CRITIQUE Lecture by Prof Davina Cooper, KCL: “Abolishing legal sex: The challenges, risks, and pleasures of prefigurative law reform”. Davina Cooper is a Research Professor in Law and Political Theory. She is an interdisciplinary scholar, whose work focuses on concepts, transformative politics, state activism, and experimental communities. She currently directs […]
A Virtual Author-Meets-Critics with José Medina on his book manuscript The Epistemology of Protest: Silencing, Epistemic Activism and the Communicative Life of Resistance. The Epistemology of Protest offers an account of communicative and epistemic resistance against injustice in street activism and protest movements. The book examines the communicative power of […]
A day of artistic events surrounding the launch of the Colombian Truth Commission’s Final Report. Organisers: Colombian Truth Commission, Camilo Ardila-Arévalo, Ioana Popescu. By exploring the work of the Colombian Truth Commission, this event aims to showcase the artistic dimension of truth-seeking. As part of the peace agreements between the […]
This is the second event organised under the aegis of a recently established European Network in Social and Political Philosophy. This postgraduate workshop features presentations by a select group of PhD students from these four universities who will be focusing on methodological issues in political philosophy. Presenters: Catrin Wayland (University […]
Virtual Symposium on Professor Robbie Shilliam’s book Decolonizing Politics. An Introduction (John Wiley & Sons, 2021). Event co-sponsored with Race.ED and Identities. Global Studies in Culture and Power. Speakers Professor Robbie Shilliam, Johns Hopkins University Dr Toni Haastrup, University of Stirling Dr Aparna Devare, University of Hyderabad Dr Maria Bargh, Victoria University of Wellington […]
Virtual lecture by Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò, who is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. Their work work draws on the Black radical tradition, contemporary philosophy of language, contemporary social science, German transcendental philosophy, materialist thought, histories of activism and activist thinkers. In this lecture, Olúfemi O. Táíwò will discuss […]
We are reading Dipesh Chakrabarty’s “The Climate of History in a Planetary Age” (2021), Chapters 2 and 3. CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss pre-read texts selected by members. All meetings currently take place online, via Zoom. To join, please email critique_centre@ed.ac.uk.
Virtual event hosted by the Edinburgh Futures Institute, CRITIQUE, and the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, in partnership with Newcastle University and Social Research at the Scottish Government. A new generation of democratic innovations is proliferating in Scotland since the turn of the century, […]
This is the first event organised under the aegis of a recently established European Network in Social and Political Philosophy. Its founding members are Magali Bessone from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Robin Celikates and Stefan Gosepath from Freie Universität in Berlin, Helder De Schutter and Eszter Kollar from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Mihaela Mihai from the University of Edinburgh. This postgraduate workshop features presentations by a select group […]
Pre-read, virtual seminar with Thomas Szanto (Copenhagen University). To receive the paper and link to the event, please email critique_centre@ed.ac.uk. Event co-sponsored with the Political Theory Research Group at the University of Edinburgh. Abstract This paper presents a novel conceptualization of a type of untruthful speech that is of eminent […]
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