Please join us on Wednesday 29 January for an EEHN-CRITIQUE reading group, where we will be discussing The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning World. This edited volume provides a much-needed discussion of how we can develop innovative pedagogies and teaching practices that are attuned to the intellectual, emotional, and […]
Semester 2 Seminar Series Free the Map – Beyond state-centrism: reimagining maps of borders and migration Hosted by the Citizenship and Migration Research Network with the Centre for Ethics and Critical Thought 15 January, 1pm-2.30pm, Chrystal Macmillan Building, Seminar Room 1 Environmental Aesthetics: CRITIQUE-EEHN Work-in-Progress Seminar with Samantha Vice […]
Please join us for a thought-provoking book talk: Free the Map – Beyond state-centrism: reimagining maps of borders and migration With Prof. Henk van Houtum, Nijmegen Centre for Border Research, Radboud University (NL) Wednesday, January 15, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Seminar Room 1, Chrystal Macmillan Building, George Square Hosted […]
The first CRITIQUE event of the spring 2025 semester will be a work-in-progress session where Prof Samantha Vice (Wits/IASH) will present work from her IASH research project on environmental aesthetics. It will take place on 15 January in 3.15 Chrystal Macmillan Building, from 3.30-5pm. It is co-hosted with Edinburgh Environmental […]
October 1st, 3-5 pm, LG.09 40 George Square Lower Teaching Hub. The Magnitude of All Things https://www.themagnitudeofallthings.com/. A cinematic exploration of the emotional and psychological dimensions of climate change, this documentary draws intimate parallels between the experiences of grief—both personal and planetary. Commentators: Rahul Ranjan, Lecturer in Environmental and Climate Justice […]
CRITIQUE, the Centre for African Studies, the Centre of Canadian Studies and Lighthouse Books invite you to join us for a conversation with with Rueben George, Sundance Chief and member of the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation. This event will take place on Monday 14th October, 3pm – 5pm at the Edinburgh […]
October 18, 1-3 pm, 2.13 Geography (Old Infirmary) Once You Know (2020) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9430820/ Once you know is the intimate journey of director Emmanuel Cappellin across the abyss of a world at the edge of climate-induced collapse. His voyage into this uncharted territory is that of a whole generation turning to […]
This paper outlines the preliminary arguments of a chapter from an ongoing book project, entitled Before the Global Color Line: Empire, Capital, and Race in Asia, 1800-1850. The chapter develops the notion of “capitalist racialization,” an analytic concept that captures the role of capitalist social forms in shaping the semantic […]
Workshop Description In this methods workshop we will discuss the insights to be gained from incorporating political economic analysis into studying the history of political thought, primarily though not exclusively around the political theory of empire. Readings Onur Ulas Ince, Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism (Oxford, 2018), Chapter 1 and […]
This lecture lays out the main theoretical and historical arguments of an ongoing book project, entitled Before the Global Color Line: Empire, Capital, and Race in Asia, 1800-1850. The study reappraises the emergence of racial categories in nineteenth-century British South and Southeast Asia through the prism of “colonial capitalism.” I […]
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