Category Archives: Medieval Studies

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects

Posted on May 14, 2012 by

Interesting edited collection now available in print or free download. Details here. Animal, Mineral, Vegetable examines what happens when we cease to assume that only humans exert agency. Through a careful examination of medieval, early modern and contemporary lifeworlds, these … Continue reading →

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Posts at Durham

Posted on May 8, 2012 by

Durham University has advertised a large number of senior level appointments across the university. Details here. Areas include conflict, security and borders; engaged humanities; visual culture; public policy and health; and medieval and renaissance studies.

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The History of Cartography – now free online

Posted on January 28, 2012 by

The University of Chicago Press have made volume 1 and the three books of volume 2 of the magisterial History of Cartography freely available online. The homepage for the project as a whole is here.

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Foucault, Ascesis, Medieval Studies

Posted on December 17, 2011 by

Eileen Joy has an interesting post here about the late Foucault and Medieval Studies. The focus is particularly on the fragments of Foucault’s work on the Christian saints. In that vein, Philippe Chevalier’s new book Michel Foucault et le christianisme … Continue reading →

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End of October

Posted on October 28, 2011 by

October has been a slog. I’ve now done half of my teaching for this academic year. In one month. Okay, this means that the rest of the year is going to be relatively easy on that front, but naturally there … Continue reading →

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Harman, Clough, Masciandaro audio

Posted on October 10, 2011 by

Graham Harman’s talk to Speculative Medievalisms is now available, along with Patricia Clough’s response and Nicola Masciandaro’s closing comments. You can stream or download the audio here. Eileen Joy provides some background and links to the earlier talks here.

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Roundup – Sebald, Books, Speculative Realist Literary Criticism, Occupy Wall Street, Zizek on TV

Posted on October 5, 2011 by

Some interesting stuff I’ve recently come across… A retrospective ten years after W.G. Sebald’s death in The Times Higher Education (via Continental Philosophy). Interesting reading, especially on his resistance to the bureaucratisation of higher education. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen offers some interesting … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Levi Bryant, Medieval Studies, Politics, Publishing, Slavoj Zizek, Universities | 1 Comment

Speculative Medievalisms book

Posted on September 25, 2011 by

Details here of the book following the two conferences – should be good.

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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects

Posted on September 25, 2011 by

I mentioned the conference of this name before, and linked to audio recordings (here, here and here); now the book is coming out with Oliphaunt Books, an impress of Punctum Books. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is the editor and posts more details here. … Continue reading →

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Weird Tools and Strange Investigations – call for papers

Posted on September 12, 2011 by

Preternature 2.1 : Weird Tools and Strange Investigations Objects of all sorts have a long history of serving as bridges to the preternatural world, whether that be in terms of some intrinsic power, or as things possessed or haunted. The … Continue reading →

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