Why France’s ‘gilets jaunes’ protesters are so angry
France’s “gilets jaunes” protests of December 1 were marked not only by their anger…
The Contentious Politics of Solidarity – International Conference – Call for papers
Call for Papers for the international conference “The Contentious Politics of Solidarity” that will…
Call for Contributions – Riots. Violence as politics?
“Riots” continue to make headlines in the media, usually as a violent reaction to…
2017 EISA Conference (Barcelona, Sept. 2017) – Critical Military Studies section call for panels
EISA’s 11th pan-European Conference on International Relations will take place in Barcelona (September, 13…
International Conference on Cross-Movement mobilisation – call for contributions
Call for contributions – Organised in joint cooperation between the Institute for Social Movements…
Manchester Peace Lecture 2016 – How to topple tyranny by Srdja Popovic
Join the University of Manchester’s Politics department for an afternoon with one of the…
Activist tribulations – Call for papers – Lille (France) December 12-13, 2016
While the sociology of participation abounds in works which have become classics on the…
African Student Movements and (Non) Violence – Call for papers
Call for papers – The 2016 African Studies Association of the UK (ASAUK) biennial…
Call for Papers – Mnemonics 2016: Forgetting, Denial, Repression
The fifth Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies summer school will take place from June 2-4, 2016…
Call for papers and panels – War, spatial and temporal logics of violence (Stockholm, June 2016)
A call for papers and panels on War, spatial and temporal logics of violence…
Call for Papers: ‘The Battle of Algiers at 50: Legacies in Film and Literature’
A one-day symposium on the legacies of Pontecorvo’s famous film “The Battle of Algiers”…
Call for Paper – When Comics go to War
In Europe, stories about war have always played a certain role in comics as…
Call for Papers – Conference – Borders, Walls and Violence: Costs and Alternatives to Border Fencing
Security fears and a widespread refusal to help refugees have fuelled a new spate…
Documentary and Neo-avant-garde. Photographic Practices in the 1970s
A series of six seminars and conferences organised by The Museo Reina Sofia in…
Disobey! Understanding the Politics and Ethics of Disobedience – Paris, September 2015
The Political Philosophy Research Committee (RC31) of the International Political Science Association (IPSA)…
What is Radical History? Conference – Birbeck, University of London – March 24, 2015
In 1970, Howard Zinn asked a question still important for politically-engaged academics today: “what…
The Arab Uprisings Four Years On, SOAS (London) 13 & 14 February 2015
Bahrain Watch, MENA Solidarity, Egypt Solidarity Initiative would like to invite you to a…
BISA PGN 2015 – Critical Terrorism Studies Section – Narratives of Violence – Call for Papers
The BISA Critical Terrorism Studies Section is organizing a section entitled narratives of violence for…
ECPR conference 2015 – Standing group on Political Violence – Call for papers
The ECPR Standing Group on Political Violence is organizing a section entitled Political Violence: Identity and…
Conference – Understanding Conflict: Research, ideas and responses to security threats
The Understanding Conflict conference seeks to address important questions about conflict in the contemporary…
Conference on Complicity – University of Brighton, April 2015
Call for papers – A two-day conference exploring issues of complicity, organised by the…
Conference – ‘A Peculiar Society’? Ireland, 1970s-1990s
Call for Paper. The last three decades of the twentieth century in Ireland were…
Workshop – Truth telling and truth seeking in contexts of impunity
A two day workshop and a public conference hosted by the Department of Anthropology of…
Contested Political Spaces: Urban, Land and Other Struggles – Warwick Graduate Conference
Call for Papers – Contested Political Spaces: Urban, Land and Other Struggles, Thursday 27-Friday 28 November 2014,…
CDDHPB 30th Anniversary – Human Rights in the Basque Country
2014 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the birth of the Committee for the Defence…
The Worlds of Violence – 9th Pan-European Conference on International Relations
Call for Section Chairs – 9th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Wednesday 23-Saturday 26 September…
Workshop – Disappearing War: Cinema and the politics of erasure in the war on terror
Monday 13th April 2015, Minghella Building, University of Reading (UK). The Department of Politics and…
Workshop on Political Violence, Terrorism and Extremism in Greece and Europe – 20 Jun, 2014
The Greek Politics Specialist Group (GPSG) is convening a workshop on political violence and…
BISA Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group Conference, 2014 – Call for Paper
The fourth Annual Conference of the BISA Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group (CSTWG)…
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