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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 Experience A 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 Theory Full details	Add event
28 October 2021	12:30	Political Theory Reading Group: Three pieces by Frederick Douglass Full 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 book Full details	Add event
13 September 2021	10:00	Centre for Political Thought Online Workshop: Two new problems of intergenerational justice Full 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 Stereotypes Organised 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 Group Ross Carroll will introduce a discussion of interest for Black History Month. Full details	Add event
14 October 2020	12:30	Political Theory Reading Group Rob 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 Herring In 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 Brubacker Political Theory Reading Group. Full details	Add event
20 March 2019	12:30	Giovanni Navarria Political Theory Reading Group. Full details	Add event
13 March 2019	12:30	Ed Langley on David Graeber and George Ellis on Stokely Carmichael Political Theory Reading Group. Full details	Add event
6 March 2019	12:30	Yuqing Cai on Joseph R. Levenson and Antonia Alecu on Peter Digeser Political Theory Reading Group. Full details	Add event
27 February 2019	12:30	Dan Allum-Gruselle on Tocqueville Political Theory Reading Group. Full details	Add event
20 February 2019	12:30	Joshua Dare on William Morris and David Farmer on Michael Sandel Political Theory Reading Group. Full details	Add event
6 February 2019	12:30	Christopher Richardson on Robert Nozick and Marina Lademacher on Iris Marion Young Political 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 agency Weekly Political Theory Reading Group. Full details	Add event
21 November 2018	12:45	Clive Barnett: The Priority of Injustice Political Theory Reading Group. Full details	Add event
14 November 2018	12:30	Yutao Zhao: TBD Political Theory Reading Group. Full details	Add event
7 November 2018	12:45	Sven Altenburger: The Civic Duty of Military Service Political Theory Reading Group. Full details	Add event
31 October 2018	12:45	Richard Seaford on Castoriadis and The Greek and Modern Political Imaginary Political Theory Reading Group. Full details	Add event
24 October 2018	15:00	POSTPONED: Carole Pateman: Fifty Years of Political Theory This event has been postponed until further notice. Full details	Add event
17 October 2018	12:45	Kristen Walsh: The Darker Side of Baconianism Political Theory Reading Group. Full details	Add event
10 October 2018	16:00	Joint Book Launch: Trumping the Mainstream and Council Democracy Come 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 Rights Political Theory Reading Group. Full details	Add event
3 October 2018	12:45	Iain Hampsher-Monk: In Defense of Rhetoric Political Theory Reading Group Meeting. Full details	Add event
24 May 2018	9:00	The German Revolution and the Radical Democratic Imaginary The 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 Theory Feminist 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 Community The 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 Implications Workshop 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 Processes This 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 Citizenship This 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 justice Workshop 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