Monthly Archives: March 2014

Monash seminar on the City 2014

Announcing an exciting new series of seminars and discussions designed to share, stretch and challenge our thinking about cities and urbanisation!  It is the result of a genuine cross-Faculty initiative to stimulate discussion of all things urban.  The seminar takes … Continue reading

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Why do faculty work so hard? – Inside Higher Ed essay

As I am writing this article, I should be writing something else: an email to an editor, an email to an author, a letter of recommendation, notes for tomorrow’s classes, comments on students’ papers, comments on manuscripts, an abstract for … Continue reading

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Nominations for 2014 International Critical Animal Studies Awards and Scholars

Nominations for 2014 International Critical Animal Studies Awards and Scholars now open – full details here.  

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Two more pieces on Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’

Two more pieces on Heidegger’s controversial ‘Black Notebooks’ at the Chronicle and Critical Animal. The first of the three volumes of these notebooks – Überlegungen II-VI (Schwarze Hefte 1931-1938) – has now been published.

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Dimitris Vardoulakis, Sovereignty and Its Other reviewed at NDPR

Nice review of Dimitris Vardoulakis, Sovereignty and Its Other at NDPR.

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Uma entrevista com Michel Foucault -1975 (2014)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Interview with Foucault conducted in 1975 published in national newspaper O GLOBO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Uma entrevista com Michel Foucault, O Globo, 11th January 2014 No ano em que se completam três décadas da…

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George Marcus lecture in Melbourne, 21 March 2014

Public lecture – “The Relevance of Ethnographic Inquiry Today: Is It Still Small?, Beautiful?, Critical?, Possible?” by Professor George Marcus, University of California, Irvine – Friday, March 21, 2014 – 16:00–18:00, State Library of Victoria Full details here.

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Ukraine – maps and timeline

Two more useful background resources on the Ukraine crisis – a detailed timeline at Critical Legal Thinking and some maps at the New York Times.

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Joining the Advisory Council of Durham’s Institute of Advanced Study

The last major role I had at Durham University was as the social science director of the Institute of Advanced Study. I was very sorry to have to give this up when I moved to the University of Warwick. I’m … Continue reading

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New Formations – cfp Societies of Control

New Formations – deadline for contributions to the next general issue (issue 83): April 30th 2014 Call for Contributions: New Formations issue 84-85 Societies of Control

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