Category Archives: Conferences

Yale borders conference

Arrived in New Haven yesterday for the ‘Walls and Fences’ conference after several great days in and around the GSD. Neil was a great host, and some good conversations with him, his colleagues at the GSD and visitors. Got to … Continue reading

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Edinburgh Bodies in Movement seminar series

Details up of the three seminars in this series – I’m giving the third of them – 2 July 2012, on Coriolanus. Apparently I will provide ‘a delicious geographical and material twist’ to the play and film…

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Exterritory conference

You can now download the programme and details of the Exterritory conference in Paris on May 2nd 2012 in a press kit. The event is taking place at the Kadist Art Foundation. Their website is here – it uses a … Continue reading

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Every Revolution has its Space: from Occupying Squares to Transforming Cities?

OpenSpace is pleased to announce this Leverhulme Visiting Professorship event at The University of Manchester: “Every Revolution has its Space: from Occupying Squares to Transforming Cities?” Presentations by: Erik Swyngedouw, Professor of Geography, University of Manchester Andy Merrifield, Leverhulme Visiting … Continue reading

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Coriolanus in Edinburgh

Just as with New York – when I spoke at the Anachronic Shakespeare conference at NYU before the AAG  – I’ll be speaking about Shakespeare before the RGS in Edinburgh. This will be the first (only?) outing for my paper on Coriolanus. It will be … Continue reading

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AAG conference videos

The AAG has posted videos of some sessions from the conference – here. Mary Robinson, Saskia Sassen, etc. – Jeffrey Sachs to follow.

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Walls and Fences – conference at Yale

The details of the conference are now available – program and other links here.

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Kentucky Social Theory lecture

The lecture was yesterday, and seemed to be well received. It was a busy day – an interview with the graduate student journal disClosure, a lunch with the faculty teaching the Social Theory seminar, the lecture itself, followed by questions, … Continue reading

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Secure the Volume: Vertical Geopolitics and the Depth of Power

For the past several days I’ve been writing – and almost as importantly, working with the images for – my lecture for Kentucky. At the moment it looks like it will cover… Area, Volume, Territory, Boundedness, the Volumetric, Political Technology, … Continue reading

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Kentucky poster

Nice poster for my talk in Kentucky next week – you can see the earlier ones for Michael Hardt and Russ Castronovo, and the series as a whole, here.

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