Intimate (In)Justices Workshop: MANCEPT 2026

CLSR PhD Students Isobel Logan, Kristin Käuper and Charlotte Curran are convening a workshop at the 2026 MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory.

The workshop will explore the relationship between intimacy and justice. Speakers will ask: When and how should considerations of justice extend into our intimate lives and influence our actions? How are intimate relationships shaped by, reproduce, and can resist broader structures of injustice and oppression? Should we worry about the distribution of opportunities for intimacy? How do we balance the responsibilities of the individual, communities, and the state in promoting just forms of relating?
They hope to better understand the ways in which hegemonic norms, institutions, and intersecting forms of oppression structure intimate life, governing who is able to form certain relationships, which relationships are socially valued, and how power operates within them. Through the workshop, they will explore the potential of intimate practices and communities of care as sites of resistance, solidarity, and social transformation.

The workshop will be held in-person at the University of Manchester

Read more about the workshop here: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/activities/intimate-injustices/