Author Archives: stuartelden

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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The People, Place, and Space Reader – open access material

The People, Place, and Space Reader, edited by Jen Jack Gieseking & William Mangold, with Cindi Katz, Setha Low, & Susan Saegert The editors of The People, Place, and Space Reader believe that knowledge should be open to the public and have therefore … Continue reading →

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