In order to justify the adoption of harsh and unnecessary austerity measures, which were introduced without ethical approval, the Coalition administration elected in 2010 vehemently challenged the integrity of the chronically ill and disabled community and routinely accused disability benefit… 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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Please join us for these two workshops about the politics of care. They take place in Grand Parade, and will be catered. All welcome. Please distribute widely. Dr. Lucile Richard is a queer political theorist of feminist care politics, who… Continue Reading →
CfP for the inaugural workshop of the AHRC Wellbeing State network Counterstrategies to authoritarianism: toward a politics of well-being? Vienna, 4 – 5 October 2024 There is increasing concern in political circles, the media, and academia, about the rise of… Continue Reading →
Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics & Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender Trans Liberation, and the Fight Against Transphobia Jules Gleeson & Elle O’Rourke Thursday 13th June | 4pm to 6pm | University of Brighton, Grand Parade, Room… Continue Reading →
Radical Disability Politics A Global Dialogue 7th June 2024, 10:00-18:30, Zoom This event is free, and all sessions will include BSL interpretation and live captions Disablement structures contemporary societies; both as grounds (and barriers) to welfare provision, and as… Continue Reading →
Rethinking the Political: Narrative, Protest and Fiction in the 21st Century The conference programme and abstract booklet can be found here Date: Monday 9th – Wednesday 11th of September 2024 Location: Room M2 and G4 58-76 Grand Parade, University… Continue Reading →
Please email CAPPE’s PGR Representative, Natasha Kennedy, at N.Kennedy2@brighton.ac.uk for any questions.
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 Critical Theory Reading Group Aesthetics, Politics and Anti-Oedipus in the 21st century. This CAPPE reading group is open to staff, research students and colleagues around the world interested in contemporary politics, philosophy, ethics and critical theory. Each semester… Continue Reading →
Dear colleagues, Research and Knowledge Exchange Week will be taking place 25th March- 28th March 2024. All events can be booked through the booking form in the link. Please see below an invite to our Showcase event: On Wednesday 27… 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 →
CAPPE is hosting two bid writing workshops across March and May. These are dedicated sessions to work on bids with tailored advice from the bid-support team. March Session- half a day session on writing bids, and funding opportunities Location: Grand Parade… Continue Reading →
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 accessibility requirements. February, 28th Disability, Social Construction, and the Disappearing Body Liam Livesley Please join… Continue Reading →
Join us for a re-design of the CAPPE Reading Groups, directed by the PGR membership. Please see below for details of the weekly sessions and get in touch if you would like to facilitate. Monday 5th February: X Tuesday… Continue Reading →
Please see an invitation on behalf of the University of Cambridge, with Mark Devenney: We are delighted to be able to invite you to the inaugural event of the new Faculty Research Seminar series: Cultural Production and Social Justice. The… Continue Reading →
Temporalities of Refusal Symposium 29th- 30th May, Frederick Douglass Centre, Newcastle Helix Square. Please see here for all the information for this symposium, including programme of events. Temporalities of Refusal is a two-day symposium inviting scholars from across the humanities to… 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 →
In November CAPPE welcomed Dr Marianna Griffini (Northeastern University, London) to introduce her new book on the Italian Populist Right and the Politics of Coloniality with a workshop and lecture at the University of Brighton. After the election of Gert… Continue Reading →
