A roundtable discussion on Dan Degerman’s manuscript entitled  The Politics of Misery:Political Agency and the Medicalization of Negative Emotions. 
January 2021, via Zoom

How can we respond to the pervasive sense of disappointment and left melancholia lingering in the wake of the failed projects of revolutionary societal transformation? Among theorists and activists alike, twentieth-century narratives of inevitable progress and universal human emancipation have been replaced by a sober reckoning with past disappointments, failures and […]

Pre-read, virtual seminar with Michael Cholbi, (Edinburgh University). To receive the paper and link to the event, please email us at critique_centre@ed.ac.uk. Event co-sponsored with the Political Theory Research Group at the University of Edinburgh.

Nisha Kapoor teaches sociology at Warwick University. Her research interests are broadly concerned with racism and the security state covering topics relating to immigration, citizenship, criminalization, Islamophobia, segregation and authoritarianism. Theoretically, she draws on critical race, postcolonial, political and cultural theory to assist in the undertaking of this work. She […]

Sally Haslanger is Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women’s & Gender Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique (2012), Critical Theory and Practice (2017) and co-author of ​What is Race? Four Philosophical Views (2019). Her most recent work focuses on social practices, social […]

Event co-sponsored with CeSeR, Edinburgh. From Syrian civilians locked in iron cages to veterans joining peaceful indigenous water protectors at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, from Sri Lanka to Iraq and from Yemen to the United States, human beings have been used as shields for protection, coercion, or deterrence. Over […]

In this paper presentation, Professor David Dyzenhaus (University of Toronto) will argue that Kelsen’s account of the nature of international law and of the logical and normative necessity of monism is not refuted by Hart, and that Hart distorted Kelsen in order to refute him. Dyzenhaus claims that, properly understood, […]

Pre-read, virtual seminar with Paulina Tambakaki (Westminster University). To receive the paper and link to the event, please email us at critique_centre@ed.ac.uk. Event co-sponsored with the Political Theory Research Group at the University of Edinburgh.

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.