This is a pre-read, virtual seminar with Hanna Schuebel (Environmental Humanities, University of Fribourg, Switzerland). Hanna is presenting a draft paper in which she develops an account of individuals’ responsibilities to remove carbon from the atmosphere with carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies. The upscaling of CDR to reach states’ net-zero […]

This interdisciplinary roundtable interrogates the provision of ethics training at the University of Edinburgh in light of the challenges that the Covid19 pandemic has posed for scholars and teachers, but also of the opportunities it has opened up for assessing and rethinking how we teach ethics today. Our panelists come […]

A DELC-CRITIQUE seminar with Dario Gentili on his latest book, The Age of Precarity: Endless Crisis as an Art of Government (Verso, 2021). Gentili explores the question: if crisis is the norm, how do we demand change? He identifies precariousness as the form of life that characterises crisis understood as […]

An initiative of CRITIQUE’s Environmental Working Group. This roundtable event invites insights from scholars and educators who share an interest in ecological strategies of learning, teaching, and writing. The conversation will explore the potential for innovation and disruption contained in ‘environmental’ approaches to higher education in the modern context – […]

Pre-read, virtual seminar with Diana Popescu (Edinburgh University). To receive the paper and link to the event, please email critique_centre@ed.ac.uk. Event co-sponsored with the Political Theory Research Group at the University of Edinburgh. In this paper I propose a dispositional theory of discrimination, which interprets the properties on the basis […]

A Virtual Author-Meets-Critics with Liz Cripps on her forthcoming book The Last Parents on Earth: Raising Children in a World in Crisis (MIT Press, 2023) We raise our children in a flawed and fragile world. Climate change, pandemics, superbugs resistant to antibiotics. Extreme inequality, endemic poverty, institutionalised racism and sexism. What […]

An initiative of CRITIQUE’s Environmental Working Group. This roundtable event invites insights from teachers and researchers from a range of subject areas who broadly share an interest in training environmentally responsible students at the University of Edinburgh. The conversation will explore the imperatives, pressures, obstacles, and opportunities experienced by academics […]

Event co-hosted with Centre for Global Knowledge Studies (gloknos), SKAPE, CeSeR Questions of truth and expertise are at the forefront of global political debates, such that it is common to speak of a ‘post-truth’ world and a backlash against ‘expert’ knowledge. From Brexit to climate change, from the Syrian civil war to Covid-19, […]

In this virtual CRITIQUE Lecture Professor Stephen Gardiner starts from the assumption that we have reached crunch time for the climate and that this profound ethical challenge demands new institutions to address it. He invites us to consider a democratic possibility: that humanity should hold a global constitutional convention, akin […]

A virtual CRITIQUE Author-Meets-Critics on Chandran Kukathas’ Immigration and Freedom (Princeton University Press, 2021). Immigration is often seen as a danger to western liberal democracies because it threatens to undermine their fundamental values, most notably freedom and national self-determination. In this book, however, Chandran Kukathas argues that the greater threat […]