CRITIQUE Joint Seminar with Middle East Research Group and Political Theory Research Group Nida Alahmad, Edinburgh The Stale Grammar of the Settler-Colonialism Framing in the Palestine/Israel Context This presentation asks the question of the relationship between democracy, the Palestinian struggle for emancipation from Israeli domination, and Israel as a state […]
Wednesday 29th October 2025, 3-4:30pm Medical School, Teviot – G.03, Doorway 6 Seminar CRITIQUE and the Political Theory Research Group are holding a joint seminar with guest Prof. John Barry (Queen’s University, Belfast). This will be a (pre-read) discussion of his paper “Teaching and learning in a world on fire: […]
PTRG-CRITIQUE Joint Online Seminar Wednesday 22nd October, 3-4:30 pm Jan Slaby, Professor of Philosophy, Free University Berlin, Germany. Habits of Affluence: Unfeeling, Enactivism and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism In this online seminar, Jan Slaby discusses the role that a range of habits in affluent societies play in upholding as […]
Wednesday 8 October 2025, 3pm-4.30pm, Room 3.15, Chrystal Macmillan Building The aim of this working paper is to begin developing an approach to the political theory of solidarity grounded in practices of anticolonial solidarity. To do this, I offer criticisms of the two dominant European traditions of theoretical reflection on […]
Thursday 20th November 2025, 4-5:30pm Chrystal Macmillan Building room 3.15 Reading Group – All welcome CRITIQUE and the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network are holding a joint reading group session to discuss Richard Healey and Angie Pepper’s provocative article on the legitimacy of keeping pets. This article argues that the relations […]
Last year, CRITIQUE and RACE.ED came together to host a discussion of Inés Valdez’ new book Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism. In this book forum, Michael Albert and Emile Chabal engage the book’s main arguments and Valdez offers a response in the final post. Reflections […]
In this series, each month we will revisit a classic contribution to sociological theory, unpack its historical significance, and discuss its impact on subsequent and contemporary scholarship within and outside of the discipline. A faculty member whose work engages with the article or its subdiscipline will introduce it, discuss its […]
Tuesday 10 June 2025, 12pm – 1.3pm, Conference Room 3.15, Chrystal Macmillan Building Please join us in conversation between Urvashi Butalia, the CEO of Zubaan Books – an imprint of Kali for Women, India’s first feminist publishing house – and Dr Radhika Govinda, Director of GENDER.ED. Drawing on Zubaan’s experience, Urvashi Butalia […]
Monday 12 May 2025, 3pm-4.30pm, Seminar Room 5, Chrystal Macmillan Building This paper looks at two examples of public art happenings in Chattogram, Bangladesh, exploring how they create space for the political imagination; and can be used to stretch how audiences understand the political community – temporally, across lines of […]
Wednesday 14 May 2025, 3pm-4.30pm, Conference Room 3.15, Chrystal Macmillan Building In this talk, Dr. Regan Burles explores how early 20th-century anti-imperialist thinkers Rosa Luxemburg and Nikolai Bukharin engaged with geopolitical ideas—particularly the notion of a “closed” global space—in diagnosing the dynamics of capitalist imperialism. By comparing their thought to […]
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