Category Archives: Conferences

Social Justice and the City at 40

Posted on April 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Details of a conference in New York celebrating 40 years of David Harvey’s classic Social Justice and the City (via Harvey’s blog).

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Immanent Critique conference in Oregon, 19-20 April 2013

Posted on April 18, 2013 by stuartelden

Just been asked to post about this – begins tomorrow, and its location will make this relevant to just a few, but looks interesting and hopefully something will be done with the papers. An international conference on the notions of … Continue reading →

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10th Annual Historical Materialism Conference CFP

Posted on April 18, 2013 by stuartelden

HM 2013: Making the World Working Class 7-10 November Central London Organised in collaboration with the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Committee and Socialist Register ‘Capital is not a thing, but a social relation between persons’ – and between classes. … Continue reading →

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Modern European Philosophy and its Politics – CFP

Posted on April 18, 2013 by stuartelden

Modern European Philosophy and its Politics The Society for European Philosophy/Forum for European Philosophy Joint Annual Conference for 2013 will be hosted by the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University London 5–6 September 2013Penrhyn Road Campus, … Continue reading →

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Boko Haram paper at the AAG

Posted on April 17, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my AAG talk is available here. The title was “Urban Territory: Violent Political Technologies in London and Kano”, but between writing the abstract and giving the talk events in Nigeria meant that my focus changed quite … Continue reading →

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Sloterdijk paper from the AAG

Posted on April 16, 2013 by stuartelden

My talk on Peter Sloterdijk at the AAG, especially looking at In the World Interior of Capital, is available here. The conference was held in the Westin Bonaventure hotel – something I refer to around 14 minutes in. The air-conditioning … Continue reading →

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Social Justice and the City – CFP for Hong Kong Conference

Posted on April 16, 2013 by stuartelden

Call for Papers: An International Conference on Social Justice and the City Organised by Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, on 4th – 6th December, 2013 at Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong In Memory of Neil Smith, Who Had Devoted … Continue reading →

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The AAG meeting

Posted on April 13, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve spent the last week in Los Angeles for the Association of American Geographers annual meeting. It was mainly in the Westin Bonaventure hotel – made famous in the 1980s by the readings of Fredric Jameson and Edward Soja. I … Continue reading →

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Neoliberalism, Crisis and the World System

Posted on April 9, 2013 by stuartelden

Neoliberalism, Crisis and the World System Tuesday 2-Wednesday 3 July 2013, University of York, UK Very interesting looking conference with excellent speakers: Plenary speakers include: Jodi Dean (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) Jamie Peck (UBC) Mark Fisher (Goldsmiths) John Holmwood … Continue reading →

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Talking about Nigeria in Turkey

Posted on April 5, 2013 by stuartelden

Today I gave a talk entitled “Nigeria’s War on Terror: The Geopolitics of Boko Haram”, to the Political Science & International Relations Academic Fellowship Program Discipline Group meeting. This is a programme run by the Open Society Institute, and this … Continue reading →

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