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Summer term 2011
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Cities in Conflict With the rapid intensification of urbanisation, cities have increasingly become targets, terrains, and territories of conflict. Cities are now seen as spaces of conflict, ranging from urban violence to warfare. Yet the city is also seen as a space of consociation, a place for rebuilding and for making new urban ties, lives and associations. Is it possible to construct new forms of urban life after conflict? This event is supported by the Centre for Urban and Community Research and the Unit for Global Justice. |
20 June, 9am-6pm, Institute for Contemporary Arts (ICA) Speakers include [ Find our more... ] |
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Non-Governmental Memory: |
21 June [ Find out more... ] |
Spring term 2010
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Theorising Abuse: An ethnographic perspective on drugs in the US inner city, Professor Philippe Bourgois Respondent: Dr Claire Alexander, London School of Economics |
27 April [ Find out more... ] |
Summer term 2009
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Masterclass in Visual Ethics, with award-winning director, Refik Hodzik |
30 April 2009 |
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Double-bill Screening of ‘Justice Unseen’ and ‘Witness 710399’, followed by a Q+A with their award-winning director, Refik Hodzik |
30 April 2009 |
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The Legacy of the ICTY, Talk with International Liaison Officer, Refik Hodzic |
1 May 2009 |
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Reinventing Social Emancipation through Epistemologies of the South, Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos |
6 May 2009 |
Spring term 2009
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Bringing Justice Home: The Human Rights Trial of Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, Prof. Lisa J. Laplante For more information on the Fujimori trial, see: www.fujimoriontrial.org/ |
10 March 2009 |
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‘Therapeutic’ Regimes of Governing Trauma and the Dea(r)th of the Political: |
3 March 2009 |
Autumn term 2008-2009
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Justice on the Slaughter-Bench: the Problem of War Guilt in Arendt and Jaspers |
November 2008 This paper develops a meta-ethical inquiry into the nature and possibility of international justice. It sees the understanding of such justice as caught between two poles. On one hand, there is a naively optimistic vision of its possibility in a world of nation-states and power politics; on the other, an overly reductive and pessimistic account of justice as only that of the victor. The ethical truth lies between these two positions, in an aporetic middle ground. The paper addresses its concerns by constructing a debate between Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers out of their different positions in Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem" and Jaspers's "The Question of German War Guilt". What emerges rather is an uneasy relationship between the legal and the ethical, where the latter both draws on and disturbs legal categories. |
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Anthropology and Post-Conflict Societies a seminar series organised by the Unit for Global Justice and Department of Anthropology |
1 October to 10 December 2008 |
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Agamben and (the Politics of) the Image |
2 December 2008 Professor John Lechte (Sociology, Macquarie University) in discussion with Ben Noys (University of Chichester) and James Martin and Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths). |