Elena Loizidou
@elenaloizidou.bsky.social
Professor of Law and Political theory.
Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Law and Humanities, School of Law Birkbeck University, London.
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Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Law and Humanities, School of Law Birkbeck University, London.
follow me on https:// instagram.com/my_friends_the_books
Join us at our workshop on Minor Democracies and their infrastructures. Bring along your curiosity.
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Centre for the Studies of Law and the Humanities workshop: Minor Democracies and their infrastructures
Minor Democracies and their infrastructures
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May 30, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Join us at our workshop on Minor Democracies and their infrastructures. Bring along your curiosity.
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Deadline for applications is April 11!
CfA
Lisbon Praxis Summer School 2025: Global Critical Theory
14-18 July 2025
w/ Gurminder K. Bhambra, Rocío Zambrana, Malte Ibsen, and myself
more info and how to apply:
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Lisbon Praxis Summer School 2025: Global Critical Theory
14-18 July 2025
w/ Gurminder K. Bhambra, Rocío Zambrana, Malte Ibsen, and myself
more info and how to apply:
cful.letras.ulisboa.pt/praxis/event...
Lisbon Praxis Summer School 2025 – Call for Applications – Praxis
cful.letras.ulisboa.pt
April 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Deadline for applications is April 11!
writing about Judith Butler and Marxism ( in my case more about anarcho-communism) was not easy, but the editors of this volume, Elliot C Mason and Valentina Moro, kept encouraging me so I kept writing. I am glad they kept pressing. Dedicated to the late Marxist theorist Marina Vishmidt.
April 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
writing about Judith Butler and Marxism ( in my case more about anarcho-communism) was not easy, but the editors of this volume, Elliot C Mason and Valentina Moro, kept encouraging me so I kept writing. I am glad they kept pressing. Dedicated to the late Marxist theorist Marina Vishmidt.
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March 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Looking for something thought provoking, free to do next Friday? Join us at the Centre for the Study of Law and the Humanities.
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Centre for the Study of Law and the Humanities: Capitalism and Authoritarianism
Capitalism and Authoritarianism in the 21st Century: A panel Discussion
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February 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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“A new campaign aims to reveal how American universities are embroiled in the wider American military-industrial complex.” www.middleeasteye.net/news/princet...
Princeton University implicated in Gaza and Sudan wars, report says
A new campaign aims to reveal how American universities are embroiled in the wider American military-industrial complex
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February 18, 2025 at 11:25 PM
“A new campaign aims to reveal how American universities are embroiled in the wider American military-industrial complex.” www.middleeasteye.net/news/princet...
Read this essay by Giroux if you can. It convincingly explains the nexus between neoliberalism, authoritarianism and fascism and the machinery of cruelty that characterises US politics now.
www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/17/t...
www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/17/t...
Trump’s Reign of Cruelty
Neoliberalism has always been more than an economic project; it is a political and educational weapon designed to erode social solidarity and dismantle the foundations of democracy. It does not merely...
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February 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Read this essay by Giroux if you can. It convincingly explains the nexus between neoliberalism, authoritarianism and fascism and the machinery of cruelty that characterises US politics now.
www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/17/t...
www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/17/t...
Join us to discuss at the Centre for the Study of Law and the Humanities with Federico Zappino, Leticia Sabsay and Esther Leslie Capitalism and Authoritarianism. Link with details of when and where the event is taking place and how to book👇🏼
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Centre for the Study of Law and the Humanities: Capitalism and Authoritarianism
Capitalism and Authoritarianism in the 21st Century: A panel Discussion
https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/48052/centre-for-the-study-of-law-and-the-humanities-capitalism-and-authoritarianism?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0S71VnKJimbzVGjTWVEnqMOXgHz-MA3JNII4tHALHN_zX1H-chMHKVKzs_aem_E6i5ys17M9_55Rm—WNN_g
February 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Join us to discuss at the Centre for the Study of Law and the Humanities with Federico Zappino, Leticia Sabsay and Esther Leslie Capitalism and Authoritarianism. Link with details of when and where the event is taking place and how to book👇🏼
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Join us to our Annual Law Lecture,Birkbeck Law School
Speaker: Prof. Patricia J. Williams
📝Theater of the Upside-Down: Performative Chaos and the Law
🗓️16th May 2025
⏰18:00-21:00
📍Clore Lecture Theatre, Birkbeck
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Speaker: Prof. Patricia J. Williams
📝Theater of the Upside-Down: Performative Chaos and the Law
🗓️16th May 2025
⏰18:00-21:00
📍Clore Lecture Theatre, Birkbeck
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
ANNUAL LAW LECTURE WITH PROFESSOR PATRICIA WILLIAMS
This is the Law School's Annual Law Lecture which this year is being delivered by the distinguished legal scholar Prof. Patricia Williams
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February 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Join us to our Annual Law Lecture,Birkbeck Law School
Speaker: Prof. Patricia J. Williams
📝Theater of the Upside-Down: Performative Chaos and the Law
🗓️16th May 2025
⏰18:00-21:00
📍Clore Lecture Theatre, Birkbeck
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Speaker: Prof. Patricia J. Williams
📝Theater of the Upside-Down: Performative Chaos and the Law
🗓️16th May 2025
⏰18:00-21:00
📍Clore Lecture Theatre, Birkbeck
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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Judith Butler on Trump‘s sadism and the fascist passions animating it
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler
Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Judith Butler on Trump‘s sadism and the fascist passions animating it
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Adriana Zaharijević explains how Serbian students claim political agency from the claws of a corrupt political regime.
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Serbia’s students are showing the world how to restore democratic hope | Adriana Zaharijević
An authoritarian regime has been rocked by an anti-corruption movement generating society-wide anger and indignation, says philosopher Adriana Zaharijević
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Adriana Zaharijević explains how Serbian students claim political agency from the claws of a corrupt political regime.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In need of optimism? Join us at this joint seminar between the @BirkbeckLaw the Centre for the Study of Law and Humanities
THE CONCEPT OF INTERDEPENDENCE FROM HOBBES TO BUTLER
👦🏻Federico Zappino (University of Sassari).
🗓️26th of February.
⏰12-2
📍: BCB, room 207
👇🏼
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THE CONCEPT OF INTERDEPENDENCE FROM HOBBES TO BUTLER
👦🏻Federico Zappino (University of Sassari).
🗓️26th of February.
⏰12-2
📍: BCB, room 207
👇🏼
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Centre for the Study of Law and Humanities and Law School Staff Seminar
FUNGORUM MORE: THE CONCEPT OF INTERDEPENDENCE FROM HOBBES TO BUTLER
Speaker: Professor Federico Zappino (University of Sassari)
www.bbk.ac.uk
January 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
In need of optimism? Join us at this joint seminar between the @BirkbeckLaw the Centre for the Study of Law and Humanities
THE CONCEPT OF INTERDEPENDENCE FROM HOBBES TO BUTLER
👦🏻Federico Zappino (University of Sassari).
🗓️26th of February.
⏰12-2
📍: BCB, room 207
👇🏼
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
THE CONCEPT OF INTERDEPENDENCE FROM HOBBES TO BUTLER
👦🏻Federico Zappino (University of Sassari).
🗓️26th of February.
⏰12-2
📍: BCB, room 207
👇🏼
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
Reading this profoundly depressed me. Kathrine Franke is a great educator and Human Rights Activist, to have to leave Columbia because of her support of the Palestinian cause is just terrible.
January 12, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Reading this profoundly depressed me. Kathrine Franke is a great educator and Human Rights Activist, to have to leave Columbia because of her support of the Palestinian cause is just terrible.
not to be missed - though I feel I will have to because I am teaching 🥲@law_humanities @Law_Cult_Huma @JStonePeters to register To register: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
January 7, 2025 at 8:32 AM
not to be missed - though I feel I will have to because I am teaching 🥲@law_humanities @Law_Cult_Huma @JStonePeters to register To register: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
I have been reading and meaning to write a blog piece about Luigi Mangione’s act but work admin got in the way. This piece analyses his act via the philosophy of violence. @ctiticallegalthinking.
criticallegalthinking.com/2025/01/06/t...
criticallegalthinking.com/2025/01/06/t...
The Vigilante and the ‘Great Criminal’: On Law, Violence, and Assassination
In December 2024, two events occurred which can help us to understand the relation between violence and law in line with the critique outlined
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January 7, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I have been reading and meaning to write a blog piece about Luigi Mangione’s act but work admin got in the way. This piece analyses his act via the philosophy of violence. @ctiticallegalthinking.
criticallegalthinking.com/2025/01/06/t...
criticallegalthinking.com/2025/01/06/t...
As I read a lot I decided to start a book impressions diary on instagram. It is still embryonic but you can follow me @ my_friends_the_books on instagram.
January 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
As I read a lot I decided to start a book impressions diary on instagram. It is still embryonic but you can follow me @ my_friends_the_books on instagram.
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Ever wonder why the first-person singular makes its way into more and more writing these days? Spoiler alert: it’s alienation, baby. #writing #autobiography #Marxism #history
peninfist.substack.com/p/why-writer...
peninfist.substack.com/p/why-writer...
Why writers write so much about themselves
And why that’s not such a good thing
peninfist.substack.com
December 3, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Ever wonder why the first-person singular makes its way into more and more writing these days? Spoiler alert: it’s alienation, baby. #writing #autobiography #Marxism #history
peninfist.substack.com/p/why-writer...
peninfist.substack.com/p/why-writer...
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"anarchist negativity and the intoxicating anarchist dream do not simply represent different aspects of the same entity. They are not different but complementary elements, but rather clearly antagonistic aspects"
freedomnews.org.uk/2024/12/02/n...
freedomnews.org.uk/2024/12/02/n...
Negativity and positivity in anarchism: An inextricable but contradictory duality - Freedom News
My initial purpose was to reflect on the unavoidable, and often undervalued, negative dimension of anarchism—but I soon realised this forced me to leave aside its entire positive aspect ~ Tomás Ibáñez...
freedomnews.org.uk
December 2, 2024 at 8:42 AM
"anarchist negativity and the intoxicating anarchist dream do not simply represent different aspects of the same entity. They are not different but complementary elements, but rather clearly antagonistic aspects"
freedomnews.org.uk/2024/12/02/n...
freedomnews.org.uk/2024/12/02/n...
Join @BirkbeckLaw for a lunch seminar with @JoanneConaghan and @Yvette Russel discussing their book Sexual History Evidence and the Rape Trial.
📆 4rth December 2024 ⏰13.30 -15.00📍Birkbeck Central, 207
📆 4rth December 2024 ⏰13.30 -15.00📍Birkbeck Central, 207
December 2, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Join @BirkbeckLaw for a lunch seminar with @JoanneConaghan and @Yvette Russel discussing their book Sexual History Evidence and the Rape Trial.
📆 4rth December 2024 ⏰13.30 -15.00📍Birkbeck Central, 207
📆 4rth December 2024 ⏰13.30 -15.00📍Birkbeck Central, 207
this is an excellent review essay by @alexsharpe.bsky.social of Butler’s Who’s afraid of Gender, i. conversation with critical legal theory.
For anyone interested, I have written a review essay of Judith Butler’s latest book, Who’s Afraid of Gender? in Law and Critique. It is open access.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Review Essay: Judith Butler, Who’s Afraid of Gender? (London: Allen Lane, 2024) pp 308 - Law and Critique
This article is a review essay of Judith Butler’s latest book, Who’s Afraid of Gender? The book considers the anti-gender ideology movement and rising right-wing authoritarianism with which it is asso...
link.springer.com
November 29, 2024 at 3:44 PM
this is an excellent review essay by @alexsharpe.bsky.social of Butler’s Who’s afraid of Gender, i. conversation with critical legal theory.