Recent posts tagged with "Events"

Call for papers - Creating Publics, Creating Democracies

That there is a relationship between publicness and democracy has often been taken for granted. However, at this time of widespread instability, political upheaval and experimentation, when publics are increasingly being called upon to act, it is sometimes in the name of democracy, but not always.

Discussing the August 2011 Riots

Hoping that the eagerness to discuss has not ceased in the meanwhile, we invite you to debate the August 2011 riots with us on the CCIG Blog. In the weeks to come we will set-up three blogs on the CCIG – webpage. Each blog will revolve around one of the three workshop themes we have planned for the afternoon session of the forthcoming CCIG forum.

Call for Papers - 'Creating Publics' workshop

The Publics Research Programme at the Open University invites submissions of possible papers contributing to a two day workshop to be held at University of Westminster on 21 and 22 July 2011. Please send abstracts of not more than 400 words to N.Mahony@open.ac.uk by 25 May 2011.

Politics of the Brain workshop organised by CCIG affiliate member Dr Liza Griffin

The Politics of the Brain

Day workshop organized and funded by the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster.

Date: Tuesday 3 May
Venue: Board Room, 309 Regent Street, London (just off Oxford Circus)

'Acts of Citizenship' seminar with Prof Engin Isin (13 April 2011)

Organised by CCIG PG group & Oecumene, 13 April: 14.00-16.00, Central Meeting Room 1, The Open University.

If you are interested in attending, please contact PG Group Co-ordinator Helen Arfvidsson: h.Arfvidsson@open.ac.uk

Registration for 'Family Troubles?' conference now open

The conference, which draws together a range of experts on families and relationships aims to promote dialogue between researchers addressing mainstream family change and diversity in everyday lives, and those specialising in specific problems which prompt specialist interventions, and to consider the implications for policy makers, service users and practitioners.

After Human Rights?

A series of workshops and panels are being organised by the Open University (CCIG), City University (Sociology), Oxford University (COMPAS), and Birkbeck College (Institute for the Humanities) on the relationship between human rights and citizenship rights.

Call for Papers: Citizenship without Community

This international, interdisciplinary workshop to be held on 10 May 2010 asks in what ways do recent attempts at rethinking citizenship, mobility and community reframe what it means to act politically? Post-national citizenship, mobile citizenship, citizenship in international relations, transnational enactment of citizenship, citizenship in cities all challenge the assumption that state-like communities are the privileged sites of political practice.

Call for Papers: Colloquium on Families, Intimacies and Personal Relationships

Dr Jacqui Gabb and Professor Elizabeth Silva invite abstracts for a forthcoming colloquium on 6 November 2009, organized by the BSA Families and