Celebrating the life and work of Dr Emile Perreau–Saussine

The life and work of Dr Emile Perreau-Saussine will celebrated at an evening of open discussion, today, (Thursday 17 February, 2011), at Fitzwilliam College. The event is free and open to the public, and takes place in the Fitzwilliam College Auditorium, at 5:30 - 7:00pm. Dr Emile Perreau-Saussine (1972 - 2010) was a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, a young and gifted teacher and researcher who taught political philosophy and the history of political thought in the Department of Politics and International Studies. He died tragically young in 2010, aged 37. Professor David Thompson, Fellow of Fitzwilliam and Emeritus Professor of Modern Church, said: "Emile was always scintillating company, both for Fellows and undergraduates, intellectually adventurous and never confined to a single philosophical system." The evening's colloquium, entitled 'Republicanism and Religion', will be discussing faith in a democratic age. Dr David Runciman, who was a colleague of Emile's in the Department of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge, will chair the event. Speakers at the event will be Dr Christopher Brooke, Dr Philippe de Lara and Dr Richard Rex, all of whom worked with Emile in Cambridge or in France.