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 […]
In this seminar session Dr. Nida Alahmad will present part of her work on elements of state consolidation, particularly in the context of modern Iraq. The paper will focus on the problem of state legitimation through a reading of the work of Iraqi 20th century sociologist and public intellectual Ali […]
In this pre-read seminar, Prof. Jonathan Havercroft (Southampton-IASH Visiting Fellow) will discuss his paper ‘Responding to Riots: Epistemic Injustice and Recent Anti-Police Uprisings’. Abstract: In response to major episodes of anti-police violence riots in the U.S. and the U.K. political theorists have paid increasing attention to the normative implications of […]
This CRITIQUE Special Seminar Series is dedicated to the political thought of James Tully. ‘Series A’ runs Thursdays (October 5, 12, 19). It will focus on Prof Tully’s forthcoming book, Dialogue and Decolonization. ‘Series B’ runs Fridays (October 6, 13, 20). For these sessions, we will be joined by guest […]
You are invited to the talk The Fight for Democracy: Journey of a Political Scientist Witnessing the Fall of Hong Kong, featuring Nathan Law, a prominent activist and former legislator from Hong Kong and recently sought asylum in the U.K. At the talk, co-badged by IRRG and CRITIQUE, he will share […]
Our new ‘Theory in Sociology’ seminar series will be launched on Friday the 13th of October (11:00 -12:45), with a Panel discussion on ‘Theorising the Digital’, featuring Liz McFall, Karen Gregory and Ben Collier. The panel will present and discuss the theories which each of the speakers respectively draws on […]
CRITIQUE welcomes James Tully for a hybrid dialogue focusing on the themes of his forthcoming Dialogue and Decolonization, along with the book’s editor Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach (Amsterdam). Dialogue and Decolonization is an urgent methodological provocation for anyone interested in the ethical, conceptual, and political challenges of political thought today. By bringing […]
CRITIQUE-PTRG Lecture w Professor Danielle Celermajer (Sydney University) In a 1964 interview, Hannah Arendt reflected on the moment she turned from being a ‘philosopher’ to being ‘political’ and feeling responsible: bearing witness to the burning of the Reichstag in 1933 and people being “taken to Gestapo cellars or to concentration […]
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. […]
Join us for a Workshop on Environmental Emotions, to be held in Edinburgh between the 24-25 of May . Participants will aim to build an interdisciplinary research agenda on environmental emotions and will contribute from a variety of approaches, from the more philosophical, to the creative, to the sociological, to […]