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Centre for Research into Ideas and the Study of Political Ideologies

Events

The centre organises a range of seminars, conferences and in-house workshops.

2026

Legal Correlativities: Grotius's Hohfeldian Jurisprudence of Rights

Date
28 January 2026
Location:
MS Teams
Description
The first instalment of the CRISPI's Ideas and Ideologies seminar series with Daniel Lee.

Women and the Double Standard of Ambition

Date
04 February 2026
Description
CRISPI welcome Geertje Bol (Ghent University) to present at the Ideas and Ideologies seminar series.

Interwar Crisis Discourses and the Future of Liberal Democracy: Reflections on the Politics of Intellectual History

Date
11 February 2026
Location:
MS Teams
Description
The Centre for Research into Ideas and the Study of Political Ideologies is delighted to welcome Balázs Trencsényi (Central European University) to present at the Ideas and Ideologies seminar series.

From the Globe to Gaia: The Politics of Narrating the Anthropocene

Date
18 February 2026
Location:
MS Teams
Description
A CRISPI Ideas and Ideologies seminar with Sophie Chénard (Carleton University)

Stop the Machines: The Rise of Anti-Technology Extremism

Date
25 February 2026
Location:
MS Teams
Description
A CRISPI seminar with Mauro Lubrano (University of Bath).

First Among Equals?

Date
04 March 2026
Location:
MS Teams
Description
An Ideas and Ideologies seminar with CRISPI and Teresa Bejan (University of Oxford).

From Governing the Global Biosphere to Automating Reflexivity: The Last Utopias of Anticipatory Governance

Date
11 March 2026
Location:
Teams
Description
A CRISPI seminar with Egle Rindzeviciute (Kingston University)

Annexations and Decolonial Worldmaking: The Case of Goa

Date
18 March 2026
Location:
Teams
Description
The Centre for Research into Ideas and the Study of Political Ideologies will be welcoming Eraldo Souza dos Santos (University of California, Irvine) to the next instalment of the Ideas and Ideologies Speaker series.

Elites and Democracy

Date
25 March 2026
Location:
Teams
Description
A CRISPI speaker session with co-director Dr Hugo Drochon

Post-Liberalism and Its Discontents

Date
01 April 2026
Location:
Teams
Description
A CRISPI Ideas and Ideologies seminar with Matt Sleat (University of Sheffield)

 

2025

The Ideology of the Indo-Europeans

Date
29 January 2025
Location:
Teams
Description
The Centre for Research into Ideas and the Study of Political Ideologies' (CRISPI) welcomes Stuart Elden (University of Warwick) for the first instalment of the Future of Ideologies Speaker Series.

Pluralized Moral Panics and Morphological Theory: The Case of the Trans. Debate

Date
12 February 2025
Location:
MS Teams
Description
Colin Tyler (University of Hull) joins the Centre for Research into Ideas and the Study of Politics Ideologies as pat of the Future of Ideologies Speaker Series.

Revisiting the Functional Approach to Ideology

Date
19 February 2025
Location:
MS Teams
Description
The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½'s Dean Blackburn will present at the next instalment of the Centre for Research into Ideas and the Study of Political Ideologies' Future of Ideologies speaker series.

Was Nietzche a Liberal?

Date
15 October - 11 November 2025
Location:
TBC
Description
CRISPI work-in-progress seminar with Hugo Drochon

Conservatism and the Dialectic of Progress

Date
12 November 2025
Description
A CRISPI works-in-progress seminar with Dean Blackburn.

Hugo Grotius and the Law of Friendship

Date
19 November 2025
Location:
Location TBC
Description
A CRISPI work-in-progress seminar presented by PGR member Charlie Bradley

Biopolitics, Racial Capitalism, and the Colonial Origins of Public Health in the British Caribbean, 1768-1834

Date
26 November 2025
Location:
Location TBC
Description
A CRISPI works-in-progress seminar with Sascha Auerbach

Fleeting Identification: the Love Effect

Date
03 - 04 December 2025
Location:
Location TBC
Description
CRISPI work-in-progress seminar with Gulshan Khan

 

2024

2024 Future of Ideologies Speaker Series Announced

Date
18 January 2024
Description
Hosted by the Centre for Research into Ideas and the Study of Political Ideologies.

Anthropocene (A)synchronicities

Date
10 - 11 April 2024
Description
Call for Papers Now Open

Technology, Ecology, and Ideology

Date
26 June 2024
Location:
C14 Monica Partridge Building (University Park)
Description
A one day conference hosted by the Centre for Research into Ideas and the Study of Political Ideologies and the Journal of Political Ideologies.

 

2023

Structural Injustice and Liberalism: When the Solution becomes the Problem

Date
15 February 2023
Location:
D08 Teaching and Learning Building
Description
CANCELLED: A seminar with the Centre for Research into Ideas and the Study of Political Ideologies

Europeanising Ideologies

Date
29 March 2023
Location:
MS Teams
Description
In the first episode of The Future of Ideologies speaker series, CRISPI will be welcoming Jonathan White (LSE)

Ideology and Mass Killing

Date
05 April 2023
Location:
Teams
Description
A book launch with Jonathan Leader Maynard (Kings College London) as part of The Future of Ideologies webinar series

Marxism as a Political Currency

Date
12 April 2023
Location:
MS Teams
Description
An online seminar with the Centre for Research into Ideas and the Study of Political Ideologies and Nick Devlin (LSE).

Russian Reactionary Modernism: Re-enchanting Modernity Through the Spiritualisation of Technology

Date
19 April 2023
Location:
Teams
Description
The Centre for Research into Ideas and the Study of Political Ideologies will be welcoming Juliette Faure (Science Po Paris) for this online event.

Planetarism Ascendant: Earth System Cosmology and the Future Planetary Ideology

Date
26 April 2023
Location:
MS Teams
Description
The Centre for Research into Ideas and the Study of Political Ideologies will be welcoming Stefan Pedersen (University of Sussex) for the next research seminar in The Future of Ideologies series.

Studying Ideology at the Micro-level: MOOC Users and Riders' Rights Activists

Date
03 May 2023
Location:
Teams
Description
The Future of Ideologies webinar series with the School of Politics and International Relations' Professor Mathew Humphrey (ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½).

The Pedagogical Account of Parliamentarism at India's Founding

Date
10 May 2023
Location:
Teams
Description
A seminar with Udit Bhatia (University of York), as part of The Future of Ideologies webinar series

The Politics of Time in the Anthropocene

Date
17 May 2023
Location:
Teams
Description
An online seminar with Centre for Research into Ideas and the Study of Political Ideologies and Blake Ewing (University of Oxford).

Ideas and Party Change: The Role of Predistribution in the Labour Party's Ideological Renewal

Date
24 May 2023
Location:
MS Teams
Description
Final instalment of CRISPI's The Future of Ideologies speaker series with Eunice Goes (Richmond American University London)

Silence and Ideology: The Role of the Unspoken in Political Thought and Practice

Date
22 June 2023
Location:
C14 Monica Partridge Building (University Park)
Description
Annual conference, hosted by CRISPI and the Journal of Political Ideologies

How Political Science Uses History

Date
11 October 2023
Location:
A1 Law and Social Sciences Building
Description
An in-person seminar with Andrew Hindmoor (University of Sheffield), hosted by CRISPI.

 

2022

Michael Freeden (Oxford), "Ideology: Picking up the Pieces?"

Date
09 February 2022
Location:
MS Teams meeting
Description
CRISPI and CARR are delighted to invite Prof Michael Freeden (Oxford) to deliver a talk as part of their 'The Future of Ideologies' series on Weds 9th February.

John Schwarzmantel (Leeds), "Political Ideology Today"

Date
23 February 2022
Location:
MS Teams meeting
Description
CRISPI and CARR are delighted to invite John Schwarzmantel (Leeds) to deliver a talk as part of their 'The Future of Ideologies' series on Weds 23rd February.

Robert Samuels (UC Santa Barbara), "Donald Trump and The Psychopathology of the Libertarian Right"

Date
23 March 2022
Location:
MS Teams meeting
Description
CRISPI and CARR are delighted to invite Robert Samuels (UC Santa Barbara) to deliver a talk as part of their 'The Future of Ideologies' series on Weds 9th March.

POSTPONED: Catherine Fieschi (Counterpoint), "Populism and the Future of Ideology Studies"

Date
30 March 2022
Location:
MS Teams meeting
Description
CRISPI and CARR are delighted to invite Catherine Fieschi (Counterpoint) to deliver a talk as part of their 'The Future of Ideologies' series on Weds 9th March.

CRISPI presents: Alienation and the AI-Driven Workplace, with Dr Kate Vredenburgh (LSE)

Date
06 April 2022
Location:
A01, Highfield House, University Park Campus

Maiken Umbach, Annemarie Walter and Hugo Drochon (ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½), "Learning from History? Tackling the Challenge of Antisemitism through mutli-disciplinary research design"

Date
06 April 2022
Location:
MS Teams meeting
Description
CRISPI and CARR are delighted to invite Maiken Umbach, Annemarie Walter and Hugo Drochon (ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½) to deliver a talk as part of their 'The Future of Ideologies' series on Weds 9th March.

CANCELLED: Ruth Wodak (Lancaster), "Antisemitism and the pandemic"

Date
27 April 2022
Location:
MS Teams meeting
Description
CRISPI and CARR are delighted to invite Ruth Wodak (Lancaster), to deliver a talk as part of their 'The Future of Ideologies' series on Weds 9th March.

Peter Staudenmaier (Marquette), "Ecology Contested: Environmental Politics between Left and Right"

Date
11 May 2022
Location:
MS Teams meeting
Description
CRISPI and CARR are delighted to invite Peter Staudenmaier (Marquette), to deliver a talk as part of their 'The Future of Ideologies' series on Weds 11th May..

Marius Ostrowski (EUI), Book Launch: "Ideology (Polity 2022)"

Date
18 May 2022
Location:
MS Teams meeting
Description
CRISPI and CARR are delighted to invite Marius Ostrowski (EUI), to deliver a talk as part of their 'The Future of Ideologies' series on Weds 9th March.

Nordic Libertarianism: CRISPI/JPI conference

Date
27 May 2022
Location:
MS Teams
Description
A one-day conference hosted by the Research Centre into Ideas and the Study of Political Ideologies and the Journal of Political Ideologies

POSTPONED: Mathew Humphrey (ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½): "Riders' Rights: a Grassroots View of Freedom and Political Mobilisation"

Date
01 June 2022
Location:
MS Teams meeting
Description
CRISPI and CARR are delighted to invite Mathew Humphrey (ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½), to deliver a talk as part of their 'The Future of Ideologies' series on Weds 9th March.

Marc Stears (UCL), "Out of the Ordinary: How Everyday Life Inspired a Nation and How It Can Again"

Date
15 June 2022
Location:
MS Teams meeting
Description
CRISPI and CARR are delighted to invite Marc Stears (UCL), to deliver a talk as part of their 'The Future of Ideologies' series on Weds 9th March.

Dampening Enthusiasm for Workplace Democracy

Date
12 October 2022
Location:
A3 Law and Social Sciences Building, University Park
Description
A CRISPI seminar with Tom Parr (Warwick).

 

2021

John Stuart Mill, Socialist

Date
20 May 2021
Location:
Online
Description
Workshop with author Helen McCabe

Noberto Bobbio and Political Ideologies

Date
11 June 2021
Location:
MS Teams
Description
Centre for the Study of Political Ideologies (CSPI), ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, in conjunction with the Journal of Political Ideologies invites you to an online conference

Contemporary Political History Seminar Series

Date
12 November 2021
Location:
Microsoft Teams
Description
A seminar series organised by postgraduate research students of History and Politics.

Contemporary Political History Seminar Series

Date
03 December 2021
Location:
Microsoft Teams
Description
A seminar series organised by postgraduate research students of History and Politics.

Contemporary Political History Seminar Series

Date
10 December 2021
Location:
A03 Humanities Building

 

Centre for Research into Ideas and the Study of Political Ideologies

School of Politics and International Relations
Law and Social Sciences building
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University Park
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hugo.drochon@nottingham.ac.uk