Centre for Study of Democracy announce new Spring 2022 seminar series

Based in the School of Social Sciences at Westminster, the Centre for the Study of Democracy undertakes research across a range of critical social and political challenges, promoting an interdisciplinary environment that embraces colleagues from politics, international relations, sociology and criminology. 

The seminar series will commence on 8 February online with a seminar from Paola Rivetti from Dublin City University. This seminar will cover revolutionary and counterrevolutionary politics in the Middle East and North Africa, and how these have transformed democracy transnationally.

The seminars will run until 5 April and cover a wide range of topics, including migration, governmentality, the politics of borders and global racial hierarchy.

The series will be divided into five events: 

1. Revolution and counter-revolution in the Middle East and North Africa: Implications for democracy

• Paola Rivetti, Dublin City University, Tuesday 8 February, 3-5.30pm, online

2. Border abolitionism: Migration, containment and the memory of struggles and rescue

• Martina Tazzioli, London Goldsmiths, Tuesday 22 February, 4-5.30pm, Westminster Forum, 32-38 Wells Street.

3. The politics of border abolition: Temsula AO and the northeast borderlands of India

• Nivi Machanda, Queen Mary University, Tuesday 8 March, 4-5.30pm, online.

4. Objectively justified: Racial disparity as the inevitable consequence of criminal injustice  

• Patrick Williams, Manchester Metropolitan University, Tuesday 22 March, 4-5.30pm, Westminster Forum, 32-38 Wells Street.

5. Global race war: International politics and racial hierarchy 

• Alexander Barder, Florida International University, Tuesday 5 April, 4-5.30pm, online.

All events in the series are open to staff, students and members of the public, but registration is required here.

To find out more, please email Dr Elisabetta Brighi, [email protected] or Dr Sacha Darke, [email protected].