Semester 2 Seminar Schedule

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NEWS: A Collective Statement Calling on the University of Edinburgh to Protect Speech on Palestine, Address the Intimidation on Campus, and Cut University Links to Violence

CRITIQUE joined a collective statement with other centres, networks and groups at the University of Edinburgh raising concerns and asking our VC and the senior leadership team to protect speech on Palestine, address intimidation on campus, and cut University links to violence. Full statement here.

CRITIQUE-MERG event: Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine

In this event Nick Riemer (University of Sydney) will present his new book Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine. Universities, Intellectualism and Liberation . The academic boycott of Israel, a branch of the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, is one of the richest—and most divisive—topics in the […]

NEWS: Book launch- Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings

CRITIQUE’s co-Director, Dr. Nida Alahmad, will act as a discussant in Benoît Challand’s book launch hosted by colleagues in the Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Department. Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprising is newly published by Cambridge University Press. For more information on the book and the event on November 20th […]

2023-2024 Events

Detailed listings are posted regularly a month in advance on this page. 4 October Paul Apostolidis (LSE) Grounding Critical Theory through Critical-Popular Research 9 October Environmental Working Group Autumn in a Graveyard: seasonal, life, death, and the ambiguities of ecological community 11 October Jonathan Havercroft (Southampton-IASH) Title TBC 13 […]

CRITIQUE-IMES Session: The Revolutionary Trait and Solutions to the Problem of Legitimation: A reading of Ali al-Wardi – 3 October 2023, 1 pm

In this seminar session Dr. Nida Alahmad will present part of her work on elements of state consolidation, particularly in the context of modern Iraq. The paper will focus on the problem of state legitimation through a reading of the work of Iraqi 20th century sociologist and public intellectual Ali […]

CRITIQUE-PTRG Seminar: Responding to Riots: Epistemic Injustice and Recent Anti-Police Uprisings – 11 October 2023, 3pm

In this pre-read seminar, Prof. Jonathan Havercroft (Southampton-IASH Visiting Fellow) will discuss his paper ‘Responding to Riots: Epistemic Injustice and Recent Anti-Police Uprisings’. Abstract: In response to major episodes of anti-police violence riots in the U.S. and the U.K. political theorists have paid increasing attention to the normative implications of […]

NEWS: The CRITIQUE Events Calendar 2023-2024 now live!

4 October Paul Apostolidis (LSE) Grounding Critical Theory through Critical-Popular Research 9 October Environmental Working Group Autumn in a Graveyard: seasonal, life, death, and the ambiguities of ecological community 11 October Jonathan Havercroft (Southampton-IASH) Title TBC 13 October Theory in Sociology Research Group Theorizing the Digital 26 October James Tully […]

CRITIQUE Interview with Maggie FitzGerald

An interview with Maggie FitzGerald on her book Care and the Pluriverse, by CRITIQUE Fellow Camilo Ardila Arévalo. Hi Dr. Maggie FitzGerald. Thank you so much for accepting this short and informal conversation with CRITIQUE. I found your work Care and the Pluriverse: Rethinking Global Ethics truly insightful and fascinating. […]

Theory in Sociology Research Group

CRITIQUE’s Theory in Sociology Research Group is dedicated to exploring, discovering, learning about, elaborating, sharing, discussing, and developing theory and theories in sociology and social science. Georg Simmel used to think that there are very few fundamental currents of thought that connect the most personal and intimate in the […]