Reading meetings and events

There will be three online meetings per teaching semester and in-person events in which the Critical Hope Collective members can informally present and discuss their research in May and June. 

The online reading meetings take place on the last Thursday of the month at 1pm online. If you would like to join, please email c.nash@qmul.ac.uk.

The next meeting

Pedagogies of possibility: Critical hope in uncertain times on Friday, 20 June 2025 at 10 am.

Past meetings

Totality, Hope and Bloch on 20 March 2025 at 1 pm.

A paradoxical academic identity: fate, utopia and critical hope, 27 February 2025.

Characterizing Hope, Thursday, 30 January 2025.

Hope as refusal: queer, feminist futurity, Friday, 13 December 2024.

Critical hope in difficult times: pedagogic challenges and possibilities, Friday, 18 October 2024, 

The cruelty of hope: precarious life and the promise of meritocracy, Friday, 15 November 2024,