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 […]
Commoning the Social, Enacting Communality in Bosnia and Herzegovina: On Methods and Forms of Emancipatory Political Action Professor Jasmina Husanović IASH-SSPS Fellow, University of Edinburgh & University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina 30 April 2025 3:00–5:00 PM // G.8 Gaddum Lecture Theatre, 1 George Square (Neuroscience) Co-hosted by the Department […]
Wednesday 19 March, 3pm – 4.30pm, Chrystal Macmillan Building, Conference Room 3.15 Under international law, treaties can remain in force indefinitely. But in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many liberal political theorists questioned whether treaties could or should extend “beyond the grave,” or bind subsequent generations. This article resurrects and […]
Thursday 1 May, 3pm – 4.30pm, Conference Room 3.15, Chrystal Macmillan Building “Fail Better”: Utopia, Rosa Luxemburg, and Learning from Failure Maša Mrovlje University of Leeds This is a pre-read seminar. Abstract The paper explores how Rosa Luxemburg’s practice of learning from failure can enrich engagements with failure among scholars […]
Click here to register Wednesday 26 March, 4pm – 6pm, Online via Zoom A Virtual Critical Exchange with James Tully on his book Dialogue and Decolonization: Historical, Philosophical, and Political Perspectives (Bloomsbury). Dialogue and Decolonization is an urgent methodological provocation for anyone interested in the ethical, conceptual, and political challenges of political thought […]
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