Past Events
2019
- Date
- 01 July 2019
- Location:
- TBC
- Description
- In early summer 2019, CSPI will be hosting a conference on the ideological power of photography.
2018
- Date
- 26 June 2018
- Description
- CSPI hosted its Annual Workshop on 26 June 2018, bringing together established academics and research students to explore the inter-relationship between political thinking and political practice across a variety of contexts.
2017
- Date
- 28 February 2017
- Location:
- B1 Hemsley
- Description
- Joint CPI/CSPI seminar with Sanne Albers from Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences and Radboud, University Nijmegen.
- Date
- 04 May 2017
- Location:
- B2 The Hemsley Building
- Description
- Professor David Laycock, Simon Fraser University, will present "Populist Conservatism and Multiculturalism: Incompatible or Politically Innovative?" on 4 May
- Date
- 05 July 2017
- Location:
- A09 Highfield House UP
- Description
- This workshop brings together colleagues from within CSPI and from the wider academic community to discuss recently concluded and ongoing work on the history of particular concepts and future directions in conceptual history more generally
- Date
- 21 November 2017
- Location:
- B18 Law and Social Sciences Building, University Park
- Description
- Nerris Markogiannis will speak about his work "10 Years as a United Nations Photographer", share some of his images and the stories behind these images.
2016
- Date
- 23 February 2016
- Location:
- A11 Highfield House
- Description
- Dr Dan Sage from Loughborough University will present to CSPI on 23 February on 'The American transcendental state: identity, ideology and the cosmic sublime'.
- Date
- 08 March 2016
- Location:
- A11 Highfield House
- Description
- Dr Sylvia Necker from the Institute for Contemporary History, Munich will present to CSPI on 8 March on 'Recycling romanticism: National Socialist ideology and the alpine landscape'.
- Date
- 19 December 2016
- Location:
- The University of Nottingham
- Description
- The Centre for the Study of Political Ideologies will hold an interdisciplinary workshop on Monday 19 December.
2015
- Date
- 17 February 2015
- Location:
- A11 Highfield House
- Description
- Professor Engin Isin from The Open University will present to the Centre for the Study of Political Ideologies on 17 February on 'Cyberspace ideologies'.
- Date
- 10 March 2015
- Location:
- A11 Highfield House
- Description
- Professor Brian Doherty from Keele University will present to the Centre for the Study of Political Ideologies on 10 March on 'The practice of tradition in social movements'.
- Date
- 17 March 2015
- Location:
- A11 Highfield House
- Description
- Dr Ben Jackson from University College Oxford will present to the CSPI on 17 March on 'Currents of neo-liberalism: British political ideologies and the New Right'.
- Date
- 24 March 2015
- Location:
- A11 Highfield House
- Description
- Professor Stephen Hodkinson from The University of Nottingham will present to the CSPI on 24 March on 'Spartan militarism in modern thought'.
- Date
- 29 April 2015
- Description
- A pre-elections symposium on 29 April, hosted by CSPI and sponsored by the Political Studies Association "Pushing the Boundaries".
- Date
- 12 May 2015
- Location:
- A01 Highfield House
- Description
- Professor John Breuilly from LSE will present to the CSPI on 12 May on 'How nationalism travels: global history and the spread of nationalism'.
- Date
- 18 May 2015
- Location:
- A11 Highfield House
- Description
- Liz Hingley, Photographer and Researcher, will present to the Centre for the Study of Political Ideologies on 18 May on 'Sacred Shanghai'.
- Date
- 03 July 2015
- Description
- The Centre for the Study of Political Ideologies is holding its annual workshop on Friday 3 July 2015.
- Date
- 27 October 2015
- Description
- Dr Matt Sleat will present to the Centre for the Study of Political Ideologies on 27 October on 'What is a Political Value?'
- Date
- 27 - 28 November 2015
- Description
- The Centre for the Study of Political Ideologies is hosting a conference on 27-28 November to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Journal of Political Ideologies.
- Date
- 01 December 2015
- Location:
- A11 Highfield House
- Description
- Yang Yang will present to the CSPI on 1 December on 'Social transformation and cultural reproduction'.
Ideologies in Translation
29 April 2015, International Islamic University Malaysia
Ideologies in Translation was a one-day workshop co-organised by the Department of Political Science, International Islamic University Malaysia and Centre for the Study of Political Ideologies.
Event programme
2014
Liberty rights and welfare rights
Dr Jesse Tomalty, University of Oxford
18 February 2014
Climate change: science, politics, and metaphors
Professor Brigitte Nerlich, The University of Nottingham
25 February 2014
Postgraduate session:
An analysis of Chantal Mouffe's adversarial agonistic democracy
Marie Paxton, The University of Nottingham
Beyond the 'Western' blame: is Ghana anti-gay or homo-friendly?
Nana Agyeman, The University of Nottingham
4 March 2014
What is liberalism?
Dr Duncan Bell, University of Cambridge
18 March 2014
Ideologies in motion: Henri Cartier-Bresson's corporate humanism, decolonisation/neo-colonisation and the mobility of images
Dr Sarah James, University College London
25 March 2014
The people and its constitution in Carl Schmitt and Jacques Rancière
Dr Andrew Schaap, University of Exeter
1 April 2014
A utilitarian theory of rights
Dr Christopher Woodard, The University of Nottingham
13 May 2014
The politics of English nationhood
Professor Michael Kenny, Queen Mary, University of London
20 May 2014
Remapping Shanghai, religious communities and end of lines
Liz Hingley, photographer and visiting scholar at the Academy of Social Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai
10 September 2014
From anarchism to postanarchism
Professor Saul Newman, Goldsmiths
14 October 2014
The role of the sacred in the motivation of terrorist violence
Professor Roger Griffin, Oxford Brookes University
28 October 2014
The ideological context of impact
Professor Andrew Vincent, University of Sheffield
18 November 2014
Pluralism in France and Britain: conceptual histories
Professor Stuart Jones, University of Manchester
25 November 2014
Locke the censor
Dr Geoff Kemp, University of Auckland
2 December 2014
Conference: Exploring Ideological Translations
9-11 July 2014, University of Nottingham
Rather than being conceived as rigid, coherent entities whose parameters and meanings are fixed by elite discourses, ideologies are increasingly being regarded as ubiquitous products of human activity that are produced, negotiated and reconfigured through vernacular practices and are rooted in social milieus.
CSPI hosted a conference at The University of Nottingham to invite scholars to share their different methodological approaches and engage with novel interpretive frameworks.
Event programme
Relating Ideologies: The migration of ideas between political thought systems
11-13 December 2013, University of Virginia USA
Sponsored by The University of Nottingham's Centre for Advanced Studies and the Schools of Politics and History
Within the framework of CSPI's understanding of ideologies as pattered forms of political thought and behaviours, this three-day interdisciplinary symposium at the University of Virginia, involving four political theorists and five historians, explored the mutually constitutive relationship between ideologies.
We debated how and why ideas and political intuitions 'break off' from one ideological system and 'attach' themselves to another. This is to combine a comparative perspective between different spatial and historical contexts with a trans-ideological perspective, which focuses on the transfers and flows between such contexts. Discussion was structured around three thematic clusters that are encountered within different ideological discourses and behaviours:
a) Equality, rights, and citizenship
b) Race, ancestry, and territoriality
c) Time, development, and modernity
Participants included:
- Mark Antliff (Duke University)
- Peter Breiner (SUNY)
- Howard Brick (University of Michigan)
- Alan Confino (University of Virginia)
- John G Gunnell (SUNY)
- David Laycock (Simon Fraser University)
- Kris Manjapra (Tufts University)
- Cas Mudde (University of Georgia)
- Janet Ward (University of Oklahoma)
CSPI Inaugural Conference: Liberalism and Diversity
The CSPI held its Inaugural Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of Nottingham on 23 July 2013, on the theme of 'Liberalism and Diversity', with a particular focus on bringing together researchers from the disciplines of history and political science. The event attracted over 40 attendees, and there were invited keynote addresses from Michael Freeden (The University of Nottingham), Bo Strath (University of Helsinki), and Julian Wright (University of Durham).
There were two round-table discussions on 'Political Science and the Problem of Liberalism', and 'History and the Problem of Liberalism', which included contributions from Michael Connors (The University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus), Rochana Bajpai (SOAS), Emilio Allier (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico), Rohit De (University of Cambridge), and Sascha Auerbach (The University of Nottingham).
The event was generously assisted by the Deans of the Faculties of Arts and Humanities, and Social Sciences, who also gave the welcoming addresses. At the end of a day of enlightening and vigorous discussions around the historical, political, and international dimensions of liberalism, there was a collective consideration of future plans for the new centre, and some of the ideas suggested there are reflected in our forthcoming events.
