The Trinity Global Humanities Lecture Series is a joint initiative from Trinity College and the Global Humanities Initiative based at the School of Arts and Humanities.
The Trinity Global Humanities Lecture Series showcases major figures working at the forefront of the humanities globally. Each Lecturer comes to Cambridge for an intensive month of engagement, during which they will give four to five lectures that speak to common concerns and excitements in the humanities today, meet with Cambridge scholars and students, and live and work at Trinity College. The series prioritizes new voices less heard in Cambridge from Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and South America.
The Global Humanities Initiative and Trinity College are delighted to invite you to their second annual lecture series.
About the Speaker:
Prof Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Prof Pratap Bhanu Mehta is the Laurence S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. He was previously Vice-Chancellor of Ashoka University, and President, Centre for Policy Research, Delhi. He has taught at Harvard, Ashoka University, and Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has been Global Faculty at NYU Law School. Pratab is the author of The Burden of Democracy (Penguin 2003) and co-editor with Madhav Khosla and Sujit Choudhary of The Oxford Handbook to the Indian Constitution. He is a prolific contributor to public debates and also published in The Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and The Indian Express, where he is an editorial consultant.
All four lectures will be held at the Winstanley Lecture Theatre (Trinity College) from 5:30 -6:30pm, followed by Q&A.
Venue: Winstanley Lecture Theatre – Trinity College. Trinity Street, Cambridge, CB2 1TB
**Access: Entrance to lecture via Whewell’s Court, Trinity Street, across from Great Gate
These lectures will offer reflections on the enterprise of global political thought. Do the different frameworks we bring to thinking about global political theory – national, comparative, interconnected, decolonial – adequately describe the nature of our predicament? In engaging with this question, the lecture hopes to shed light on the nature of the legitimation crisis that different parts of the world are experiencing
(Prof Pratap Bhanu Mehta)
14 May 2025 – Lecture 1: “The Shape of Global Political Thought in 20th Century: Methods and Narratives ” Register here: EVENTBRITE
21 May 2025 / Lecture 2: “Alternative Modernities? Indian Political Thought in a Global Frame”
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28 May 2025 / Lecture 3: “Modern Politics and the Sovereignty of God?”
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4 June 2025 / Lecture 4: “Party and Representation”
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