GCSJ Seminars

Promoting a variety of research topics within the disciplines covered under the centre. The Research Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice (GCSJ) Seminar Series highlights the breadth of research across the centre’s disciplines, bringing together scholars and practitioners to explore pressing global challenges.  

Covering topics such as social justice, inequality, sustainability, and migration, the seminars provide a space for sharing new research, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue, and encouraging critical discussion across diverse perspectives.

GCSJ seminar series: Making sense of global China

The roundtable presents ongoing work of the REDEFINE project based in SSGS. Our take on the political economy of global China moves beyond the grand geopolitical narratives to explore the often long-standing and hidden processes of connection.

GCSJ seminar series: Irreversible enlightenments

Professor Sophie Grace Chappell explores a number of forms of this idea, including Hegel’s own, Plato’s, Francis Fukuyama’s, and Bernard Williams’, and she contrasts the idea of rational progress in science as discussed by pessimists like Kuhn and Feyerabend, and relative optimists such as Lakatos and Popper.

GCSJ seminar series: Vernon Lee, Polymath and anti-war activist

Vernon Lee (the nom de plume of Violet Paget) was a prolific thinker and writer, active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

GCSJ seminar series: Community-led policy innovation for local food-growing

Community-led Policy Innovation for Local Food-Growing is a seminar that will present a pilot study funded by the OSC programme.

GCSJ seminar series: French revolutionary politics in Frankenstein

This GCSJ seminar, by Dr Alex Barber, will explore French revolutionary politics in Frankenstein.

GCSJ seminar series: The andro-white marketization of Volunteer and Community Services (VCSs): a case study of London’s social reproduction crisis

This GCSJ seminar will discuss recent research by Dr Lorena Lombardozzi the andro-white marketization of Volunteer and Community Services, looking at a case study of London’s social reproduction crisis.

CSJ seminar series: What is the potential of creative practice for building community resilience in flood-prone coastal communities in the UK?

In this GCSJ seminar, George Revill (OU) and Liza Griffin (UCL) will discuss their recent paper on the potential of creative practices for achieving community resilience in relation to efforts to address flooding in coastal regions of the UK.

GCSJ seminar series: The Political Economy of Patriarchy in the Global South

This GCSJ seminar will explore Ece Kocabicak’s new book on ‘The Political Economy of Patriarchy in the Global South’.

GCSJ seminar series: (In)visibility, business continuity and remote working in the UN system during the COVID pandemic

This GCSJ seminar discusses the recent research project investigating how organisational change processes take effect in international bureaucracies. Dr Georgina Holmes is Principal Investigator for a project supported by UN Women which examines men and women’s experiences of working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2022).

GCSJ seminar series: In conversation with Dr Jude Towers

In this seminar Dr Jude Towers will discuss her research that explores the causes of violence and how we can best measure violence, in the emerging field of 'violence and society'.