CRITIQUE – PTRG Seminar with Tom O’Shea (Edinburgh University). Civic republicans are increasingly concerned about the problem of oligarchy. The leading approach in this respect has been a plebeian republicanism informed by Machiavellian ideas about class conflict, and which seeks to keep socio-economic elites in check by reviving the veto […]
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Seasonal Sessions are quarterly mini-fieldtrips organised by the Environmental Working Group, under the aegis of CRTIQUE, and supported by the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network (EEHN). Each of our sessions takes place in a different setting outwith the university. The main aim of the events is to cultivate a practice of […]
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CRITIQUE Lecture by Berislav Marušić (Philosophy, Edinburgh) on his recently published book, On the Temporality of Emotions (OUP, 2022). In this lecture, Berislav Marušić draws on the phenomenology of lived experience to identify puzzling features of emotional life and offers a distinctive approach to the study of emotion through a focus […]
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CRITIQUE Reads resumes on September 23rd, 2022. The schedule for the Fall term is as follows: 23/09/2022, 3-4 pm 21/10/2022, 3-4 pm 18/11/2022, 3-4 pm 09/12/2022, 3-4 pm To join CRITIQUE Reads, please email critique_centre@ed.ac.uk. All sessions will take place in room 3.15, 18 Buccleuch Place. An exceptional session will […]
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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 […]
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Reparations Unbound? Dilemmas of Dismantling Racial Injustice A CRITIQUE Lecture by Lawrie Balfour, University of Virginia, John G. Winant Visiting Professor of American Government, Oxford University Demands for reparations for slavery, colonialism, and their legacies are not new. Where these demands were long dismissed as divisive, impractical, or simply unthinkable, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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