School of Social and Political Science

From muggers to gang members to modern slave masters: on drugs trafficking, victimhood and the making of enemies in post-colonial Britain

Professor Insa Koch's seminar will examine the rise of 'modern slavery' and the politics of victimhood in postcolonial austerity Britain.

Peer Writing Workshop for Displaced PhD and Early Career Researchers: Call for abstracts deadline - 1 December

The Citizenship and Migration Research Network (CMRN)i hosting a one-day hybrid writing workshop for displaced PhD and early career researchers looking to publish an article on themes related to forced migration. The deadline for abstracts is 1 December 2022.

Africa 2023: Prospects and Forecasts (Edinburgh)

Kick off your year with a wide-ranging look at the Prospects and Forecasts for Africa in 2023 by an expert panel from diverse fields of work.

Book launch - Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility

Celebrate the launch of the new book by Professor Folúkẹ́ Adébísí.

CRITIQUE Seminar: Abolitionist Ecological Security

Reconfiguring Life: Care and Control in Bioengineering

Launch of special issue of the Quarterly Journal of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa

This CAS Seminar Series event is the launch of a double bilingual special issue of the Quarterly Journal of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa. The issue focuses on: agrarian change, food security, migration and sustainable development in Senegal & Zimbabwe.

Central eating: Application of diet quality scoring approaches to evaluate holiday club food provision

This seminar describes recent work undertaken in collaboration with Northumbria University’s Healthy Living Lab to evaluate the quality of food in holiday clubs in England.

Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Visiting Scholar Lecture: Process tracing methods in comparative public policy and European Union studies

With Bruno Palier, CNRS Research Director at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po

SKAPE seminar: The financial ontology of the anthropocene: a provocation

We are excited to welcome Julius Kob (University of Edinburgh) for our final talk in this semester’s SKAPE seminar series.

Who Will Cook for Joseph? Difficult Kinship, Ambivalent Mobilities, and Uncertain Devotions in the Central Philippines

This seminar recounts a key aspect of the tragedy of social mobility in post-1945 Philippines: how it’s endangered some children’s ability to repay their parents in later life.

Projecting sovereignty 'not yet': On the political potency of photography in Kurdistan

Join guest speaker Dr Marlene Schäfers for an exploration of the significance of photos of fallen guerrilla fighters for Kurdish liberation.