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 […]
Monday 5 May 2025, 11am – 1pm, Practice Suite 1.12, Chrystal Macmillan Building In this seminar, we will explore the meaning and limits of research in a context of asymmetric war and counterinsurgency. How to write history in a global context of counterterrorism and geopolitical complexity? What ethical and political […]
Please join us for a discussion of Experimental Times by Hemangini Gupta, Lecturer in Gender and Global Politics with a book presentation by the author followed by responses from: Janaki Srinivasan, Associate Professor, Digital South Asian Studies, Uni of Oxford Rahul Rao, Reader in International Political Thought, Uni of St […]
Monday 5 May 2025, 3pm – 4.30pm, Screening Room G.04, 50 George Square CRITIQUE Seminar, co-badged with GENDER.ED. This lecture explores the role of anti-colonial and revolutionary art and history-writing in the Kurdistan Freedom Movement. The international terror-labelling of the PKK is a major political obstacle for genuine and free […]
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