Talks and Lectures Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought – CRITIQUE Book Talk with Tejas Parasher | February 14 2024 https://critique.sps.ed.ac.uk/radical-democracy-in-modern-indian-political-thought-critique-book-talk-with-tejas-parasher-14-february-2024/ Contested Knowledge on Migrant Disappearances with Maurice Stierl | February 26 2024 https://critique.sps.ed.ac.uk/contested-knowledge-on-migrant-disappearances-maurice-stierl-26-february-2024/ The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon – Book Launch with Adam […]
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CRITIQUE joined a collective statement with other centres, networks and groups at the University of Edinburgh raising concerns and asking our VC and the senior leadership team to protect speech on Palestine, address intimidation on campus, and cut University links to violence. Full statement here.
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CRITIQUE’s co-Director, Dr. Nida Alahmad, will act as a discussant in Benoît Challand’s book launch hosted by colleagues in the Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Department. Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprising is newly published by Cambridge University Press. For more information on the book and the event on November 20th […]
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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 October Theory in Sociology Research Group Theorizing the Digital 26 October James Tully […]
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An AHRC Research Network grant entitled Fail Again, Fail Better? Recuperating Failure in Utopian Politics and Research (PI Mathias Thaler, CoI Davina Cooper) will be hosted by CRITIQUE for two years. The aim of this network and its activities is to re-evaluate the place of failure in utopia – by which […]
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A newly awarded AHRC Network entitled Environmental Emotions: Theory, Testimony, Politics – having as PI CRITIQUE’s Director Mihaela Mihai and run in collaboration with Professor Danielle Celermajer from the Sydney’s Environment Institute – will be hosted by the Centre for two academic years. As part of the project’s agenda, we […]
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We are pleased to announce the first Graduate Conference in Political Theory co-organised by the University of Edinburgh and St. Andrews University, and entitled Justice, Oppression and Resistance. The conference will feature a roundtable on ‘Empire, Race, Nature’, and keynote lectures by Dr Ẹniọlá Ṣóyẹmí (Oxford) and Dr Rahul Rao […]
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Political Theory Research Group Seminar Series Fall Term 2022-2023 All seminars take place from 3-4:30 pm. All are pre-read. If interested, please email critique_centre to receive the papers. Date Presenter Title Room 21/09/2022 Michael Albert (Edinburgh) PTRG-CRITIQUE: Abolitionist Ecological Security CMB 3.15 12/10/2022 Tom O’Shea (Edinburgh) PTRG-CRITIQUE For the Many, […]
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On 17 June 2022, Political Theory PhD students and staff gathered for a day-long retreat organised by CRITIQUE Co-Director, Mihaela Mihai. Students shared work-in-progress during the morning session, and the afternoon was an open opportunity to discuss opportunities and challenges related to a career in academia. Presenters included: Joseph Conrad: […]
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CRITIQUE’s Environmental Working Group, a student-led group exploring the intersection of political theory and environmental issues, present a 30-minute ‘story’ as part of University of Edinburgh’s annual Learning and Teaching Conference, “Shaping Our Futures”. Grace Garland, Talia Shoval, and Joseph Conrad share their emergent understanding of what it might mean […]
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