Seminar Series
After a COVID-induced hiatus, the PSCC research group’s seminar series was revived in spring of 2022.
The group holds three to four talks each semester with a focus on young and early career scholars from geography and related disciplines. The series has built a network of scholars engaged with Geography, where invited speakers share and discuss their on-going work with faculty and students at Liverpool. Concurrently, the series aims to increase visibility of the research, writing, and community work done within our research group.
From 2022 to 2024, the talks held were under the series “Transformations of Land, Labour, and Language/Meaning in South Asia.” With regards to land and labour, the series covered issues of agrarian change; political ecology; urban space; different forms of dispossession; organisation and control within the workplace; struggles within the sphere of social reproduction; and the myriad linkages between these. With the focus on meaning and legibility, the commitment was to a scholarship where the social and material are in no way external to the discursive, the ideological, and the cultural. As such, the focus on land, labour, and meaning signaled our intention to understand the multiple arenas of social life as a totality/ensemble i.e. with a view to their mutually constitutive, internal relations.
Since 2024, the series has broadened its scope and is now titled “Critical Theory, Critical Practice”. The series hosts scholars and practitioners engaged with the myriad crises we are facing today from a range of critical geographical perspectives and locations. Throughout, the aim is to confront our world not as disinterested actors, but as engaged subjects: with all the “pessimism of the intellect” at our command and always with an eye towards openings for alternative, emancipatory practices of collective self-determination and creation.
The Southern Question (Book Talk) - Dr. Jordan T. Camp (Trinity College, USA) and
Shadows Without Bodies: Conjunctural Analysis from Karl Marx to Antonio Gramsci - Christina Heatherton (Trinity College, USA)
The Costs of War for American Democracy
Dr. Jennifer Greenburg (Lecturer in International Relations, University of Sheffield)
In Defense of Historical Specificity: Theorizing Racial Capitalism with Stuart Hall
Dr. Sara Bufkin (Assistant Professor in Political Theory, University of Birmingham)
Falasteen Hurra Hurra: On-the-Ground in the Occupied West Bank
Farah and Leda (International Solidarity Movement)
Geographies of Boycott: Palestine and anti-colonial Marxism
Dr. Hashem Abushama (Oxford)
Dr. Mai Taha (LSE)
Music as Resistance: An Introduction to Palestinian Singing and Culture
Reem Kelani
Dr. Efthimios (Tim) Karaiyannides (University of Cambridge)
Dr. Waqas Butt (University of Toronto)
Antiblackness and Global Health: Thinking epidemic responses in the colonial wake (Book Talk)
Dr Lioba Hirsch (University of Edinburgh)
'Race’, racism and anti-racism in Communist Czechoslovakia, 1948-1989
Dr Matej Blazek (University of Newcastle)
A Blueprint for Anti-casteist AI systems
Dr Shyam Krishna R (Alan Turing Institute)
Knowing polluted waters: cosmopolitical inhabitation at the littoral
Dr Niranjana R (QMUL)
Muslim Grandmothers of the Shaheen Bagh Movement and their Radical Performance of Care
Alisha Ibkar (University of Manchester)
Spectacular Futures, Development Brokers, and Bankrupt Vistas in Post-War Sri Lanka
Dr.Thiruni Kelegama (Lecturer in South Asian Studies, University of Oxford)
Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context (Book Talk)
Prof. Stefan Kipfer (York University, Toronto)
The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan: Fear, Desire and Revolutionary Horizons (Book Talk)
Dr. Aasim Sajjad Akhtar (Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan)
Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan (Book Talk)
Dr. Sanaa Alimia (Aga Khan University London)
Heavy Tweeters and the Loud Television Hosts: A Tale of Alienated Protesting Farmers of India
Vignesh Karthik (India Institute, King's College London); Co-Authors: Vihang Jumle and Ajay Chandra Vasagam
Market exchange in the Pakistani informal economy: patronage, exploitation, or both?
Dr. Asha Amirali (Research Associate, Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath)
A Significance for Brick: Architecture and the Public in Lahore, Pakistan
Dr. Chris Moffat (Senior Lecturer in South Asian History, QMUL)
Dr. Shreyashi Dasgupta, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool
Military Hegemony in the Afterlife of Peasant Struggle: Northwestern Pakistan in the 1980s
Dr. Noaman Ali (Assist. Prof in Political Economy, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)
Periyar E. V Ramasamy: A Study in Political Atheism
Dr. Karthick Ram Manoharan (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow, University of Wolverhampton)
Land Rents and Accumulation in Late Industrialisation: Anxieties of Class in Rural India
Dr. Mihika Chatterjee (Lecturer in Development Studies, Department of International Development, University of Oxford)