The Board of the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs condemns the Israeli army’s invasion of Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank. We consider this act of violence as a continuation of the scholasticide carried out throughout Palestine and as an integral aspect of Israel’s genocidal design. On January 6, 2026, the IDF crashed through the university’s main gates with military vehicles and ushered in a large number of soldiers who fired live ammunition at students and university staff. Almost a dozen students were injured by gunshots and had to be hospitalized. Many more were affected by teargas. The …
Read MoreICCTP Statement on UC Berkeley’s Compliance with Antisemitism Investigation by Trump Administration
As the Board of the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, we express our profound concern over and principled objection to the decision of UC Berkeley to hand over a list of 160 faculty members and students to the Trump administration as part of an investigation into “alleged antisemitic incidents.” The International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs was established in 2016 through a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and seeks to document, connect, and foster new forms of critical theorizing across the globe. Two projects the ICCTP Board is currently actively involved in are devoted to studying and …
Read MoreInternational Consortium of Critical Theory Programs’ Statement on Scholasticide in Gaza, March 2025
The Board of the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs strongly condemns scholasticide as an integral dimension of genocide in Gaza and calls for a rebuilding of Palestinian educational institutions under Palestinian authority as an immediate international obligation and as part of the rehabilitation of infrastructures of life throughout Gaza. We oppose any future plan that would further displace Palestinian inhabitants, deprive them of fundamental rights to the land and to infrastructures of life, and that would fail to return the right to education to the Palestinian people. The International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs seeks to promote critical thought …
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Futures of Critique in a Pluricentric World
A British Academy conference exploring horizons and methods of a critical theory for the 21st century Venue: Stewart House 2/3, Senate House London Dates: 12 and 13 July, 2024 from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm BST Taking as its premise the notion that critical languages move multi-directionally between a plurality of centres rather than disseminate from a single, metropolitan axis of power, this conference considers the emergences, conflicts, suppressions, adaptations and mutations of concepts that take place at a distance from the loci traditionally associated with critical theory—metropolitan Europe, North America. The speakers explore, inter alia, cases of conceptual cross-pollinations across worlds …
Read MoreGaza Teach-In
Wednesday, November 1 7:00 PM Pacific Time 6:00PM Palestine This event will be livestreamed at the following link: https://youtube.com/live/v_lL0eFchEY
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The 2023 ICCTP Conference | Theorizing Global Authoritarianism: To Reclaim Critical Theory Against the Grain
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What characteristics are shared by the rising authoritarianism around the world, even though each nation’s political context is unique? What factors contribute to the growth of authoritarianism on a global scale? Does the ascendance of reactionary beliefs and movements constitute a danger to democratic institutions and local communities on a continental or global scale? The reach of these phenomena is not confined to a particular nation or state but can now be observed in every region of the world. In the meantime, most assessments continue to be rooted in geopolitical approaches to the Global North, which fail to see beyond the confines of nationalism and the nation-state. In response to this constraint on political theorizing, the purpose of this conference is to conceptualize the idea of global authoritarianism by focusing on how it is coupled with post-colonial modernization and the growth of global capitalism.
Read MoreDuke Literature Program Assistant or Associate Professor Positions in Theory, Broadly Conceived
The Program in Literature at Duke University invites applications for two Assistant or Associate professor positions in Theory, broadly conceived. We seek colleagues whose work explicitly reconceptualizes the critical value of theory today by rethinking the foundations of theoretical inquiry and by forging connections among some of the fields of modern thought that orient our research and teaching: literary and cultural studies, philosophy, political theory, decoloniality and post-colonial theory, film and media studies, gender and sexuality studies, critical race and ethnic studies, psychoanalytic theory, the environmental humanities, and science studies. Priority for one position will be given to scholars working …
Read MoreUnlivable Time: Understanding and Resisting Neoliberal Temporalities
Interdisciplinary Conference at the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE), University of Brighton, UK March 8, 9, and 10, 2023 Keynote Speakers: Hartmut Rosa and Eva von Redecker Call for Papers Our contemporary world is paradoxical insofar as, citing Hartmut Rosa, “the more time we save, the less we have.” No matter how fast we rush from one activity to the next, regardless of the refined logistics and the myriad technological innovations that now make our work more productive, we still find ourselves in temporal scarcity. The problem of time-scarcity is one of overload, of combined pressures, and …
Read MorePolitics of Translation: Translation, Nation, and Gender – Online Colloquium
September 1-2, 2022 Palace Moise, Cres (Croatia) UNIRI CAS SEE & IFDT Full Schedule Zoom link: Meeting ID: 899 3568 8735 Passcode: 357666 Translation is political because it is a relation, a context of negotiating power. It also dictates an epistemological approach, inviting a complex analysis of gender, class, race, or national and other hierarchies’ relations and intersection. It is the opportunity for transformation, for becoming other (devenir autre, Deleuze and Guattari), although the political quality of that devenir is never guaranteed. As the occasion for a metamorphosis, translation is what Étienne Balibar now, since the conservative revolution that shattered …
Read MoreCFP: Phenomenology and Critique
Loyola University-Marquette University Phenomenology Conference Submission deadline: May 15, 2022 Conference date(s): November 4, 2022 – November 6, 2022 Conference Venue Loyola University Chicago Chicago, United States Topic areas Continental Philosophy Details Phenomenology offers specific methods that disclose transcendental structures of experience which, in our everyday experience, are overlooked and presupposed. As such, it is understood to be a critical enterprise. Yet in recent years, there has been a ‘critical turn’ in phenomenology: phenomenology is also increasingly understood as a form of social critique capable of engaging, analyzing, and illuminating contemporary socio-political phenomena. Proponents of this critical turn emphasize that, …
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