with Dr Margaret O'Brien.

Guest Speaker: Dr Simon Tawfic, Warwick Law School

Title: (Work-In-Progress) 'Tainted victimhood and the impossibility of innocence in modern slavery'

Please note earlier start and finish time due to Staff Meeting: Starting with lunch at 12:00pm in Room S2.09, followed by the Seminar at 12:30pm to 1:30pm in Room S2.12

This will be the launch event for the new BREM Border Lab project, it is open to all and will be held on Wednesday 4th December 1-3pm in FAB2.31.

The Critical Theory Reading Group will be reading three texts in Feminism over the next three weeks. We meet on Wednesdays from 14.30-16.00 and the readings and rooms are as follows:

20th Nov - S1.69 - 'Introduction' and 'Chapter 3: The Point of View of Historical Materialism' from Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex.

27th Nov - S1.71 - 'Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory' by Judith Butler.

4th Dec - S1.69 - 'Introduction' and 'Chapter 3: The Great Caliban, The Struggle Against the Rebel Body' from Silvia Frederici's Caliban and the Witch.

Each extract will be introduced by a member of the group and we welcome future suggestions for themes and specific readings.

Please email oscar.jenkinson@warwick.ac.uk if you'd like to come along or stay up-to-date with what we're reading in future weeks through our whatsapp group.

3pm - 4.30pm, room tbc The book is a confrontation of Ricardo's theory with British colonialism and a generalised critique of the abstract methods he introduced into economics. More information here: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/ricardos-dream.