Virtual Author Meets Critics with Professor Danielle Celermajer, Sydney University Writing the unfolding climate catastrophe presents a dilemma for scholars. Our habitual modes have us writing ‘about’ the objects of our analysis. Academic conventions require that we offer a series of performative markers to render our analysis legitimate: citations, arguments, […]

Pre-read, virtual seminar with Robin Celikates (Free University, Berlin). 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.

The Politics and Ethics of Truth Commissions An International Forum on the Final Report by the Colombian Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-repetition   The analysis of truth commissions has gained philosophical attention in the last decades, especially after the unprecedented experiment of the South African Truth […]

A virtual CRITIQUE Lecture with Inder Marwah, McMaster University. Charles Darwin’s influence in political philosophy has, at best, a checkered past given its historical association with eugenics, various strands of social Darwinism, and race ‘sciences’ often marshalled to justify colonialism and imperialism.  And yet, Darwinian evolutionism’s conceptual utility in the […]

Pre-read, virtual seminar with Avia Pasternak (UCL). 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.

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and activists alike, twentieth-century narratives of inevitable progress and universal human emancipation have been replaced by a sober reckoning with past disappointments, failures and […]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 […]