Past events
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Hiroe Ishihara (University of Tokyo) "Reconstructing Relational Values: Constitutive Values, Norm Circles, and Cultural Assemblages"
16:00 - 18:00 5 February 2026
Abstract: Calls for transformative change in sustainability highlight the need to understand how environmental values are formed, sustained, and transformed. Yet, most frameworks still treat values as individual preferences rather than as socially embedded relations. This presentation develops a relational...
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Research Seminar, “Theorizing the Conjuncture Through Gaza: Urban Destruction and the Intensification of Authoritarian Neoliberalism" with Aleksandra Piletic (UCL)
14:00 - 15:30 10 December 2025
Research Seminar, “Theorizing the Conjuncture Through Gaza: Urban Destruction and the Intensification of Authoritarian Neoliberalism" with Aleksandra Piletic (UCL), Simon 4.04
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PhD work-in-progress seminar with Sam Toscano and Heather Urquhart
26 November 2025 - 11 August 2026
PhD work-in-progress seminar with Sam Toscano and Heather Urquhart
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Research Seminar, “Unions, Coops, and the Contradictions of Freedom” with John Las Heras (University of the Basque Country)
12 November 2025 - 11 August 2026
“Unions, Coops, and the Contradictions of Freedom”, John Las Heras, University of the Basque Country
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Roundtable: Free Trade Unravelling
13:30 - 15:00 11 November 2025
Please join us for a roundtable discussing the ongoing unravelling of the free trade consensus in global trade politics and governance with Laura Macdonald (Carleton University), Shamel Azmeh (Global Development Institute), Ellie Gore (Politics), Adrienne Roberts (Political Economy Centre) and JMCE Board...
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Seminar by Ben Selwyn (Sussex), "Capitalist Value Chains: Labour Exploitation, Nature Destruction, Geopolitics"
14:00 - 15:30 5 November 2025
Please join us on Nov 5th for a book launch of Prof Ben Selwyn's book (co-authored with Christin Bernhold) Capitalist Value Chains: Labour Exploitation, Nature Destruction, Geopolitics (OUP, 2025). We will be in Sam Alex_A102 from 2-3:30pm. Ben will introduce the book and then we will have short comments...
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Book launch: Rosie Walters, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University - Girls, Power and International Development: Agency and Activism in the Global North and South
14:00 - 15:30 22 October 2025
On Oct 22nd, Rosie Walters, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University (https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/waltersr13) will be giving a talk to launch her new book, Girls, Power and International Development: Agency and Activism in the Global North and South. It is from 3-4:30...
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PhD work-in-progress seminar with Ujan Natik and Ish Tominey-Nevado
17 October 2025 - 11 August 2026
PhD work-in-progress seminar with Ujan Natik and Ish Tominey-Nevado
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Workshop: Social Reproduction and/as Infrastructure in Europe and Beyond
10:00 - 14:00 17 October 2025
Social Reproduction and/as Infrastructure in Europe and Beyond: A Joint Jean Monnet Centre and Political Economy Centre Workshop, with Hallsworth Visting Professor Stefanie Wöhl 17 October, 2025, 11am-3pm, University of Manchester The social sciences have seen an ‘infrastructural turn’ in re¬cent...
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Seminar by Prof Stefanie Wöhl - Civil Society Challenges to Global Supply Chains: The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
14:00 - 15:30 15 October 2025
On October 15th, Stephanie Wöhl will be delivering a talk on "Civil Society Challenges to Global Supply Chains: The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive". It is from 3-4:30pm in Booth Street East_G.04. Stefanie is usually based at the University of Vienna, but is joining us for the...
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