Sabelo Ndwandwe (CISRUL PhD) will lead discussion of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten. In this series of essays, Fred Moten and Stefano Harney draw on the … Continue reading Reading seminar on ‘The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study’
Professor Martyn Percy will present his new book, The crisis of colonial Anglicanism: empire, slavery and revolt in the Church of England, which offers a bold and unsettling truth: the British Empire and Great Britain are primarily English constructions, and the Church of England benefited from English enterprise and exploitation, serving as the spiritual arm of the imperial project. English Anglicanism … Continue reading Professor Martyn Percy on ‘The crisis of colonial Anglicanism: empire, slavery and revolt in the Church of England’
University Court Room and MS Teams Longtime CISRUL associate DR. RAÚL ACOSTA (Goethe University Frankfurt) will talk about his new project NoJoke on political humour, including standup comedy. At a time when polarization is gaining a foothold in political landscapes around the world, humour has become a tool and language for various parties involved. On … Continue reading Humorous politics: the increasing role of laughter in public affairs
CISRUL will lead a series of reading seminars under the title: What Is a Constitution? Reading Toward a Problem. The aim is to create space for thinking about what constitutions do, how they take shape, and how we come to know them. The first seminar will take place on Monday 7 July at 3 pm in Taylor A08 or … Continue reading ‘What Is a Constitution? Reading Toward a Problem’: Reading Seminar 1
Talk by Daisy Mugadza (PhD candidate in Law, CISRUL) In recent times the international tax regime has been impacted by the related issues of Base Erosion and Profit Shifting as … Continue reading Talk by Daisy Mugadza: “The process of the new OECD/G20-Inclusive Framework international order — a friend or a foe to the developing world?”
