Month: August 2013

By the end of September we will arrange a seminar with James Ingram, Department of Political Science at McMaster University in Canada.

James Ingram’s main interests are in modern, especially contemporary, continental political theory, from Kant and Rousseau via Marx to Critical Theory, deconstruction, and post-Marxism. He has recently published the book Rethinking Cosmopolitanism: The Ethics and Politics of Universalism, which tries to rethink the idea of cosmopolitanism through a critical examination of the failures of top-down universalisms. His current research extends this work by exploring particular areas of especially transnational politics, including human rights, culture, democracy, and representation.

 

All are welcome, read more here

http://www.mah.se/Nyheter/Kalender/Cosmopolitics—GPS-Research-Days/

In the newsletter from PICUM we read about a campaign in the UK that intends to  send out a hard-line message to undocumented migrants that they should go home. It consists of billboards and advertising vans that will drive around several London boroughs. The campaign has been criticised for misleading ads displayed on billboards. A large-print claim of “106 arrests last week in your area” on the billboards is followed by an asterisk referring viewers to a footnote too small to be read when the van is moving, indicating the week in question and a large number of boroughs which are not usually referred to as ‘one area’ including direct arrests at airports of new arrivals (read more here: http://picum.org/en/news/bulletins/41724#news_41689)