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2022

7th December 
Seminar
Critiques, Methods, and Tools for Legal Research

Alex Damianos, Vicky Kapogianni, Philipp Kender and Benjamin Thorne introduced their research and the questions and methodologies that drive them.

Chaired by Jose Bellido.

6 December
A hybrid book discussion with the author, Mohammad Abdou

Dr Mohamed Abdou, assistant professor at the American University of Cairo and visiting scholar at Cornell University.

Discussants: Dr Ahmed Memon, Lecturer at the University of Cardiff and Huseyin Disli, PhD fellow at the University of Kent.

Chair: Dr Shahd Hammouri, Lecturer at the University of Kent.

Poster 

4th November 2022
Workshop
Forgotten Foundations of Feminist Legal Scholarship II
Call for papers

Wednesday 23 Feb 2022
Inaugural Annual Lecture
‘Psychosphere and Subjectivity in the Viral Age’

Renowned Italian philosopher, theorist and activist Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi  delivered the Centre for Critical Thought’s inaugural lecture on ‘Psychosphere and Subjectivity in the Viral Age’

The lecture was delivered online (via Zoom), followed by an audience Q&A

2020

Afterlives of the Universal

  • 5-6 March 2020 (postponed)
  • Organised by Dr Connal Parsley and Professor Maria Drakopoulou (Kent Law School)

Brand Biographies

  • 24 and 25 January 2020
  • CCT workshop
  • Organised by Professor Alain Pottage (Sciences Po) and Dr Jose Bellido (Kent Law School)
  • Birkbeck College, London

2019

Anarchist Prophets and the Revelations of Law 

  • Tuesday 22 October
  • Templeman Seminar Room 2, 15.00 – 17.00
  • Professor James Martell San Francisco State University

Justices of the Peace and Colonial Theatres of Criminalisation

  • Wednesday 30 October
  • Templeman Seminar Room 2, ​16.00 – 18.00
  • Professor George Pavlich Canada Research Chair, University of Alberta

Artist Talk /Heath Bunting

  • 15 March 2019
  • Organised by Dr Connal Parsley (Kent Law School)
  • Studio3 Gallery

National/International – Private/Public – Domestic/Foreign: are these categories still relevant?

  • 4 March 2019
  • Roundtable discussion
  • Organised by Maria Azevedo (Kent Law School)
  • Mooting Chamber, Wigoder Building

The Ethics of Political Resistance: Althusser, Badiou, Deleuze

  • 11 June 2019
  • Book launch
  • With the author: Dr Chris Henry (Kent)
  • School of Politics and International Relations Centre for European and World Languages.

2018

Recollecting Roman Law

  • 19 and 20 November 2018
  • CCT workshop
  • Organised by Professor Maria Drakopoulou (Kent Law School) and Professor Alain Pottage (LSE)
  • Darwin College

An Introduction to the Analysis of Value in Marx

  • 19 November 2018
  • CCT Work-in-Progress
  • Dr Henrique Wellen (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil)
  • Eliot Seminar Room 1

Thanatopolitics: Total Power Contra Care

  • 23 November 2018
  • CCT Lecture
  • Dr Georgios Tsagdis (Westminster/Warburg Institute)
  • Cornwallis East Seminar Room 1

Resisting Assemblages

  • 26 November, 2018
  • CCT Work-in-Progress
  • Dr Chris Henry (Kent, SPIR)
  • Eliot Seminar Room 1

On Indifference

  • 28 November, 2018
  • CCT Workshop (see attached poster)
  • Professor William Watkin (Brunel)
  • With Dr Hayley Gibson (Kent Law School), Dr Chris Henry (CCT Junior Research Fellow) and David Bremner (Kent/Paris VIII)
  • Templeman Seminar Room 3

Ways to write a biography of Marx: A comparison of descriptive and prescriptive approaches

  • 3 December, 2018
  • CCT Postgraduate Seminar Series
  • Ling, Feixia (Sun Yat-sen University, China)
  • Eliot Seminar Room 1

Critiquing Capitalism Today: New Ways to Read Marx

  • 4 December, 2018
  • CCT Lecture
  • Dr Frederick Harry Pitts (Bristol)
  • Darwin Lecture Theatre 2