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Higher Education – What it is for, and how to defend it? Towards a Charter for Higher Education in the UK Friday 24 and Saturday 25 May 2013 Edited highlights of the speeches can be viewed, see below. Organised by… 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 →
Wednesday 10 – Friday 12 April 2013 For over 40 years Ernesto Laclau’s work has consistently, almost obstinately, sought to rethink the status of the political. This conference reflected on the theoretical debates inspired by these interventions, revisiting older debates,… 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 →
Friday 15 and Saturday 16 February 2013 Venue: Amnesty International UK, London Jointly organised by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics & Ethics, University of Brighton, and The Rendition Project, Universities of Kent and Kingston, this two-day conference for activists,… Continue Reading →
Wednesday 5th – Friday 7th September 2012 It is very rare for societies or institutions to change unless they are confronted by specific forms of resistance. This conference investigates those moments of historical change when existing orders are put into… Continue Reading →
26th – 27th March 2012 University of Brighton Following the News International phone-hacking scandal, questions have been raised about the propriety of accepting funding for Chairs such as the Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication at Oxford University. But… Continue Reading →
6.30-8pm, Tuesday 6th of March 2012 This talk is inspired by Professor Douzinas’s recent work on the crisis in Greece, and by his time in Athens during recent months. Professor Douzinas has been an outspoken critic of the Greek bailout,… Continue Reading →
6.30pm, Tuesday 21st of February, 2012 M57, Grand Parade Professor Franklin will talk about changes in the definition of biological materiality, as a consequence of developments in synthetic biology and regenerative medicine. She relates this to debates about bio-capital drawing on… Continue Reading →
6.30 pm, Tuesday 7th of February 2012 In this talk I criticise liberal theories of debate and deliberation for their formalism and for their suspicion of common opinion, ‘doxa’. I contrast them with the rhetorical approach, paying particular attention to… Continue Reading →
6.30 pm, Tuesday 7th of February 2012 2011 may well be remembered as the year of resistance. The uprisings of the Arab Spring, the movement of indignados in Spain and Mexico, the Aganaktismenoi in Greece and the Occupy actions are… Continue Reading →
6.30 pm, Tuesday 24th of January, 2012 Confronted with the agitation in what is incorrectly designated as the Arab world, and with the revolutionary events in Tunisia and Egypt, many radical thinkers who long defended revolutionary politics, against those who… 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 →
6.30pm, 6 December 2011 This paper first explores why contemporary critical theory might be considered less engaged than formerly, and revisits older traditions of critical thinking – notably, the early Frankfurt School and existential phenomenology. These authors associated social criticism… Continue Reading →
6.30pm, 8 November 2011 The recent financial crisis has witnessed the resurgence of anti-capitalist politics, and a wide ranging debate about either reform or overthrow of the existing system. This paper develops a critique of post-Marxist political philosophy, insisting that… Continue Reading →
25th Oct 2011 6:30pm ‘Max Stirner’s ‘Ethics of Voluntary Inservitude’ is the author of From Bakunin to Lacan: Anti-authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power (2001), Power and Politics in Poststructuralist Thought,(2005), New Theories of the Political (2006), Unstable Universalities: Postmodernity… Continue Reading →
11th Oct 2011 6:30pm Dangerous Ideas challenges engaged intellectuals to think though the extraordinary changes of the past decade. It is an opportunity to explore what engaged critique means for a newly politicised student community, and for a society experiencing… Continue Reading →
Wednesday 31 August – Friday 2 September 2011 It is no exaggeration to claim that the politics of the last decade have their origin in one event: the hijacking and flying of passenger aircraft into the World Trade Centre and… Continue Reading →
6.30pm, 22 November 2011 This paper will examine the status and uses of the crackdown on protest in the UK in recent months. It will examine the ways in which collective subjects are punished by a judiciary that are keen… 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 →
16th Nov 2010, Marek Kohn, Can we rise above a warming planet? Climate change, democracy and human nature If you tried to design a human problem to be as difficult as possible to solve, it would probably look a lot… 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 →
Wednesday 15 – Friday 17 September 2010 Keynote speaker: Joanna Bourke We live in a world that is dominated by fear. We are increasingly afraid to walk in our city streets, populated as they are by feral youths, drug-dealers and… 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 →
The Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE) Public Controversies lecture and debate series provides a forum for critically debating controversial aspects of our contemporary era, with little respect for established ways of thinking. It intends to rub you… 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 →
