This is the second event organised under the aegis of a recently established European Network in Social and Political Philosophy. This postgraduate workshop features presentations by a select group of PhD students from these four universities who will be focusing on methodological issues in political philosophy. Presenters: Catrin Wayland (University […]
Virtual Symposium on Professor Robbie Shilliam’s book Decolonizing Politics. An Introduction (John Wiley & Sons, 2021). Event co-sponsored with Race.ED and Identities. Global Studies in Culture and Power. Speakers Professor Robbie Shilliam, Johns Hopkins University Dr Toni Haastrup, University of Stirling Dr Aparna Devare, University of Hyderabad Dr Maria Bargh, Victoria University of Wellington […]
Virtual lecture by Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò, who is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. Their work work draws on the Black radical tradition, contemporary philosophy of language, contemporary social science, German transcendental philosophy, materialist thought, histories of activism and activist thinkers. In this lecture, Olúfemi O. Táíwò will discuss […]
Join us for a manuscript workshop on Michael Albert‘s forthcoming book: Navigating the Polycrisis: Mapping the Futures of Capitalism and the Earth. The book explores possible futures in an era of intersecting ecological and political-economic crises and is forthcoming with MIT Press. Respondents: Troy Vettese Mathias Thaler Claire Duncanson Thomas Homer-Dixon […]
CRITIQUE – EEHN Joint Discussion Group Members of CRITIQUE and the Environmental Humanities Network will hold a joint discussion session around an art exhibition – The Accursed Share – shown at Talbott Rice Gallery. The visit to the Gallery will be followed by an informal conversation on the central themes […]
This event is co-sponsored by GenderED and RaceED. Participants will reflect on what decolonising research involves from within their own disciplines, focusing on the challenges such efforts face. They will also comment on the risks associated with a discourse of decolonising research if it becomes de-coupled from discussions about material redistribution, reparations, and […]
Whether in the growing gap between the rulers and the ruled, the decline of electoral participation, the rise of populism or the loss of confidence in democratic institutions, signs of the dysfunction of representative democracy proliferate across the globe. In response, scholars and activists have put forward various proposals to […]
Recording of the launch of Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care (Stanford University Press, 2022) by Mihaela Mihai. Lawrie Balfour, University of Virginia The event featured: Joseph Winters, Duke University David Sorfa, Edinburgh University Peter Davies, Edinburgh University Nida Alahmad, Edinburgh University The recording of the Event is available […]
These virtual roundtables, organised by Mathias Thaler (Politics and IR, Edinburgh) and Davina Cooper (Law School, King’s College), will be run as informal, open conversations on the relationship between utopian thinking and practice, on the one hand, and failure, on the other. Programme 17th of March – 9:30-11:30am GMT Sixtine Van Outryve d’Ydewalle: This […]
Virtual event hosted by the Edinburgh Futures Institute, CRITIQUE, and the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, in partnership with Newcastle University and Social Research at the Scottish Government. A new generation of democratic innovations is proliferating in Scotland since the turn of the century, […]
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