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October – November 2017 A five week seminar on the classics for political theory and philosophy. It will be led by Dr Sara Diaco (PhD Cantab), a visiting CAPPE scholar this term. Dr Diaco will guide our reading and discussion… Continue Reading →
Cathy Bergin, University of Brighton 24 October 2017 The Russian revolution of 1917 is rarely thought about in relation to the black radical tradition yet the impact of Bolshevism on African American and Afro-Caribbean activists was significant. This paper looks… Continue Reading →
13-15 September, 2017 The past decade has witnessed widespread resistance to neoliberalism across the world. Unlike the anti-colonial revolts of the 1950s and 1960s, this resistance has tended either to fizzle out or to be appropriated by states. This conference… Continue Reading →
19-21 June 2017 Keynote speakers: Adriana Cavarero, Judith Butler, Bonnie Honig Adriana Cavarero has been at the forefront of continental feminist philosophy for the past four decades, working in the interstices of sexual difference theory, post-structuralism, political philosophy, literature and… Continue Reading →
15th Jun 2017 This event was part of a British Academy funded project which aims to secure a long-term partnership between Argentinian and UK scholars and research centres concerned with the politics, economics and ideology of populist movements of the… Continue Reading →
February – June 2017 A 17-session seminar series leading to the conference Giving LIfe to Politics: Adrian Cavarero, June 2017 Session 1: Adriana Cavarero – In Spite of Plato Part 2: Wednesday 1st of February, Pavilion Parade, 10.30 – 12.30… Continue Reading →
Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS, University of London 28 March, 2017 My paper attempts to intervene in feminist debates about how to approach and analyse sexual and wider gender-based violence in Iraq specifically and the Middle East more generally. Recognizing the significance… Continue Reading →
Rosalind Gill, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at City, University of London. 21 March 2017 To be self-confident is the new imperative of our time. It is seen in multiple domains: in education, in public health, in finance, in… Continue Reading →
13-20 March 2017 This workshop was part of a British Academy funded project which aims to secure a long-term partnership between Argentinian and UK scholars and research centres concerned with the politics, economics and ideology of populist movements of the… Continue Reading →
Katharine Jenkins, University of Nottingham 7 March 2017 The nature of sexual desire has been a topic of profound interest to feminist theorists for some time, and certainly in the latter half of the 20th century. Yet this body of… Continue Reading →
Lisa Downing, University of Birmingham 21 February 2017 In this talk I examine the place occupied by the freighted concepts of “selfishness” and “selflessness” in the history of feminist thought and politics. After first outlining the feminist critique of the… Continue Reading →
Tom Claes (University of Gent) 7 February 2017 The post WWII era has seen the emergence of a widely embraced human rights discourse and activism. Human rights were later on applied to specific groups and specific sectors, such as… Continue Reading →
November 2016 – January 2017 Session 1: Reading Capital Part 1: Wednesday 30th of November, Pavilion Parade, 10.30-12.30 In preparation for the arrival of Sam Chambers (visiting Leverhulme Professor), who is currently working on Marx’s Capital, we will be reading… Continue Reading →
October 2016 – January 2017 | Reading group and workshop series with Ray Brassier followed by a public lecture The Persistence of Form: Hegel and Psychoanalysis Hegel once remarked that ‘philosophy is its own time comprehended in thought’. Philosophy, for Hegel,… Continue Reading →
5-7 December 2016 This workshop was part of a British Academy funded project which aimed to secure a long-term partnership between Argentinian and UK scholars and research centres concerned with the politics, economics and ideology of populist movements of the… Continue Reading →
7 Dec 2016 | Workshop The standard issues around ‘the ethics of writing’ concern either politically and ethically ‘engaged’ writing; plagiarism; or the presentation of scientific evidence and a range of related technical matters. Our interest is different from both… Continue Reading →
Conny Wächter, Ruhr University, Bochum 6 December, 2016 Transgender politics are suffused with rhetorics of complicity. To name but a few examples, especially in radical feminist and queer circles, trans women are frequently accused of complicity in patriarchal ideology and… Continue Reading →
5th – 6th December 2016 | 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 Under the project “Theorising Transnational Populist Politics” carried… Continue Reading →
Vicky Margree, University of Brighton 22 November 2016 Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex burst onto the feminist scene in 1970 and proved immediately controversial. The book’s key thesis is that the origins of women’s oppression lie in biology: specifically,… Continue Reading →
Paul Reynolds (Edge Hill University) 15 November 2016 Much research that intersections sexual violence, sexual politics and sexual ethics sits on the cornerstone of sexual consent – the ethical ‘golden mean’ of sex. Consent is at the centre of… Continue Reading →
Heather Brunskell-Evans (King’s College, London) 25 October 2016 The narrative of radical sexual politics is that pornography has the potential to liberate individuals from traditional mores and values which repress sexuality. In this view pornographic sex is ‘sex-in-the-raw’ stripped of… Continue Reading →
Arianne Shahvisi, Brighton & Sussex Medical School 11 October 2016 “Pro-choice” has assumed a rhetorical power which over-reaches the moral arguments from which it originates. As the term is co-opted to dovetail with consumer capitalist logics, in line with a… Continue Reading →
Wednesday 7th – Friday 9th September 2016 Ever since the 1970s, it is often claimed, radicalism has been in decline. But has it? Isn’t the neoliberal revolution then initiated itself genuinely radical? To ask this question is to ask, in… Continue Reading →
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 →
