, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Class in multilingualism research

Professor David Block, ICREA-Universitat de Lleida.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room GS1.

Tuesday 05 March 2013, 17:30-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'Society' in British Political Thought, c. 1930 to 1960: Some Rival Conceptions of 'Positivism'

Joint Session with the Modern British History Seminar

Jose Harris (University of Oxford).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 04 March 2013, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Malthus and the Doctrine of Utility

Commentator: Donald Winch (University of Sussex)

Niall O'Flaherty (King's College, London).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 25 February 2013, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Coordinate structures, morphosyntactic representations, and production experiments in Slovenian

Andrew Nevins (UCL).

Bowett Room, Queens' College.

Thursday 21 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

'This Melancholy Labyrinth': Magistrates and Order in the Early Nineteenth-Century British Empire

Commentator: Michael Lobban (Queen Mary, London)

Lauren Benton (New York University).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 18 February 2013, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Levantine Iberian script: linguistic and epigraphic contacts in northern Spain and southern Gaul during the second Iron age

Coline Ruiz Darasse.

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 8/9.

Tuesday 12 February 2013, 17:15-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Histories of Thought and Comparative Political Theory: The Thesis of 'Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge,' 1860-1895

Commentator: John Dunn (King's College, Cambridge)

Leigh Jenco (London School of Economics and Political Science).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 11 February 2013, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Charismatic Sword: Thomas Müntzer’s Theology of Violence

Matthias Riedl (Central European University).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 04 February 2013, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Move in the Right Direction: What phonetic variation can tell us about phonological representations

Christian Uffmann (University of Sussex).

Bowett Room, Queens' College.

Thursday 31 January 2013, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

How the European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages (EPOSTL) works in different European contexts

Barry Jones, Head of Modern Languages, Homerton College, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

Monday 28 January 2013, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Third Earl of Shaftesbury and the Defence of Humane Learning

Commentator: Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College, Cambridge)

Karen Collis (University of Oxford).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 28 January 2013, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Null objects and markedness in L1 acquisition

Ianthi Tsimpli (Aristotle University Thessaloniki/University of Reading).

Bowett Room, Queens' College.

Thursday 24 January 2013, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Anthropology beyond Empires: Samuel Stanhope Smith and the Reconfiguration of the Atlantic World

Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS, Paris).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 21 January 2013, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Latin influence on the Gaulish language

Prof. Dr. Karin Stüber (Zurich).

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 7.

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 17:15-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

On trade and teleology: the role of commercial relations in Kant's philosophy of history

Comment: Istvan Hont (Cambridge)

Lea Ypi (LSE).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 26 November 2012, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The Domain of Content

Hagit Borer (Queen Mary, University of London).

Erasmus Room, Old Court, Queens' College.

Thursday 22 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Passions in Hobbes's Political Philosophy

Comment: Michael Edwards (University of Cambridge)

Raffaella Santi (University of Urbino).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 19 November 2012, 17:00-18:45

Second Language Education Group

Styling in a Language Learned Later in Life

All Welcome!

Professor Ben Rampton, Professor of Applied and Socio-linguistics, King’s College London.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Wednesday 14 November 2012, 17:30-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Historicisms and counter-historicisms in the seventeenth century

Comment: Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge)

Nick Hardy (University of Cambridge).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 12 November 2012, 17:00-18:45

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hobbes and Sexual Desire

Noel Malcolm (All Souls College, University of Oxford).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 05 November 2012, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Discrete bilectalism, multilingualism, and (a)typical language development

Kleanthes K. Grohmann and Maria Kambanaros (University of Cyprus and Cyprus Acquisition Team).

Erasmus Room, Old Court, Queens' College.

Thursday 01 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The nature of dominion in De Justa Reipublicae Christianae Authoritate (1590)

Comment: Harro Hopfl (Essex)

Sophie Nicholls (University of Oxford).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 29 October 2012, 17:00-18:45

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The Italian minority in Crimea: linguistic identity and cultural belonging

Dr Paola Bocale (Cambridge).

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 8/9.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 17:15-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Derogatives: Meaning or Metadata?

The Erasmus Room is on the 1st Floor, and is marked no. 18 on the following map: http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/mi-content/default.asp?PAGE_ID=1860

Geoffrey Nunberg (UC Berkeley).

Erasmus Room, Old Court, Queens' College.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Beyond multilingualism: Heteroglossia and social diversity

All welcome!

Professor Adrian Blackledge, MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism, University of Birmingham.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

Monday 22 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Authority: Some Fables

Raymond Geuss (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 22 October 2012, 17:00-18:45

Second Language Education Group

The European Survey on Language Competences: Aims, Outcomes and Conclusions

All welcome!

Dr Neil Jones, ESOL Cambridge Assessment .

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

Monday 15 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Calvinist Doctrines at the Beginning of the Scottish Enlightenment: Archibald Campbell vs. the Committee for Purity of Doctrine on Human Nature and Self-Love

Comment: John Robertson (Cambridge)

Christian Maurer (Université de Fribourg).

OCR, Trinity College.

Monday 15 October 2012, 17:00-18:45