All are welcome to join our discussion of: Chapter 6 "Time and History" in Reinhart Koselleck The Practice of Conceptual History: Timing History, Spacing Concepts Here is the chapter: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HbHKOKYF8G44oWQqAFF2ByAs9nXWlI9G/view?usp=sharing.
My longstanding research on citizenship as focused on the exercise of political authority, and specifically on how and when the governed engage and are engaged in the exercise of authority over them, to the extent they are considered members of a polity, which is how I understand political community. To study political community requires keen … Continue reading Trevor Stack “Citizenship and Civilization: Civil Horizons of Political Community”
Jonathan Chaplin, Cambridge University University Court Room and on MS Teams After centuries of official indifference or resistance, the theological legitimacy of democracy came to be widely recognised in Protestantism and Catholicism by the mid-twentieth century. Yet today, millions of professing Christians in several nations are being lured into supporting authoritarian political projects and seem … Continue reading Christianity and Democracy: Repairing the Intellectual Deficit
Call for participants - Research, practitioner & policy workshop In person only: Paterson’s Land G.21, Moray House, Edinburgh University Co-hosted by CISRUL, Institute for Inspiring Children's Futures (IICF), Children and Young People's Centre for Justice (CYCJ), Scottish Council on Global Affairs (SCGA), Change for Change UK, and Edinburgh University's Childhood and Youth Studies Research Group … Continue reading International experiences with children in conflict with the law
Brian Brock (Divinity) will talk about his new book Joining Creation’s Praise: A Theological Ethic of Creatureliness, focusing on the sections in which he develops a defence of looting and squatting, as forms of civil disobedience.
