Events

The event is presented by the Radical Imaginaries Group of Sustainability Spotlight. Learn more about our thematic groups.

We are delighted to welcome David Chandler, Professor of International Relations at the University of Westminster, to campus for an insightful talk on his forthcoming book "Hope: Alternative Futures and Broken Worlds".

Hope appears to have been lost at a time where ‘it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism’, when grand narratives of progress and social transformation are exhausted. However, in a world of uncertainty, of relational interdependence and entangled complexity, hope is increasingly central to ethicopolitical imaginaries which no longer focus their attention on traditional political parties and the state-based order. Hope today treads a fine line, on the one hand problematised for its privileged assumptions, on the other, it is held to be necessary for struggle, betterment and survival. It is this contemporary impasse of hope that is the subject of this talk which examines how hope is articulated today, as analysed instrumentally in analytical philosophy and social psychology, and contrapositions this to the ways in which hope is deployed to imagine the world and its politics differently, to work towards otherwise worlds rather than to maintain this one.

Everyone welcome!

Professor Korosteleva is invited to launch her new OUP book 'Complexity and Community in IR: Nurturing resilience in Central Eurasia' OPEN ACCESS. Discussants include Professor David Chandler (Westminster University, UK) and Professor Emilian Kavalski (Tampere University, Finland).

Everyone is welcome!

The Sustainability Spotlight, in partnership with Society and Culture Spotlight, organises a Sustainability Training Academy for Warwick Early Career Researchers, with a focus on critical interdisciplinary concepts and methods, and creative reflections beyond the Self. The School will bring together 20 most innovative researchers across Warwick, and will help them develop group projects on specific challenges. Most successful projects will be funded, and invited to present their outcomes at the Warwick Sustainability Forum, 2 July 2026. Everyone welcome!

Professor Korosteleva is invited to launch her new OUP book at the EUI, Transnational Governance School, as part of the AGMOW project, led by Prof. Trine Flockhart. Discussants will include Professor David Chandler (Westminster, UK) and Liv Nielson (SDU, Denmark).

This workshop aims to combine theoretical and empirical scholarship on capitalist society and its current and potential transformations, on the one hand, with theoretical and empirical scholarship on the roles of power, democracy, and empowerment in relation to the collective socio-political imagination. To what extent do ideas and imaginaries either obstruct or unleash processes of social change? (How) can the socio-po-litical imagination be democratised, empowered, and freed from ideological distortion? What does this suggest about prospects of radical transformations towards sustainability ?

This workshop is organised as part of the Sustainability Spotlight, under the thematic priority - Radical Imaginaries, led by Marit Hammond (PAIS), Graeme Macdonald (ECLS) and Elena Korosteleva (IGSD). Everyone is welcome!

The Sustainability Spotlight continues its annual call for the Warwick Sustainability Forum - open to all researchers across Warwick! The forum will bring together the sustainability-focused community of researchers to present their work on the identified thematic priorities - Circular Economy & Behaviour; Radical Imaginaries & Transformations; and Planetary Health & Sustainable Food - and ECR work, and collectively plan priorities for 2027, discussing them with a high-level panel of sustainability stakeholders.

Everyone is welcome!

In partnership with NOVA University in Portugal, IGSD is organising an EUTOPIA Training School at the Arrábida Natural Park, 40 km south of Lisbon, Portugal (at the Convent of Arrábida: https://www.foriente.pt/a-fundacao/convento-arrabida, within a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve: https://arrabida.amrs.pt/). The Call for Papers will follow shortly. Watch the space!