Wednesday 19 March, 3pm – 4.30pm, Chrystal Macmillan Building, Conference Room 3.15 Under international law, treaties can remain in force indefinitely. But in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many liberal political theorists questioned whether treaties could or should extend “beyond the grave,” or bind subsequent generations. This article resurrects and […]
Thursday 1 May, 3pm – 4.30pm, Conference Room 3.15, Chrystal Macmillan Building “Fail Better”: Utopia, Rosa Luxemburg, and Learning from Failure Maša Mrovlje University of Leeds This is a pre-read seminar. Abstract The paper explores how Rosa Luxemburg’s practice of learning from failure can enrich engagements with failure among scholars […]
Click here to register Wednesday 26 March, 4pm – 6pm, Online via Zoom A Virtual Critical Exchange with James Tully on his book Dialogue and Decolonization: Historical, Philosophical, and Political Perspectives (Bloomsbury). Dialogue and Decolonization is an urgent methodological provocation for anyone interested in the ethical, conceptual, and political challenges of political thought […]
Monday 5 May 2025, 11am – 1pm, Practice Suite 1.12, Chrystal Macmillan Building In this seminar, we will explore the meaning and limits of research in a context of asymmetric war and counterinsurgency. How to write history in a global context of counterterrorism and geopolitical complexity? What ethical and political […]
Please join us for a discussion of Experimental Times by Hemangini Gupta, Lecturer in Gender and Global Politics with a book presentation by the author followed by responses from: Janaki Srinivasan, Associate Professor, Digital South Asian Studies, Uni of Oxford Rahul Rao, Reader in International Political Thought, Uni of St […]
Monday 5 May 2025, 3pm – 4.30pm, Screening Room G.04, 50 George Square CRITIQUE Seminar, co-badged with GENDER.ED. This lecture explores the role of anti-colonial and revolutionary art and history-writing in the Kurdistan Freedom Movement. The international terror-labelling of the PKK is a major political obstacle for genuine and free […]
In this pedagogical workshop, CRITIQUE will be joined by Rueben George (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) and Michael Simpson (University of St Andrews) to reflect upon their collaboration as co-authors of the national best-selling book, It Stops Here: Standing up for our Lands, our Waters, and our People (Penguin Random House, 2023). Rueben […]
What makes an academic article a classic? By metrics, it’s citations. And while what’s considered acceptable and what might be accepted in top journals – as well as the sheer number of journals – has changed, the theoretical contributions of these articles have important and in some cases problematic legacies […]
October 1st, 3-5 pm, LG.09 40 George Square Lower Teaching Hub. The Magnitude of All Things https://www.themagnitudeofallthings.com/. A cinematic exploration of the emotional and psychological dimensions of climate change, this documentary draws intimate parallels between the experiences of grief—both personal and planetary. Commentators: Rahul Ranjan, Lecturer in Environmental and Climate Justice […]
CRITIQUE and the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network will be hosting a special reading group session on Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel’s new book, Animals and Capital (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). This will take place on Wednesday 2nd October 2024 from 3pm to 4.30 pm in Chrystal Macmillan Building room 3.15. We will discuss Chapter […]
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