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Interview with a Fellow: History of Ideas

The latest interview in our Interview with a Fellow series is with Dr Waseem Yaqoob, Fellow in History.

Dr Yaqoob's research focuses on the history of political ideas in twentieth century Europe and beyond. He researches the relationship between politics and social change, and how thinkers, journalists etc understand those changes and put them into words. His latest project, a recently-finished book, centers around Hannah Arendt, a German-Jewish political thinker, one of the best-known of the 20th century. In his book Dr Yaqoob engages with Arendt's work on building a politics that includes marginalised voices in society, in the context of the rise of violent political movements such as Stalinism and Nazism. This work feeds into Dr Yaqqoob's work teaching in the Faculty of History on political ideas and intellectual history. One of the great things about teaching at Cambridge, he says, is the opportunity to build strong working relationships with students.

Dr Yaqoob's next project is on the ideas of German thinkers, and the ways German thinkers understood themselves and the state in the international order, particularly in Europe, throughout the critical events of the 20th century.

Full interview below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9oCHghZJr0

 

 

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