Critical Theory in (a Time of) Crisis

CAPPE (University of Brighton) and SSPT (University of Sussex)

 

Critical Theory in (a Time of) Crisis

 

A two-day postgraduate and early career conference, organised by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics & Ethics (University of Brighton) and the Research Centre for Studies in Social and Political Thought (University of Sussex)

 

Sponsored by the Mind Association

 

J.D. Bernal Peace Collection catalogue now online

On 30 October we launched our new catalogue of JD Bernal's peace collection. Thanks to sponsorship from the late Beryl Huffingly and the hard work of Project Archivist Joseph Dance, this internationally significant archive on the world peace movement can now be searched on our online catalogue here. At the launch event daughter Jane Bernal paid tribute to her brilliant, endlessly curious father whose commitment to the peace movement knew no bounds.

Work in Early Modern Italy, 1500–1800

Recent decades have seen many economic history books and articles published about working men and women, small and big entrepreneurs, guilds and state manufactures, farmers and journeymen, and children and citizens. Studies have been conducted both at a macro and a micro level, at a global and at a local scale and with regional and national approaches aimed at analysing cultural, social and economic phenomena associated with the world of work. Yet, there is still new ground to be covered.

Biographies and Politics: Involvement of Jews and People of Jewish Origin in Leftist Movements in 19th and 20th Century Poland

The conference 'Biographies and Politics: The Involvement of Jews and People of Jewish Origin in Leftist Movements in 19th and 20th Century Poland' aims to determine the actual Jewish engagement in leftist movements in Poland in the 19th and 20th centuries from the point of view of their individual ideological choices.

Personal histories, family fortunes, and forming political identities will be analyzed using a biographical method. Thus, they will help answer the question of what drove Polish Jews to join leftist organizations.