Category Archives: Conferences

Ian Hacking in Northumbria

Posted on May 15, 2013 by

As a break from marking and catching up on journal work and email, I headed up the A1 to Newcastle to hear Ian Hacking speak at the University of Northumbria. I really like his early books The Emergence of Probability … Continue reading →

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A week at Al Quds Bard Honors College

Posted on May 14, 2013 by

I’ve just got back from spending a week working with Al Quds Bard Honors College in the occupied Palestinian territories, as part of the Open Society Institute’s Academic Fellowship Program. Al Quds Bard is a partnership between Al Quds University and … Continue reading →

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Geo-Social Formations: Capitalism and the Earth

Posted on May 8, 2013 by

The RGS-IBG draft conference programme is now available. I’m speaking on ‘Terricide: Lefebvre, Geopolitics and the Killing of the Earth’ in the second of two sessions under the title of Geo-Social Formations: Capitalism and the Earth. Details of those sessions … Continue reading →

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Al Quds University talk details

Posted on May 6, 2013 by

The details for my public lecture this week – Wednesday 8 May 2013, 1.30pm, “The Dimensions of Territory”, Al Quds Bard Honors College building, Al Quds University, Abu Dis Campus.

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Thinking Memory Through Space – conference in London

Posted on May 3, 2013 by

Conference in July in London – full details here.

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Call for Proposals: Workshop on Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance

Posted on May 1, 2013 by

Call for papers for a workshop I’m speaking at in September, along with a number of very interesting other speakers. Call for Proposals: Workshop Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance September 19-20, 2013 Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Ontario, … Continue reading →

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The Geopolitics of Boko Haram

Posted on April 29, 2013 by

The audio recording of my talk in Istanbul earlier this month is available here. The talk was under the title of “Nigeria’s ‘War on Terror’: The Geopolitics of Boko Haram”. I’ve given this talk, in slightly different forms in a … Continue reading →

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Animating Geopolitics – cfp for ISA panel in Toronto 2014

Posted on April 28, 2013 by

Please send inquiries/abstracts of no more than 250 words to Vicki Squire V.J.Squire@warwick.ac.uk and/or Juanita Sundberg juanita.sundberg@ubc.ca by May 20, 2013. This panel aims to animate the spatial dimensions of geopolitics by focusing on the materiality of diverse bordering practices. The theme of animating geopolitics reflects recent … Continue reading →

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The Commons: in what state? – workshop in Manchester

Posted on April 26, 2013 by

Please contact matthew.thompson@manchester.ac.uk with any inquiries One-day workshop for PhD and early career researchers organised by Open Space at the University of Manchester and sponsored by cities@manchester Date: Thursday 20th June 2013 This one-day workshop specifically for PhD and early career … Continue reading →

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Social Justice and the City at 40

Posted on April 24, 2013 by

Details of a conference in New York celebrating 40 years of David Harvey’s classic Social Justice and the City (via Harvey’s blog).

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