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07 April 2022

Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria

The Contemporary Middle East Series, brings together scholars and practitioners with expertise on the Middle East to share their experience and work in a series of public lectures.

The series is convened by the Middle East Research Group within the Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh.

06 April 2022

16:00 - 17:30

Centre of African Studies

Slavery and Abolition: The Black Mediterranean

CAS Seminar - Slavery and Abolition: The Black Mediterranean

05 April 2022

17:00 - 18:30

Politics and International Relations

Distinguished Scholar series: Keynote Lecture with Professor Robert Vitalis

Summing up this year's Distinguished Scholar series, Prof. Vitalis will deliver his keynote lecture on his exciting new project ‘Racism’s Raw Materials.’

05 April 2022

15:00 - 16:30

Politics and International Relations

CRITIQUE Roundtable Alternative Democratic Futures: Social Movements and the New Municipalism

This CRITIQUE Roundtable focuses on the specific propositions advanced by social movements at the municipal level and on their aim to build democratic institutions that would allow individuals to directly exercise public power and regain control over their lives. Such initiatives have sometimes been subsumed under the term municipalism or communalism. This forum will bring together different practices and understandings of municipalism or communalism by contemporary social movements in various local contexts.

Portrait photo of the seminar presenter, Mr Benjamin Perks

04 April 2022

15:00 - 16:30

Social Work

Can We End Child Maltreatment Globally?

Benjamin Perks is the Head of Campaigns and Advocacy in the Division of Global Communications and Advocacy at the United Nations Children’s Fund, based in New York. Please join us for his presentation on the prevention of childhood adversity.

01 April 2022

15:15 - 17:00

Social Anthropology

Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability

Book Launch (In-person & Zoom)

01 April 2022

14:00 - 15:00

Centre of African Studies

UoE Catto Scholarship Application Information Session

31 March 2022

15:00 - 16:30

Politics and International Relations

CRITIQUE Virtual Book Launch: Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care with Mihaela Mihai

With this interdisciplinary book, political theorist Mihaela Mihai tackles several interrelated questions: How do societies remember histories of systemic violence? Who is excluded from such histories' cast of characters? And what are the political costs of selective remembering in the present?

30 March 2022

16:00 - 17:30

Centre of African Studies

The Covid Consensus: The New Politics of Global Inequality

CAS Seminar - The Covid Consensus: The New Politics of Global Inequality

28 March 2022

13:00 - 14:30

Publishing a Trade Book Workshop

In this workshop, we will hear from, and discuss with, editors, agents and authors of books targeted at a general audience.

25 March 2022

15:00 - 17:00

Social Anthropology

Machine Anthropology

Can anthropological theories be combined with machine learning methods? Do recent advances within text mining allow for the realization of Levi-Strauss’ dream of a computational structuralism?

24 March 2022

17:00 - 18:15

Politics and International Relations