Category Archives: Conferences

Historical Materialism conference deadline extended until 1 June 2014

Abstracts are being accepted until 1 June 2014 for the London Historical Materialism conference 6-9 November 2014. The theme of the conference is ‘How capitalism survives’…

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What is Space: a Post-Disciplinary Workshop at Warwick, 17 June 2014 – programme now available

“What is Space: a Post-Disciplinary Workshop on the Return of an Old Debate” – Warwick, 17 June 2014. The programme for this conference is now available here. Please contact Marijn Nieuwenhuis with any inquiries. Poster here; registration here.

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The Squared Horizon: The Frames and Trajectories of Paul Virilio, 6 June 2014. Nottingham Trent University

The Squared Horizon: The Frames and Trajectories of Paul Virilio, 6 June 2014. Nottingham Trent University – full details here. In Desert Screen, Paul Virilio suggests the notion of a ‘squared horizon’ as a way of envisioning the interposition of the screen, … Continue reading

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Power in a World of Becoming, Process, Entanglement and Attachment – June 2-3 2014, Warwick

Authority & Political Technologies Network 2014: Power in a World of Becoming, Process, Entanglement & Attachment June 2-3, University of Warwick (Ramphal) ‘In ever era the attempt must be made anew to wrest tradition away from a conformism that is about … Continue reading

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Talking about Publishing, Urban Territory, and lots else

I was involved in three events this week. The first was the most wide-ranging – a filmed conversation with Babette Babich at Fordham University, that ranged from contemporary territorial issues to Kant, Leibniz, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault and Lefebvre; Greek geography to … Continue reading

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Workshop: Governing through ‘Post-​’: Post-​Disaster, Post-​Conflict, Post-​Crisis? – Warwick, 18th June 2014

Full details here What is the sig­ni­fic­ance of ‘post’ in post-​disaster, post-​conflict and post-​crisis, and how might we ana­lyze the sim­il­ar­ities in the gov­ern­mental re­sponses to eco­nomic, in­fra­struc­tural and so­ci­etal dis­rup­tion? We con­tend that, des­pite dis­cip­linary bound­aries which sep­arate the … Continue reading

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University of Sydney conference on Karl Polanyi and Friedrich Hayek, 15-16 August 2014

Forthcoming workshop at the University of Sydney on Karl Polanyi and Friedrich Hayek – ‘Questioning the Utopian Springs of Market Economy’ and will take place across 15 and 16 August 2014. More details here.

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Provocations of the Present: What Culture for What Geography? – 6th Doreen Massey event

6th annual Doreen Massey event at the Open University – “Provocations of the Present: What Culture for What Geography?” The Geography Departments of the Open University and Royal Holloway, University of London are delighted to announce that the 6th Doreen Massey Annual … Continue reading

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Call for Papers – Beirut: Bodies in Public (9-11 October 2014)

Call for papers for an interesting looking conference – full details here (thanks to Ghayde Ghraowi for the link). Beirut: Bodies in Public is a three-day workshop inviting artists and researchers to think through the interdisciplinary concerns surrounding performance in public space in … Continue reading

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Cornel West, Immortal Technique, Marina Sitrin, and Stanley Aronowitz – opening event of LeftForum, NYC, 30 May 2014

Cornel West, Immortal Technique, Marina Sitrin, and Stanley Aronowitz – opening event of LeftForum, NYC, 30 May 2014.

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