CRITIQUE Virtual Author-Meets-Critics (Co-sponsored with RaceED) on Dreamworlds of Race, with Duncan Bell (Cambridge) – 28 April 2021, 3 pm

A Virtual Author Meets Critics with Professor Duncan Bell, Cambridge University. Co-sponsored with RaceED. Between the late nineteenth century and the First World War an ocean-spanning network of prominent individuals advocated the unification of Britain and the United States. They dreamt of the final consolidation of the Angloworld. Scholars, journalists, […]

CRITIQUE Lecture Find Our Mothers: Chantal Akerman’s Camerawork as Motherwork, with Lori Marso (Union College) – 14 April 2021, 3 pm

In Jeanne Dielman (1975), From the Other Side (2002) and No Home Movie (2015), Belgian/French filmmaker Chantal Akerman’s camera does motherwork by creating spaces where characters and spectators encounter, hold, and work through discomforting feelings, events, and fantasies. Informed by black feminist thinking on motherwork and fabulation, I explore how Akerman’s films acknowledge harmful fantasies and norms that structure the way we identify mothers, while also creating cinematic spaces where new practices of mothering and motherwork can be experienced and imagined. Reading Akerman’s […]

CRITIQUE-PTRG Seminar Emancipation and the Unjust Past – 7 April 2021, 3 pm

Pre-read, virtual seminar with Alasia Nuti (York University). To receive the paper and link to the event, please email critique_centre@ed.ac.uk. Event co-sponsored with the Political Theory Research Group at the University of Edinburgh.

CRITIQUE Roundtable Civil Disobedience and Its Critics, 24 March 2021, 3 pm

A CRITIQUE roundtable discussion on theories and practices of civil disobedience. Civil disobedience has always been the focus of a vibrant and contentious intellectual debate. The participants of this roundtable will address a series of interrelated questions: What are the political stakes in the definitional disagreements that inform contemporary work […]

CRITIQUE Interview with Judith Heumann

When you say ‘No, you can’t do this’, I hear ‘Change the World!’ Gisli Vogler, Teaching Fellow at the Centre for Open Learning, University of Edinburgh, interviews Judith Heumann on her memoir Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2020). Heumann is a […]

CRITIQUE Professional Development Series Publish Your Dissertation with Nicola Ramsey, Head of Editorial at Edinburgh University Press – 10 March 2021, 10 am

Nicola Ramsey is the Head of Editorial at Edinburgh University Press, as well as the publisher for EUP’s highly-regarded Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies list. She has worked in the academic publishing industry for over 20 years, and is joining us to share ideas about getting a PhD thesis published […]

CRITIQUE Virtual Author Meets Critics: Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future with Danielle Celermajer (Sydney) – 25 February 2021, 10 am

Virtual Author Meets Critics with Professor Danielle Celermajer, Sydney University Writing the unfolding climate catastrophe presents a dilemma for scholars. Our habitual modes have us writing ‘about’ the objects of our analysis. Academic conventions require that we offer a series of performative markers to render our analysis legitimate: citations, arguments, […]

CRITIQUE-PTRG Seminar Remaking the Demos ‘From Below’? Critical Theory, Migrant Struggles, and Epistemic Resistance – 24 February 2021, 3 pm

Pre-read, virtual seminar with Robin Celikates (Free University, Berlin). To receive the paper and link to the event, please email critique_centre@ed.ac.uk. Event co-sponsored with the Political Theory Research Group at the University of Edinburgh.

CRITIQUE WORKSHOP The Politics and Ethics of Truth Commissions – 28 January 2021, 6 pm

The Politics and Ethics of Truth Commissions An International Forum on the Final Report by the Colombian Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-repetition The analysis of truth commissions has gained philosophical attention in the last decades, especially after the unprecedented experiment of the South African Truth […]

CRITIQUE Lecture Darwin’s Travels: Liberal Evolutionism in Colonial India with Inder Marwah (McMaster) – 26 January 2021, 6 pm

A virtual CRITIQUE Lecture with Inder Marwah, McMaster University. Charles Darwin’s influence in political philosophy has, at best, a checkered past given its historical association with eugenics, various strands of social Darwinism, and race ‘sciences’ often marshalled to justify colonialism and imperialism. And yet, Darwinian evolutionism’s conceptual utility in the […]

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