Semester 2 Seminar Series Free the Map – Beyond state-centrism: reimagining maps of borders and migration Hosted by the Citizenship and Migration Research Network with the Centre for Ethics and Critical Thought 15 January, 1pm-2.30pm, Chrystal Macmillan Building, Seminar Room 1 Environmental Aesthetics: CRITIQUE-EEHN Work-in-Progress Seminar with Samantha Vice […]
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Please join us for a seminar held jointly with the Political Theory Research Group. We will discuss two book proposals: a) Max Rozenburg’s (Newcastle) Democracy Without Winners: Democratic Institutions and the Common Good b) Cat Wayland’s (Edinburgh) Ignorance, intersectionality and political philosophy. The session is pre-read. Please email critique_centre@ed.ac.uk for […]
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The birth of sensory power Engin Isin 28 January 2025 16:30-18:00 Violet Laidlaw room Chrystal MacMillan Building, George Square University of Edinburgh Is it possible to trace transversal geopolitical shifts in the twenty-first-century to the birth of a new form of power, which governs through human-machine interfaces? This is a […]
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Wednesday 12 February 2025 15:00-17:00 GMT Seminar Room 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building A seminar with Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam This is a pre-read seminar. Please read: WEB Du Bois, Democracy and Color (chap 4) and ‘Peace and the Colonies’ (chap 5) both from The World and Africa and Color […]
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13 February 2025 11:00-13:00 GMT Practice Suite, Chrystal Macmillan Building Register here A pedagogical workshop with Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Currently, different approaches are proposed to diversify academic philosophy. They seek to achieve a better fit between philosophizing as a social activity and our interdependent world. The talk will […]
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Friday 14 February 2025 14:00-17:00 GMT. Zoom webinar: PLEASE REGISTER HERE Over the past few years, an increasing stream of research has explored how the rise of far-right movements in many countries was supported by significant fractions of dominant classes. Such research plays a crucial role in moving the discussion […]
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Friday 21 February 2025 15:00-17:00 GMT. Violet Laidlaw Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building This seminar reflects on how contemporary left internationalism could think through—and beyond—both “humanity” and “nation” when positioning its struggles. It will look to philosophy and then to history to distinguish unsettled questions that animate dilemmas of left internationalism […]
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Please join us on Wednesday 29 January for an EEHN-CRITIQUE reading group, where we will be discussing The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning World. This edited volume provides a much-needed discussion of how we can develop innovative pedagogies and teaching practices that are attuned to the intellectual, emotional, and […]
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Please join us for a thought-provoking book talk: Free the Map – Beyond state-centrism: reimagining maps of borders and migration With Prof. Henk van Houtum, Nijmegen Centre for Border Research, Radboud University (NL) Wednesday, January 15, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Seminar Room 1, Chrystal Macmillan Building, George Square Hosted […]
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The first CRITIQUE event of the spring 2025 semester will be a work-in-progress session where Prof Samantha Vice (Wits/IASH) will present work from her IASH research project on environmental aesthetics. It will take place on 15 January in 3.15 Chrystal Macmillan Building, from 3.30-5pm. It is co-hosted with Edinburgh Environmental […]
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