A virtual roundtable discussion on Toby Kelly’s book manuscript entitled Battles of Conscience: The Lives of British Pacifists in the Second World War. Is conscience always a virtue? What if it is too fervent and uncompromising? What if it becomes a form of moral vanity? What if it is simply […]
Pre-read, virtual seminar with Philip Cook, Co-Director of CRITIQUE. To receive the paper and link to the event, please sign up to our mailing list. Event co-sponsored with the Political Theory Research Group at the University of Edinburgh.
Pre-read, virtual seminar with Katharine Jenkins, (Glasgow University). To receive the paper and link to the event, please sign up to the PTRG mailing list. Event co-sponsored with the Political Theory Research Group at the University of Edinburgh.
CRITIQUE Reads (pre-read, via zoom) Sally Haslanger: “Taking a Stand: Second-Order Pathologies or First Order Critique?” Forthcoming in a festschrift for Axel Honneth, ed., Julia Christ, Kristina Lepold, Daniel Loick and Titus Stahl.
Louis Fletcher, a fellow of CRITIQUE, interviews Malcolm Bull on his recently published book, On Mercy (Princeton University Press, 2019). LF: On Mercy is an original and incisive contribution to political theory, but you are perhaps best known as a distinguished historian of art. Would you be able to say […]
Maša Mrovlje, Visiting Fellow at CRITIQUE, interviews Alex Zamalin on his book Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism (Columbia University Press, 2019) MM: Black Utopia: traces the hitherto neglected transformative possibilities of black utopian thinking and outlines how it can invigorate the politics of critique and resistance in […]
Talia Shoval reflects on the ethical lessons not yet learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.
July 3, 5-6 pm Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Colour (Kitchen Table – Women of Color Press, 1983). Parts III and IV.
June 19, 5-6 pm Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Colour (Kitchen Table – Women of Color Press, 1983). Part II.
June 12, 2 pm, via Collaborate No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Climate-Changed World Mathias Thaler, PIR Edinburgh Comments by Neil Walker (Law), Elizabeth Bomberg (PIR) and Andy Hom (PIR) Brief description This book contributes to the recovery of utopian thinking and acting by analysing a major global challenge: climate change. Its key assumption is […]
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