Professor Patricia Owens will speak about her new book ‘Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men’: Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men with Professor Patricia Owens (Thurs 19th March 1-2.30pm, Violet Laidlaw Room, CMB) Join us for a talk and discussion of Professor Owens’ new book Erased: A History of International […]
In this series, each month we will revisit (or perhaps visit for the first time) one of these articles, unpack its historical significance, and discuss its impact on subsequent and contemporary scholarship within and outside of the discipline. A faculty member whose work engages with the article or its subdiscipline […]
We’ll be joined by David Featherstone (University of Glasgow) for a talk titled, ‘Glad to make the acquaintance of another anti-fascist’: Cardiff, Labour Internationalism and Solidarity in a Time of Deindustrialisation. This will take place at 3pm-4:30pm on Wednesday 28th January in Appleton Tower room 2.12. The talk is being […]
Critique will be co-hosting an opening event for the Network for the Study of Work, which brings together researchers at the University of Edinburgh with an interest in work, including its social, economic, historical, philosophical, and political dimensions. This will be an opportunity to find out more about the network’s […]
This event has now been cancelled. Centring Care in International Law, with Prof Catherine O’Rourke, Dublin City University. Thursday 12 February 2026 Co-organised by CRITIQUE and the Global Justice Academy. Abstract Care – the provision of what is necessary for the health, welfare, maintenance, and protection of someone […]
Please join us for the launch of Dr Nida Alahmad’s new book State Matters: Theorizing State Fragmentation and Consolidation from Iraq, which is being published by Cambridge University Press. Dr Lucy Abbott and Dr Harshan Kumarasingham will act as discussants, and there will be plenty of time for questions and […]
We’ll be joined by Mara Marin (University of Victoria) for a talk on ‘Enabling Structures and Socially Structured Action’. This will take place in Chrystal Macmillan Building room 3.15 between 3pm and 4:30pm on Monday 22nd June 2026. Abstract: Discussions of structural injustice have proliferated in political theory. I argue […]
CRITIQUE Joint Seminar with Middle East Research Group and Political Theory Research Group Nida Alahmad, Edinburgh The Stale Grammar of the Settler-Colonialism Framing in the Palestine/Israel Context This presentation asks the question of the relationship between democracy, the Palestinian struggle for emancipation from Israeli domination, and Israel as a state […]
Wednesday 29th October 2025, 3-4:30pm Medical School, Teviot – G.03, Doorway 6 Seminar CRITIQUE and the Political Theory Research Group are holding a joint seminar with guest Prof. John Barry (Queen’s University, Belfast). This will be a (pre-read) discussion of his paper “Teaching and learning in a world on fire: […]
PTRG-CRITIQUE Joint Online Seminar Wednesday 22nd October, 3-4:30 pm Jan Slaby, Professor of Philosophy, Free University Berlin, Germany. Habits of Affluence: Unfeeling, Enactivism and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism In this online seminar, Jan Slaby discusses the role that a range of habits in affluent societies play in upholding as […]