Race, Mental Health and State Violence

Event Date: 9 – 10 April 2018 Room B01 Clore Management Centre Birkbeck, University of London Torrington Sq London WC1E 7JL Birkbeck School of Law presents: Race, Mental Health and State Violence A Two-Day Symposium There are many ways to understand how the state regulates and controls those within its domain along and between the lines of race and mental …

Does Justice Policy Listen to Criminological Research?

Event Date: 8 March 2018 Room B01 Clore Management Centre Birkbeck, University of London Torrington Sq London WC1E 7JL Birkbeck School of Law presents: Mike Hough Retirement Event: Does Justice Policy Listen to Criminological Research? Experiences of speaking truth to power An event to mark the retirement of Professor Mike Hough Mike Hough spent 20 years as a government researcher …

Re-Reading the Revolution: Jean-Claude Milner in Conversation with Slavoj Žižek

Event Date: 6 October 2017 John Snow Lecture Theatre London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Keppel St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HT  The Birkbeck School of Law and The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities presents: Re-Reading the Revolution: Jean-Claude Milner in Conversation with Slavoj Žižek The School of Law and the Birkbeck Institute of the Humanities are very pleased to …

Resisting the (internal) Border: a Conference for Academics, Activists and Advocates

Event Date: 17 June 2017 Clore Lecture Theatre Clore Management Centre Birkbeck University of London Malet Street London WC1E 7HX The Capital and Social Justice Working Group, Department of Geography, the School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London, and the SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies, University of London, with the support of Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities present: …

Law, Race and Brexit Britain – Launch Event for Birkbeck Centre for Research on Race and Law

Event Date: 15 May 2017 Room 421 Birkbeck Main Building Birkbeck University of London Torrington Sq London WC1E 7HX The Birkbeck School of Law presents: Law, Race and Brexit Britain – Launch Event for Birkbeck Centre for Research on Race and Law In recent years, racist nationalism and fascism have increasingly found havens in countries across the world. The vote …

Drucilla Cornell – The Spirit of Revolution: Beyond the Dead Ends of Man

Event Date: 18 November 2016 Room B13 43 Gordon Square School of Arts Birkbeck, University of London London WC1H 0PD The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and the Birkbeck School of Law present: Professor Drucilla Cornell (Rutgers) with Stephen D. Seely – The Spirit of Revolution: Beyond the Dead Ends of Man In recent years, some theorists have effectively disavowed both …

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Jodi Dean – Crowds and Party

Event Date: 17 March 2016 Court Room, Senate House, Malet Street London WC1E 7HU Birkbeck School of Law presents: Book Launch: Jodi Dean – Crowds and Party The event includes guest speakers Mark Fisher, Stathis Kouvelakis, Elena Loizidou, Nick Srnicek and, of course, the one and only Jodi Dean. About Crowds and Party: How do mass protests become an organized …

Michel Rosenfeld – Post-Secular Constitutionalism

Professor Michel Rosenfeld discusses how modern constitutionalism based on the ideals of the Enlightenment favours secularism over religion, relegating the latter for the most part to the private sphere.

Michel Rosenfeld – Constitutionalism, Globalisation and Ethno-religious Conflict – V2

Enlightenment-based constitutions, such as the American and the French, tend to downplay ethno-cultural and religious differences by stressing individualism over group affiliation and by relegating religion to the private sphere. Today, mass migration, religious revival, globalization and supra-national governance exacerbate tensions and pose major challenges that call for inquiry regarding the continuing viability of a coherent constitutional order within and beyond the nation-state. Discussants will be Drs. Stewart Motha and Marinos Diamantides from the Law School.