News and Blog

CCPT member, James Souter will be holding a discussion on displacement without movement through the university’s Remaking Places network on 13th May, 1-3pm. For more information please...

Two of our members, Charles des Portes and Paul Geyer, are attending the Historical Materialism conference in Athens this April. Historical Materialism Athens offers a...

CCPT member, Maša Mrovlje talked to Basma Abdel Aziz, an Egyptian writer, psychiatrist, and visual artist. The conversation focused on one of Basma's most famous novels...

CCPT member, Maša Mrovlje is participating in the Philosophy and Politics of Despair international workshop, taking place online on 16 April. All welcome! If interested,...

CCPT member, Dr Kerri Woods is co-organising a Mancept Workshops Panel on New Directions in Human Rights Theory. Please find the Call for Papers attached...

CCPT member, Maša Mrovlje and Jennet Kirkpatrick from Arizona State University are organising a 2025 APSA panel entitled “The Messiness of Feminist Hope.” The panel will...

Yesterday, CCPT hosted the You Have Not Yet Been Defeated roundtable conversation with Sanaa Seif and Nicola Pratt. The discussion focused on Alaa Abd El-Fattah's...

We're excited to share the programme of research events at CCPT this semester. We hope to see many of you there!  

CCPT Pre-Doctoral Mentoring Programme The Centre for Contemporary Political Theory works actively with candidates to support them in pursuit of scholarship funding for doctoral study....

Maša Mrovlje is co-organising (with Professor Jennet Kirkpatrick) an APSA panel on “Feminism, Resistance, Violence”. The panel addresses the ambiguous role of violence in feminist...