Name: Dr Rachel Shanks on ‘Education for democracy: political participation and practice in schools’
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June 2025
Humorous politics: the increasing role of laughter in public affairs

June 2, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm CISRUL Visiting Speakers

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
July 2025
‘What Is a Constitution? Reading Toward a Problem’: Reading Seminar 1

July 7, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm ‘What Is a Constitution? Reading Toward a Problem’

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: “The process of the new OECD/G20-Inclusive Framework international order — a friend or a foe to the developing world?”

July 24, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

OA-Taylor-A08 Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL), University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen

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?”
August 2025
Research Seminar: Temporal Oddities in Conservative Approaches to the British Empire

August 20, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Research Seminar by Dr Tom Bentley (Politics and IR), in Taylor A08 (or on Teams) 'This paper offers an analysis of the deployment of time by conservatives engaged in the defence of the British Empire. Specifically, I capture two alternative conceptions of how conservatives present time. The first, I term the “continuous one nation” approach: there … Continue reading Research Seminar: Temporal Oddities in Conservative Approaches to the British Empire
Dr Rachel Shanks on ‘Education for democracy: political participation and practice in schools’

August 28, 2025 @ 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Taylor A08 or on Teams CISRUL has long had an interest in civic and political education. Dr Rachel Shanks will present a recent article drawing on research that she has conducted in the past decade: 'Education for democracy: political participation and practice in schools.' To be successful, education for citizenship must provide students with opportunities to … Continue reading Dr Rachel Shanks on ‘Education for democracy: political participation and practice in schools’

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