Category Seminar series, workshops and one-off public events
19th March 2016 As part of the Theorising Transnational Politics project, and in anticipation of panels taking place at the annual Political Studies Association conference, a one-day workshop was held with Jodi Dean to discuss and critically examine her book,… Continue Reading →
19 March 2016 CAPPE is pleased to announce a workshop and round table symposium with Jodi Dean, Professor of Humanities and Social Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. Professor Dean is a controversial theorist of… Continue Reading →
17 – 18 March 2016 Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics & Ethics (CAPPE) (University of Brighton), Catedra Ernesto Laclau, (University of Buenos Aires) and the British Academy The Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics, University of Brighton, and “Cátedra… Continue Reading →
3rd December 2015 Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics & Ethics (CAPPE) (University of Brighton), Catedra Ernesto Laclau, (University of Buenos Aires) and the British Academy This CAPPE workshop invited scholars working in the area of radical politics to discuss and… Continue Reading →
27 June 2015 Professor Martin Jay is Director of the Programme in Critical Theory at University of California, Berkeley. He is a renowned Intellectual Historian and his research interests have been ground breaking in connecting history with other academic and… Continue Reading →
10 June 2015 | Workshop After the collapse of Marxism as a narrative of emancipation how are we to think liberation today? What challenges are presented by inequality organised on a global scale? Is universal emancipation to be desired or… Continue Reading →
January to May 2015 The sixth CAPPE Seminar Series in Critical Theory and Radical Politics A reading course, January to May 2015 and workshop with Professor Simon Critchley 20th May 2015 – 22nd May 2015 This research seminar hosted by… Continue Reading →
Workshop | 28 January 2015 Yannis Stavrakakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Profesor Stavrakakis is one the leading political theorists of populism and of the debt crisis writing today, and has recently completed a Leverhulme project on Populist politics in the… Continue Reading →
7-12 November 2014 CAPPE was pleased to announce a workshop and lecture with Professor Lisa Disch, distinguished theorist of democratic politics from the University of Michigan. Professor Disch has forwarded three chapters of her forthcoming monograph on political representation. Participants… Continue Reading →
26th September 2014 A one-day conference organised by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics and the Royal Institute of Philosophy for AS & A Level students interested in exploring a combination of classic and contemporary philosophical questions. Professor Bob… Continue Reading →
September – October 2013 This research seminar, hosted by CAPPE and the Faculty of Arts, iwas aimed at staff and research students interested in contemporary politics, philosophy and critical theory. Every year we focus on a different theorist or issue,… Continue Reading →
November 2012- May 2013 Third CAPPE Research Seminar Series in Political Philosophy This research seminar, hosted by CAPPE and the Faculty of Arts, is aimed at staff and PhD students interested in contemporary politics, philosophy and critical theory. Every year… Continue Reading →
Workshop | 26 March 2013 Organised by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics & Ethics, University of Brighton, this workshop aimed to explore whether torture and/or war are ever morally justifiable or not. Programme 10.00 – 10.30: Registration/Coffee 10.30 –… Continue Reading →
1-2 March 2013 Hosted by CEVI, Ghent University, Belgium There are voluminous libraries of texts that describe both how ‘democracies’ do work, and how different thinkers argue they should work. Within this literature, there is a wide range of: analysed… Continue Reading →
20 January 2012 A one-day symposium at the University of Brighton It is now well established that Adam Smith’s purloining by the Neo-liberal Thatcherites in the 1980s represented a partial and superficial interpretation of his work, based on a particular… Continue Reading →
October 2010 – May 2011 This research seminar, hosted by CAPPE is aimed at PhD students and staff interested in contemporary politics, philosophy and critical theory. Every year we focus on a different theorist or topic. For the 2010/11 academic… Continue Reading →
Friday 25 March 2011 A one-day invitation-only workshop co-hosted by the Brighton & Sussex Medical School (BSMS) and the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics & Ethics (CAPPE), University of Brighton Time: 1100 – 1700 Venue: Brighton & Sussex Medical School,… Continue Reading →
25 January 2011 On Thursday 9 December 2010, MPs were asked to approve a motion tabled by Vince Cable, the business secretary, allowing universities to increase tuition fees to up to £9,000 from September 2012. Under the Higher Education Act,… Continue Reading →
A one-day colloquium organised by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE) Speakers: Tim Huzar (University of Brighton): Freedom of Speech Helen McCabe (Oxford University): Mill’s Socialism Paul Reynolds (Edgehill University): Utilitarianism & Democracy Kate Soper (University of… Continue Reading →
October 2009-May 2010 CAPPE 2009 – 2010 Annual Research Seminar in Politics and Philosophy: Alain Badiou Slavoj Zizek has described Alain Badiou as the greatest living philosopher. This course engages in a critical reading of Badiou’s work. The course is aimed… Continue Reading →
28 April 2010 Students and staff were invited to participate in The CAPPE Election Time Debate ahead of the General Election held Thursday 6 May 2010. This ‘Question Time style’ debate was a chance to challenge electoral candidates prior to… Continue Reading →
January – March 2010 From Adorno to Zizek: Open lecture and debate sessions on key issues in contemporary philosophy Participants in the lecture series should read at least one of the primary sources listed for each week. These recommendations are… Continue Reading →
12th Nov 2008 | Brighton Photo Biennial Do we need to see what war does to people? Ought we have to see it? When does shock give way to lazy acceptance? How do photographers decide what we see and manipulate… Continue Reading →
12 May 2007 | Public lecture As part of the Brighton Fringe Festival, Bob Brecher and Mark Devenney, both from University of Brighton, discussed the claim that torture is justified in response to the threat of terrorist atrocities. Two presentations… Continue Reading →
