The best way of learning about our activities is through reading the summaries of presentations and discussion at our recent events such as Decolonising Political Concepts (2019), Conceptualizing “Political” (2019), Radical Democratic Citizenship Conference (2018), Radicalism and the Civil Sphere (2017), Radical Protest in Constitutional Democracy (2016), Political Community 2 (2014), Political Community 1 (2013), and What Civil? What Society? (2012).
Recent events
Talking Difference: Episode 4 with Anya Topolski
February 5
Moderated by Beth Lord
Organized by Sophie Lauwers & Fredericke Weiner
Beyond the Populist Hype
January 13-15, Online Workshop
Organized by Stephan Ritscher & Daniel Matthews-Ferrero
Talking Difference: Episode 3 with Jane Gordon
December 9 – Recording available here
Moderated by Nadia Kiwan
Organized by Sophie Lauwers & Fredericke Weiner
Genealogies of Human Difference
November 26, Reading Group
Marie Wuth
Methodologies 2: Positionality & Reflexivity
November 18, Seminar Series
Maxim van Asseldonk & Jorg Meurkes
Community series: Nostalgia and Utopia
October 28
Michael Brown & Fredericke Weiner
Difference and Euromodernity
October 21, Reading Group
Stephan Ritscher
Methodologies 1: Fieldwork & Interviews
October 9, Seminar Series
Valentin Clavé-Mercier
Talking Difference: Episode 2 with Gurpreet Mahajan
1 September – Recording available here
Moderated by Trevor Stack and Tamas Gyorfi
Organized by Sophie Lauwers & Fredericke Weiner
Semester 2, Reading seminar 5: Populism
16 June
Stephan Ritscher & Daniel Matthews-Ferrero
Episode 1: Talking Difference with Lewis R. Gordon
10 June – Recording available here
Moderated by Ritu Vij
Organized by Sophie Lauwers & Fredericke Weiner
Semester 2, Reading seminar 4: Conceptualizing Difference
26 May
Sophie Lauwers & Fredericke Weiner
Semester 2, Reading seminar 3: Secularism
12 May
PhD Presentations
Session I 14 April 2020
Session II 28 Apr
Session III 5 May
Semester 2, Reading seminar 2: Revisiting the Postmodern
19 February 2020
Semester 2, Reading seminar 1: Gramsci’s cultural hegemony
29 January 2020
Bisrat Kabeta
Arendt’s Cases of Council Democracy
12 December
Hosted by Hanifi Baris
Unpacking the Gig Economy
12 November
Movie Screening and Discussion
Co-organized by the Sociology Society and Vicky Kluzik
POLITICO Seminars 2019-2020
Wednesday, 2 October
Wednesday, 30 October
Wednesday, 5 December
Hosted by Nadia Kiwan and Andrea Teti
The Ghost of Hitler in South Africa
24 September
Roudtable discussion with Shirli Gilbert and John de Gruchy
Co-hosted by CISRUL and the Divinity Department
Decolonising Political Concepts
19 & 20 September
Hosted by CISRUL
Conceptualizing “Political”
13 – 16 June
Workshop and PhD summer school
Hosted by CISRUL
Political Theory Seminar
16 May
Hosted by Tamas Gyorfi
Conceptualizing “Political” workshop prep reading seminar
2 May
Hosted by Trevor Stack
Political Theory Seminar on Democracy
18 April
Hosted by Tamas Gyorfi
Rhetoric of Critique reading-based seminar
28 March
Hosted by Trevor Stack
Politico PhD Presentations
27 March
Hosted by Trevor Stack
Trying to Establish a European Identity by Politics of History: A New EU Strategy
25 March
Hosted by Karin Friedrich
Guest Speaker Stefan Troebst
Political Theory Seminar on Equality and Justice
7 March
Hosted By Tamas Gyorfi
Liberty and Rights
24 January 2019
Reading-based Political Theory Seminar
Hosted by Tamas Gyorfi
Approaches to Political Concepts
10 – 11 January 2019
CISRUL/POLITICO Training Workshop
Hosted by Michael Brown
State and sovereignty
29 November 2018
Reading-based Political Theory Seminar
Hosted by Tamas Gyorfi
Citizen Participation in Contexts of Crime-Related Violence and Institutional Fragility
22-23 November 2018
ESRC-funded Workshop
Hosted by Trevor Stack and CISRUL
Citizens beyond corruption and crime: The case of Mexico
13 November 2018
Co-Hosted by Trevor Stack and Irene Álvarez, Irán Guerrero, Denisse Román and Ariadna Sánchez
The “Civil Society” Concept
CISRUL/POLITICO Workshop
12 November 2018
Hosted by Bisrat Kabeta and Domenico Carolei
Authoritarian Practices Beyond the State
CISRU/POLITICO Seminar with Marlies Glasius (University of Amsterdam)
7 November 20018
Hosted by Trevor Stack and Claire Wallace, co-hosted with Politics and International Relations
Authority and Legitimacy
First Reading-based Political Theory Seminar
25 October 2018
Hosted by Tamas Gyorfi
The Power(s) of Global Constitutionalism
CISRU/POLITICO Seminar with Anthony Lang (University of St Andrews)
10 October 2018
Hosted by Tamas Gyorfi Co-Hosted with School of Law