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8 February 2023 online Lucy Burke This talk will explore the complex entanglement of new reproductive technologies, genetics, health economics, rights-based discourses and ethical considerations of the value of human life with particular reference to representations of Down’s syndrome and… Continue Reading →
18 January 2023 online It has been over 30 years since the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed, but it has only been within the last decade that disabled Latinxs are becoming more visible and demanding disability justice. According… Continue Reading →
CAPPE 18th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference 8th, 9th, 10th September Online Over the past decade, the cumulative brutalities of various crises, austerity measures and organised abandonment through the Covid-19 pandemic, have pushed disabled people and activists in many parts of the world to re-assess… Continue Reading →
05/07/2023 – DISABILITY POLITICS MONTHLY LECTURE: Kirstie Stage, Disabled People, Labour Markets and Exploitation in the late 20th Century
This year CAPPE is hosting a series of monthly online talks on disability politics. These will take place on Wednesday evenings 6pm-7.30pm. Please contact z.sutherland@brighton.ac.uk with any general questions and/or accessibility requirements. 16th November – Luke Beesley, ‘Decades of… Continue Reading →
Call for Papers – In the Shadow of ‘Eugenic Thinking’: Legacies of Eugenics in the UK A Joint CAPPE and CMNH one-day Symposium 3rd May, 9.30am-5.30pm, Room tbc Online and in-person This symposium will bring together… Continue Reading →
Prof. Christoph Menke holds the Chair of Practical Philosophy at the Cluster of Excellence: Normative Orders and the Institute of Philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main. The focus of his work is political philosophy, philosophy of law, morality, aesthetics, and the theory… Continue Reading →
6.7, 8 September: Annual Conference: Eugenic Legacies and Anti-Eugenic Futures (Online only) CAPPE Symposium: The Politics of BrexLit with Maria Jastrzebska, Agnieska Dale and Kristian Shaw (Date to be confirmed)
Doctoral Reading Group and Workshop: 12.30-14.00 in The Waste House, Grand Parade (Every Thursday in term time) 07/06/2023: Workshop 3 with Professor Sam Chambers (Hopkins) and Professor Geoff Ingham (Cambridge) The Politics of Derivatives and Property further information TBC 13/06/2023: Doctoral… Continue Reading →
Doctoral Reading Group and Workshop: 12.30-14.00 in The Waste House, Grand Parade (Every Thursday in term time) 03/05/2023: A Joint CAPPE and CMNH one-day Symposium In the Shadow of ‘Eugenic Thinking’: Legacies of Eugenics in the UK 9.30-5.30 Venue tbc… Continue Reading →
Doctoral Reading Group and Workshop: 12.30-14.00 in The Waste House, Grand Parade (Every Thursday in term time) 05/04/2023: CAPPE Symposium: On Relationalities: Politics, Narrative, Sociality with Professor Leticia Sabsay, Grand Parade, room TBC 05/04/2023: DISABILITY POLITICS MONTHLY LECTURE: Steve Graby,… Continue Reading →
Doctoral Reading Group and Workshop: 12.30-14.00 in The Waste House, Grand Parade (Every Thursday in term time) 8th,9th,10th/03/2023: CAPPE March Conference: Unliveable Time KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Harmut Rosa and Eva von Redeker 15/03/2023 – DISABILITY POLITICS MONTHLY LECTURE: Ioana Cerasella Chis,… Continue Reading →
Doctoral Reading Group and Workshop: 12.30-14.00 in The Waste House, Grand Parade (Every Thursday in term time) 02/02/2023: Public Lecture with Christophe Menke: A New Theory of Liberation 17.45 – 20.00Grand Parade, M2 03/02/2023: CAPPE Workshop with Christophe Menke: 10.00… Continue Reading →
Doctoral Reading Group and Workshop: 12.30-14.00 in The Waste House, Grand Parade (Every Thursday in term time) 16/01/2023: CAPPE WORKSHOP: The feminist Politics of Revolution in Iran Afternoon Seminar, VENUE TBC 18/01/2023: DISABILITY POLITICS MONTHLY LECTURE: National Coalition for Latinx… Continue Reading →
14 December 2022 online Ellen Clifford Disabled people in the UK have been subjected to brutal, targeted attacks by government since 2010, largely concealed from the public through spin, lies and strategic U-turns. In 2016 the UN found the UK… Continue Reading →
The theme of relationality is now centre stage in contemporary political and social thought. From relational ontology to post-foundational ethics and black feminisms, relationality has far-reaching implications for debates in politics, ethics, and aesthetics. For this symposium we invite engagements… Continue Reading →
By Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti, Guilherme Benzaquen, and Giovana Zucatto Throughout Bolsonaro’s government, Brazil experienced protests and disputes against the government’s mishandling of responses to the COVID19 pandemic and, against attempts to escalate authoritarian practices that promote extractive capitalism at the… Continue Reading →
Call for Papers Our contemporary world is paradoxical insofar as, citing Hartmut Rosa, “the more time we save, the less we have”. No matter how fast we rush from one activity to the next, regardless of the refined logistics and the myriad… Continue Reading →
For this year we have identified a set of priorities for our CAPPE work, and thus for the areas that we fund from the annual allocation. CAPPE will continue to support existing work, with both PhD students and staff, and… Continue Reading →
In collaboration with CAPPE, the Populism Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association held its sixth annual workshop in Brighton on 22-23 September, 2022. This was the first in-person workshop held since 2019, although the post-pandemic developments meant that the… Continue Reading →
CAPPE’s 17th annual international, interdisciplinary conference August 31-September 2, 2022 The urgency of the climate emergency has seen a wide range of political responses over recent decades. Many struggles are fought by marginalised groups and those most acutely affected by… Continue Reading →
By Alice O’Malley-Woods What is the relationship between sound and social justice? In May 2022, University of Brighton hosted Sonic Rebellions (CAPPE sponsored), a two day conference designed and managed by rapper and PhD researcher Wanda Canton. The interdisciplinary conference… Continue Reading →
Russia’s War in Ukraine. Professor Neil Robinson. Tuesday 8th of March, 17.00-18.30 on Teams The unprecedented invasion of Ukraine has left all of us shocked, uncertain how to respond and worried about millions of people caught in a war they… Continue Reading →
Sonic Rebellions What is the relationship between sound and social justice? 27th and 28th May 2022 University of Brighton A two-day event hosting a variety of speakers, panels and workshops including academics, artists, and activists. Our keynote speaker is rapper… Continue Reading →
7 February 2022 Workshop: The Politics of Disability and Research Accessibility With Luke Beesley This workshop will be run as a hybrid event, with colleagues able to ‘call in’ from home if that’s where they need to be. This workshop welcomes… Continue Reading →
CAPPE 16th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference 15-17 September 2021 The conference was held online and was entirely free to attend. Recent years have witnessed renewed interest in the politics of reproduction and care in a wide range of fields, in response… Continue Reading →
Friday July 16th, online After a decade of intense assault on the social and civil rights of disabled people in the name of austerity, the Covid-19 pandemic has led to a further devaluation of disabled people’s lives. Beyond the horrific… Continue Reading →
