Centre for the Study of Political Ideologies

Past Events

2019

CSPI Conference - The Ideological Power of Photography

Date
01 July 2019
Location:
TBC
Description
In early summer 2019, CSPI will be hosting a conference on the ideological power of photography.

2018

Annual Workshop 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

Counting History in China

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.

Populist Conservatism and Multiculturalism

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

New Directions in Conceptual History

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

10 Years as a United Nations Photographer

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

CSPI seminar with Dan Sage

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'.

CSPI seminar with Sylvia Necker

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'.

CSPI Workshop 2016

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

Cyberspace ideologies

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'.

The practice of tradition in social movements

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'.

Currents of neo-liberalism: British political ideologies and the New Right

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'.

Spartan militarism in modern thought

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'.

Re-engagement or rebellion?

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".

How nationalism travels: global history and the spread of nationalism

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'.

Sacred Shanghai

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'.

CSPI Annual Workshop

Date
03 July 2015
Description
The Centre for the Study of Political Ideologies is holding its annual workshop on Friday 3 July 2015.

What is a political value?

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?'

Re-energizing ideology studies: the maturing of a discipline

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.

Social transformation and cultural reproduction

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

Guanjun Wu
 
 

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.

CSPI Directors
 
 

 

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