PTRG-CRITIQUE Joint Online Seminar Wednesday 22nd October, 3-4:30 pm Jan Slaby, Professor of Philosophy, Free University Berlin, Germany. Habits of Affluence: Unfeeling, Enactivism and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism In this online seminar, Jan Slaby discusses the role that a range of habits in affluent societies play in upholding as […]
Wednesday 8 October 2025, 3pm-4.30pm, Room 3.15, Chrystal Macmillan Building The aim of this working paper is to begin developing an approach to the political theory of solidarity grounded in practices of anticolonial solidarity. To do this, I offer criticisms of the two dominant European traditions of theoretical reflection on […]
Thursday 20th November 2025, 4-5:30pm Chrystal Macmillan Building room 3.15 Reading Group – All welcome CRITIQUE and the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network are holding a joint reading group session to discuss Richard Healey and Angie Pepper’s provocative article on the legitimacy of keeping pets. This article argues that the relations […]
In this series, each month we will revisit a classic contribution to sociological theory, unpack its historical significance, and discuss its impact on subsequent and contemporary scholarship within and outside of the discipline. A faculty member whose work engages with the article or its subdiscipline will introduce it, discuss its […]
Tuesday 10 June 2025, 12pm – 1.3pm, Conference Room 3.15, Chrystal Macmillan Building Please join us in conversation between Urvashi Butalia, the CEO of Zubaan Books – an imprint of Kali for Women, India’s first feminist publishing house – and Dr Radhika Govinda, Director of GENDER.ED. Drawing on Zubaan’s experience, Urvashi Butalia […]
Monday 12 May 2025, 3pm-4.30pm, Seminar Room 5, Chrystal Macmillan Building This paper looks at two examples of public art happenings in Chattogram, Bangladesh, exploring how they create space for the political imagination; and can be used to stretch how audiences understand the political community – temporally, across lines of […]
Wednesday 14 May 2025, 3pm-4.30pm, Conference Room 3.15, Chrystal Macmillan Building In this talk, Dr. Regan Burles explores how early 20th-century anti-imperialist thinkers Rosa Luxemburg and Nikolai Bukharin engaged with geopolitical ideas—particularly the notion of a “closed” global space—in diagnosing the dynamics of capitalist imperialism. By comparing their thought to […]
Wednesday 21 May 2025, 3pm-4.30pm, G.05, 50 George Square To what extent can historical knowledge motivate the pursuit of racial justice? The recent proliferation of public history initiatives in the United States—such as the New York Times’ “1619 Project” and the Equal Justice Initiative’s Legacy Museum—implicitly answer yes. Such initiatives […]
Please join us for a seminar held jointly with the Political Theory Research Group. We will discuss two book proposals: a) Max Rozenburg’s (Newcastle) Democracy Without Winners: Democratic Institutions and the Common Good b) Cat Wayland’s (Edinburgh) Ignorance, intersectionality and political philosophy. The session is pre-read. Please email critique_centre@ed.ac.uk for […]
The birth of sensory power Engin Isin 28 January 2025 16:30-18:00 Violet Laidlaw room Chrystal MacMillan Building, George Square University of Edinburgh Is it possible to trace transversal geopolitical shifts in the twenty-first-century to the birth of a new form of power, which governs through human-machine interfaces? This is a […]
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