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Past events

Citizenship after Orientalism

6 February 2012, 10:00 - 11 February 2012, 13:00
First Oecumene Symposium - Citizenship after Orientalism

A six-day event with conference, international PhD school and a series of workshops addressing topics on critical new ways of conceptualising citizenship.

Further details about the event

Emotional dimensions of prejudice, a presentation by John Dixon

17 January 2012, 14:00 - 16:00

A joint Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) and Social Psychology Research Group (SPRG) event.

Enduring Love? Project Launch

16 January 2012, 13:30 - 17:00

The Enduring Love? project launch will take place on Monday 16 January 2012 at The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Conference Rooms, The County Hall, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7PB.

Emotionality and the 'turn to affect', a presentation by Paul Stenner

13 December 2011, 14:15 - 16:00

A joint CCIG (Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance) and SPRG (Social Psychology Research Group) Event.

Paul Stenner (Professor of Social Psychology, OU)
Emotionality, liminality and the 'turn to affect' within the social sciences

CCIG Forum 24: 'Mixing/non-mixing?'

6 December 2011, 10:00 - 17:00

'Mixing'/'Non-mixing'? The in/significance of race in mixed raciality, family narratives and welfare practices

Book Launch - Making modern mothers

21 September 2011, 16:00 - 19:30

Making modern mothers
by Rachel Thomson, Mary Jane Kehily, Lucy Hadfield and Sue Sharpe

 

Creating Publics workshop

21 July 2011, 10:00 - 22 July 2011, 16:00

The Publics Research Programme at The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance at The Open University, with the University of Westminster, is convening a two-day workshop in central London on 21 and 22 July 2011 on the theme of Creating Publics.

CCIG Forum 23 - Resisting (In)Security, Securing Resistance

12 July 2011, 13:00 - 18:30

Security and insecurity dominate the vocabulary of social, political and economic problems. Terrorism, migration, poverty and, most recently, the financial crisis are made sense of in these terms, as forms of insecurity to be eliminated, neutralised or at least contained with the aim of achieving security. Yet, insecurity and security are not so easily separable, as governmental interventions to make secure entail their own insecurities. Paradoxically, the elimination of insecurity both works through and fosters insecurity by constituted risky and dangerous subjects alongside objects of insecurity. So how can resistance to insecurity be conceptualised, analysed and practiced? Resistance to insecurity can also subtly morph into that which it tries to resist. Resisting insecurity can become a security practice, while resistance to security gives rise to its own insecurities. What kinds of security practices emerge out of the desire to resist complex insecurities and what forms of resistance are thinkable?

CCIG Forum 22

21 June 2011, 10:00 - 17:00

CCIG Forums are monthly events at which CCIG members and others come together to discuss, articulate, experiment with and develop CCIG-related research and thinking, face-to-face and in a participative environment. Ten Forums are scheduled in advance for each calendar year, and are intended to feature a wide selection of events held throughout the day, including seminars, colloquia, keynotes, workshops, and conversational groups.

Creativity, the Radical Imagination and the Problem of Action

26 May 2011, 12:00 - 13:00

Raluca Soreanu (UCL)

In international theory, just as in social theory more broadly, we are traversing a crisis in terms of working with and from an actor with a psyche; this is manifested in a variety of ways, starting from plain biological reductionism, and ending with attempts to render the psyche as a more or less sophisticated supercomputer. As a way out of this impasse and as a measure of ethical social and international theory, I propose a de-functionalised conception of the imagination which is not de-coupled from generating emancipatory social forms. Following Cornelius Castoriadis, the radical imagination reveals itself to us as a continuously surging flux of representations, desires, and affects. While Castoriadis insists on the irreducible creativity of the psyche, of society and history, his psychoanalytic understanding of the radical imagination allows us to neither banalize creativity, nor transform it into an attribute of the genius. It is the imagination that renders the very relation of mind to world possible. Finally, I reflect on situations of association and dissociation where new global imaginaries resurface; here, the radical imagination functions as a resource for creating novel social forms and leads to moments of social emergence.