This year’s ‘Autumn in a Graveyard’ event takes place on 3 October 2024, 3-4:30pm. We direct attention to the season, the place, and frameworks for thinking and feeling them together. We ask: How can we think about our ambiguous belonging in the ecological community? In what ways do humans have […]
Over the past few years, an increasing stream of research has explored how the rise of far-right movements in many countries was supported by significant fractions of dominant classes. Such research plays a crucial role in moving the discussion on far-right movements away from the concept of ‘populism’, instead putting […]
CRITIQUE, the Centre for African Studies, the Centre of Canadian Studies and Lighthouse Books invite you to join us for a conversation with with Rueben George, Sundance Chief and member of the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation. This event will take place on Monday 14th October, 3pm – 5pm at the Edinburgh […]
Critique and the Political Theory Research Group will be hosting a pre-read seminar with Alex Freer on ‘Schmitt, Romanticism, and Political Form’: Under what conditions is form political? The question has become pressing for literary theory in light of what we might call political formalism, a family of approaches to […]
October 18, 1-3 pm, 2.13 Geography (Old Infirmary) Once You Know (2020) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9430820/ Once you know is the intimate journey of director Emmanuel Cappellin across the abyss of a world at the edge of climate-induced collapse. His voyage into this uncharted territory is that of a whole generation turning to […]
During the Cold War, many large-scale research projects were funded by US academic and state institutions in an attempt to better understand the ‘Communist mind’, often relying on in-person interviews with emigres from the Soviet Union, Korea and China. I’m interested in a specific genre of publication that emerged from […]
3pm-4:30pm on Wednesday 30th October in Chrystal Macmillan room 3.15. This is a pre-read seminar. For a copy of the paper, please contact tom.oshea@ed.ac.uk.
This talk is taken from Prof Bernard‘s book-in-progress, International Solidarity and Culture in Late Cold War Britain. The book addresses a neglected archive of literature and film from and about the Nicaraguan, South African, and Palestinian national liberation movements that was circulated internationally from 1975 to 1990. It situates this work in […]
This paper outlines the preliminary arguments of a chapter from an ongoing book project, entitled Before the Global Color Line: Empire, Capital, and Race in Asia, 1800-1850. The chapter develops the notion of “capitalist racialization,” an analytic concept that captures the role of capitalist social forms in shaping the semantic […]
Workshop Description In this methods workshop we will discuss the insights to be gained from incorporating political economic analysis into studying the history of political thought, primarily though not exclusively around the political theory of empire. Readings Onur Ulas Ince, Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism (Oxford, 2018), Chapter 1 and […]
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