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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 ➡️bit.ly/4ajFqFD

☄️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 @bbkinstitutes @OpenSociety ⏰Applications open 🔓 To find out more about bursaries & what to expect➡️bit.ly/4ajFqFD

📌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

💥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 ➡️bit.ly/43IC9eQ

🗓️14 November, 6pm @bbkinstitutes #BIHOSF 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: bit.ly/47Jl5Xu

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: bbk.ac.uk/events/event/5…

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 @bbkinstitutes, 2-4pm BST Q&A will follow : bit.ly/4lwrFWq

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” @bbkinstitutes @CostasDouzinas

Watch NOW live🎥 #BIHAmielMelburnTrust 2025 Panel event: 'Resisting the Rise of the Radical Right', chaired by Esther Leslie @afoggyplace @bbkinstitutes Costas Douzinas, Liz Fekete, Kojo Koram, Bethany Rielly, Rob Topinka Q&A follows shortly: youtube.com/live/3c7W2AyGI…

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

📽️Watch NOW @bbkinstitutes 'Capital's Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle' by Jodi Dean @VersoBooks 📍Join here: youtube.com/live/W5D80XabG…

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' @bbkinstitutes

Join @bbkinstitutes later today for 'Capital's Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle' by Jodi Dean 🗓️ 4pm 📲Book free place, few places available: bit.ly/3HNFtx8 @VersoBooks

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 @bbkinstitutes , 2-4pm BST Q&A will follow : bit.ly/45LbjF0

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 @bbkinstitutes

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 @bbkinstitutes

Join @bbkinstitutes 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:bit.ly/3HNFtx8 @Versobooks

Morning lecture of Day 2 of BIH #2025LCTSS with Achille Mbembe revisiting necropolitics to discuss Apartheid after South Africa @bbkinstitutes @AchilleMbembe1

BIH #2025LCTSS started today with Sarah Nuttall turning to the lives and works of two S. African writers, B. Head and Y. Vera, to discuss world shattering and reconstitution at a time of deep political disarray - now in conversation with Jacqueline Rose @bbkinstitutes