Friday 21 February 2025 15:00-17:00 GMT. Violet Laidlaw Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building This seminar reflects on how contemporary left internationalism could think through—and beyond—both “humanity” and “nation” when positioning its struggles. It will look to philosophy and then to history to distinguish unsettled questions that animate dilemmas of left internationalism […]
Please join us for a thought-provoking book talk: Free the Map – Beyond state-centrism: reimagining maps of borders and migration With Prof. Henk van Houtum, Nijmegen Centre for Border Research, Radboud University (NL) Wednesday, January 15, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Seminar Room 1, Chrystal Macmillan Building, George Square Hosted […]
The first CRITIQUE event of the spring 2025 semester will be a work-in-progress session where Prof Samantha Vice (Wits/IASH) will present work from her IASH research project on environmental aesthetics. It will take place on 15 January in 3.15 Chrystal Macmillan Building, from 3.30-5pm. It is co-hosted with Edinburgh Environmental […]
Date/Time: Tuesday 25th February 2025, 3-5pm Place: Violet Laidlaw Room, 6th floor, Chrystal Macmillan Building Speakers: Katey Warran, Amy Chandler, Niamh Moore and Shaira Vadasaria Theory in Sociology series conveners: Stephen Kemp and Isabelle Darmon Register with eventbrite HERE. Hierarchies of knowledge are founded upon theories about reality, with imagination, […]
Wednesday 2 April, 3pm – 5pm, Conference Room 3.15, Chrystal Macmillan Building Demands for curricular reform are often defended by asserting a link between the principles that ought to determine the selection of material that academics teach and the principles that ought to govern a just society. This article considers […]
Wednesday 5th March, 3pm – 5pm, Chrystal Macmillan Building, Seminar Room 2 A code is a tool for hiding things of value. Yet codes also grant access to what has been hidden and locked away. Join Prof Shannon Vallor for this lecture exploring the role of code, and coding, in […]
Wednesday 5 March 2025 16:00-17:30 GMT Room 1.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute A discussion from the front lines of the battle against settler colonialism. Two women from the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation outline life growing up in Alberta, Canada, working with and against the Oilsands. Join us to hear how their […]
Wednesday 12 March, 3pm – 4.30pm, Chrystal Macmillan Building, Conference Room 3.15 A seminar with Elaine Kelly (Music) on “Opera against Apartheid: Reiter der Nacht at the German State Opera”, a draft chapter from Elaine’s current book project Music and Anti-Imperial Solidarity: East Germany and the Third World. Set against […]
Tuesday 18 March 2025 15:00-17:00 GMT. Violet Laidlaw Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building Event Information Join us on Tuesday 18 March for the book forum: Feminist Politics, Intersectionality and Knowledge Cultivation. Author Radhika Govinda will join a panel of speakers to examine feminist politics through the lens of intersectionality, emphasising its role […]
Tuesday 22 April 2025, 4.30pm – 6pm, Violet Laidlaw Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building Dr Teresa Piacentini (University of Glasgow) will be with us to discuss her new book Developing a Critical Pedagogy of Migration (Bristol University Press, 2024). She will be in conversation with our very own Dr Sam Spiegel about his […]
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