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Tribute to Drucilla Cornell & LONDON CRITICAL THEORY FRIDAY DEBATE #2

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Venue: Birkbeck Clore Management Centre

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The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities' annual London Critical Theory Summer School is taking place over two weeks from 26th June - 7th July 2023.

Each Summer School explores the genealogy and reach of critical theory, whilst encouraging intellectual elaboration and reflection. Our aim is to stimulate progressive, dissident being and thinking.

The need for such thinking has dramatically increased in the past years which witnessed the advent of a number of leaders across the world - Trump, Bolsonaro, Johnson, Modi, Erdoğan, Orbàn - and the resurgence of right populism to devastating global effect. While Trump and Bolsonaro and Johnson have been electorally defeated - though Trump is seeking the Republican nomination to run for President in 2024 - the combined effect has been devastating; massively exacerbating global inequality, inhumane asylum policies and increasingly licensed ethno-nationalism, racism and misogyny alongside the forms of historical forgetting which they appear to demand. All this was aggravated by a global pandemic which has presented new challenges to our ability to live and our capacity for critical thought, as we reflect on the meanings, and possibility, of justice and equality in a world of pandemic and climate catastrophe.

This internationally renowned Summer School enables graduate students and academics to engage in a two-week course of day-time study with acclaimed critical thinkers. At the end of each week, these thinkers join together for a public panel discussion.

This week's public panel debate will be chaired by Prof Esther Leslie. We are delighted to welcome on stage Sarah Nuttall and Sisonke Msimang, an important young scholar, as part of our strengthening connections to the WISER institute at the University of Witswaterand in Johannesberg, alongside our returning speakers, Costas Douzinas, Jacqueline Rose and Slavoj Žižek.

We will start this event with a 30minute tribute to the philosopher and feminist theorist Drucilla Cornell. 

The event is free to attend but registration is required. It will be recorded and livestreamed.

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