Research Seminar Series 

The centre hosts a guest-speaker series Wednesday afternoons from 3.15 - 5pm in Mill Hill Lane. Light refreshments are provided from 3pm. Events are broadcast via Teams.  Some events are online only due to distance and caring responsibilities.

This year’s schedule:

Michaelmas Term 2025
8 Oct –  James Clark (University of York) - J. B. Erhard’s Revolutionary Natural Law Theory. IM 222 (Al Qasimi Building).
22 Oct – Udit Bhatia (King’s College London). The Workers’ Veto: Democratising Corporate Party Funding - Online only.
5 Nov  – Helena Rosenblatt (City University New York)
Madame de Staël and Democracy Online Only.
19 Nov –  Sergio Dellavalle (Turin) The Paradigms of Order and Their Future in Times of Crisis MHL 453.
3 Dec  – Alasia Nuti (York) We Fight With Our Dead: On the Ethics and Politics of Thanatoactivism -Alan Milne Memorial Address MHL 453.

Epiphany Term 2026
21 Jan – - Ten-Herng Lai (Stirling)  Resisting Moral Blackmail MHL223.

4 Feb – Gabriel Wollner (Bayreuth) – Alienation, Reification and Fetishism: Orthodox and Unified. Online only.

11 Feb –– Gerald Lang (Leeds) Slacking Off MHL 453.
25 Feb –  Annelien de Dijn (Utrecht) The Historiography of Patriarchy (Late 19th–21st Centuries). MHL 223.
5 Mar (Thursday) – Deva Woodly (Brown University) ‘Meditations on a Politics of Futurity: Black Feminist Repertoires for Worldbuilding’ (Funded by IAS “Reconceptualising Resistance” Major Project) MHL 454.

Easter Term 2026
29th April – Alan Kahan  (AGORA, CY Cergy Paris université)  Sufficiency: A Liberal Theory of Distributive Justice MHL 427.6th May - Giacomo Floris (York) 
17th June - Pascal Brixel (North Western)

If you would like to give a talk in the academic year 2026-2027 please get in touch with the centre director on Elizabeth.kahn@durham.ac.uk and co-director on Jan.kandiyali@durham.ac.uk. We particularly welcome talks that challenge and expand the discipline by questioning underlying assumptions, utilising innovative methodologies or addressing under-explored problems.