Events archive
Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 4:00 PM
A major intervention into debates surrounding the historical trajectories of capitalism, Subsumption in Kant, Hegel, and Marx: From the Critique of Reason to the Critique of Society systematically refutes the influential thesis that we are now in a stage of "total" capitalist subsumption which leaves no space of refuge or resistance.
Join us to hear more about Sanez de Sicilia’s account of subsumption, followed by a conversation with Felix del Campo and an open discussion.

Monday, March 31, 2025, 9:00 AM
Call for papers deadline extended to 22 January 2025
Convenors:
- Javier Sajuria, Queen Mary University of London
- Noam Titelman, Sciences Po
- Lisa Zanotti, Universidad Diego Portales
Organised by the QMUL Centre for Governance and Democracy, with the generous support of the EPOP Anthony King Prize 2024.

Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 5:30 PM
Professor Lasse Thomassen delivers our latest inaugural lecture, "'I sure miss George W. Bush:' Deconstruction, Post-Truth and Trump."
Our inaugural lecture series forms a key part of our annual events programme, showcasing the expertise and research of some of Queen Mary's leading experts. These public lectures are an opportunity for our professors to introduce themselves and their field and to showcase their achievements in research, teaching, public engagement and impact. Lectures are free of charge and we warmly invite all staff, students and members of the public to attend.
Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 5:30 PM
Join us for the launch of Jaakko Heiskanen’s Ethnos of the Earth: International Order and the Emergence of Ethnicity.
Friday, March 14, 2025, 5:30 PM
Join us for the inaugural UK book launch of Eros and Empire (Stanford University Press) and hear from author Alexander Stoffel in conversation with Ayça Çubukçu (LSE), Nivi Manchanda (QMUL), and Abeera Khan (SOAS).
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Thursday, March 13, 2025, 12:00 PM
Join the Mile End Institute for its latest lunchtime webinar to explore the tumultuous political economy of the new Labour government. What have we learnt about Labour's economic strategy?

Thursday, February 27, 2025, 5:00 PM
This dialogue event, presented by the Centre for the Study of Race, Class and Empire, will honor the memory and lasting intellectual legacy of Elleni Centime Zeleke.

Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 6:00 PM
The crisis of the liberal international order (LIO) is the dominant narrative of our time. It pervades scholarship, journalism, and policy discussion, influencing the ways we see contemporary global tensions, future possibilities, and political choices. In this talk, Professor Michael C Williams will argue that what we are seeing is not simply a crisis of the LIO, but of the CIO – the conservative international order.

Wednesday, January 29, 2025, 5:00 PM
Join TheoryLAB as we hear from Ben Turner (University of Kent), author of Returning to Judgement: Bernard Stiegler and Continental Political Theory, in conversation with Professor Ian James (University of Cambridge).
Friday, June 21, 2024, 3:00 PM
Speaker: Ann Garascia (CSUSB)

Thursday, May 30, 2024, 3:00 PM
Maja and Reuben Fowkes discuss artistic engagements with the crisis of the forest that identify the causes of deforestation in systems of exploitation and extraction rooted in colonialism and capitalism and activate practices of solidarity and care by looking to Indigenous, traditional and ecosocialist epistemologies.
Speaker: Maja and Reuben Fowkes

Tuesday, May 21, 2024, 6:15 PM
A panel of experts discuss the value of the unelected House of Lords from a Labour Party perspective.

Tuesday, May 7, 2024, 6:30 PM
Join the Mile End Institute for a discussion about British politics, the Labour Party and Dr Karl Pike's new book - Getting Over New Labour - on 7 May.

Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 3:00 PM
How did early modern South Asians think about and engage with plants? What value did plants bring to their lives? Dr Neha Vermani addresses these questions by focusing on the domestic gardens that were situated within the mansions of the elites associated with the South Asia Islamic Mughal empire.

Friday, April 19, 2024, 9:30 AM
The second Doing IPS Spring Symposium, Navigating Catastrophic Times, brings together scholars from across the humanities and social sciences around thematic roundtables on the Planthroposcene, military imaginaries and theories of time.

Wednesday, April 10, 2024, 5:30 PM
Hear from Professor Christopher Phillips in conversation with Chatham House's Renad Mansour for the launch of Battleground: 10 Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East (Yale University Press).

Thursday, March 21, 2024, 5:00 PM
Join Global Politics Unbound (GPU) for a screening (with popcorn) of Barbie (2023), followed by a roundtable discussion with Giulia Carabelli, Martin Coward, Kim Hutchings, Alex Stoffel, Sara Escobar Chnari, and more.
Monday, March 18, 2024, 5:00 PM
Join Global Politics Unbound as we hear from Dr Justin Rosenberg in conversation with two scholars working within the broad field of Critical IR, Judith Koch (Sussex) and Alex Stoffel (QMUL).
The discussion will zone in on the potentials and limits of the ‘Multiplicity’ approach to IR and historical sociology, and how attentiveness to multiplicity can help foster new avenues for understanding the current crisis of international order.
Speaker: Dr Justin Rosenberg

Wednesday, February 28, 2024, 5:16 PM
Join the authors of Global Politics: Myths and Mysteries – Drs Aggie Hirst, Diego de Merich, Joe Hoover, and Roberto Roccu – for the launch of their new textbook, “the only text that centres students’ critical thinking skills, empowering them to become truly independent thinkers of global politics”.

Tuesday, February 6, 2024, 6:30 PM
Join Global Politics Unbound for the London launch of Dr Ida Danewid's groundbreaking new book, Resisting Racial Capitalism: An Antipolitical Theory of Refusal.
Speakers:
- Dr. Nivi Manchanda (QMUL)
- Dr. Adam Elliott-Cooper (QMUL)
- Dr. Olivia Rutazibwa (LSE)
- Dr. John Narayan (KCL)

Tuesday, December 19, 2023, 6:00 PM
A Conversation with Sita Balani and Nivi Manchanda

Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 4:00 PM
Speaker: Shreyaa Bhatt (QMUL)

Wednesday, November 22, 2023, 5:30 PM

Wednesday, November 22, 2023, 4:00 PM
Speaker: Nick Hostettler (QMUL)
Why Our Pedagogic Practices Need Theory, and the Theory They Need: Literacy and the Technicisation of Culture

Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 5:30 PM
Worried about life after your degree? Want to know what you need to do to get your dream job in London?

Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 4:00 PM
Speaker: Robin Dunford (Brighton)
Decolonisation, Dewesternisation and the Responsibility to Protect

Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 6:00 PM

Wednesday, November 1, 2023, 5:30 PM

Thursday, October 26, 2023, 6:00 PM
Speaker: Community leader, Tatiana Mendonça Cardoso
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Thursday, October 26, 2023, 5:00 PM
Not in My Neigbourhood tells the intergenerational stories of the ways in which ordinary citizens respond to the policies, processes, and institutions driving contemporary forms of spatial violence and gentrification in Cape Town, New York, and São Paulo.
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Thursday, October 19, 2023, 6:30 PM
Say Their Names, Support Their Killers: Police Reform After the 2020 Black Lives Matter Uprisings
Speaker: Professor Naomi Murakawa

Wednesday, October 18, 2023, 4:00 PM
Speaker: Lasse Thomassen (QMUL)
The Force of Truth: Deconstruction and Post-Truth

Tuesday, October 17, 2023, 7:00 PM
Join South London Botanical Institute at the West Norwood Library (or online) for our free talk with Dr. Giulia Carabelli and discover the importance of houseplants and their roles in building worlds.
Speaker: Giulia Carabelli

Wednesday, October 11, 2023, 4:00 PM
Speaker: Paul Kirby (QMUL)
Feminist Realism: Jean Bethke Elshtain and Armed Civic Virtue

Wednesday, October 4, 2023, 4:00 PM
Speaker: Peter Brett (QMUL)
Do We Really Need Rights?

Friday, September 29, 2023, 4:00 PM
Environmental Futures (Climate Change as Socio-cultural Phenomenon)

Friday, September 8, 2023, 9:00 AM

Friday, August 25, 2023, 4:00 PM
Environmental Futures (Climate Change as Socio-cultural Phenomenon)

Friday, July 28, 2023, 4:00 PM
Environmental Futures (Climate Change as Socio-cultural Phenomenon)

Wednesday, July 26, 2023, 6:00 PM
If you could ask any question about International Relations or Public Policy, what would it be?

Thursday, July 13, 2023, 6:00 PM
Interested in speaking to current online students at Queen Mary and asking them your online study questions? Our live Virtual Open Day is your opportunity to do just that, and we’d love to invite you personally to attend. Click the link below to find out more.

Wednesday, July 12, 2023, 12:00 PM
This talk is part of the IHSS Environmental Future research programme and the Garden Museum's new Branch Out programme, a series of free events and activities exploring gardening, art, floristry, plant science, history, design, and more!

Tuesday, July 11, 2023, 4:00 PM
At this seminar, held in conjunction with the School of History, Mari Takayanagi will present her new book, Necessary Women: The Untold Story of Parliament's Working Women.

Wednesday, July 5, 2023, 6:00 PM
At this event, the authors of When Nothing Works will present their new and incisive analysis of the UK's mounting economic and social problems.

Tuesday, July 4, 2023, 6:30 PM
At this event in the heart of Westminster, Dr Colm Murphy will launch his new book on the 'modernisation' of the Labour Party, Futures of Socialism.

Friday, June 30, 2023, 4:00 PM
Environmental Futures (Climate Change as Socio-cultural Phenomenon)

Monday, June 26, 2023, 4:00 PM
At this seminar, held in conjunction with the School of History, David Deevers will present his new book, The Great Defiance: How the world took on the British Empire.

Thursday, June 15, 2023, 8:45 AM
This major conference, hosted by the Mile End Institute, will discuss the urgent questions that the British centre-left must address, not only to win power at the next election, but to devise a credible governing strategy for the decade ahead.
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Wednesday, May 24, 2023, 5:00 PM
GPU presents Migration and Belonging: A students’ showcase of politics, art and intimacy.

Monday, May 22, 2023, 3:00 PM

Friday, April 14, 2023, 12:00 PM
Transversalising the social and political: writing time; making space.

Wednesday, April 12, 2023, 4:00 PM
Speaker: Mirko Palestrino
‘Embodied Timekeeping (Postdoc Project Proposal)'

Wednesday, April 5, 2023, 4:00 PM
Speaker: Alex Stoffel (LSE)
‘Family Matters in International Politics: A Global Historical Sociology of the American Family in the Postwar Era’

Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 6:00 PM

Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 4:00 PM
Speaker: Ben Turner (Kent)
Post-Work and the Problem of Recognition: A Defence of the Reduction of Working Time

Wednesday, March 22, 2023, 4:00 PM
Speaker: Alvina Hoffman
‘Human rights elites in world politics: Speaking for the universal’

Wednesday, March 15, 2023, 4:00 PM
Speaker: Robin Dunford (Brighton)

Wednesday, March 1, 2023, 4:00 PM
Speaker: Humeira Iqtidar (KCL)
‘Critical Theory and The Global South’

Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 10:30 AM
The exhibition is free to visit at Queen Mary University of London’s BLOC studio in the Arts One building on Mile End Road (E1 4NS) from 1-28 February between 10:30am and 12pm (with access by appointment at other times).

Wednesday, February 22, 2023, 4:00 PM
Speaker: Negar Mansouri (HEI - Geneva)
‘Reconfiguring Relations of Production: International Organizations and the Making of Global Classes’

Wednesday, February 15, 2023, 4:00 PM
Speaker: Peter Brett
'Do We Really Need Rights?’

Wednesday, February 8, 2023, 4:00 PM
Speaker: Jaakko Heiskanen
'The Reflex to Turn: A History of Turn-Talk in International Relations’

Tuesday, January 31, 2023, 5:00 PM
LINES Making Friends; Crossing Borders

Wednesday, January 25, 2023, 6:00 PM
TheoryLAB welcomes Dr David Jarrett to discuss his recent book Lockean Property Ethics and Restitution.

Monday, January 23, 2023, 5:30 PM

Saturday, December 10, 2022, 10:00 AM
SOAS’s Brunei Gallery is pleased to present a major new exhibition, Empty Cradles: Israel’s Disappeared Children on display from 23 September to 10 December 2022.

Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 4:00 PM
Speaker: Regan Burles
'Geopolitics and Globalisation’

Wednesday, November 30, 2022, 4:00 PM
Speaker: James Eastwood
‘Land of the Children: Colonialism, Child Removal, and the Creation of the State of Israel’
Wednesday, November 23, 2022, 6:30 PM
Multi-disciplinary panel discussion on the Chilean state and the constitution.

Wednesday, November 23, 2022, 6:00 PM
Inaugural Lecture of Professor Kimberly Hutchings
Speaker: Professor Kimberly Hutchings

Wednesday, November 23, 2022, 4:00 PM
Speaker: Nicholas Hostettler
‘Orality, Literacy and Pedagogy in late capitalist modernity’

Tuesday, November 22, 2022, 5:30 PM
Speaker: Dr. Nina Reiners

Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 6:00 PM
Centre for European Research Seminar Series 2022/2023

Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 4:00 PM
Speaker: Joe Hoover
‘The Injustice of Gentrification’
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 1:30 PM
Speaker: Dr Richard Johnson

Thursday, October 20, 2022, 5:00 PM

Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 4:00 PM
Speaker: Keren Weitzberg
‘The Other Climate Technology: Biometrics, Climate Change, and the Politics of Austerity’

Wednesday, September 14, 2022, 11:00 AM
Thursday, September 1, 2022, 2:00 PM

Wednesday, June 1, 2022, 6:00 PM
Speaker: Professor Jef Huysmans (QMUL)

Friday, May 27, 2022, 1:00 PM
Speaker: Dr Akos Kopper

Thursday, May 26, 2022, 2:00 PM
Speaker: Dr Akos Kopper

Tuesday, May 24, 2022, 5:30 PM
Speaker: Dr Joanne Yao (QMUL)

Tuesday, May 3, 2022, 9:00 AM
Speaker: Dr Javier Sajuria (QMUL)

Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 6:00 PM
Friday, April 8, 2022, 12:00 PM
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 has led to unprecedented refugees flows in Europe: in addition to the 6.48 millions of internally displaced people, the UNHCR estimated on 28 March 2022 that 3.9 millions of persons had fled their home and crossed borders.
This event gathers high-level experts to analyse the answers provided to these massive flows of refugees. It will focus on three different individual and collective actors with distinctive roles and reactions:
Monday, March 21, 2022, 12:00 PM
Speaker: Dr Sarah Wolff

Tuesday, March 15, 2022, 6:15 PM
Speaker: Dr James Muldoon (University of Exeter)
Thursday, November 25, 2021, 6:00 PM
Wednesday, April 7, 2021, 12:30 PM
Wednesday, March 31, 2021, 12:30 PM
Wednesday, March 24, 2021, 12:30 PM
Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 12:30 PM

Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 4:00 PM

Friday, March 5, 2021, 2:00 PM
Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 12:30 PM

Monday, March 1, 2021, 12:00 PM

Thursday, February 25, 2021, 4:00 PM
Wednesday, February 24, 2021, 12:30 PM
Wednesday, February 17, 2021, 12:30 PM

Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 4:00 PM
Wednesday, February 3, 2021, 12:30 PM

Wednesday, January 27, 2021, 6:00 PM
Wednesday, January 27, 2021, 12:30 PM
Wednesday, December 2, 2020, 12:30 PM
Wednesday, November 25, 2020, 4:00 PM
Taster Session for college and sixth form students. Parents, carers, and teachers welcome.
Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 4:30 PM
Taster Session for college and sixth form students. Parents, carers, and teachers welcome.
Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 12:30 PM
Wednesday, November 11, 2020, 4:00 PM
Student Panel and Q&A for college and sixth form students. Parents, carers, and teachers welcome.
Wednesday, October 21, 2020, 12:30 PM
Wednesday, October 7, 2020, 12:30 PM
Wednesday, September 30, 2020, 12:30 PM
Wednesday, April 1, 2020, 12:30 PM
25 March 2020
11 March 2020
26 February 2020
LGBT+ History Month: Irrepressible non-state actors Joé de Vivre and Tilda Death invite you for a special evening of drag, queer history and Molotov Cocktails. A casual tutorial that will teach you the essentials in flaring, armed resistance, poetic resistance and co-resistance. Tilda's got some recipes every guerrilla needs, and there's no assimilating Joé when he's sugar high on mocktails. The party at the end of queer history's nearly started, time to get prepared... What to expect: cocktails & mocktails, performance and opportunities to get your hands dirty. Joé de Vivre and Tilda Death are Jo Tyabji and Raz Weiner. Previous work together includes An Urgent Queervention on Antisemitism and Islamophobia (Tate Modern), and Motherland (UK Tour). Jo Tyabji is a director and performer who drags as Joé de Vivre. Recent work includes MY NAME IS MY OWN at the Southbank Centre ('Furious & exciting & delicate & beautiful’ @reviewsntings), MOTHERLAND, currently touring ('Phenomenal...drag performance personified' @CMS_Britain). She co-founded ivo theatre in 2014, and co-created the Outrageous! open commission for queer artists in Bombay and London in 2017. Raz Weiner is a maker and researcher of performance. Raz works professionally as a dramaturg and director and as a researcher at QMUL’s Politics and IR Department. His work applies a combined methodology of archival research, ethnography and autoethnography to the study of drag as phenomenology, at the intersection of queer theory and colonialism. His drag-persona Tilda Death is a life project, a research methodology and a philosophy, all put in one short wig.
26 February 2020
The research seminars take place weekly excluding reading week and are drop in events for staff and students.
19 February 2020
The research seminars take place weekly excluding reading week and are drop in events for staff and students.
12 February 2020
The research seminars take place weekly excluding reading week and are drop in events for staff and students.
5 February 2020
The research seminars take place weekly excluding reading week and are drop in events for staff and students.
29 January 2020
The research seminars take place weekly excluding reading week and are drop in events for staff and students.
11 December 2019
The research seminars take place weekly excluding reading week and are drop in events for staff and students.
4 December 2019
The research seminars take place weekly excluding reading week and are drop in events for staff and students.
27 November 2019
The research seminars take place weekly excluding reading week and are drop in events for staff and students.
20 November 2019
The research seminars take place weekly excluding reading week and are drop in events for staff and students.
13 November 2019
The research seminars take place weekly excluding reading week and are drop in events for staff and students.
30 October 2019
The research seminars take place weekly excluding reading week and are drop in events for staff and students.
24 October 2019
QMUL TheoryLAB Presents: Nuclear Wargames: Ethics and the Quest to Quantify Conflict
23 October 2019
The research seminars take place weekly excluding reading week and are drop in events for staff and students.
16 October 2019
The research seminars take place weekly excluding reading week and are drop in events for staff and students.
9 October 2019
The research seminars take place weekly excluding reading week and are drop in events for staff and students.
2 October 2019
The research seminars take place excluding reading week and are drop in events for staff and students.
25 September 2019
The research seminars take place weekly excluding reading week and are drop in events for staff and students.
21 January 2019
28 November 2018
24 October 2018
21 March 2018
7 March 2018
28 February 2018
31 January 2018
24 January 2018
19 January 2018
14 December 2017
13 December 2017
6 December 2017
29 November 2017
25 October 2017
10 October 2017
10 May 2017
7 March 2017
15 February 2017
7 February 2017
31 January 2017
24 January 2017
18 January 2017
17 January 2017
14 December 2016
6 December 2016
30 November 2016
23 November 2016
23 November 2016
16 November 2016
9 November 2016
2 November 2016
1 November 2016
30 March 2016
23 March 2016
10 February 2016
3 February 2016
20 January 2016
13 January 2016
16 December 2015
2 December 2015
2 December 2015
25 November 2015
19 November 2015
11 November 2015
5 November 2015
28 October 2015
21 October 2015
30 September 2015
2 September 2015
1 September 2015
5 June 2015
21 April 2015
25 March 2015
Research Seminar, Centre for European Research
10 March 2015
2 March 2015
18 February 2015
A Workshop for research students and early career researchers with Prof Yannis Stavrakakis
11 February 2015
10 February 2015
4 February 2015
Research Seminar, Centre for Global Security and Development
14 January 2015
10 December 2014
Centre for European Research, Research Seminar Speaker: Dr Taptuk Erkoc (QMUL) All are welcome to attend. Drinks and a sandwich lunch is provided.
3 December 2014
Discussant: Prof. Chantal Mouffe (University of Westminister)Chair: (Queen Mary)
3 December 2014
Centre for European Research, Research Seminar Speaker: Dr Christine Reh (UCL) All are welcome to attend. Drinks and a sandwich lunch is provided.
26 November 2014
Speaker: Knox Peden (Australian National University)Chair: (Queen Mary)
19 November 2014
Discussant: Prof Engin Isin (Open University)Chair: (Queen Mary)
19 November 2014
Centre for European Research, Research Seminar Speaker: Dr Maija Setala (University of Turku)
14 May 2014
Jason Read (University of Southern Maine), The Affective Composition of the Political: From Negative Solidarity to Collective Indignatio.
26 March 2014
Oliver Feltham (American University of Paris), Who is the ruling authority? Spinoza and Hobbes on power and subjectivity and Andrea Bardin (Brunel University, London), The Early-Modern Metamorphosis of the Body Politic: Hobbes’s Anomaly
19 March 2014
13 March 2014
This event will be chaired by Professor Ray Kiely. Dr Bryan Mabee, Dr Francoise Boucek and Dr Lee Jones will make some introductory remarks of about 5 to 7 minutes each, which will be followed by questions. This event is run through the Centre for the study of Global Security and Development.
26 February 2014
Introduction: Identity, Alterity, Monstrosity: Figures of the multitude in Hobbes and Spinoza - Filippo del Lucchese (Brunel and Ciph, Paris) ; Caroline Williams (QMUL).
27 November 2013
23 October 2013
12 October 2013
20 March 2013
14 March 2013
28 November 2012
12 November 2012
Hosted by the Institute for Conflict, Security and Development Studies (CSDS)
8 November 2012
1 November 2012
Speakers include: Andrew Beechey Zurich Insurance, Andy Summers Chartis Insurance. PLUS Exclusive Analysis
25 October 2012
THE LONGUE DUREE OF THE FAR-RIGHT: IDEOLOGY, ORGANISATION, STATE FORMATION AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
23 October 2012