Speaking of Connolly, he is the keynote speaker at this conference – I spoke at the one earlier this yearand it’s highly recommended as an interesting intellectual space.

The 9th Aberystwyth-Lancaster Graduate Colloquium

2nd- 4th June 2011

Department of International Politics

Aberystwyth University

Proudly hosted by the Critical and Cultural Politics Research Group, ALGC aims to bring together students who are engaged in research inspired by the broadly drawn and overlapping approaches of post-structural, postcolonial and cultural politics.

Post-colonialism * Critical Third World Studies *Feminism *Gender Studies * Queer Theory  *Subjectivity * Identity *Psychoanalytic Approaches * Discourse Analysis * Citizenship * Migration *Diaspora * Environmentalism * Ecology * The Post-human *  Critical Legal Studies * Critical Humanitarianism and Human Rights         *Spatiality * Territory * Bordering Practices * Power, Domination and Resistance * Political Violence, Militarization, and Protest * Ethics * Memory * Trauma * Governmentality * Sovereign Power *Biopolitics *Anti-politics * Depoliticisation * Technologisation * Political Significance of Film, Image, Drama and Performance Art      

**Keynote Speaker**

Professor William E. Connolly

John Hopkins University

“Steps Toward an Ecology of Late Capitalism”

To submit a paper for the 9th ALGC, send an abstract of 150-200 words maximum by 5pm on Friday 28th January 2011.  Please send all abstracts and/or enquiries to Gillian McFadyen, ALGC Organiser (gmm09@aber.ac.uk).