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Join us for the Racial Capitalism roundtable, which will take place at 4-5.30 on 12 May. The roundtable will feature four exciting speakers: Ilias Alami, Lisa Tilley and John Narayan as well as our own Charles des Portes. Racial Capitalism Roundtable
On 8th May, CCPT is hosting the Narrating Defeat roundtable with Basma Abdel Aziz and Dina Rezk. The roundtable will address the challenges of telling a story about a failed revolution and explore the ways the absurd as a literary technique can help us narrate defeat in ways that are empowering and sustain a sense...
Join us for an exciting lecture! Professor Catriona McKinnon will speak to us about Postericide: Endangering Humanity as a New International Crime. Have a look at the abstract attached below. Abstract Homo sapiens is in peril: we could make ourselves extinct. The variety and scale of the ‘existential risks’ we presently face as a...
Join us for an exciting lecture! Marco Guglielmo will be presenting his new book The Left and Digital Politics. Please find the flyer attached below. Guglielmo Flyer Digital platforms are more than devices, algorithms and websites. They organise societies through the leadership of platform capitalists and their allies in political institutions. We know that this...
On 17th February, CCPT is hosting a research seminar with Hope Bachmann. Hope will be presenting a chapter from her PhD, which looks at art engagement practices and how they can kindle solidarity with sanctuary seekers. Join us for what promises to be an exciting discussion!
On 6-7 January 2025, CCPT and the Leeds Migration Research Network are hosting an interdisciplinary workshop Responsibility and Reparation for Displacement without Altered Movement. The workshop sessions will examine how normative theoretical approaches to displacement can help to illuminate empirical studies of displacement without altered movement worldwide, and vice versa. Places are limited, so please...
Join us for an exciting discussion of Sam Mace’s new project on Is Minimalistic Democracy Fatally flawed? A Case Study of Hungary!
On 18 November, CCPT is convening a work-in-progress session with Derek Edyvane. Derek will talk about his new paper idea on Civilising the Digital Citizen. Join us!
On 4th November, CCPT is convening a pre-read research seminar on Maša Mrovlje’s new co-authored paper, titled Theorising Feminist Civil Disobedience with Black Lives Matter. All welcome! The paper‘s abstract is attached below: Several political theorists argue that studying civil disobedience movements leads to a theory of civil disobedience that, in contrast to Rawls’ conception,...
This roundtable conversation with Sanaa Seif and Nicola Pratt will address Alaa El-Fattah's book of essays You Have Not Yet Been Defeated, his essayistic and political activism more generally and Sanaa’s campaign for Alaa's release. Both Alaa and Sanaa are prominent British-Egyptian activist involved in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Alaa has been imprisoned since the...