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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We continue our reading of Eva von Redecker’s book Praxis and Revolution on 7 June 2022, at 3pm. For this meeting, we tackle chapters 5 and 6. Join us! CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss pre-read texts selected by members. All meetings currently take place online, via […]
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 […]
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 […]
Virtual lecture by Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò, who is 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 this lecture, Olúfemi O. Táíwò will discuss […]
Virtual lecture by Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò, who is 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 this lecture, Olúfemi O. Táíwò will discuss […]
We continue our reading of Eva von Redecker’s book Praxis and Revolution on 24 May 2022, at 2pm. For this meeting, we tackle the introduction to part 2 and and chapter 4. Join us! CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss pre-read texts selected by members. All meetings […]
We continue our reading of Eva von Redecker’s book Praxis and Revolution on 5 May 2022, at 2:30pm. For this meeting, we tackle the second and third chapters (“The Materiality of Praxis” and “The Connections Between Practices”). Join us! CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss pre-read texts […]
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