Name: ‘What Is a Constitution? Reading Toward a Problem’: Reading Seminar 1
Start: 2025-07-07T15:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-07-07T16:00:00+01:00

April 2025
Construction of the “right time” in US-Afghan peace negotiations

April 17, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

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

Neha Dwivedi (IR and CISRUL) Timing in peace negotiations is typically viewed in terms of ripeness and readiness, a perspective evident in the US-Afghan peace talks. Much of the existing literature has focused on missed opportunities to negotiate with the Taliban, often justified by conditions deemed ripe for resolution. However, these theories have faced criticism … Continue reading Construction of the “right time” in US-Afghan peace negotiations
May 2025
Reading seminar on ‘The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study’

May 8, 2025 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

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

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 theory and practice of the black radical tradition as it supports, inspires, and extends contemporary social and political thought and aesthetic critique. Today the general … Continue reading Reading seminar on ‘The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study’
Professor Martyn Percy on ‘The crisis of colonial Anglicanism: empire, slavery and revolt in the Church of England’

May 15, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Court Room, University of Aberdeen Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL), University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen

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 … Continue reading Professor Martyn Percy on ‘The crisis of colonial Anglicanism: empire, slavery and revolt in the Church of England’
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 … 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

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