Category Archives: Conferences

AAG Political Geography pre-conference

Details of the Political Geography specialty group’s pre-conference in Los Angeles – immediately before the AAG general meeting – are available here.

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New Geographies 5 – The Mediterranean

New Geographies, Vol 5, is out shortly. There is a launch event at the Graduate School of Design later this month. Most literature on the Mediterranean regarding architecture and urbanism has focused on the idea of the Mediterranean city and … Continue reading

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Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance workshop

I’ve accepted an invitation to give the keynote address to a workshop on ‘Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance’, at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Ontario, 19-20 September 2013.

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Geographies of War | Iraq Revisited

Interesting looking exhibition and workshop, curated and organised by political geographer Alan Ingram.  

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Race, affect and alterity: rethinking climate change and migration – Workshop at Durham

Call for Papers/Announcement Race, alterity and affect: rethinking climate change-induced migration and displacement 18-19 June 2013, Durham University Organisers – Andrew Baldwin (Durham University W.A.Baldwin@durham.ac.uk) and Katherine E. Russo  (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale) As policy and scholarly debates … Continue reading

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The Cosmopolitan Ideal: Challenges and Opportunities

The Cosmopolitan Ideal: Challenges and Opportunities, Roehampton University 10th – 12th July 2013 Confirmed keynote speakers: Gerard Delanty (University of Sussex), Kate Nash (Goldsmith’s College, University of London) A three day residential conference – full details here

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Hegel, Our Untimely Contemporary – conference with Slavoj Žižek

May 10-12, 2013, The Birkbeck Institute, London – full details here (via Verso blog) Hegel is the ultimate bête noire of the last two centuries of philosophy:proponents of Lebensphilosophie, existentialists from Kierkegaard onwards, materialists, historicists, analytic philosophers and empiricists, Marxists, … Continue reading

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Land claims conference in Ottawa

Jeremy Schmidt links to information on the forthcoming  Land Claims Coalition Conference in Ottawa, and notes that the agenda is now available.

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Rob Walker lecture in Newcastle

Despite All Critique: World Politics and Western Reason Revisited  Professor R. B. J Walker (University of Victoria/ PUC-Rio de Janeiro) With responses from Professor Louise Amoore and Dr Martin Coward; Chair – Dr Angharad Closs Stephens Monday 11 March, 3-5pm, … Continue reading

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Terricide – Lefebvre, Geopolitics and the Killing of the Earth

This is my abstract for the August 2013 Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) annual conference. It will be part of the sessions organised by Nigel Clark, Kathryn Yusoff and Arun Saldanha on ‘Geo-Social Formations: Capitalism and the … Continue reading

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