Monday 12 May 2025, 3pm-4.30pm, Seminar Room 5, Chrystal Macmillan Building This paper looks at two examples of public art happenings in Chattogram, Bangladesh, exploring how they create space for the political imagination; and can be used to stretch how audiences understand the political community – temporally, across lines of […]

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 3pm-4.30pm, Conference Room 3.15, Chrystal Macmillan Building In this talk, Dr. Regan Burles explores how early 20th-century anti-imperialist thinkers Rosa Luxemburg and Nikolai Bukharin engaged with geopolitical ideas—particularly the notion of a “closed” global space—in diagnosing the dynamics of capitalist imperialism. By comparing their thought to […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]