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 […]
In this pedagogical workshop, CRITIQUE will be joined by Rueben George (Tsleil-Waututh Nation) and Michael Simpson (University of St Andrews) to reflect upon their collaboration as co-authors of the national best-selling book, It Stops Here: Standing up for our Lands, our Waters, and our People (Penguin Random House, 2023). Rueben […]
October 1st, 3-5 pm, LG.09 40 George Square Lower Teaching Hub. The Magnitude of All Things https://www.themagnitudeofallthings.com/. A cinematic exploration of the emotional and psychological dimensions of climate change, this documentary draws intimate parallels between the experiences of grief—both personal and planetary. Commentators: Rahul Ranjan, Lecturer in Environmental and Climate Justice […]
CRITIQUE and the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network will be hosting a special reading group session on Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel’s new book, Animals and Capital (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). This will take place on Wednesday 2nd October 2024 from 3pm to 4.30 pm in Chrystal Macmillan Building room 3.15. We will discuss Chapter […]
This year’s ‘Autumn in a Graveyard’ event takes place on 3 October 2024, 3-4:30pm. We direct attention to the season, the place, and frameworks for thinking and feeling them together. We ask: How can we think about our ambiguous belonging in the ecological community? In what ways do humans have […]
Over the past few years, an increasing stream of research has explored how the rise of far-right movements in many countries was supported by significant fractions of dominant classes. Such research plays a crucial role in moving the discussion on far-right movements away from the concept of ‘populism’, instead putting […]
CRITIQUE, the Centre for African Studies, the Centre of Canadian Studies and Lighthouse Books invite you to join us for a conversation with with Rueben George, Sundance Chief and member of the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation. This event will take place on Monday 14th October, 3pm – 5pm at the Edinburgh […]
Critique and the Political Theory Research Group will be hosting a pre-read seminar with Alex Freer on ‘Schmitt, Romanticism, and Political Form’: Under what conditions is form political? The question has become pressing for literary theory in light of what we might call political formalism, a family of approaches to […]
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