Emotions and State Power: Brexit, Trump and ‘Taking Back Control’

Programme

Wednesday 14 June 2017: The Bluecoat in Liverpool

09.45 Registration, tea, coffee (Tea/coffee available during and between sessions)

10.30 Roy Coleman University of Liverpool
The ‘Return’ of Emotion, Politics and the Repressed

Steve Tombs Open University
Taking Back Control? The State, Social Murder and Social Protection

CHAIR: Zoe Alker (30 minutes questions)

12.00 10 Minute Break

12.10 Samantha Fletcher Open University
“The best you could hope for was to keep things sh*t, that’s just messed up”: Class struggle in the age of “Brexit” and Trump

CHAIR: Madeleine Rungius (20 minutes of questions)

1.00 Lunch

2.00 Stjepan Mestrovic Texas A & M
Brexit and Trump’s victory: Revolt against postemotional society?
CHAIR: Andrew Kirton (30 minutes questions)

3.15 Daniela Tepe-Befrage
Gender and Social Care after Brexit

Ciara Kierans University of Liverpool
Ambivalence: truth commitment and analytical uncertainty

CHAIR: Ross McGarry (30 minutes questions)

4.45 Roundtable – Emotion, Violence and Future Politics
Free discussion with attendees and speakers
Chair: Gabe Mythen

5.30 Conference Close