Author Archives: stuartelden

Lectures in Newfoundland

Posted on March 12, 2013 by stuartelden

I’m giving a few lectures at Memorial University of Newfoundland next week. The main reason I am going is to give the George M. Storey lecture in the Humanities, but a few other events have been arranged including a visit to … Continue reading →

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Citizenship after Orientalism: enacting Europe in times of crisis

Posted on March 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Citizenship after Orientalism: enacting Europe in times of crisis Wednesday, 27 March 2013 (All day), European Parliament (morning) and European Economic and Social Committee (afternoon), Brussels 2013 as the European Year of Citizens is a time to reflect on the … Continue reading →

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William E. Connolly – The Fragility of Things

Posted on March 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Bill Connolly’s new book, The Fragility of Things, is coming out in August. A blog post from 2010 discusses the topic; as does this talk at McGill University.

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Posted on March 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Short responses to a series of questions on blogging by David Beer (who runs the Thinking Culture blog).

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Posted on March 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
Our friends and colleagues over at the Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies (which, you will recall, is a fully open access, student-and-junior-faculty-run critical IR journal) have just issued two calls: one for new…

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Rory Rowan’s PhD thesis on Carl Schmitt

Posted on March 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Rory Rowan’s recently passed PhD thesis, The Crisis of Political Form: The Question of Space in the Work of Carl Schmitt, is available online.

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Geological London – workshop on 14 March 2013

Posted on March 11, 2013 by stuartelden

This was noted in a comment to a previous post, an event likely to be of interest to people in London – an evening workshop on 14th March 2013, organised by Expanded Territories. Full details here. Architecture, urbanism and geology … Continue reading →

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John Steinbeck’s 6 tips for writing

Posted on March 11, 2013 by stuartelden

It’s been a while since a post on writing. These are Steinbeck’s six rules – taken from Berfrois. 1. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page … Continue reading →

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Crossrail – London as Laocoön

Posted on March 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Interesting piece, with several striking images, at BLDGBLOG on the London Crossrail project.

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Sighting Oil

Posted on March 11, 2013 by stuartelden

On a related topic to the last – I was teaching on ‘resource wars’ this morning – Adrian Ivakhiv points to the current issue of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, a special issue on Sighting Oil. He writes: The … Continue reading →

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