Nordic Network for Critical Theory
The Nordic Network for Critical Theory is a platform for research cooperation in emancipatory social theory across the Nordic countries. The network aims to connect researchers who build on historical materialism & the Frankfurt school, and work in dialogue with feminism, antiracism, postcolonial theory and other strands of critical thought.
Read more about the Nordic Network for Critical Theory.
We are looking forward to the upcoming
NNCT conference 2026: Critical theory in the age of monsters (Bergen, 15./16.10.26)
Recent posts
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2026-12-10 Call for Abstracts: Nordic Summer University Winter Session, Copenhagen April 8-10, 2026, “Conceptions of Progress in the Age of Polycrisis”
Read the full post: 2026-12-10 Call for Abstracts: Nordic Summer University Winter Session, Copenhagen April 8-10, 2026, “Conceptions of Progress in the Age of Polycrisis”In collaboration with the research network Theory Thursday at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen. For Hegel and Marx, progress in terms of freedom provided the underlying logic of history. Their confidence has increasingly been eroded. The very notion of progress was fundamentally questioned by Horkheimer and Adorno in the Dialectics of…
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2026-10-19 Online seminar, Stockholm Seminar for Critical Theory and Theorization: Mikael Carleheden, “The dialectics of freedom”
Read the full post: 2026-10-19 Online seminar, Stockholm Seminar for Critical Theory and Theorization: Mikael Carleheden, “The dialectics of freedom”The theme of this semester’s seminar for Critical Theory and Theorization at SU will be the ambiguities of freedom and progress in the current context. We are happy to have Mikael Carleheden introducing the theme on the first seminar on October 19. Dialectics of freedom Mikael Carleheden Department of Sociology,…
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