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Creating Publics, Creating Democracies

18 June 2012 (All day) - 19 June 2012 (All day)

Further details to follow

Convenor - Nick Mahony

Creating Publics, Creating Democracies - Call for papers

18 June 2012 (All day) - 19 June 2012 (All day)
That there is a relationship between publicness and democracy has often been taken for granted. However, at this time of widespread instability, political upheaval and experimentation, when publics are increasingly being called upon to act, it is sometimes in the name of democracy, but not always.

Studying gender and sexuality psychosocially: Dialogue across perspectives

15 May 2012, 10:00 - 17:00

Convenor: Meg Barker

Details to follow

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.

Crisis of Participation; Participating in Crisis

12 April 2011, 10:15 - 16:30

One-day workshop organised by the Publics Research Programme (Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance, The Open University) in collaboration with Jenny Pearce (Professor of Latin American Politics and Director of the International Centre for Participation Studies, University of Bradford).

Workshop rationale

Studying the Psychosocial

4 February 2011, 10:30 - 17:00

Organised by the Social Psychology Research Group at The Open University, with the support of the Qualitative Methods in Psychology section of the BPS, and the Psychosocial Studies Cluster at the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance, The Open University.

CCIG 'War & Visuality:conflict and the politics of perception' Workshop

10 June 2010, 13:00 - 11 June 2010, 17:00

This workshop addresses the relationship between war and visuality to scrutinise both how questions of seeing having figured as integral to the ways in which wars are fought, and how war is encountered as a spectacle and responded to.

Bodies research programme workshop

25 May 2010, 18:00 - 26 May 2010, 18:00

This is an invitation only event. For participants, the programme is set out below.

The workshop will revolve around sessions of roundtable discussion in which each participant will have a chance to speak briefly about their individual projects and how they bear on key common conceptual issues. The roundtable will explore some of the following themes:

Citizenship without Community

10 May 2010 (All day)

This international, interdisciplinary workshop asks in what ways do recent attempts at rethinking citizenship, mobility and community reframe what it means to act politically? Post-national citizenship, mobile citizenship, citizenship in international relations, transnational enactment of citizenship, citizenship in cities all challenge the assumption that state-like communities are the privileged sites of political practice.