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 second session, Winter on a Mountain, will take place on Monday, 12 […]
Visions of utopia – some hopeful, others fearful – have become increasingly prevalent in recent times. No Other Planet (Cambridge University Press, 2022) by Mathias Thaler examines expressions of the utopian imagination with a focus on the pressing challenge of how to inhabit a climate-changed world. It aims to both […]
CRITIQUE is excited to support the European Caravan of Participatory Budgeting for Greener Cities. This series of events across Europe provides an opportunity for participants to share their experiences, testimonies, and doubts on green participatory budgeting, and to gain insights on how to implement it in their own cities from […]
CRITIQUE Screenings kicks off with Sorry to Bother You, (Boots Riley, 2018). The projection will be followed by a brief commentary and a Q and A session with the public. In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a […]
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 […]