This year’s ‘Autumn in a Graveyard’ event takes place on 3 October 2024, 3-4:30pm. We direct attention to the season, the place, and frameworks for thinking and feeling them together. We ask: How can we think about our ambiguous belonging in the ecological community? In what ways do humans have […]
This year’s Spring Session* takes place in the Meadows, Edinburgh, against the backdrop of the cherry blossoms in late bloom. Attendees are asked to pre-read two short texts, and the structure of the outing includes an open discussion, a solo reflective exercise, and contributions from an invited ‘provocateur’. Themes for this session: responsibilities to and appreciation […]
SUMMARY: This year’s Winter on a Mountain event takes place on Thursday, 21 December 2023 in Holyrood Park. Unlike most seminar-type events, we convene outdoors. This solstice-eve, we critically discuss mountain-focused ecological philosophy and try to embrace the perturbations of place-based thinking. We are thrilled to have special guest, Dr […]
Seasonal Sessions are mini-fieldtrips organised by the Environmental Working Group, under the aegis of CRITIQUE, and supported by the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network (EEHN). Each of our sessions takes place in a different setting outwith the university. You can read more about our activities in the Justice Everywhere blog. Autumn in […]
Seasonal Sessions are quarterly mini-fieldtrips organised by the Environmental Working Group, under the aegis of CRITIQUE, and supported by the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network (EEHN). Each of our sessions takes place in a different setting outwith the university. The Spring Session takes place in the Meadows, Edinburgh, against the backdrop […]
Join us for a CRITIQUE-PTRG seminar with Cristina Richie: “Environmental Ethics and Medical Reproduction”. The carbon emissions of global health care activities make up 4-5% of total world emissions, placing the health care industry on par with the food sector. Safe amounts of carbon in the atmosphere have been exceeded—in part […]
Event co-sponsored by the Centre of African Studies (CAS), Centre for Ethics and Critical Thought (CRITIQUE), Edinburgh Law School, Race.ED, and the Race and Inclusivity in Global Education Network (RIGEN). We are delighted to invite you to this book launch event at the University of Edinburgh, exploring and celebrating the […]
CRITIQUE is excited to support the European Caravan of Participatory Budgeting for Greener Cities. This series of events across Europe provides an opportunity for participants to share their experiences, testimonies, and doubts on green participatory budgeting, and to gain insights on how to implement it in their own cities from […]
We will meet at 3pm on 18 November 2022 to continue our engagement with A World of Many Worlds, edited by Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser (Duke University Press, 2018). For this session, we focus on chapter 5, “Denaturalizing Nature”, by John Law and Marianne Lien. We will […]
CRITIQUE and Open Government Partnership Scotland invite you to a public event about changing forms of citizenship and democratic action. Everyone is welcome, but places are limited, so please register on Eventbrite. Time, date, location Wednesday, 26 October 2022, 4.30pm to 6pm 50 George Square, Room G.06, University of Edinburgh […]
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