Activities

• ‘Remote Warfare and Western Military intervention’ by Dr Thomas Watts, Teaching Fellow in War and Security, Royal Holloway University.
• ‘Entangled ontologies in the Anthropocene’ by Dr Ignasi Torrent, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Hertfordshire.
• ‘Biopolitics and Checkpoint 300 in Occupied Palestine: Bodies, Affect, Discipline’ by Dr Jemima Repo, Lecturer in the Politics of Gender, Newcastle University; Discussant: Hannah Richter.
• ‘Who is responsible for Kosovo? The politics of statebuilding and transnational justice’ by Dr Aidan Hehir, Reader in Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster; Discussant: Dr Elisa Randazzo.
• ‘Security and Governance as Anti-philosophy’ by Prof Michael Dillon, Emerit. Professor in Politics, Lancaster University; Discussant: Hannah Richter.

This workshop took place on 22 June 2018. Supported with a Small Events Grant of £1000 by the Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES), the workshop sought to bring together research perspectives from European policy-making, law and political thought to explore how the prevalence of ecological issues such as sustainable energy, resource security and climate change impacts on our understanding of politics. It aimed to create a multi-dimensional insight to how governance might or should conceptualise its scope, subjects and pathways of realisation beyond the Anthropocene. Focusing on policy-making within the EU, where ecological issues are found to be taking 'centre stage', the connection of European Studies scholarship to broader legal and philosophical debates allows for the critical review of current environmental policies. In particular, the event aimed to draw out the practical-political purchase and applicability of recent ecological thought which calls for the revision of established political and legal notions of life, agency and responsibility.

Coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the first publication of ‘The Concept of Nature’ by the English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, CHIP is hosted an e-roundtable to discuss the way in which Whitehead can still be relevant nowadays to reflect upon the contemporary world. The list of guest speakers includes:

• Luciana Parisi, Duke University
• Hannah Richter, University of Hertfordshire
• Steven Shaviro, Wayne State University
• Keith Robinson, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
• Ignasi Torrent (Moderator), University of Hertfordshire

In this conversation, the experts will examine a wide range of topics through a Whiteheadian lens, including the relation between man and nature, how processual entanglements can help us think events such as natural disasters, Artificial Intelligence and art work, as well as the manner in which this philosopher has cracked disciplinary boundaries, thus becoming relevant in so varied fields as for instance Science and Technology Studies, Environmental Humanities, International Relations, but also Architecture, Design and Arts.

In case you missed the e-roundtable.