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Centre for Critical Thought (CCT) talk with Paul Auerbach: Socialist optimism: an alternative political economy for the twenty-first century Thursday 30 March 2017 at 17:00 in Grimond LT3 The Centre for Critical Thought invite you to their forthcoming talk with Paul … Continue reading →

Dr Martin Crowley (Reader in Modern French Thought and Culture, University of Cambridge) Title: ‘Bernard Stiegler’s Automatic Politics’ Politics after Poststructuralism Seminar Series Venue: Keynes seminar room 14 Date and Time: 10 March 2017, 5pm Martin Crowley (University of Cambridge) … Continue reading →

*THIS EVENT HAS HAD TO BE CANCELLED DUE TO TRAVEL DISRUPTIONS CAUSED BY WEATHER* Dr Nick Srnicek (Lecturer in International Political Economy, City University of London) Title: ‘Platform Capitalism’ Politics after Poststructuralism Seminar Series Venue: Keynes seminar room 17 Date … Continue reading →

The Centre for Critical Thought, the Centre for Comic and Popular Performance and the Aesthetics Research Centre at the University of Kent are hosting a conference on: COMEDY AND CRITICAL THOUGHT: LAUGHTER AS RESISTANCE? a two-day interdisciplinary conference scheduled on Tuesday … Continue reading →

The Centre for Critical Thought is hosting a workshop on ‘The Biopolitics of Race and Gender in Theory and Political Practice’ on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 December 2015. Bridging the gap between biopolitical philosophy and the research of biopolitics … Continue reading →

The Exchange Workshop ​Friday 4 December 2015, week 10, 4-6pm, venue: Cornwallis North West seminar room 2 This workshop will be a participatory exchange event that will encourage an open discussion on the theme of Exchange. This event is being organised … Continue reading →

The Centre for Critical Thought and the School of Politics and International Relations would like to invite you to the book launch of Marxism, Religion and Ideology: Themes from David McLellan (Routledge, 2015). To celebrate this publication we have organised … Continue reading →

As part of Dr Adrian Pabst’s Faculty grant on Blue Labour, a group of academics, politicians and activists will meet on 28 July on the Canterbury campus for a day-long event. The aim is, among other things, to discuss ideas … Continue reading →

As part of Dr Adrian Pabst’s research grant from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Kent on Blue Labour, there will be a one-day event entitled ‘Election Blues: Why Labour lost, what it is for and how it can … Continue reading →

On Monday 2 March 2015, there will be a public discussion to mark the publication of Blue Labour: Forging a New Politics (I.B. Tauris, 2015), edited by Ian Geary and Adrian Pabst. The event is entitled ‘Blue Labour – claiming the … Continue reading →