Yesterday was a long and varied day, in which I dealt with aspects of just about every part of my roles at Durham and beyond. I was in before 8am, dealing with some teaching stuff, and then giving a two-hour lecture at 9am to my Territory and Geopolitics class on Ancient Rome. Then a brief meeting with a colleague in the International Boundaries Research Unit. Down into town for a lunchtime seminar at the Institute of Advanced Study, given by David Martin-Jones on Dussel, Deleuze and the relation between landscape and memory in World Cinema. A whole bunch of Society and Space work in the afternoon, followed by reviewing a paper for IJURR. Then the copy-editing queries for The Birth of Territory arrived, and I took a quick look at them. A phonecall to a friend and potential research collaborator, and then a formal dinner at the Castle (University College). I then chaired an IAS lecture on conceptualisations of time in Tudor and Stuart England, given by Andy Wood. Home at around 10pm, and a quick call to Nigeria.