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The Cases of Rojava, Chiapas and Cherán Dr. Hanifi Baris Seminar, Friday 30 April at 2 - 3.30 pm via Zoom Please email hanifi.baris@abdn.ac.uk to request the Zoom link. Dr. Hanifi Baris Dr Baris will present the results of the first 18 months of his Leverhulme Fellowship on experiments of council democracy launched by Kurdish … Continue reading Council democracy as a mode of autonomy

From 13 till 16 April 2021 CISRUL is hosting the online conference 'Conceptualizing Difference' which will bring together scholars across disciplines to reflect on the concept of difference and its relevance for today's academic and political landscape. To read more about the conference click here. The conference programme, including the book of abstracts can be … Continue reading Conference ‘Conceptualizing Difference’ Programme and Registration Links Published

https://www.cnam-network.cahss.ed.ac.uk/citizenship-in-pandemic-times/ CISRUL is co-sponsoring this online conference on "Citizenship in Pandemic Times" with Wayne State University's Center for the Study of Citizenship and Edinburgh University's Citizens, Nations and Migration (CNaM) Network. Abstracts are due by 31 March!

From 13 till 15 January CISRUL is hosting an online workshop bringing together scholars working on populism and related themes to reflect on their own work and its relation to populist hype. Check out the links below for the full schedule and the book of participants' abstracts. To join as an audience member please use … Continue reading Beyond the Populist Hype Workshop Schedule

CISRUL is proud to announce a new series of seven (online) seminars to be held between October 2020 and June 2021. The seminars will focus on the role of methodologies, research design and on how we approach our research objects/subjects more broadly. It is based on an initiative by CISRUL's current cohort of PhD students … Continue reading New Seminar Series: Methodologies (in) Conversations

We have extended the call for abstracts for the Beyond the Populist Hype workshop taking place 14-15 January 2021 at the University of Aberdeen. The new deadline is 12 August 2021. This workshop seeks to bring together scholars working on populism or related themes to reflect on their own work and its relation to populist … Continue reading Deadline Extended: CfA “Beyond the Populist Hype

Brian Brock has recently published a new book, Wondrously Wounded: Theology, Disability, and the Body of Christ (Baylor University Press, 2019). He discussed it in a video interview with Australian blogger Liam Miller (Love - Rinse/Repeat). The video can also be accessed directly on YouTube. You can also find excellent video material of Brian's appearance … Continue reading Brian Brock on his new book

CISRUL is excited to announce a workshop on populism in January 2021! The workshop will focus on the Populist Hype that enthralled many Western countries in recent years. While the populist wave may have ebbed away and appear like a relict of a distant past, many populists such as Donald Trump or Rodrigo Duterte are … Continue reading Call for Abstracts: Beyond the Populist Hype