Virtual seminar with Camil Ungureanu (Pompeu Fabra). To receive the link to the event, please sign up on Eventbrite. In this talk, I reflect on the intersection between urban commons, feminism and documentary art as truth-telling by focusing on Alcaldessa (Mayoress, dir. Pau Faus, 2016), the most relevant documentary of […]
This is a pre-read, virtual seminar with Hanna Schuebel (Environmental Humanities, University of Fribourg, Switzerland). Hanna is presenting a draft paper in which she develops an account of individuals’ responsibilities to remove carbon from the atmosphere with carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies. The upscaling of CDR to reach states’ net-zero […]
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 […]
We are reading Jacques Rancière (2008), The Emancipated Spectator. For this second engagement with the text, we will be discussing chapters 3,4 and 5. CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss pre-read texts selected by members. All meetings currently take place online, via Zoom. To join, please email critique_centre@ed.ac.uk.
This interdisciplinary roundtable interrogates the provision of ethics training at the University of Edinburgh in light of the challenges that the Covid19 pandemic has posed for scholars and teachers, but also of the opportunities it has opened up for assessing and rethinking how we teach ethics today. Our panelists come […]
A DELC-CRITIQUE seminar with Dario Gentili on his latest book, The Age of Precarity: Endless Crisis as an Art of Government (Verso, 2021). Gentili explores the question: if crisis is the norm, how do we demand change? He identifies precariousness as the form of life that characterises crisis understood as […]
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 […]
We are reading Jacques Rancière (2008), The Emancipated Spectator. For this first engagement with the text, we will be discussing the first two chapters. CRITIQUE’s Critical Theory Reading Group meets regularly to discuss pre-read texts selected by members. All meetings currently take place online, via Zoom. To join, please email critique_centre@ed.ac.uk.
An initiative of CRITIQUE’s Environmental Working Group. This roundtable event invites insights from scholars and educators who share an interest in ecological strategies of learning, teaching, and writing. The conversation will explore the potential for innovation and disruption contained in ‘environmental’ approaches to higher education in the modern context – […]