Recording of a lecture given on the 19th of May 2022 by Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò, 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 […]
Join us for a manuscript workshop on Michael Albert‘s forthcoming book: Navigating the Polycrisis: Mapping the Futures of Capitalism and the Earth. The book explores possible futures in an era of intersecting ecological and political-economic crises and is forthcoming with MIT Press. Respondents: Troy Vettese Mathias Thaler Claire Duncanson Thomas Homer-Dixon […]
CRITIQUE – EEHN Joint Discussion Group Members of CRITIQUE and the Environmental Humanities Network will hold a joint discussion session around an art exhibition – The Accursed Share – shown at Talbott Rice Gallery. The visit to the Gallery will be followed by an informal conversation on the central themes […]
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 […]
Virtual seminar with Camil Ungureanu (Pompeu Fabra). To receive the link to the event, please sign up on Eventbrite. In this talk, I reflect on the intersection between urban commons, feminism and documentary art as truth-telling by focusing on Alcaldessa (Mayoress, dir. Pau Faus, 2016), the most relevant documentary of […]
To mark Women’s History Month, genderED, RACE.ED, CRITIQUE, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) present Rosa Luxemburg at 150, a podcast featuring Dr Maša Mrovlje, Dr Jamie Allinson and Dr Mihaela Mihai. This episode explores Luxemburg’s life, political and intellectual activities, and asks: what makes Luxemburg […]
This interdisciplinary roundtable interrogates the provision of ethics training at the University of Edinburgh in light of the challenges that the Covid19 pandemic has posed for scholars and teachers, but also of the opportunities it has opened up for assessing and rethinking how we teach ethics today. Our panelists come […]
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