Surviving ‘Emergency Politics’ in the Turkish Higher Education Battlescape By: Lakshmi Bose In late 2019, I sat with four young female student activists in the Feminist Club’s main room in Bogazici University discussing the precarious state of the young Leftist in contemporary Turkey. According to them, Bogazici was still a safe place – what Turam…
Colonial Structures of Knowledge Making: The Micropolitics of Epistemic Conflict in the University of Cape Town By: Lakshmi Bose In 2015, a student movement called #RhodesMustFall (#RMF) erupted at the University of Cape Town (UCT) which both exposed and demanded the end of the material and epistemic legacies of colonialism in contemporary South Africa. This…
‘Academic Fantasies’, ‘Lines of Interiority’ and the Rituals of Student Politics By: Lakshmi Bose, Jo-Anne Dillabough, Elizabeth Maber The landscape of Hungarian Higher Education (HE) over the last decade represents a battlescape over populist ideals (see the Democracy Institute, 2022) and a strategically designed conservative push towards more patriotic forms of HE, signposting Victor Orban’s…
Gendered Authoritarianisms: Exploring potential solidarities in the battle for gender studies By Dr. Elizabeth Maber Contestations over the understandings, and even the use, of the term ‘gender’ have become a familiar trigger for mobilising anti-liberal popular discourse. Gender has always been political and gender norms strongly aligned to the expectations of the state from its…
Hannah Arendt and Common Worldbuilding in a New Age of Extremes: Consortium Launch Event 26-27 September 2024Cambridge The Faculty of Education (FOE) is hosting a two-day conference in association with the launch of the Hannah Arendt Consortium (HAC) on Crises and Political Transformation. HAC is a pioneering FOE and Architecture initiative dedicated to the work…
‘Expanding our sense of the Possible’ and ‘The Two Faces of Natality’: A lecture and workshop with Stefano Bellin Dr. Stefano Bellin21-22 November 2023Cambridge The Two Faces of Natality: On Responsibility, Affect, and Collective Action21 November, 16:00-18:00, Lecture This lecture will explore the relationship between affect, implication, and ‘natality’, which, building on a critical engagement…
Academic Resistance in Turkey and Hungary: Online Public Spaces, Authoritarian Political Imaginaries and Novel 21st Century ‘Culture Wars’ Zahra Jafarova11 October 202316:30 – 18:00Cambridge This study explores the re-emergence of universities as spaces for the contestation of government policies in an era of illiberalism, democratic decline, and rising nationalism and populism. I focus on recent high-profile contestations…
Universities & Crisis (U&C) team members were among the 2,000 participants at this year’s General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). Held at Charles University in Prague, the event brought together academics from across Europe and beyond for more than 500 panels on political science, international relations and sociology research. In…
Hannah Arendt and Participatory Democracy: A People’s Utopia Dr. Shmuel Lederman12 April 202314:30 – 17:30Cambridge Hosted by the Hannah Arendt Center for Political Studies This book centers on a relatively neglected theme in the scholarly literature on Hannah Arendt’s political thought: her support for a new form of government in which citizen councils would replace contemporary representative…
Universities in crisis: police, militarization, protest and universities in Perú Professor Cecilia Méndez and Dr. Patricia Oliart3 February 202317:00 -19:00Cambridge/Online Hosted by University of Cambridge PhD student Maria Fernanda Rodriguez, in solidarity with the scholars and students currently in struggle against state violence in Perú, this panel features Peruvian scholars Prof Cecilia Méndez (UC Santa Barbara) and Dr Patricia Oliart (Newcastle University)….