Critical Social Theory at McGill
Critical Social Theory at McGill is an interdisciplinary research network at McGill University, founded in 2013. The network contributes to the intellectual life at McGill by coordinating and sponsoring events, including conferences, talks, seminars, and workshops on topics in critical theory across the humanities and social sciences.
Our members specialize in various topics within critical social theory, Marxist theory, history of socialism and of social struggles, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, political theory, cultural theory, and the history of social and political thought.
We understand critical social theory to be a constellation of theories that share a set of diagnostic, political, and social-theoretical commitments: Diagnostically, they understand modern societies as shaped by structural forms of unfreedom, domination, and exploitation. Critical social theories investigate these forms as well as their social, economic, and cultural conditions and modes of reproduction. Politically, critical social theories are oriented toward an emancipatory horizon of a free society. And analytically, they are committed to an anti-idealist social theory.
CST@M sponsors conferences, talks, seminars, and events, in addition to organizing internal research projects.
