Monthly Archives: March 2015

Re-engaging Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain A Thirtieth Anniversary Retrospective, 10th-11th Dec 2015, University of Brighton

Posted on March 11, 2015 by stuartelden

Re-engaging Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain A Thirtieth Anniversary Retrospective 10th-11th December 2015 Grand Parade University of Brighton, UK Understanding Conflict Research Cluster Critical Studies Research Group Keynotes: Prof Elaine Scarry and Prof Joanna Bourke The year 2015 marks the … Continue reading →

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Lisa Smirl – Spaces of Aid: How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism

Posted on March 11, 2015 by stuartelden

Lisa Smirl – Spaces of Aid: How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism. Aid workers commonly bemoan that the spaces and experiences of working in ‘the field’ often sit uneasily with the goals they’ve signed up to: from visiting project … Continue reading →

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New Series at Edinburgh: New Perspectives in Ontology

Posted on March 11, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
My colleague Sean McGrath and I have started up a series with Edinburgh UP, ‘New Perspectives in Ontology’. Our board is now just about in place, including Maurizio Farraris (Turin), Iain Hamilton Grant (University…

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Inaugural Lecture of Laleh Khalili: Sinews of War and Trade – SOAS, University of London, 11 March 2015

Posted on March 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Inaugural Lecture of Laleh Khalili: Sinews of War and Trade – SOAS, University of London, 11 March 2015.

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Rank Hypocrisies: the Insult of the REF by Derek Sayer – reviewed by Ron Johnston

Posted on March 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Rank Hypocrisies: the Insult of the REF by Derek Sayer – reviewed by Ron Johnston at Impact of Social Sciences.

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‘Charlie Hebdo’ and the Politics of Response – A Forum

Posted on March 9, 2015 by stuartelden

A forum at Society and Space on the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ attacks and responses to them, based on contributions to a workshop at Durham University.

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University of New South Wales – lecture and workshop this week

Posted on March 9, 2015 by stuartelden

10 March 2015, 4pm, “Territory from Shakespeare to Geo-politics”, Public Lecture, School of Humanities and Languages, John Goodsell 221/223, University of New South Wales –website; poster; abstract  In this talk I’ll be returning to the Shakespeare project for the first time in … Continue reading →

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Top posts this week on Progressive Geographies

Posted on March 8, 2015 by stuartelden

Judy! – the 1993 Judith Butler fanzine available online Foucault – uncollected notes, lectures and interviews Simeon Wade (ed.) Chez Foucault – the 1978 fanzine with a 1976 interview with Foucault Foucault and the History of Our Present (2015) Textures … Continue reading →

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Progressive Geographies – Frequently Asked Questions

Posted on March 8, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ve added a page of Frequently Asked Questions to this site as a subpage to About.

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Umberto Eco – How to Write a Thesis (MIT Press)

Posted on March 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Umberto Eco’s 1977 book How to Write a Thesis now out in translation from MIT Press. By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy’s most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and … Continue reading →

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