Ideas and Ideologies Seminar Series

The Centre for Research into Ideas and the Study of Political Ideologies is delighted to announce the launch of the Ideas and Ideologies Seminar Series.

Starting on 28 January 2026, this online series will feature ten guest speaker sessions, including:

28 January
Daniel Lee (University of California, Berkeley)
The First Hohfeld: Grotius’s Jurisprudence of Rights

4 February
Geertje Bol (Ghent University)
Women and the Double Standard of Ambition

11 February
Balázs Trencsényi (Central European University)
Interwar Crisis Discourses and the Future of Liberal Democracy: Reflections on the Politics of Intellectual History

18 February
Sophie Chénard (Carleton University)
From the Globe to Gaia: The Politics of Narrating the Anthropocene

25 February
Mauro Lubrano (University of Bath)
Stop the Machines: The Rise of Anti-Technology Extremism

4 March
Teresa Bejan (University of Oxford)
Book talk: First Among Equals?

11 March
Eglė Rindzevičiūtė (Kingston University)
From Governing the Global Biosphere to Automating Reflexivity: The Last Utopias of Anticipatory Governance

18 March
Eraldo Souza dos Santos (University of California, Irvine)
Annexations and Decolonial Worldmaking: The Case of Goa

25 March
Hugo Drochon (University of Nottingham)
Book Talk: Elites and Democracy

1 April
Matt Sleat (University of Sheffield)
Post-Liberalism and Its Discontents

Each session will take place 5-6.30pm (GMT). To sign up to the series and receive the Teams link ahead of each session, please complete this form.