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 […]
CRITIQUE Lecture by Jakob Huber (Free University Berlin). Event co-sponsored with the Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law. In this lecture, Huber introduces a novel account of Kant’s global thinking, one that has hitherto been largely overlooked: a grounded cosmopolitanism concerned with spelling out the normative implications of the […]
CRITIQUE -PTRG Seminar (pre-read) with Matthew Festenstein (York). Writing at the outset of the Cold War and summarising, as he saw it, an important tradition in constitutional thinking, the American political scientist Clinton Rossiter states in Constitutional Dictatorship that “no sacrifice is too great for our democracy, least of all the temporary sacrifice […]
Join us for a CRITIQUE-CeSeR Lecture by Professor Rosaleen Duffy (Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield). A Political Ecology of Security: The Conservation Politics of Tackling the Illegal Wildlife Trade In this lecture, the speaker will focus in on the ways that the conservation sector has turned towards security […]
We will meet at 2pm on the 29th of May 2023 to discuss Sylvia Wynter’s essay ‘Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument’. We will meet in person in room 3.15 in CMB. CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss pre-read texts […]
Seasonal Sessions are quarterly 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. The Spring Session takes place in the Meadows, Edinburgh, against the backdrop […]
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