Selected events
Public Lecture Series
Public Lecture Series 2017-19: Social Movements and Radical Politics
Public Lecture Series 2017-18: Thinking the Politics of ‘Race’
Public Lecture Series 2016-2017: The Politics of Sex and Gender
Public Lectures Series 2015-16: What should universities be?
Public Lecture Series 2014-15: Discrimination in Everyday Life
Public Lecture Series 2013-14: Neoliberalism
Public Lecture Series 2012-13: Dangerous Ideas: Rethinking the Politics of Critique
Public Lecture Series 2011-12: Democracy, Climate Change and Capitalism Lecture Series
Public Lecture Series 2010-11: Democracy in Crisis Lecture Series
Public Lecture Series 2009-10: Public Controversies
Conferences
The Radical Sixties: Aesthetics, Politics and Histories of Solidarity
28 Jun 2019 9:00am – 29 Jun 2019 5:00pm
Grand Parade & The Old Courtroom, University of Brighton
ICCTP Conference | Critical Theories in and Global Context
23 – 25 Jan 2019
Edward Street, University of Brighton
CAPPE Conference | Empire, Capital, & Transnational Resistance
13 – 15 Sep 2017
Grand Parade Campus, University of Brighton
CAPPE Conference | Giving Life To Politics: The Work of Adriana Cavarero
19 – 21 Jun 2017
Edward Street, University of Brighton
CAPPE Conference | Radical Interventions: Politics, Culture, Society
7 – 9 Sep 2016
Grand Parade, University of Brighton
SWIP UK Annual Conference: Precarity: Passion, Rage, Reason
16 – 17 Jun 2016
Grand Parade, University of Brighton
Immunity, Health and the Body Politic
30 Apr 2016
Bramber House, University of Sussex
CAPPE Conference | Utopias
2 – 4 Sep 2015
Grand Parade, University of Brighton
CAPPE Conference | Human Rights and Health Care at the Bleeding Edge
9 – 10 Jan 2015
Grand Parade, University of Brighton
CAPPE Workshop | Philosophy Study Day
26 Sep 2014
The Old Courtroom & Pavilion Parade, University of Brighton
CAPPE Conference | Neoliberalism and Everyday Life
3 – 5 Sep 2014
Grand Parade, University of Brighton
CAPPE Conference | Why Charity? The Politics and Ethics of Charity
7 – 8 Jul 2014
Grand Parade, University of Brighton
CAPPE Symposium | Protest and the University of Brighton
10 May 2014
M2, Grand Parade, University of Brighton
CAPPE Conference | Conflict, Revolt and Democracy in the Neoliberal World
7 – 8 Nov 2013
Grand Parade, University of Brighton
CAPPE Conference | Representation, Politics and Violence
11 – 13 Sep 2013
Grand Parade, University of Brighton
CAPPE Conference | Convention for Higher Education
24 – 25 May 2013
Grand Parade, University of Brighton
CAPPE Conference | Thinking the political: The work of Ernesto Laclau
10 – 12 Apr 2013
Grand Parade, University of Brighton
CAPPE Workshop | Who is the Democratic Agent?
1 – 2 Mar 2013
Ghent University, Belgium
CAPPE Conference | Britain Tortures Too conference
15 – 16 Feb 2013
Amnesty International UK, London
CAPPE Conference | Riot, Revolt, Revolution
5 – 7 Sep 2012
University of Brighton
CAPPE Conference | The Problem of “Dirty Hands” in UK Universities
26 – 27 Mar 2012
University of Brighton
CAPPE Workshop | Lessons for the Left
20 Jan 2012
University of Brighton
CAPPE Conference | The “9/11” Decade: Rethinking Reality
31Aug – 2 Sep 2011
Grand Parade, University of Brighton
Organ Transplants: Beyond ‘Opting in or Opting Out’?
25 Mar 2011
University of Sussex
CAPPE Conference | Politics of Fear; Fear of Politics
15 – 17 Sep 2010
Grand Parade, University of Brighton
CAPPE Workshop | J. S. Mill and the Left
11 Jun 2010
Grand Parade, University of Brighton
CAPPE Conference | The Politics of Space and Place
16 – 18 Sep 2009
Grand Parade, University of Brighton
CAPPE Conference | What’s the Big Deal about Democracy?
8 – 10 Sep 2008
Grand Parade, University of Brighton
CAPPE Conference | Interrogating Terror
12 – 14 Sep 2007
Grand Parade, University of Brighton
Inaugural Conference: Medicine and the Body Politic
21 – 22 Sep 2006
Falmer Campus, University of Brighton
Re-engaging Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain
10 – 11 Dec 2015
Grand Parade, University of Brighton
Research Seminars & Workshops
CAPPE hosts regular workshops on political, ethical, philosophical concerns. Recent examples include: complicity and the problem of ‘dirty hands’; the politics and ethics of charity; populist politics; protest; conflict, revolt and democracy in a neoliberal world; the work of Ernesto Laclau; the Convention for Higher Education; Adam Smith’s lessons for the Left; Italian biopolitics and feminism and the populist politics of Spain and Greece.
Parrhesia & Public Life: Truth and the Origins of Society
17 Oct 2017 11:00am-1:00pm
Pavilion Parade 103
Parrhesia & Public Life: Classical Texts & Philosophy
10 Oct 2017 11:00am-1:00pm
Pavilion Parade 103
CAPPE Workshop | Writing-Ethics/Ethics of Writing
7 Dec 2016 2:00pm-5:00pm
Pavilion Parade, G7
CAPPE Workshop | Rethinking Emancipation(s)
10 Jun 2016 10:00am-5:30pm
Grand Parade, G56
CAPPE Workshop | Left-Wing Convergence
17 – 18 May 2016
Dorset Place, 402
The Future of Queer Theory Workshop with Sam Chambers (Session 3)
19 Apr 2016 4:00pm-6:00pm
Room 103, Pavilion Parade
Workshop with Professor Jodi Dean
19 Mar 2016 10:00am-4:00pm
Pavilion Parade
Public Workshops | The Politics of Populism
17 – 19 Mar 2016
University of Brighton, Grand Parade
The Future of Queer Theory Workshop with Sam Chambers (session 2)
7 Mar 2016 4:00pm-6:00pm
Room 103, Pavilion Parade
The Future of Queer Theory Workshop with Sam Chambers (Session 1)
22 Feb 2016 4:00pm-6:00pm
Room 103, Pavilion Parade
CAPPE Public Workshop | Understanding Radical Politics Today
3 Dec 2015 2:00pm
Basement, Pavilion Parade
Theorising Transnational Politics | Project Launch
8 Oct 2015 9:00am-6:00pm
University of Buenos Aires
CAPPE Workshop | Critical Theory & Photography | Martin Jay
27 Jun 2015 10:00am-5:30pm
G4, Grand Parade
CAPPE Workshop | Philosophy as a Way of Life | Simon Critchley
20 May 2015 – 22nd May 2015
Grand Parade, University of Brighton
CAPPE Workshop | Populism, Neoliberalism, and the Challenge to Debt Society in Greece | Yannis Stavrakakis
28 Jan 2015 10:00am-5:00pm
The Board Room, Grand Parade
CAPPE Workshop | Political Representation | Lisa Disch
7 and 12 November 2014
CAPPE research workshop with Professor Lisa Disch
