Category Archives: Conferences

Gone in 16 seconds

The video of my Kentucky talk has been uploaded… but unfortunately only 16 seconds. I’ll try to find out what’s up. Thanks for the alert on the Geopolitics & Security blog. Update: now available in full

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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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