2021
JUNE, 15
Drop the debt, before we drop dead. Discussing the politics of sovereign debt, 'austerity', and the crisis of the nation state. Resonances from Greece, Argentina and beyond. Online event
Participants: Werner Bonefeld (York); Ana Cecilia Dinerstein (Bath); Mariano Féliz (La Plata - Argentina); Alexandros Kouris (Bath);Theodoros Papadopoulos (Bath); hair: María José Ventura Alfaro (Bath).
The expansion and multiplication of public debt by nation-states have become a key factor of global capitalism in recent decades. Public debt functions as a pressure mechanism on national governments which in turn force their people to live in a permanent state of austerity. In this event, speakers will discuss the significant topic of sovereign debt, capital and the nation-state. Together they will reflect on the ways in which indebtness is saving global capitalism and problematising social reproduction within the boundaries of the nation state by using Argentina and Greece as examples. Public debt is functioning as a mechanism of pressure on states and peoples who are forced to live in permanent austerity. In this event, we will discuss how massive indebtedness and the capitalist crisis threatens the reproduction of life and questions the institutions of bourgeois democracy. Convenors: Mariano Feliz, María José Ventura Alfaro and Alexandros Kouris
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APRIL, 14
Decolonising Critique. Reconnecting critical theory with radical praxis.
by the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity
The Centre for Urban Research on Austerity welcomes Ana Cecilia Dinerstein's Annual Lecture on 'global politics of hope'.Online free event.
2020
We have resumed our activities!
Our Autumn series of workshops and public talks are now back! Building on debates and interests developed together in our 2019/20 study groups, this year our programme hones in on decolonial feminism and social reproduction feminism. Full details in the Activities and Events sections above. Look forward to seeing you there. Thank you for keeoping in touch
The SSCT Team
Workshops 2020
6th of October: (un)Doing Research: Feminist Decolonial Provocations with Dr. Rosalba Icaza. - SOLD OUT!
26th of November:
Critical theory for pandemic times: The Arcane of Reproduction then & now. Main speaker: Leopoldina Fortunati. Discussants: Katie Cruz and Camille Barbagallo
REGISTER NOW!
Go to ACTIVITIESctivities …>WORKSHOPS section (above)
Reading Groups 2020
The aim of our study groups is to study collectively: to deepen our knowledge of important work in critical theory and its situation in the wider field, and to share and develop ideas about it.
This year we have also Study Groups connected to each of the workshops! For more details go to Activities… >Workshops
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
— AUDRE Lorde
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What
The Standing Seminar in Critical Theory (SSCT) aims to build a permanent, transdisciplinary and inter-institutional space for critical thought across the South West Doctoral Training Partnership institutions. We want to explore critical theories and radical epistemologies, including those born out of both the Frankfurt School and the heterodox Marxist tradition, critical feminist theory and decolonial theory, along with others arising from our own research projects.
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Why
Social Sciences are facing a deep crisis. The neoliberal university is in dispair. While resistance struggles continue and expand outside academia, critical thought is shrinking, deradicalised or sidelined. We must not only bring back critical theory back but also discuss what kind of critical theory is needed today. We must interrogate concepts, methodologies and epistemologies used to accompany radical change.
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How
The community will bring together existing strengths in critical theory across a range of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities in the South West, making a timely intervention into the most acute problems posed by today’s world, and accompanying new practices for a world in crisis. Over the course of 2019-2020 we will run a series of activities across the SWDTP institutions that together explore the conditions, role and horizons of critical theory today. The proposed activities will include reading groups, workshops and mini conferences.
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From left to right: Werner Bonefeld, Theo Papadopoulos, Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, John Holloway
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Previous Events
15. 10. 2019
Introducing DECkNO
This event marks the official launch of the new pop-up research cluster ‘Decolonising Knowledge in theory and practice' (DECkNO), Department of Social and Policy Sciences, with talks by Dr Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, Dr Luisa Enria and María José Ventura Alfaro (ESRC MPhil/PhD Candidate).
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12. 06. 2019
From Fear to Hope. Shifting Narratives for Art, Social and Human Rights activism
We were delighted to welcome Thomas Coombes, Head of Brand & Deputy Director at Amnesty International , who was joined by Dr Ben Parry (Bath School of Art & Design, Bath Spa)…
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15. 05. 2019
Critical Theory in a closing and violent world
At this round-table, the panellists brought critical theory to bear on a contemporary global panorama in which the legitimation of violence, xenophobia, misogyny and racism takes on new and alarming power.