CISRUL Updates

Our conference on Council democracy as an alternative to representative democracy is now open for registration on Eventbrite

The inaugural conference of Arendt in Aberdeen 2022-24 series, Council democracy as an alternative to representative democracy is now open to registration on Eventbrite. The conference will be held at … Continue reading Our conference on Council democracy as an alternative to representative democracy is now open for registration on Eventbrite

Conference programme and registration: Council democracy as an alternative to representative democracy*

*Inaugural Conference of Arendt in Aberdeen 2022-24 series. Location: Seminar Room 224, Sir Duncan Rice Library, Second Floor, University of Aberdeen, Date and time: June 23 @ 9:00 am – June 24 @ 3:00 pm Registration … Continue reading Conference programme and registration: Council democracy as an alternative to representative democracy*

Conceptualising Community

Conference & PhD summer school Keynote speakers: Gerald Taylor Aiken (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research), Dilar Dirik (University of Oxford), and Bonnie Honig (Brown University) Applications now open until 15 February 2022. Please click here for more information about … Continue reading Conceptualising Community

Regulatory Waves: Outcomes from the Project on Comparative Perspectives on State Regulation and Self-Regulation Policies in the Nonprofit Sector

Speaker: Professor Oonagh B. Breen, Sutherland School of Law, University College DublinSeminar organised by CISRUL PhD Student Domenico Carolei Date: 9 February 2018Time: 12:00Place: EWF61 OverviewWith the advent of the new millennium there has … Continue reading Regulatory Waves: Outcomes from the Project on Comparative Perspectives on State Regulation and Self-Regulation Policies in the Nonprofit Sector

Engaging Authority: Citizenship and Political Community

Citizenship is often glossed as membership of political community, yet there is surprisingly little discussion of what is meant by political community and what membership in it entails. Scholars have often treated citizenship in liberal terms as an expansive set of rights, which citizens as nationals claim from states. Yet citizenship and the political community it entails need not be centred on liberal rights, nor nation, nor democracy.

Impressions from the Inter-Disciplinary Conference “Decolonising Political Concepts”

From 19 to 20 September 2019 CISRUL hosted the inter-disciplinary conference “Decolonising Political Concepts” organized by Marie Wuth and Valentin Clavé-Mercier. The conference featured presentations by academics from the Americas, … Continue reading Impressions from the Inter-Disciplinary Conference “Decolonising Political Concepts”

Egypt prepares to hail former army chief as president – once the election is out of the way

Original article here. In May 2012, Egypt’s first democratic presidential election set an important precedent in a troubled transition process. At the time, there was no constitution, no clarity on the president’s … Continue reading Egypt prepares to hail former army chief as president – once the election is out of the way