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The Centre for Social and Political Thought has links with a wide variety of scholars in Europe and North America and regularly organises conferences at the University of Sussex.
Upcoming Conferences
Adorno 40 Years On
Prof. Max Paddison - University of Durham
"Aesthetics, Politics, and the Ideology of Nature: Adorno Reconsidered"
Prof. Alexander Duettmann - Goldsmiths
(Chair: Keston Sutherland)
"Kafka, Adorno, and the Life of the Letter"
Dr. Drew Milne - University of Cambridge
(Chair: Gordon Finlayson)
"Ideology and Idiolects: Adorno and the Grammar of Argument"
August 6, 2009.
Recent Conferences
Social and Political Thought 30th Anniversary Conference
Thursday, April 30th 2009. 9am-4.30pm
Sussex University, Freeman Centre
Speakers:
Prof. Simon Jarvis,
Prof. Max Pensky,
Prof. William Outhwaite.
Social and Political Theory Graduate Forum
Sussex, Essex, and Warwick Universities are collaborating on an interdisciplinary project to facilitate the exchange of ideas amongst graduate students working in Social and Political Theory.
The initial focus is an annual Graduate SPT Conference. The first one is at the Institute of Philosophy, University of London, on the 28th of March 2009, on "Crisis and Critique". The plenary speaker is Raymond Geuss.
Past Conferences:
EUROPE SINCE 1989, INTERPRETING SOCIAL CHANGE
19-21 June 2008
SILENCING HUMAN RIGHTS
8-9 June 2006
Adorno's Negative Dialectics: 40 Years On. May 2006:
SPT GRADUATE CONFERENCE 2005
22nd - 23rd September 2005
GENDER CONFERENCE
17 June 2005
SPT GRADUATE CONFERENCE 2004
23rd - 24th September 2005
SPT RESEARCH CONFERENCE 2004
20th May 2005
EDWARD SAID: CONTEXTS AND CONSEQUENCES
14th May 2004
BEING-WITH: JEAN-LUC NANCY AND THE QUESTION OF COMMUNITY
6th February 2004
SPT GRADUATE CONFERENCE 2003
25th - 26th September 2003
SPT RESEARCH CONFERENCE 2003
15th May 2003
THE HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH
27th-28th September 2002
SPT GRADUATE CONFERENCE 2002
20th September 2002
HOMAGE TO PIERRE BOURDIEU: INTERDISCIPLINARY EFFECTS
24th May 2002
THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL THEORY CONSORTIUM: SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE
5th-7th July 2001
THE THIRD WAY AND BEYOND
2nd November 2000
RECONSTRUCTING HUMAN RIGHTS: A CRITICAL PROJECT FOR THE 21ST CENTURY?
A major international conference bringing together academics and activists from several continents in the world in the field of human rights
23rd and 24th June 1999
ENVIRONMENTALISM AND CRITICAL REALISM
21st November 1998
SOCIAL DEMOCRACY: CURRENT IDEOLOGICAL DIRECTIONS
30th October 1998
THE KOSOVO WAR: PERSPECTIVES FROM SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND INTERNATIONAL THEORY
Seminar series, May-June 1998
THE FUTURE OF CRITICAL SOCIAL THEORY
23rd March 1998
SOCIAL THEORY AND MAJOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS
Six seminars held in partnership with the Warwick Social Theory Centre, funded by the ESRC
June 1997 - February 1999
THE DIRECTION OF CONTEMPORARY CAPITALISM
An international conference, May 1996 | 
