On 26 October 2023, CRITIQUE hosted a discussion of James Tully’s new book Dialogue and Decolonization: Historical, Philosophical, and Political Perspectives (Bloomsbury). What follows is a transcript of Part I of the dialogue between Professor Tully, the book’s editor Professor Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, and CRITIQUE Co-Director Jared Holley. It has been […]
Earlier this year, CRITIQUE, RACE.ED and GENDER.ED came together to host a book discussion of Ida Danewid’s new book Resisting Racial Capitalism: An Antipolitical Theory of Refusal. In this book forum, Hemangini Gupta and Jared Holley engage the book’s main arguments and Danewid offers a response in the final post. […]
An interview with Maggie FitzGerald on her book Care and the Pluriverse, by CRITIQUE Fellow Camilo Ardila Arévalo. Hi Dr. Maggie FitzGerald. Thank you so much for accepting this short and informal conversation with CRITIQUE. I found your work Care and the Pluriverse: Rethinking Global Ethics truly insightful and fascinating. […]
Looking Back… Since its founding, CRITIQUE has brought together scholars from across Schools and Colleges at University of Edinburgh in a dynamic hub for ethical and critical analysis of urgent social challenges such as climate change, economic exploitation, racial segregation, gender oppression, and political violence. Deeply committed to methodological pluralism, […]
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 […]
Recording of the launch of Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care (Stanford University Press, 2022) by Mihaela Mihai. Lawrie Balfour, University of Virginia The event featured: Joseph Winters, Duke University David Sorfa, Edinburgh University Peter Davies, Edinburgh University Nida Alahmad, Edinburgh University The recording of the Event is available […]
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 conversation took place following Prof Gardiner’s virtual visit to Edinburgh University in September 2021. Members of CRITIQUE’s Environmental Working Group, Joseph Conrad, Grace Garland, and Talia Shoval, asked Prof Gardiner about moral corruption, the recent COP26 event in Glasgow, non-anthropocentric dimensions of climate justice, and the public role of […]
This roundtable event took place on 17 November 2021 and was an initiative of CRITIQUE’s Environmental Working Group. The roundtable drew out insights from scholars and educators who share an interest in ecological strategies of learning, teaching, and writing. The conversation also explored the potential for innovation and disruption contained […]
This roundtable event took place on 27 October 2021 and was an initiative of CRITIQUE’s Environmental Working Group. The roundtable was intentionally exploratory and cross-disciplinary, with scholars from UoE representing Sociology; Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies; Politics and International Relations; and Architecture. The discussion drew on insights from teachers and researchers […]
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