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Deconstructing the Sovereign Student

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 →

Universities and the Neoliberal Agenda? 

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 →

What Should Universities Be? 

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 →

Higher Education: a Feminist Critique

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 →

Theorising Transnational Politics | Project Launch, Buenos Aires

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 →

Utopias. CAPPE international conference 2015.

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 →

Workshop | Professor Martin Jay, Critical Theory and Photography

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 →

Rethinking Emancipation(s)

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 →

Philosophy as a way of life: The work of Simon Critchley

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 →

Complicity and Responsibility | Thomas Docherty

Hegemony, Populism and Emancipation: Remembering Ernesto Laclau

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 →

Reflecting on the Marxist/Feminist Encounter in 2014

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 →

“Minimum Distance Guidance”: Charity, Social Cleansing and Neoliberal Geographies of Discrimination

Holly-Gale Millette, University of Southampton, and Marie Billegrav-Bryant, filmmaker  Tuesday 3rd March 2015   This talk considers a marginal people who have, for over 150 years, suffered a falsity of perception and paucity of representation within both the public sphere… Continue Reading →

Does the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities create new rights for disabled people, and will they be realised?  

Tom Shakespeare, University of East Anglia  Tuesday 17th February 2015 The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006) was the first human rights treaty of the twenty-first century, specifying for persons with disabilities all the protections afforded by… Continue Reading →

Populism, Neoliberalism and the Challenge to Debt Society in Greece

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 →

Human rights and health care at the bleeding edge: Human rights, medical ethics and education

9th – 10th January 2015 A physical and tele-conference jointly organised by MEDACT and CAPPE We live in a world where people’s basic human rights are being denied on an extraordinary scale. This raises immediate questions: who should try to… Continue Reading →

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Debt Society and its Discontents

Yannis Stavrakakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece   Tuesday 2nd December 2014 The ongoing economic crisis in Europe and beyond is usually discussed in more or less technocratic ways that fail to register the choreography of discrimination implicit in its hegemonic… Continue Reading →

After Same-Sex Marriage, What Next for LGBTI Rights?  

Peter Tatchell, Peter Tatchell Foundation, UK Tuesday 25th November 2014 Despite having won same-sex marriage and many other gay law reforms, we haven’t yet won full legal equality. In addition, queer-bashing violence and homophobic bullying still exist and over a… Continue Reading →

Political Representation with Professor Lisa Disch

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 →

Understanding “Winner-Take-All” Politics in the US: Unequal Political Representation as Systemic Discrimination

Lisa Disch, University of Michigan    Tuesday 11th November 2014   Abstract The idea “winner take all politics” has emerged among US scholar/public intellectuals as a way of understanding aspolitically driven (not market driven) the tremendous upward redistribution of wealth that has occurred… Continue Reading →

Discrimination in Everyday Life: A Discussion 

Michael Neu and Humanities Students, University of Brighton   Tuesday 28th October 2014   Orsod Malik, “Acknowledging privilege” Phoebe Cooper, “Is social media complicit in everyday discriminatory practices?” Oscar Stafford, “Conscientious objectors in the First World War” Martina Vitartali, “Man, human… Continue Reading →

University of Brighton Philosophy Study Day

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 →

Neoliberalism and Everyday Life. CAPPE international conference 2014

CAPPE 9th Annual, International, Interdisciplinary Conference Wednesday 3rd – Friday 5th September 2014 Keynote speaker: Imogen Tyler Lancaster University, author of Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain “The Stigma Doctrine: neoliberalism in everyday life” Theatre Performance: Dear TINA:… Continue Reading →

The Egalitarian Context of Discrimination

Andrew Vincent, University of Cardiff and University of Sheffield Tuesday 2nd December 2014 Abstract: The Egalitarian Context of Discrimination by Andrew Vincent ‘The lectures investigates the egalitarian context of discrimination, sketching the history of the concept of equality and then… Continue Reading →

Why Charity? The politics and ethics of charity.

7th – 8th July 2014, University of Brighton  “From life-saving emergency responses to life-changing development projects and campaigning, our amazing supporters help make all this possible. There’s more vital work to be done, so get involved today.” Oxfam’s website. “There comes a point… Continue Reading →

Protest and the University of Brighton. A one day symposium

Saturday 10th May 2014 The Critical Studies Research Group (CSRG) and the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE) organised a one day symposium on the topic of ‘Protest and the University of Brighton’. The symposium aimed to offer… Continue Reading →

Ian Parker, The function and field of speech and language in neoliberal education

6.30pm, Tuesday 1 April 2014 Abstract This paper brings aspects of Lacanian psychoanalysis to bear on the development of current neoliberal management strategies in universities. Methodological principles are extracted from Lacan’s 1953 foundational text ‘The Function and Field of Speech… Continue Reading →

Mark Fisher, Libidinal Parasites: Neoliberalism and the Capture of Desire

6.30pm, Tuesday 18 March 2014  Abstract: Neoliberalism must be understood not only as a strategy to decompose the organised working class; it must also be seen as a successful attempt to neutralise and capture the energies that came out of… Continue Reading →

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