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💥Applications close TOMORROW 8/1 for #LCTSS2026
🔓#BIH London Critical Theory Summer School (@bbkinstitutes, 22 June-3 July), generously sponsored by @OpenSociety.
📌For bursaries, testimonies and to apply ➡️https://t.co/MljRUWcZJN

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O Guardiola-Rivera & @KojoKoram
📢TOMORROW⏰6pm @bbkinstitutes for A book presentation & discussion of Oscar Guardiola-Rivera's 'A Hopeful Political Imagination: Courage and Fantastic Critique in the Age of Meltdown'
📲Book free place: https://t.co/XNHdTcFUd2

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☄️Delighted to announce #LCTSS2026:
🗓️22 June - 3 July
📯C Douzinas, S Frosh, I Julien, K Koram, E Leslie, M Nash, J Rose, C Varvia, F Vergès, E Weizman
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⏰Applications open 🔓
To find out more about bursaries & what to expect➡️https://t.co/MljRUWcZJN

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📌NOW @bbkinstitutes
#BIHOSF Drawing on her recent book 'Human Rights: The Case for the Defence', Baroness Chakrabarti examines why human rights remain vital in addressing today’s and tomorrow’s challenges. Firechat with Prof Sarah Lamble to follow shortly @slamble1

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💥Applications close on MON 17 NOVEMBER
🔓 for #BIHFundedConferences, with
@OpenSociety sponsoring ca 4-6 conferences, symposia, workshops in 2025-6 @bbkinstitutes.
🥁For info, guidelines and to apply ➡️https://t.co/4y4Q0U8YTC

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💥Applications close on MON 17 NOVEMBER
🔓 for #BIHFundedConferences, with
@OpenSociety sponsoring ca 4-6 conferences, symposia, workshops in 2025-6 @bbkinstitutes.
🥁For info, guidelines and to apply ➡️https://t.co/4y4Q0U8YTC

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🗓️14 November, 6pm
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The 17th President of Birkbeck, University of London Baroness Shami Chakrabarti CBE, PC discusses her recent book 'Human Rights: The Case for the Defence' with Prof Sarah Lamble @slamble1. 🥁Book your free place: https://t.co/Vo5NSrSCeo

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Free day long series of films reflecting on Utopias this Friday, in partnership with Birkbeck Institute for Social Research and the Centre for Environment & Sustainability

Full details:

https://t.co/PywCS0yn9k

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Watch NOW 🎥Closing BIH #2025LCTSS event
Friday PUBLIC PANEL #2 with Jaco Barnard-Naudé, Costas Douzinas, Esther Leslie, Jacqueline Rose and Slavoj Zizek, chaired by Maria Aristodemou
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Q&A will follow : https://t.co/FdT4XzrMxY

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Day 9 at BIH #2025LCTSS: Costas Douzinas delivers his lecture on 'Lawfare: The war of law against democracy', examining the role of law and the judiciary in creating a permanent “state of necessity”
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Watch NOW live🎥 #BIHAmielMelburnTrust 2025 Panel event: 'Resisting the Rise of the Radical Right', chaired by Esther Leslie @afoggyplace
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Costas Douzinas, Liz Fekete, Kojo Koram, Bethany Rielly, Rob Topinka

Q&A follows shortly: https://t.co/1oFN0NaxGC

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BIH #2025LCTSS continued yesterday with J. Barnard-Naudé on 'Modernism and the Lack of Justice: Law, Poetry and Psychoanalysis in Kandinsky, Rothko and Kentridge' followed today by E. Leslie's exploration of 'Eyeless with devices: On Digitised Seeing and Unseeing' @bbkinstitutes

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📽️Watch NOW @bbkinstitutes
'Capital's Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle' by Jodi Dean @VersoBooks
📍Join here: https://t.co/LOIjU2KpJl

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Week 2 at BIH #2025LCTSS started with Slavoj Zizek's lecture 'Towards a quantum theory of history', followed powerfully by Jacqueline Rose this afternoon on 'Gaza - Again'
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Join @bbkinstitutes later today for 'Capital's Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle' by Jodi Dean 🗓️ 4pm
📲Book free place, few places available: https://t.co/ulF1hTdjed
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Watch NOW 🎥BIH #2025LCTSS Friday PUBLIC PANEL #1 with Eduardo Cadava, Stephen Frosh, Achille Mbembe, Sara Nadal-Melsio and Sarah Nuttall, chaired by Jacqueline Rose
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Q&A will follow : https://t.co/SsZlWQTgt7

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Morning of Day 4 at BIH #2025LCTSS: Stephen Frosh in his lecture on "The sense of ending", chaired by Jacqueline Rose, expands on endurance as an important theme
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Day 3 at BIH #2025LCTSS: Through readings of K. Marx, R. Luxemburg, W. Benjamin & others, Eduardo Cadava and Sara Nadal-Melsió argued that reading-writing are never solitary tasks but collaborative and collective, able to revitalise shared political imagination
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for 'Capital's Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle': Jodi Dean will discuss her new book with Maria Aristodemou, Camille Barbagallo, Ashok Kumar, James Martel; chair E. Leslie
🗓️ 30 June, 4pm
📢Book free place:https://t.co/ulF1hTcLoF
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Morning lecture of Day 2 of BIH #2025LCTSS with Achille Mbembe revisiting necropolitics to discuss Apartheid after South Africa
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