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Universities as Shapeshifters

Julia Goodfellow, University of Kent 8 March 2016 Abstract: Universities are among the world’s most enduring institutions. Longevity has been associated with both enduring values, in the provision of education and the enlargement of knowledge, and sometimes radical changes in… Continue Reading →

Public Lecture Series 2009-10: Democracy in Crisis

4th Nov 2009, Ted Honderich, Humanity, Terrorism, Terrorist War: A Philosophical Perspective Analytic philosophy, a concentration on ordinary logic, has a part to play in the division of labour on large questions of right and wrong. Should it take help… Continue Reading →

The Politics of Space and Place. CAPPE international conference 2009

Wednesday 16 – Friday 18 September 2009 The publication from the conference The Politics of Space and Place (2012) is available free online. Summary of the conference  Building on the success of CAPPE’s previous annual conferences, this year’s was bigger… Continue Reading →

Ethics and the Public Use of Images of War

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 →

What’s the Big Deal about Democracy? CAPPE international conference 2008

Monday 8th – Wednesday 10th September 2008 It is widely assumed that it is simply self-evident that democracy is the best system of government that anyone has yet devised: admittedly imperfect, but better than anything else. But why? What exactly… Continue Reading →

Interrogating Terror. CAPPE international conference 2007

12-14 September 2007 Where once it was the ‘Cold War’ whose ideological demands and material determinations shaped the structures, priorities and directions of all our lives, today it is the ‘War on Terrorism’. ‘The End of History,’ the death of… Continue Reading →

Torture and Terror: Ethics, Politics and the “War on Terror”

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 →

Medicine and the Body Politic. CAPPE inaugural conference 2006.

21st Sep 2006 – 22nd Sep 2006 CAPPE’s inaugural, international, interdiscipinary conference addressed the politics of medicine, of health and of bodies in relation to contemporary political systems. It was concerned in particular with: the ethical and political consequences of… Continue Reading →

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