Events in 2025

Adrian Leftwich Memorial Lecture

Thursday 12 June 2025

Join us for this years Adrian Leftwich Memorial Lecture

Human Rights Workshop: textiles, memorialisation, cultural politics

Friday 30 May 2025

Join us for the Human Rights Workshop on textiles, memorialisation, and cultural politics

Departmental Research seminar - Research and Road to Impact

Wednesday 28 May 2025

Join us for the Departmental Research Seminar

Political Economy & Development Cluster meeting - Performing Trade: ‘Global Britain’ and the UK’s post-Brexit Free Trade Agreements with Australia and New Zealand

Thursday 22 May 2025

Join us for the Political Economy & Development Cluster meeting

Public Policy Cluster meeting

Tuesday 20 May 2025

Join us for the Public Policy Cluster meeting

York Political Theory Workshop 4: Catherine Lu

Tuesday 20 May 2025

Join us for the fourth in our Semester 2 York Political Theory Workshops

Political Theory Cluster meeting - Seeing Injustice Structurally: A Tragic View

Tuesday 20 May 2025

Join us for the Political Theory Cluster meeting

York Political Theory Workshop 3: Raf Geenens

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Join us for the third in our Semester 2 York Political Theory Workshops

Book Talk

Wednesday 7 May 2025

The International Studies and Political Economy & Development Clusters warmly welcome you to a book talk with Professor Kevin B. Anderson

What do aid cuts mean for the world’s most vulnerable?

Thursday 24 April 2025

In recent months, international aid and development assistance has witnessed major upheavals under Donald Trump’s new US government. While the US has frozen all foreign assistance and shut down the 60 year old US Agency for International Development, some European countries have followed suit, sacrificing overseas development aid in favour of defence spending increases.

York Political Theory Workshop 4: Steven Klein

Tuesday 25 March 2025

Join us for the fourth in our Semester 2 York Political Theory Workshops

York Political Theory Workshop 3: Toby Buckle

Tuesday 18 March 2025

Join us for the third in our Semester 2 York Political Theory Workshops

Roundtable: Visions of Peace - in the midst of war and violence

Tuesday 25 February 2025

This roundtable, hosted by the University’s newly established Peace Lab, brings together academics, practitioners and journalists to discuss peace in three “impossible cases” (the Arab-Israeli conflict, Myanmar, and Sudan).

York Political Theory Workshop 2: Rossella De Bernardi

Tuesday 18 February 2025

Join us for the second in our Semester 2 York Political Theory Workshops

York Political Theory Workshop 1: Patricia Owens

Tuesday 11 February 2025

Join us for the first in our Semester 2 York Political Theory Workshops