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Event Report | John Bercow: Modern Politics & Democracy, November 2019

          “This university has been acclaimed for it’s teaching and innovative approach to research, of which the Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics is a stellar example. It is pioneering in choosing to focus on… Continue Reading →

Event Report | Bodies on the move: Responses and Reflections

Bodies on the Move was a public workshop exploring the experience of migration through film and movement. Part of the Brighton Fringe Festival’s Migration and Refugee Film Festival and hosted by the University of Brighton’s Centre for Spatial, Environmental and… Continue Reading →

CRITICAL CARE: Architecture & Urbanism for a Broken Planet

How architecture and urbanism can help to care for and repair a broken planet: essays and illustrated case studies. Today, architecture and urbanism are capital-centric, speculation-driven, and investment-dominated. Many cannot afford housing. Austerity measures have taken a disastrous toll on public… Continue Reading →

Event | Extracting Us – photo exhibition and action research

Looking Differently: Feminism, Politics and Coal Extraction Exhibition, film screening, talk, workshop Extracting Us is a photo exhibition and invitation to action through cross-national accountability hosted at ONCA Gallery from the 11th to 21th July 2019. The events seek to… Continue Reading →

Event | Join us: ‘Connecting young people and local nature’ symposium

The two-day event – ‘Connecting children and teenagers with local nature: UK research showcase and networking event’ – is co-organised by the University of Brighton’s Dr Rachel White (member of the Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics) and Royal… Continue Reading →

Event | Imagine alternative futures in the System Change HIVE

You are warmly invited to attend a Participatory Open Session for the System Change HIVE Arts Council funded project on Wednesday 15 May 4-6pm, Edward Street, University of Brighton. System Change HIVE, are a Brighton-based collective of young and established… Continue Reading →

Event | Bodies on the move: on screen and in the street

Workshop organised as part of the Brighton Fringe Festival May 29th, Sallis Benney Theatre, 4-7pm Join performance artist Claudia Kappenberg in an investigation into the experience of migration throught film and movement. Responding to audio-visual material, we’ll ask how we… Continue Reading →

Event Report | A closing space for civil society? A report on a roundtable discussion on the criminalisation of dissent in Britain (and beyond), by Francesca Kilpatrick

  On 1 March 2019, the Centre for Spatial, Environmental, and Cultural Politics (SECP) at the University of Brighton, financially supported by the British Society of Criminology, hosted a seminar and roundtable discussion entitled Criminalising Dissent: A Closing Space for… Continue Reading →

Event | Call for Participants: Criminalising Dissent: A Closing Space for Civil Society?

  Call for Participants Criminalising Dissent: A Closing Space for Civil Society? Seminar and roundtable Friday 1 March 2019, University of Brighton, Falmer campus The criminalisation of protest is a growing and worrying trend across the world. While in North… Continue Reading →

Event | Vegan Narratives and Storytelling: A Critical Assessment in the Spaces of ‘Post-Activism’ Workshop

Co-hosted and co-funded by MeCCSA, Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics and the University of ReadingUniversity of Brighton, Friday 7th December 2018 Over the last few years, veganism as a diet and practice has increasingly become part of mainstream… Continue Reading →

Event | CFP: Human and non-human migration and mobility symposium

Migration and Mobility Programme SECP Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics University of Brighton, 25 March 2019 CFP deadline: 20 January 2018 Migrations and mobility related to conflicts, large-scale urbanization, climate-change, environmental degradation, and vast economic inequalities between the… Continue Reading →

Event Report | Collaborative Future Fictions

The Collaborative Future Fictions symposium celebrated the culmination of a series of workshops that ran from November 2017 to May 2018. It was an afternoon and evening of workshops, presentations and performance that continued to explore sym-fictions and speculative and… Continue Reading →

Event Recording | Infrastructures for Troubled Times Symposium – afterthoughts

A day of questions, conversations, and creative interventions On June 6th, an interdisciplinary group of early career researchers and doctoral students were invited to join a one-day symposium at 68 Middle Street in Brighton. The event focused on questions of… Continue Reading →

Event Report | Virtual Reality and Heritage – SECP/Wired Sussex Meetup

On 18th May 2018 Wired Sussex held their 13th VR Meetup in the Fusebox, and the evening was sponsored by SECP. Centre member Abigail Wincott spoke about a new research project to explore the potential of sound-only virtual/mixed reality for… Continue Reading →

Event | Infrastructures for Troubled Times – Programme

Symposium programme (registration link, general information and directions here) Printable version with full abstracts 09:30  Registration opens 10:00  Introduction and Opening talk Infrastructures for  an Elemental Commons, Prof. Derek McCormack, University of Oxford. Discussant: Dr. Leila Dawney, University of Brighton… Continue Reading →

Event | Infrastructures for Troubled Times – Symposium

Early Career and Doctoral Researcher Symposium Wednesday 6 June 2018, 9:30-17:30, 68 Middle Street, Brighton Keynote: Derek McCormack, University of Oxford Discussant: Leila Dawney, University of Brighton Hosted by the Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics & Responsible Futures…. Continue Reading →

Event Report | Through Mud and Concrete: reflections and refractions on doing collaborative doctoral research

SECP Doctoral candidates E.K. Moover (aka Elona Hoover and Kate Monson) co-presenting at the RGS-IGB Postgraduate Forum Mid-Term Conference 18-20 April 2018 The sun was set to shine for each of the three days of the 2018 RGS-IBG Postgraduate Forum… Continue Reading →

Event | Sound Reasoning: Student Masterclass & a Public Talk

Sound Reasoning: a journey through the soundscapes and landscapes of Britain’s Reggae Sound Systems. Two seminars hosted by the Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics Tuesday 15 May 2018 University of Brighton, Room 102, Edward Street (City Campus) With… Continue Reading →

Event | CfC – Infrastructures for Troubled Times

Call for contributions for an Early Career and Doctoral Researcher Symposium – Infrastructures for Troubled Times, June 6th 2018, at University of Brighton. Keynote: Derek McCormack, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. Discussant: Leila Dawney, School of Environment… Continue Reading →

Event Recording | The Empathy Machine: Virtual reality, iAnimal and the techno-biopolitics of witnessing

Research Seminar Wed 13 December 2017 12:00 – 13:30 GMT Watts Building, Room 509 Brighton BN2 4GJ Lewes Road Brighton BN2 4GJ The Empathy Machine: Virtual reality, iAnimal and the techno-biopolitics of witnessing Professor Michael Goodman, University of Reading –… Continue Reading →

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