Category Archives: Conferences

New issue of ACME now out, including Neil Smith’s last conference presentation

Posted on October 7, 2015 by stuartelden

A new issue of ACME is now out, including Neil Smith’s last conference presentation (all open access). Neil Smith’s piece is entitled ‘The Future is Radically Open’, and was presented in Paris in September 2012, shortly before he died. It’s … Continue reading →

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2015 Millennium Conference, LSE, 17-18 October 2015 – Bruno Latour as keynote

Posted on October 6, 2015 by stuartelden

2015 Millennium Conference, “Failure and Denial in World Politics”, LSE, 17-18 October 2015 – more details here. Programme:  DRAFT 2015 Millennium Conference Programme Call for Papers:   2015 Millennium Conference: Failure and Denial in World Politics Conference Theme:   International relations … Continue reading →

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The challenge of saying ‘no’ to academic requests

Posted on October 5, 2015 by stuartelden

Last year Rob Kitchin had a short post on his blog ‘The View from the Blue House’: Over the past couple of years I’ve been getting more and more invites to do work that extends beyond my usual day to day … Continue reading →

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The Question of the Human in Social Theory and Social Research – 25th November 2015, University of Warwick

Posted on October 5, 2015 by stuartelden

Posted on behalf of Mark Carrigan: 25th November 2015, 11:00 to 17:00 WT0.05, University of Warwick This workshop and symposium will explore the, mostly implicit, conceptions of the human, humanity and human nature that underpin various contemporary conceptions of social life. … Continue reading →

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CFP: Fiction and the Social Imaginary – 14 March 2016, University of York

Posted on September 30, 2015 by stuartelden

Posted on behalf of David Beer – call for papers for a conference on ‘Fiction and the Social Imaginary’, 14 March 2016, University of York

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‘Before the Punitive Society: The Inquiry of Théories et institutions pénales’ – audio recording of talk to Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On conference

Posted on September 24, 2015 by stuartelden

I recently gave the opening plenary lecture to the ‘Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On‘ conference, organised by Sophie Fuggle and held at the Galleries of Justice in Nottingham. My talk was entitled “Before the Punitive Society: The Inquiry of Théories et institutions … Continue reading →

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Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On – a few thoughts after the Nottingham conference

Posted on September 14, 2015 by stuartelden

On Friday I gave the opening plenary lecture to the ‘Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On‘ conference, organised by Sophie Fuggle and held at the Galleries of Justice in Nottingham. The room we were in for much of the event was … Continue reading →

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Update on the Foucault/13 Years at the Collège de France at Columbia University – places closed; live streaming details

Posted on September 13, 2015 by stuartelden

via Foucault News Update on the 13/13 series of seminars from the website The first seminar will take place  on September 14, 2015. Thank you very much for your interest in the series Foucault 13/13. The seminar has received an … Continue reading →

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Foucault on Prisons (and Elden on Schmitt) in Radical Philosophy open access to link to Nottingham conference

Posted on September 10, 2015 by stuartelden

From the good people at Radical Philosophy, in relation to tomorrow’s conference: A free two-day conference, ‘Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On,’ begins tomorrow at Nottingham Trent University, rethinking the legacy of Foucault’s text today and RP contributor … Continue reading →

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Preparing for the ‘Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On’ conference

Posted on September 10, 2015 by stuartelden

Tomorrow I’ll be giving the opening plenary lecture to the ‘Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On‘ conference, organised by Sophie Fuggle and held at the Galleries of Justice in Nottingham. My talk is entitled “Before the Punitive Society: The Inquiry … Continue reading →

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