School of Social and Political Science

Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa

CAS Seminar - Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa

Re-Embodying the Absent Historical Body: Henry Poole & Co’s Measuring Books, c.1840-1950

What can the individual customer measurements taken by the Saville Row tailors, Henry Poole & Co, tell us about the absent historical body?

Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense

Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria

The Contemporary Middle East Series, brings together scholars and practitioners with expertise on the Middle East to share their experience and work in a series of public lectures.

The series is convened by the Middle East Research Group within the Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh.

Slavery and Abolition: The Black Mediterranean

CAS Seminar - Slavery and Abolition: The Black Mediterranean

Distinguished Scholar series: Keynote Lecture with Professor Robert Vitalis

Summing up this year's Distinguished Scholar series, Prof. Vitalis will deliver his keynote lecture on his exciting new project ‘Racism’s Raw Materials.’

CRITIQUE Roundtable Alternative Democratic Futures: Social Movements and the New Municipalism

This CRITIQUE Roundtable focuses on the specific propositions advanced by social movements at the municipal level and on their aim to build democratic institutions that would allow individuals to directly exercise public power and regain control over their lives. Such initiatives have sometimes been subsumed under the term municipalism or communalism. This forum will bring together different practices and understandings of municipalism or communalism by contemporary social movements in various local contexts.

Can We End Child Maltreatment Globally?

Benjamin Perks is the Head of Campaigns and Advocacy in the Division of Global Communications and Advocacy at the United Nations Children’s Fund, based in New York. Please join us for his presentation on the prevention of childhood adversity.

Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability

Book Launch (In-person & Zoom)

UoE Catto Scholarship Application Information Session

UoE Catto Scholarship Application Information Session

CRITIQUE Virtual Book Launch: Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care with Mihaela Mihai

With this interdisciplinary book, political theorist Mihaela Mihai tackles several interrelated questions: How do societies remember histories of systemic violence? Who is excluded from such histories' cast of characters? And what are the political costs of selective remembering in the present?

The Covid Consensus: The New Politics of Global Inequality

CAS Seminar - The Covid Consensus: The New Politics of Global Inequality