School of Social and Political Science

Description

Join us to celebrate Mihaela Mihai's professorship at her inaugural lecture.

Critique as Political Care: Democracy, Memory, Theory

This lecture will explore how care ethics might help us conceptualise a practice that is essential to democratic politics: critique. Building on insights from political theory, sociology, memory studies and aesthetics, it will advance an account of what it means to care for a democratic public space by contesting and redrawing the boundaries of the thinkable. A series of empirical case studies from various historical contexts will hopefully vindicate the theoretical proposal. More specifically, the lecture will discuss critical contributions by judges, activists, film makers, novelists, playwrights, and architects, who have taken on the sustained – and often fraught – labour of nurturing democracy.

Please note that this lecture might be filmed.

Venue: Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Medical School Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG.

Timings: 5.15-6.30pm: Lecture

Followed by a reception until 19.30 in the Chrystal Macmillan Building.