Workshop Description Most of the memoirs written by Iraqi Jews capture a vanished past in Iraq, informed by shared political aspirations and demands for social justice. These autobiographical and nostalgic accounts often end in 1950-1951 when Iraqi Jews were stripped of their Iraqi citizenship and deported to the newly established […]

CRITIQUE and colleagues from the School of Health in Social Science invite you to join us for a conversation with Dr. Samah Jabr on mental health in Palestine under occupation. Dr. Jabr is a practicing psychiatrist in the public and private sectors in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. She […]

SUMMARY: This year’s Winter on a Mountain event takes place on Thursday, 21 December 2023 in Holyrood Park. Unlike most seminar-type events, we convene outdoors. This solstice-eve, we critically discuss mountain-focused ecological philosophy and try to embrace the perturbations of place-based thinking. We are thrilled to have special guest, Dr […]

What does freedom mean without, and despite, the state? In Resisting Racial Capitalism: an Antipolitical Theory of Refusal (Cambridge University Press 2024), political theorist Ida Danewid (Sussex), argues that state power is central to racial capitalism’s violent regimes of extraction and accumulation. Tracing the global histories of four technologies of […]

In this event Nick Riemer (University of Sydney) will present his new book Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine. Universities, Intellectualism and Liberation .  The academic boycott of Israel, a branch of the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, is one of the richest—and most divisive—topics in the […]

Detailed listings are posted regularly a month in advance on this page.   4 October Paul Apostolidis (LSE) Grounding Critical Theory through Critical-Popular Research 9 October Environmental Working Group Autumn in a Graveyard: seasonal, life, death, and the ambiguities of ecological community 11 October Jonathan Havercroft (Southampton-IASH) Title TBC 13 […]

Seasonal Sessions are mini-fieldtrips organised by the Environmental Working Group, under the aegis of CRITIQUE, and supported by the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network (EEHN). Each of our sessions takes place in a different setting outwith the university. You can read more about our activities in the Justice Everywhere blog. Autumn in […]

In this seminar session Dr. Nida Alahmad will present part of her work on elements of state consolidation, particularly in the context of modern Iraq. The paper will focus on the problem of state legitimation through a reading of the work of Iraqi 20th century sociologist and public intellectual Ali […]