Category Archives: Conferences

End of 2011, and a look to 2012

I meant to post this before I went offline for a couple of weeks for Christmas and a holiday in the Gambia, but didn’t do so. Anyway, it is a brief review of my 2011 and a look to 2012… … Continue reading

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‘Teritorij bez granica’ – ‘Territory without Borders’ in Croatian

One of the speaking invitations I unfortunately had to turn down this year was to speak in Zagreb at the Human Rights film festival.  (You know you are busy when you have to turn down expenses-paid trips to interesting places you’ve … Continue reading

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‘For Love of the World’ – Arendt, politics, space – CFP

 ‘For Love of the World’ – Arendt, politics, space  Convener: Richard J Bater  (Royal Holloway, Universityof London)   Sponsored by the Political Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society with theInstitute ofBritish Geographers RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Edinburgh University – … Continue reading

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Kentucky-Harvard-Yale

This has been a bit of a logistical challenge. I’m speaking in Kentucky to the Committee on Social Theory on March 30th. They’ve just sent me this nice poster advertising the series. I was also asked to speak at Yale … Continue reading

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Secure the Volume abstract

This is the abstract for the Kentucky Committee for Social Theory lecture (late March) and the Political Geography plenary lecture at the RGS-IBG conference in Edinburgh (early July). Secure the Volume: Vertical Geopolitics and the Depth of Power We all-too-often … Continue reading

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David Harvey – Deutscher Prize Lecture 2011

David Harvey, “History versus Theory: A Commentary on Marx’s Method in Capital”, 11 November 2011, The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Lecture

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Derek Gregory – ‘Lines of Descent’

Derek Gregory’s ‘Lines of Descent’ essay is available at Open Democracy. There are a number of other papers linked to this weekend’s ‘Shock and Awe’ conference here.

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Deleuze, Philosophy, Transdisciplinarity conference

“Deleuze, Philosophy, Transdisciplinarity”, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London, February 10-11, 2012. Impressive list of invited speakers: Eric Alliez, Miguel de Beistegui, John Mullarkey, Laura Cull, Christian Kerslake, Thomas Baldwin, Iain MacKenzie, Nathan Widder, Andrew Goffey, Stamatia Portanova. … Continue reading

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Critchley on Hamlet in London

Thanks to Rory Rowan for letting me know that Simon Critchley will be speaking about Hamlet in London on 29th November. Details here. (there is a video of his talk on this play – not sure if it is same … Continue reading

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Historical Materialism conference London 10-13 Nov

“Spaces of Capital, Moments of Struggle” Eighth Annual Historical Materialism Conference, Central London, 10–13 November 2011 Conference website here.

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