The Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics, and Ethics is pleased to introduce one of our visiting doctoral students Karla Costa, who is joining us from September 2025 to February 2026. Bio Karla Costa is a PhD student in International… Continue Reading →
Join CAPPE for a day of workshops with leading authors working on the politics of care, Noam Lesham (Durham) and Emma Dowling (Vienna). Date: Friday 12th December Time: 09:30 – 16:30 Location: Huxley 401 (Morning) / Watts 313 (Afternoon) Register for… Continue Reading →
The Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics, and Ethics is pleased to introduce one of our visiting doctoral students Luca Zaidan, who is joining us through the 25-26 academic year. Bio Luca Zaidan is pursuing a PhD in Social Sciences… Continue Reading →
On November 6 and 7 November 2025, the University of Brighton welcome 45+ speakers to explore the theme of ‘Everyday resistance: Thinking, making, and living in the material world’. You can now book your ticket to join this free interdisciplinary… Continue Reading →
11-12 September 2025 Global ‘Anti-Gender’ Politics: Nationalist, Populist and Feminist Convergences This conference is online only. You can join with the following link: CAPPE University of Brighton is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89178637321?pwd=kV3q6aL3FTaQRW2asrzBCMMbzcEdJN.1… Continue Reading →
Reparations and Restitution: Legal Redress, Historical Justice, and Corporate Accountability in the Post-Colonial Present 14 November 2025 Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics University of Brighton, UK Call for Papers We invite scholars, researchers, practitioners, and community activists to… Continue Reading →
On 3 July 2025, CAPPE kindly hosted an end-of-year celebration of doctoral research. The day provided an opportunity for post-graduate researchers and CAPPE members to catch up on one another’s projects, reflecting the breadth of research that CAPPE supports. It… Continue Reading →
The Politics of Bordering: Literature, Theory, and the Political Special issue of Theory Now: Journal of Literature, Critique and Thought. Guest Editors: Prof. Mark Devenney and Dr. German Primera (Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics, University of Brighton) Submissions… Continue Reading →
CAPONEU Fictions of the Family Workshop University of Brighton, Wednesday 19th November 2025 3 Dorset Place, Kemptown, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 1ST (Rooms 501 and 201) From ancient texts like Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus to contemporary works including Julia… Continue Reading →
Brighton (UK), 19-20 September 2025 Keynote Speakers: K-Sue Parks, UCLA Daniel Loick, University of Amsterdam Mark Devenney, University of Brighton Property has always been an important paradigm for the Left in apprehending material and symbolic inequalities in capitalist and political… Continue Reading →
CAPONEU Presents: Motherhood and Fiction in Dark Times: Naomi Booth in Conversation with Joanna Kellond Thursday 19 June, M2, Grand Parade, University of Brighton, BN2 0JY, 5pm-7pm Register to attend this CAPPE event in person … Continue Reading →
Caponeu Presents: The Art and Politics of Translation A CONVERSATION with Kate Briggs and Jen Calleja M2, GRAND PARADE, UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON, 4 June, 17.30-19.30 Register to attend this CAPPE event in person. Kate Briggs grew up in Somerset, UK,… Continue Reading →
Wednesday 24th April, 2024 The present talk is a work in progress which will be part of my upcoming volume titled Decolonial Disability and Social Epistemologies. Its purpose is to interrogate the meaning of Marx’s famous aphorism: to everyone according… Continue Reading →
A public lecture with James Meadway All welcome. 6.30-8pm, Thursday 20th of March Room M2, Grand Parade, University of Brighton Map – https://maps.app.goo.gl/iRCoyg1tr7crhpdi9 Please register to attend https://forms.office.com/e/xhuD9Z6yhw James Meadway hosts the new weekly economics podcast Macrodose. He… Continue Reading →
Populisms in Brazil: the cases of Bolsonaro and Lula Brazil is a complex country full of particularities. In this century, it experienced one of the greatest social advances in its history during the first decade, followed by the rise… Continue Reading →
A CONVERSATION WITH EVA MENASSE: M2, GRAND PARADE, UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON, 24th of MARCH, 17.30-19.30 Join CAPONEU for an evening with Eva Menasse author of Darkenbloom. This novel explores the politics of memory, of buried secrets, of Austrian… Continue Reading →
Monday 31st March – Wednesday 2nd of April 2025 Grand Parade, University of Brighton, UK Keynote Speakers Wendy Brown (UPS Foundation Professor in the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) Paul Gilroy (Professor of Humanities, Institute… Continue Reading →
4th March 2025 6.30-8.30pm Café in 58-67 Grand Parade, City Campus, University of Brighton, Brighton BN2 0JY and online Ms Teams Link: An evening with Ahmed Masoud and Sophie Chamas, as they explore the politics of fiction and writing as resistance and… Continue Reading →
Siamo tuttx antifascistx(Taken from the Italian 1920s slogan “siamo tutti antifascisti” (masc.), contemporary activist literature uses the “x” in a gender-neutral slogan for a queer and feminist approach (Constanza Spina, 2024). Creative and Critical International Responses to the Rise… Continue Reading →
Dr Sharri Plonski, QMUL This talk attempts to contend with the architects and architectures of genocide in Gaza through three ‘corridor stories’ that have become part of our public purview: ‘the Netzarim and Philadelphi corridors’, the ‘Gaza maritime humanitarian… Continue Reading →
Interventions into Disability Politics, 20th November 2024 In 1999, the American radio speaker Thom Hartmann proposed to explain the origin of ADHD as an “evolutionary mismatch”: ADHD people would be characterised by “pre-modern minds”, fit for hunter-gatherer societies and unfit… Continue Reading →
Workshop: The Politics of Bordering. CAPONEU Project CAPPE (Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics) Tuesday 3rd of December Keynote speaker: Aleksandra Lewicki, Reader in Sociology and Co-Director of the Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex, UK. 9.00 AM –… Continue Reading →
27th March 2025 Kirstie Stage: Bridging the gap between Trade Unionism and the Disabled People’s Movement Deaf and disabled organisers have long been part of and contributed to the efforts of the British Labour Movement, notably through organisations such as… Continue Reading →
email cappe@brighton.ac.uk for advance copy of the paper Thursday 24th of October, 2024, 15.00-17.00 Mithras House (Room G13) Group-CAPPE Events | General | Microsoft Teams. ABSTRACT Moments of political discord among queer folks remind us of the troubling character inherent… Continue Reading →
Join CAPPE and AUTONOMY on the 6th November 13.00-16.30 to learn more about the Policy Writing Process. The Autonomy Institute is a progressive independent research institute that creates data-driven tools and policy to strengthen democracy and build a fair economy: https://autonomy.work/. You can either attend in… Continue Reading →
Workshop: The Politics of Bordering. CAPONEU Project CAPPE (Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics) Tuesday 3rd of December Keynote speaker: Aleksandra Lewicki, Reader in Sociology and Co-Director of the Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex, UK. … Continue Reading →
9th October, 2024 My PhD research focuses on the legacies of oppression embedded within participatory practices and their role in perpetuating the subjugation and discrimination of marginalised communities. I argue that a philosophical shift in the understanding of what constitutes… Continue Reading →
October 4-5, 2024, Vienna. The AHRC Wellbeing State network project critically investigates today’s wellbeing discourse that promises to update our conception of human flourishing as a resource to help collectively confront the challenges of the 21st century. It brings together… Continue Reading →
11th September 2024 This presentation critically reflects on disability selective abortion under UK law, arguing that the current legislative framework is disability discriminatory according to UN standards. This is because, under the UK law, a scale of severity of disability… Continue Reading →
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