Category Seminar series, workshops and one-off public events
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
The University of Brighton will be hosting Professor Casullo through April and May 2024 as a Visiting Global Fellow. The programme of events in collaboration with CAPPE are listed below. For any questions please email Andy Knott: A.Knott@brighton.ac.uk Maria Esperanza… Continue Reading →
The University of Brighton’s Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics will be partnering with CAPONEU and the Brighton Book Festival for a week programme of events at Grand Parade City Campus, 18th- 23rd June. Please see the link here… Continue Reading →
CAPPE Workshop Commemoration: between aesthetics and politics with visiting scholar, Professor Alfonso Galindo Hervás April 16th 2024 | 10am-1pm | Mithras House, G30 If you are interested in joining online please use this Teams link The argument of this… Continue Reading →
Does looting threaten hegemony? An analysis based on a Brazilian case: Guilherme Benzaquen 15th April 2024, 12:30pm-2:30pm Mithras House G13 If you are interested in joining online, please use this Teams link Starting with the question “does looting threaten hegemony?”,… Continue Reading →
Sonic Rebellions II Sonic Rebellions is a network of artists, academics, and activists exploring the relationship between sound and social justice. Established in 2022, the first edited collection is soon to be published under Routledge, featuring chapters on soundwalks and… Continue Reading →
In November 2023, CAPPE welcomed Doctor Cristiano Gianolla from the University of Coimbra, Portugal presented his recent work about emotions and populism. PAPER TITLE: Populism and the Politics of Emotion The social sciences and humanities have generated copious but fragmented… Continue Reading →
Interventions in Disability Politics, 7th June 2023. The UK asylum system includes multiple restrictions that limit access to the services and support needed for physical and emotional health and wellbeing. At different stages in an asylum claim, people are systematically… Continue Reading →
12th April, 2023 This presentation is based on my recently finished research project called “Work without bosses, homes without landlords, and nothing about us without us: Researching disabled people’s involvement in co-operatives in the UK”. This research found notable synergies… Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
Wednesday 16th November 2022 Luke Beesley, ‘Decades of Defeat: Militancy and Self-Organisation after the Disabled People’s Movement’. While no disabled militant saw the New Labour period as an unadulterated golden age, the consensus in Britain’s Disabled People’s Movement (DPM)… 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 →
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 →
By Struan Gray On 11-12 June 2020 an international group of academics participated in an online workshop, organised by the University of Brighton’s Radical Sixties research project. The workshop built on the success of the 2019 conference – Radical Sixties:… Continue Reading →
9 January 2020 Robbie Shilliam, (Professor of International Relations, Department of Politics, John Hopkins, US) Abstract Abolish prisons; abolish police; abolish immigration enforcement: current “abolition” movements have yet to receive the attention that international political economy has given to its… Continue Reading →
February – May 2018 Week 1 7/2/18 — Postcolonial Critique (room 204, Pavillon Parade) Edward Said (1978) Orientalism. (Introduction, chapter 1 and conclusion) Week 2 14/2/18 — Subaltern Studies Chakrabarty, D. (2000) ‘A Small History of Subaltern Studies’… Continue Reading →
18-19 January 2018 CAPPE, University of Brighton and Cátedra Libre Ernesto Laclau, University of Buenos Aires supported by the British Academy) Thursday 18 January 10.00am -10.30am: Introductory Comments: Transnational Populist Politics? Paula Biglieri (University of Buenos Aires) and Mark Devenney… Continue Reading →
