Events Archive

June 15, 2016 (All day) to June 16, 2016 (All day)

Malmö University, Sweden

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Confirmed keynote speakers: Bridget Anderson (Oxford University), Liz Fekete (Institute of Race Relations) and Mercedes Jiménez (University of Algarve)

In the current era of increasing securitization of border controls and restrictive asylum and migration politics, the journey to and within the...Read more

BISA 41ST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2016

June 15, 2016 (All day) to June 17, 2016 (All day)

Radisson Blu Hotel and Carlton Hotel Edinburgh, Scotland

The British International Studies Association conference theme of Global Justice is a topical theme in our discipline as well as in the cognate social sciences. This will be an exciting opportunity to explore the dynamics of justice and injustice in the contemporary world.  Bursaries are available to current Postgraduate members of...Read more

June 13, 2016 (All day) to June 14, 2016 (All day)

Grand Parade, University of Brighton, UK

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If resistance has a tradition, it is one which is not unilinear or uncontested. Dominant understandings of resistance are themselves resisted, typically when certain peoples are left outside of the history or the conceptualisation of resistance. This conference explores how the notion...Read more

June 3, 2016 (All day)

City University London, UK

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This one day workshop convenes academics, activists and political practitioners investigating the potential and consequences of new—social and technological—participatory designs.  The main focus of the meeting will be on conditional commitment (CC), a theoretical and practical solution to the perennial collective...Read more

May 20, 2016 - 9:00am to May 21, 2016 - 5:00pm

Institute of Political Studies Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

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Keynote speakers:
Matthew Worley (University of Reading)
Hilary Pilkington (The University of Manchester

This International conference will be held in Prague (Czech Republic) focusing on the sources and forms of the politicization of subcultures in post-socialist European countries....Read more

April 22, 2016 - 10:30am

102 Barrett Hall, Amherst College, Amherst, MA USA

Talk by Professor Bishnupriya Ghosh, English Department, University of California - Santa Barbara.
This talk concerns an embodied visual relation distinctive to iconic images critical to their social power, and the specific politics of embodiment in the figure of the revolutionary hunger...Read more

April 18, 2016 (All day) to April 20, 2016 (All day)

Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK

Peace Studies at Leeds Beckett are pleased to invite you to join this 3 day seminar by the International Centre for Nonviolent Conflict studying nonviolent movements, people...Read more

April 8, 2016 - 2:00pm to April 10, 2016 - 12:15pm

Hampshire College in Amherst, MA USA

Civil Liberties and Public Policy's 35th anniversary annual conference, From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom, now open for registration.
Register now 

They also recognize that getting to conference can be expensive ­and they want to help you get here!
Apply now...Read more

April 8, 2016 (All day) to April 9, 2016 (All day)

University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA

This event brings together modern visionaries on nonviolence, justice and social change with community leaders, activists, academics, and organizers to train, learn, plan, and organize to shape a just future for all.

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April 5, 2016 (All day) to April 6, 2016 (All day)

University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA , USA

The Symposium will bring together Black women scholars and Black intellectual activists to discuss about black women resistance practices in defending their collective territories, and how race and gender are key factors not only in the analysis of the socio-historical (re)configuration of political violence, but also in peace-building processes aimed to overcome the causes...Read more

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