CRITIQUE Reads (pre-read, via zoom) Sally Haslanger: “Taking a Stand: Second-Order Pathologies or First Order Critique?” Forthcoming in a festschrift for Axel Honneth, ed., Julia Christ, Kristina Lepold, Daniel Loick and Titus Stahl.
When you say ‘No, you can’t do this’, I hear ‘Change the World!’ Gisli Vogler, Teaching Fellow at the Centre for Open Learning, University of Edinburgh, interviews Judith Heumann on her memoir Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2020). Heumann is a […]
Pre-read, virtual seminar with Katharine Jenkins, (Glasgow University). To receive the paper and link to the event, please sign up to the PTRG mailing list. Event co-sponsored with the Political Theory Research Group at the University of Edinburgh.
Pre-read, virtual seminar with Philip Cook, Co-Director of CRITIQUE. To receive the paper and link to the event, please sign up to our mailing list. Event co-sponsored with the Political Theory Research Group at the University of Edinburgh.
Event co-sponsored with CeSeR, Edinburgh. From Syrian civilians locked in iron cages to veterans joining peaceful indigenous water protectors at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, from Sri Lanka to Iraq and from Yemen to the United States, human beings have been used as shields for protection, coercion, or deterrence. Over […]
In this paper presentation, Professor David Dyzenhaus (University of Toronto) will argue that Kelsen’s account of the nature of international law and of the logical and normative necessity of monism is not refuted by Hart, and that Hart distorted Kelsen in order to refute him. Dyzenhaus claims that, properly understood, […]
Pre-read, virtual seminar with Paulina Tambakaki (Westminster University). To receive the paper and link to the event, please sign up to our mailing list. Event co-sponsored with the Political Theory Research Group at the University of Edinburgh.
Sally Haslanger is Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women’s & Gender Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique (2012), Critical Theory and Practice (2017) and co-author of What is Race? Four Philosophical Views (2019). Her most recent work focuses on social practices, social […]
A virtual roundtable discussion on Toby Kelly’s book manuscript entitled Battles of Conscience: The Lives of British Pacifists in the Second World War. Is conscience always a virtue? What if it is too fervent and uncompromising? What if it becomes a form of moral vanity? What if it is simply […]
Nisha Kapoor teaches sociology at Warwick University. Her research interests are broadly concerned with racism and the security state covering topics relating to immigration, citizenship, criminalization, Islamophobia, segregation and authoritarianism. Theoretically, she draws on critical race, postcolonial, political and cultural theory to assist in the undertaking of this work. She […]
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