Wednesday 19 March, 3pm – 4.30pm, Chrystal Macmillan Building, Conference Room 3.15 Under international law, treaties can remain in force indefinitely. But in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many liberal political theorists questioned whether treaties could or should extend “beyond the grave,” or bind subsequent generations. This article resurrects and […]
Thursday 1 May, 3pm – 4.30pm, Conference Room 3.15, Chrystal Macmillan Building “Fail Better”: Utopia, Rosa Luxemburg, and Learning from Failure Maša Mrovlje University of Leeds This is a pre-read seminar. Abstract The paper explores how Rosa Luxemburg’s practice of learning from failure can enrich engagements with failure among scholars […]
Click here to register Wednesday 26 March, 4pm – 6pm, Online via Zoom A Virtual Critical Exchange with James Tully on his book Dialogue and Decolonization: Historical, Philosophical, and Political Perspectives (Bloomsbury). Dialogue and Decolonization is an urgent methodological provocation for anyone interested in the ethical, conceptual, and political challenges of political thought […]
Monday 5 May 2025, 11am – 1pm, Practice Suite 1.12, Chrystal Macmillan Building In this seminar, we will explore the meaning and limits of research in a context of asymmetric war and counterinsurgency. How to write history in a global context of counterterrorism and geopolitical complexity? What ethical and political […]
Please join us for a discussion of Experimental Times by Hemangini Gupta, Lecturer in Gender and Global Politics with a book presentation by the author followed by responses from: Janaki Srinivasan, Associate Professor, Digital South Asian Studies, Uni of Oxford Rahul Rao, Reader in International Political Thought, Uni of St […]
Monday 5 May 2025, 3pm – 4.30pm, Screening Room G.04, 50 George Square CRITIQUE Seminar, co-badged with GENDER.ED. This lecture explores the role of anti-colonial and revolutionary art and history-writing in the Kurdistan Freedom Movement. The international terror-labelling of the PKK is a major political obstacle for genuine and free […]
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 […]
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