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SWIP UK (Society for Women in Philosophy) Annual Conference 2016 organised in collaboration with CAPPE Thursday 16–Friday 17 June 2016 In the current context of austerity, growing levels of inequality, insecurity and injustice mean that many around the globe are forced… Continue Reading →
January to June 2016 This research seminar hosted by CAPPE and the College of Arts and Humanities is aimed at staff and research students interested in contemporary politics, philosophy, ethics and critical theory. Each year we focus on different issues… Continue Reading →
17 May 2016 Convergence around a broad alliance of the left has troubled socialist, communist, anarchist and other organisations since the 19th Century. Often, the divisions amongst the left are far more visible and audible than the factors that might… Continue Reading →
30th April 2016 In recent years the notion of immunity has been extended from its place in the biological sciences to the terrain of politics and society. In this context the conceptualisation of the body is central, whether this be… Continue Reading →
February – April 2016 | Reading Group with Sam Chambers Wednesday 24th of February, 10.30-13.00, Pavilion Parade Wednesday 2nd of March, 10.30-13.00, Pavilion Parade Wednesday 27th of April, 10.30-13.00, Pavilion Parade The Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics welcomes… Continue Reading →
February – April 2016 | Workshop series with Professor Sam Chambers 22 February 2016 Introducing Key Arguments in Queers Theory: Halperin, Butler and Warner. 7 March 2016 The Queering of Critique 19 April 2016 Contemporary Debates in Queer Theory and… Continue Reading →
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 →
Stefan Collini, University of Cambridge 1 March 2016 Abstract: The long tradition of writing on ‘the idea of the university’ functions as a form of cultural criticism: current practices and policies are read symptomatically as evidence of deeper failings in… Continue Reading →
Howard Hotson, University of Oxford 2 February 2016 Abstract: For over two thousand years, the Western intellectual tradition has been sustained by aspirations, assumptions, ideas, and values ultimately grounded in widely shared conceptions of the human condition. The dilemma… Continue Reading →
John Holmwood 19 January 2016 Abstract: The ‘provoking cause’ of this lecture is the neo-liberal reconstruction of the university that is occurring across different national contexts, but perhaps especially in the UK and US. Whereas the university was previously understood… Continue Reading →
David Eastwood, Birmingham University Question Time 19 January 2016 Speaker: Professor Sir David Eastwood became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham in April 2009. Previously, he was Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), a post… Continue Reading →
Jo Williams 5 January 2016 Abstract: Once, scholars demanded academic freedom to critique existing knowledge and to pursue new truths. Today, while fondness for the rhetoric of academic freedom remains, the concept itself is increasingly criticised as outdated and elitist…. Continue Reading →
10th-11th December 2015 The year 2015 marks the thirtieth anniversary of Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain. In this seminal text, Scarry offers a radical and original thesis on the relationship between embodiment, pain, wounding and imagining, arguing that pain… Continue Reading →
David Salomon 8 December 2015 Abstract: The idea of the university in Germany is closely connected to Wilhelm von Humboldt’s “Neuhumanismus” and his conception of “Bildung”. According to this classical idea of the university, the freedom of “Wissenschaft” implies political… 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 →
1st December 2015 | Old Courtroom, Brighton
Elizabeth Nixon and Richard Scullion 24 November 2015 Abstract: Intensifying marketization across Higher Education (HE) in the UK continues to generate critical commentary on the potentially devastating consequences of market logic for pedagogy. In this lecture, we consider the student-consumer… Continue Reading →
Bob Brecher, University of Brighton 10 November 2015 Abstract: I argue that to understand the neo-liberals’ ideological agenda for our universities, we need to try to get clear about some of its realities, and in particular two: its ideological commitment… Continue Reading →
David Willetts 13 October 2015 Abstract: David Willetts will analyse the different roles of the modern university and the different types of benefits they bring. He will argue that universities do bring substantial economic benefits but that these are… Continue Reading →
Miriam David 27 October 2015 Abstract: I discuss recent developments in HE and those in feminist critiques of the disciplines and their pedagogies and practices, particularly in the social sciences with a focus on sociology and education. I will also… Continue Reading →
8th October 2015 | University of Buenos Aires Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics & Ethics (CAPPE) (University of Brighton), Catedra Ernesto Laclau, (University of Buenos Aires) and the British Academy International Subjects and Emancipations within the Post-Marxist Field The “International… Continue Reading →
Wednesday 2 – Friday 4 September 2015 10th Annual, International, Interdisciplinary Conference Keynote Speaker: Owen Hatherley The idea of utopia was always been two faced. On the one hand it was the place that is no place (u-topos) – the… 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 →
4-5 December 2015 This conference celebrated the life and work of Ernesto Laclau, who died in April 2014. Originally from Argentina, his ideas about radical democracy and populism influenced grassroots activists, thinkers and politicians from Latin America’s new left to… Continue Reading →
Michèle Barrett, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Tuesday 10th March 2015 Feminist theory of the1970s-80s included a specifically socialist-feminist approach, which is currently being looked at again. Michèle Barrett’s Women’s Oppression Today has recently been republished with a new… Continue Reading →
