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Critical Theory Seminar

The Oxford Critical Theory seminar will be held in Lecture Room 6, New College from 17:00-18:30 on various days – see individual listings.

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Type: Seminar Series
Series organiser: Jasper Friedrich
Timing: Various weekdays, 17:00-18:30
Organising department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)

Tuesday 21 January 2020

17:00 - The Politics of the Visionary Present: J.G. Ballard’s Surrealist Liberalism
Duncan Bell (Cambridge)

Thursday 30 January 2020

17:00 - Sexual Subjectivity
Linda Martin Alcoff (CUNY)

Thursday 6 February 2020

17:00 - Earthly Arts: Decolonising Ecology, Tracing Affect
Dorothy Kwek (Cardiff)

Thursday 13 February 2020

17:00 - The Making of Migration: Undoing the Migrant Activist/Victimhood Quandary
Martina Tazzioli (Goldsmiths)

Thursday 20 February 2020

17:00 - Title TBC
Status: This talk has been cancelled
TBA

Thursday 27 February 2020

17:00 - On the Dangers of an Anthropocene Epoch: Geological Time, and Post-Human Politics
Madeleine Fagan (Warwick)

Thursday 5 March 2020

17:00 - Slow Learners? On Moral Progress, Social Struggle, and Whig History
Robin Celikates (FU Berlin)

Thursday 12 March 2020

17:00 - The Commons and Counterhegemonic Politics in Our Times
Alexandros Kioupkiolis (AUTh)

Thursday 27 January 2022

17:15 - Global Underworld: The Imaginative Geography of Liberalism
Jeanne Morefield (University of Oxford)

Thursday 3 February 2022

17:15 - The Gender of Critical Theory
This session is jointly hosted with the Oxford Political Theory Seminar
Lois McNay (University of Oxford)

Thursday 10 February 2022

17:15 - Slavery, Work, and History: DuBois’s Black Marxism
Amy Allen (Penn State)

Thursday 17 February 2022

17:15 - Frantz Fanon on alienation and identity
Jean Khalfa (Cambridge)

Thursday 3 March 2022

17:15 - Title TBC
Koshka Duff (Nottingham)

Thursday 10 March 2022

17:15 - Title TBC
Amelia Horgan (Essex)

Tuesday 17 January 2023

17:15 - Commoning Care & Collective Power - Feminist cues for building another world
Mauela Zechner (Jena)

Tuesday 24 January 2023

17:15 - On Real Abstraction: Wealth and Suffering
Werner Bonefeld (York)

Tuesday 31 January 2023

17:15 - Critical Theory and Social Pathology
Neal Harris (Oxford Brookes)

Wednesday 8 February 2023

17:15 - Walking with Sankara and Epistemicide: Challenges and Stakes of Anti-colonial Political Thought
Olivia Rutazibwa (LSE)

Tuesday 28 February 2023

17:15 - Title TBC
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Jeremy Gilbert (UEL)

Monday 6 March 2023

16:00 - Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory
Jeanne Morefield (Oxford)

Friday 10 March 2023

17:15 - Health Communism
Beatrice Adler-Bolton (CUNY), Artie Vierkant (CUNY)

Tuesday 2 May 2023

17:15 - Reparations Unbound? Dilemmas of Dismantling Racial Injustice
Lawrie Balfour (University of Virginia)

Tuesday 16 May 2023

17:15 - Universality, Necessity and Progress: Marx and the Problem of History
Amy Allen (Penn State)

Monday 22 May 2023

17:15 - Interests: What They Are and Why They Matter
Please note this seminar is on Monday
Jeremy Gilbert (UEL)

Tuesday 6 June 2023

17:15 - The Heterosexual Gag
Asa Seresin (University of Pennsylvania)

Tuesday 13 June 2023

17:15 - The Mute Compulsion of Capital
Søren Mau (University of Aarhus)

Wednesday 24 January 2024

17:00 - Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights
Lara Montesinos Coleman (University of Sussex)

Tuesday 6 February 2024

17:00 - Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income
Anton Jäger (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 14 February 2024

17:00 - “The China Syndrome”: Imagining Western Decline in the Age of “The Rise of China”
Jana Cattien (University of Amsterdam)

Wednesday 21 February 2024

17:00 - Race, Dissociated Labour, and Social Reproduction in the Shadow of Amazon
Paul Apostolidis (LSE)

Wednesday 28 February 2024

17:00 - Politics as Indebtedness
Meera Sabaratnam (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 5 March 2024

17:00 - How (Not) to Decolonize Marx/ism
Terrell Carver (University of Bristol)

Monday 13 May 2024

17:00 - Book talk: Sam Bagg, ‘The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy’
Ẹniọlá Ṣóyẹmí, Jasper Friedrich, Samuel Bagg (Nuffield College, University of Oxford)

Monday 27 May 2024

17:00 - Book talk: Ida Danewid, ‘Resisting Racial Capitalism: An Antipolitical Theory of Refusal'
Miyo Peck-Suzuki, Caine Lewin-Turner

Thursday 6 June 2024

17:00 - “The China Syndrome”: Imagining Western Decline in the Age of “The Rise of China”
Jana Cattien

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Editors: Laura Spence, Belinda Clark, Jasper Friedrich

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