CRITIQUE Author-Meets-Critics with Nasar Meer (Edinburgh) on his book, The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice (Policy Press, 2022). Event co-sponsored with RaceED. What can we learn from successes and failures in the pursuit of racial justice in the UK and elsewhere in the Global North? A dominant view of racial […]
CRITIQUE and Open Government Partnership Scotland invite you to a public event about changing forms of citizenship and democratic action. Everyone is welcome, but places are limited, so please register on Eventbrite. Time, date, location Wednesday, 26 October 2022, 4.30pm to 6pm 50 George Square, Room G.06, University of Edinburgh […]
CRITIQUE Seminar with Professor Phil Cole, UWE Bristol. This paper examines the role of Political Theory in framing the forcibly displaced in a way that confines their political and theoretical agency. This confinement is caused by the way in which Political Theory is structured around the nation-state system of membership, […]
CRITIQUE – PTRG Seminar with Tom O’Shea (Edinburgh University). Civic republicans are increasingly concerned about the problem of oligarchy. The leading approach in this respect has been a plebeian republicanism informed by Machiavellian ideas about class conflict, and which seeks to keep socio-economic elites in check by reviving the veto […]
Seasonal Sessions are quarterly mini-fieldtrips organised by the Environmental Working Group, under the aegis of CRTIQUE, and supported by the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network (EEHN). Each of our sessions takes place in a different setting outwith the university. The main aim of the events is to cultivate a practice of […]
CRITIQUE Lecture by Berislav Marušić (Philosophy, Edinburgh) on his recently published book, On the Temporality of Emotions (OUP, 2022). In this lecture, Berislav Marušić draws on the phenomenology of lived experience to identify puzzling features of emotional life and offers a distinctive approach to the study of emotion through a focus […]
CRITIQUE Lecture by Prof Davina Cooper, KCL: “Abolishing legal sex: The challenges, risks, and pleasures of prefigurative law reform”. Davina Cooper is a Research Professor in Law and Political Theory. She is an interdisciplinary scholar, whose work focuses on concepts, transformative politics, state activism, and experimental communities. She currently directs […]
Reparations Unbound? Dilemmas of Dismantling Racial Injustice A CRITIQUE Lecture by Lawrie Balfour, University of Virginia, John G. Winant Visiting Professor of American Government, Oxford University Demands for reparations for slavery, colonialism, and their legacies are not new. Where these demands were long dismissed as divisive, impractical, or simply unthinkable, […]
A Virtual Author-Meets-Critics with José Medina on his book manuscript The Epistemology of Protest: Silencing, Epistemic Activism and the Communicative Life of Resistance. The Epistemology of Protest offers an account of communicative and epistemic resistance against injustice in street activism and protest movements. The book examines the communicative power of […]
A day of artistic events surrounding the launch of the Colombian Truth Commission’s Final Report. Organisers: Colombian Truth Commission, Camilo Ardila-Arévalo, Ioana Popescu. By exploring the work of the Colombian Truth Commission, this event aims to showcase the artistic dimension of truth-seeking. As part of the peace agreements between the […]
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