Category Archives: Conferences

Simon Dalby – The Geopolitics of Climate Change

Posted on February 5, 2013 by stuartelden

Simon Dalby’s Political Geography plenary lecture at the AAG in Los Angeles in early 2013 looks very interesting. It picks up some of the concluding comments to my own Political Geography lecture from the Royal Geographical Society conference last year. (I’ve just … Continue reading →

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AAG draft program available

Posted on February 2, 2013 by stuartelden

The draft program for the Association of American Geographers meeting in Los Angeles in early April is now available online. I’m speaking in a panel on Sloterdijk, a panel on the future of publishing, and giving a paper on ‘Urban … Continue reading →

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Aberystwyth-Lancaster Postgraduate Colloquium in International Relations

Posted on January 31, 2013 by stuartelden

University of Manchester, 5-7 June 2013. I spoke at this a couple of years ago when it was held in Durham. Keynotes this time are Maja Zehfuss and Mick Dillon – should be good.  

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Migration and Militant Research Workshop – Goldsmiths, 30-31 January 2013

Posted on January 27, 2013 by stuartelden

Migration and Militant Research Workshop – Goldsmiths, University of London, 30-31 January 2013. Keynotes from Nicholas De Genova; Sandro Mezzadra; Federica Sossi; and other speakers include Nirmal Puwar, Rutvica Andrijasevic, Maribel Casas-Cortes, Sebastian Cobarrubias, John Pickles (TBC). More details at … Continue reading →

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Davos 2013 – comment and debate on agriculture

Posted on January 27, 2013 by stuartelden

David Nally of Cambridge’s Geography department is one of the authors of a piece at The Guardian’s Poverty Matters Blog that addresses the implications of Davos 2013 on agriculture, smallholder farmers and food security. The longer version of this piece is … Continue reading →

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Shakespearean Colonial Territories – audio and maps

Posted on January 17, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my talk to the Sociology Department at the University of York is available here. In the talk I discuss two maps – one from Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570) of the Roman Empire: And this example … Continue reading →

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Earth – rethinking geopolitics

Posted on January 17, 2013 by stuartelden

Here’s my abstract for CityState: A Lexical Workshop later this year in Tel Aviv: Earth Geopolitics has, today, become effectively a synonym for global politics. Armchair strategists still come up with grand plans for understanding and changing the world; critical geopolitics … Continue reading →

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Sociology at York – Sociology and Space seminar series

Posted on January 15, 2013 by stuartelden

On Wednesday I’m going down to York to speak to the Sociology department – their blog has details of the whole term’s seminar programme, all on the theme of ‘Sociology and Space’. It’s a really interesting programme, with people from Geography, … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers and Contributions – Legal Geography

Posted on January 15, 2013 by stuartelden

A call for papers for the RGS-IBG conference in London in August 2013. Please contact a.layard@bham.ac.uk with all queries. Submission Deadline for papers – Friday 8th February 2013 (other contributions can come later, please see below). Organisers – Antonia Layard (Birmingham) … Continue reading →

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Kant in Atlanta

Posted on January 3, 2013 by stuartelden

Between Christmas and New Year I attended a couple of days of the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division meeting in Atlanta. The main reason was for an invited session on the Reading Kant’s Geography book I co-edited with Eduardo Mendieta … Continue reading →

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