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Call for Papers: Imagining Emancipation in the Atlantic World, 1750-1888
Workshop at the University of Exeter
June 2nd-3rd 2023
NEW RESEARCH on Biodiversity; on Representation; on Emancipation
NEW RESEARCH PROJECTS. Members of the Centre for Political Thought are involved in three new research projects on the following topics:
- “Renewing biodiversity through a people-in-nature approach” funded by NERC.
- “The Representative Disconnect: diagnosis and strategies for rectification” funded by Horizon and UKRI.
- “Imagining Emancipation: Projects for Abolishing Slavery in the History of Political Thought, 1750-1888”, funded by the University Euro Network Fund.
Symposium in Print on The Privatized State
Book Symposium: Chiara Cordelli, The Privatized State
Published for the journal Jurisprudence, Volume 13, Issue 3 (2022)
Research Workshop on Conditions of Autonomy – Legal, Political and Philosophical Perspectives
A one-day Research Workshop (20 May 2022), organized by the Centre for Political Thought, the School of Law and the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health (University of Exeter).
In conversation with Dr Lucy Series (Bristol University) on Disability, Subjective Agency and the Law
In a recent interview with the University of Exeter, Dr Lucy Series speaks about her book ‘The Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution’. Listen here for an overview of her practical experience in care work that inspired her book, learn more about her philosophical inclinations, and her view of how liberty may be realized for persons legally classified as mentally or physically disabled.
Academic Life and Interdisciplinarity: Learning from Experience
A two-day event for the retirement of Professor Iain Hampsher-Monk.
After a 50-year distinguished career at Exeter, our friend and colleague, Professor Iain Hampsher-Monk retired last academic year. On the 6th and 7th of May, the Centre for Political Thought organised a two-day event in his honour with the support of the Department of Politics, the SSIS Graduate School and Imprint Academic (the publisher of History of Political Thought, the leading journal in the area co-founded and edited by Iain).
Report of the Lancet Commission on The Value of Death: Bringing death back to life
In January 2022, The Lancet Commission published its report on ‘The Value of Death: Bringing death back to life’. Dr Robin Durie, a member of our Centre, was part of the group that produced it.
Find the text: Lancet Report
Launch of ‘Flexible Europe. Differentiated Integration, Fairness, and Democracy’ by Richard Bellamy, Sandra Kröger, and Marta Lorimer.
The Centre for Political Thought and the Centre for European Studies join forces for the book launch.
James Muldoon introduces his new book on Platform Socialism
Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech proposes a range of alternatives for how digital platforms could be organised.
A book by Ross Carroll on Uncivil Mirth
Ross Carroll discusses his new book. Video of launch now available.
A book by Joanie Willett on Affective Assemblages and Local Economies
Joanie Willett discusses her new book.
Online book launch
Online launch of Ross Carroll’s book on Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain, published by Princeton University Press
Two new problems of intergenerational justice
An online Workshop organised by the Centre for Political Thought.
Book Presentation on “Democracy From Below”
A Dialogue with James Muldoon (Exeter) and Steven Klein (KCL) on their new books on radical democratic movements and their impact on politics.
A critical exchange on “The Politics of Precarity” now out in Contemporary Political Theory.
The exchange was introduced and coordinated by Andrew Schapp.
Noam Chomsky in conversation on free speech with Exeter Professor
Linguist and philosopher, Noam Chomsky, will speak to Professor Robert Lamb from the University of Exeter, in a free online event.