Past events
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20 May 2022 | 9:30 | One-day Research Workshop on “Conditions of Autonomy – Legal, Political, Philosophical Perspectives”Full details | Add event |
6 - 7 May 2022 | 13:00 | Academic Life and Interdisciplinarity: Learning from ExperienceA two-day event for the retirement of Professor Iain Hampsher-Monk. Full details | Add event |
16 March 2022 | 13:45 | Book launch of ‘Flexible Europe’The Centre for Political Thought and the Centre for European Studies join forces for the book launch of ‘Flexible Europe. Differentiated Integration, Fairness, and Democracy’ by Richard Bellamy, Sandra Kröger, and Marta Lorimer. Full details | Add event |
26 January - 30 March 2022 | 12:45 | Reading Group in Political TheoryFull details | Add event |
28 October 2021 | 12:30 | Political Theory Reading Group: Three pieces by Frederick DouglassFull details | Add event |
14 October 2021 | 12:30 | Political Theory Reading Group: Pauline Kleingeld, ‘On Dealing with Kant’s Sexism and Racism’Full details | Add event |
13 October 2021 | 15:30 | Online launch of Ross Carroll's new bookFull details | Add event |
13 September 2021 | 10:00 | Centre for Political Thought Online Workshop: Two new problems of intergenerational justiceFull details | Add event |
23 June 2021 | 12:30 | ONLINE Seminar - Constructing Mental illness and Criminal Responsibility in Capital Cases: Psychiatric expertise, Folk Psychology, and the Power of StereotypesOrganised by the Centre for Political Thought and Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at the University of Exeter. Full details | Add event |
9 June 2021 | 12:30 | ONLINE Reading Group session on Republicanism(s)Join us on Zoom. Full details | Add event |
4 November 2020 | 12:30 | Professor Jonathan Wolff University of Oxford: 'An Ethical Framework for Global Vaccine Allocation'Chaired by Professor Catriona McKinnon (Department of Politics, Exeter). Full details | Add event |
28 October 2020 | 12:30 | Political Theory Reading GroupRoss Carroll will introduce a discussion of interest for Black History Month. Full details | Add event |
14 October 2020 | 12:30 | Political Theory Reading GroupRob Lamb will introduce a discussion of interest for Black History Month. Full details | Add event |
12 June 2019 | 16:00 | Louise Richardson-Self: Offensiphobia is a Red HerringIn a recent article in The Journal of Ethics, J. Angelo Corlett (2018) offers a critique of what he calls ‘offensiphobia’: the belief that people have a right not to be offended.We argue that offensiphobia doesn't really exist in higher educational institutions (which Corlett takes this to be the main context for his paper).We therefore attempt to amend his points in such a way that they purport to offer some criticisms of existing university policies and practices. However, as we demonstrate, even with these amendments Corlett’s critique will fail, since his argument that hate speech should not be censured is a bad argument. Finally, we wish to demonstrate that the term 'offensiphobia' is not only misleading, but ideological.It conflates hate speech with offense, and in so doing implies that hate speech cannot seriously harm its targets (beyond those forms of speech already unprotected by the First Amendment).This failure of recognition may even constitute a form of willful ignorance. Full details | Add event |
27 March 2019 | 12:30 | Sally Murani on Rogers BrubackerPolitical Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
20 March 2019 | 12:30 | Giovanni NavarriaPolitical Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
13 March 2019 | 12:30 | Ed Langley on David Graeber and George Ellis on Stokely CarmichaelPolitical Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
6 March 2019 | 12:30 | Yuqing Cai on Joseph R. Levenson and Antonia Alecu on Peter DigeserPolitical Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
27 February 2019 | 12:30 | Dan Allum-Gruselle on TocquevillePolitical Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
20 February 2019 | 12:30 | Joshua Dare on William Morris and David Farmer on Michael SandelPolitical Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
6 February 2019 | 12:30 | Christopher Richardson on Robert Nozick and Marina Lademacher on Iris Marion YoungPolitical Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
30 January 2019 | 12:30 | Ollie Dunn on Tom G. Palmer's "Are Patents and Copyrights Morally Justified?" and David Chalmers on Frederic Bastiat's "The Law"Political Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
28 November 2018 | 12:45 | Lise Herman (Exeter) and Russell Muirhead (Dartmouth): The role of pluralist commitments and partisan agencyWeekly Political Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
21 November 2018 | 12:45 | Clive Barnett: The Priority of InjusticePolitical Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
14 November 2018 | 12:30 | Yutao Zhao: TBDPolitical Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
7 November 2018 | 12:45 | Sven Altenburger: The Civic Duty of Military ServicePolitical Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
31 October 2018 | 12:45 | Richard Seaford on Castoriadis and The Greek and Modern Political ImaginaryPolitical Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
24 October 2018 | 15:00 | POSTPONED: Carole Pateman: Fifty Years of Political TheoryThis event has been postponed until further notice. Full details | Add event |
17 October 2018 | 12:45 | Kristen Walsh: The Darker Side of BaconianismPolitical Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
10 October 2018 | 16:00 | Joint Book Launch: Trumping the Mainstream and Council DemocracyCome celebrate the launch of two new books from the colleagues in the Politics department: Trumping the Mainstream: The Conquest of Democratic Politics by the Populist Radical Right, edited by Lise Herman and James Muldoon and Council Democracy: Toward a Democratic Socialist Politics by James Muldoon.. Full details | Add event |
10 October 2018 | 12:45 | Robert Lamb: Pragmatism and Human RightsPolitical Theory Reading Group. Full details | Add event |
3 October 2018 | 12:45 | Iain Hampsher-Monk: In Defense of RhetoricPolitical Theory Reading Group Meeting. Full details | Add event |
24 May 2018 | 9:00 | The German Revolution and the Radical Democratic ImaginaryThe German Revolution and the Radical Democratic Imaginary This workshop aims to rejuvenate interest in the theorists and actors of the German Revolution and to place them in dialogue with conversations in radical democratic theory. The workshop will include panels on left-wing communism, radical democracy, Rosa Luxemburg and historiographies of the German Revolution. All interested scholars are welcome to attend. A preliminary draft schedule is included below: Panel 1: 9:30 – 10:45 - Rosa Luxemburg’s Radical Democracy Panel 2: 11:15 – 12:45 - Left-Wing Communism Panel 3: 2:00 – 3:30 - Revisiting the German Revolution: Berlin, Bremen and Beyond Panel 4: 4:00 – 5:30 - Radical Democracy and its Discontents Participants include: Mayra Cotta (NSSR), Thomas Jeffrey Miley (QMUL), Paulina Tambakaki (Westminster), Albert Dikovich (Konstanz), Clive Gabay (QMUL), Paul Mazzocchi (York), Jamie Melrose (Bristol), Merylin Moos, Donny Gluckstein (Edinburgh), Gaard Kets (Radboud), Joern Janssen, Regina Cochrane (Calgary), Felix Petersen (Jerusalem), Benjamin Popp-Madsen (Copenhagen), Olivier Ruchet (Zurich).. Full details | Add event |
22 May 2018 | 9:00 | Challenging Dominant Discourses: Feminist Conversations Across Political Science and Political TheoryFeminist theory is an increasingly plural field, but it remains united by a commitment to challenging what passes for universal or impartial knowledge. This workshop seeks to map connections between feminist methods in political science and political theory in order to share resources for questioning dominant methods across the discipline of politics. We welcome papers that investigate feminist methods in a variety of approaches to politics, including democratic theory, international relations, quantitative measurement, environmental politics, public policy, and normative political philosophy. Submissions may be works-in-progress, finished papers, or even past work. Participants are encouraged to read their own work through the lens of the question “how is this work feminist?” We hope the workshop will address questions such as: What are feminist methods? How do dominant methods marginalize women’s experience? How have technological advancements in quantitative methods reproduced gendered relations of power? How might feminist methods or practices open up interdisciplinary pathways between political science and political theory? How can methods in political science and political theory be intersectional? How does work on gender differ from feminist work? Must feminist projects deploy feminist methods? The workshop will be divided into four sessions: 1) International Relations, 2) Political Theory, 3) Governance and Policy, and 4) Quantitative Analysis. We hope that conference attendees will commit to the whole day in the interest of making connections across different aspects of Politics as a discipline. Each session will culminate in a keynote from a senior scholar in the subfield. Full details | Add event |
16 - 17 May 2018 | 14:00 | Political and Philosophical Traditions in Comparison: Sino-European Dialogues on Liberty, Government and CommunityThe Workshop’s main focus is on the interaction between European and Chinese political languages and traditions. Its main aims are to assess processes of transculturation between Chinese and European, or more broadly Western, political discourses, and to investigate the different ways in which key political themes and ideas are conceptualised in Chinese and European languages and political experience. Full details | Add event |
31 January 2018 | 12:45 | Brexit: Understanding, Legitimacy and ImplicationsWorkshop organised jointly by the Centre for Political Thought, The Centre for European Governance and the Centre for Rural Policy Research. Full details | Add event |
6 December 2017 | 12:45 | Political Theory Reading Group: Daniel Kapust (University of Wisconsin)“The tragedy of Imperial Republics”. Full details | Add event |
29 November 2017 | 12:45 | New Approaches to Political Cohesion in Democratic ProcessesThis workshop places an emphasis on the relationship between democratic processes and political cohesion that goes beyond the simplistic formula of competitive democrats. Political cohesion, or the commitment to a common political project, is a matter of degree and processes leading to the peaceful resolution of conflict are just one way of contributing to this phenomenon. Indeed, political processes can embody values and produce norms that may legitimate the political system in one way or another and lead to much deeper forms of political cohesion among members of a political community than that which is allowed for by the mere avoidance of violent conflict. On the one hand, we consider the circumstances under which competitive elections can do more than peacefully resolve conflict by contributing in a deeper sense to citizens’ commitment to democratic values. On the other hand, as procedural and substantive democrats recognise, there is much more to democracy than free and fair elections. We therefore expand our inquiry beyond election to understand how other democratic values and activities may contribute towards political cohesion.. Full details | Add event |
22 November 2017 | 12:45 | Political Theory Reading Group: Robert Lamb (Exeter)Conal Condren’s Political Vocabularies. Full details | Add event |
8 November 2017 | 12:45 | Political Theory Reading Group: Teresa Bejan (Oxford)TBD. Full details | Add event |
25 October 2017 | 12:45 | Political Theory Reading Group: James Muldoon (Exeter)Full details | Add event |
18 October 2017 | 12:45 | Political Theory Reading Group: Elena Isayev (Exeter)Migration event. Full details | Add event |
11 October 2017 | 12:45 | Political Theory Reading Group: Sarah Drews Lucas (Exeter)Linda Zerilli on Political Judgment. Full details | Add event |
4 October 2017 | 12:45 | Political Theory Reading Group: Martin Moorby (Exeter)Marx. Full details | Add event |
27 September 2017 | 12:45 | Political Theory Reading Group: Robin Durie (Exeter)Complexity Theory and Health Care [Exact title TBC]. Full details | Add event |
28 May 2014 | 12:00 | SWDTC Workshop: The Right to CitizenshipThis workshop will examine how practices of citizenship produce forms of exclusion and marginalisation and how marginalised groups contest forms of belonging by claiming and enacting a right to citizenship. Full details | Add event |
14 May 2014 | 14:00 | SWDTC Workshop: The contactualist approach to democracy and democratic justiceWorkshop on: The contractualist approach to democracy and democratic justice A discussion of Albert Weale (UCL) Democratic Justice and the Social Contract (OUP, 2013). Full details | Add event |