Conferences, Workshops and Book Launches

The centre regular hosts conferences and workshops.  Past events include the Association for Social and Political Philosophy Annual Conference 2022 Political Philosophy & Political Activism and  Theories of Liberty Commemorative conference and the Graduate Political Theory Conference. 

If you wish to hold an event in 2024-2025 academic year, please get in touch with the centre director Elizabeth Kahn Elizabeth.kahn@durham.ac.uk.

This year’s events;

18th September 2023 12.00-13.30 – Dr Jessica Begon - Book Launch – ‘Disability through the Lens of Justice’ Oxford University Press 2023.

25^th April 2024 - Workshop on ‘Issue Partisan and Meritocratic Polarisation in UK and Bulgaria after the Cold War’ Event Lead - Professor Maria Dimova-Cookson maria.dimova-cookson@durham.ac.uk

June 10^th-14^th 2024 – Support a panel on ‘Methodology in Global Political Theory and Epistemic Justice’ at the Ethics and Public Policy Lab 5^th anniversary conference in Yaoundé Cameroon https://ethicslabucac.net  event lead Dr Elizabeth Kahn Elizabeth.kahn@durham.ac.uk Professor Uchenna Okeja (Rhodes University SA) and Professor Dorothea Gaedeke (Utrecht).

June 20th- 21^st 2024 - Northern Bridge Institutions Political Theory Regional Meeting (with colleagues from Queens Belfast and Newcastle University.         Event Lead – Dr Jan Kandiyali - jan.kandiyali@durham.ac.uk

September 2024 – Planned Workshop in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology: ‘Ethnography and Normativity’ (event leads:  Elizabeth Kahn Elizabeth.kahn@durham.ac.uk and Michael Vine)

Date TBS - graduate conference in collaboration with the department of philosophy. Event lead Professor Maria Dimova-Cookson - maria.dimova-cookson@durham.ac.uk