Category Archives: Conferences

Harman, Clough, Masciandaro audio

Graham Harman’s talk to Speculative Medievalisms is now available, along with Patricia Clough’s response and Nicola Masciandaro’s closing comments. You can stream or download the audio here. Eileen Joy provides some background and links to the earlier talks here.

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AAG Political Geography pre-conference

Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY, Feb 22-23 2012, with Christian Parenti as keynote. Details here (via here).

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Merrifield on Lefebvre in London

Reposted from crit-geog-forum. I’m speaking in Newcastle that night so will unfortunately miss it.  UCL Urban Laboratory/CITY Journal Annual Lecture with the support of Bartlett School of Planning Henri Lefebvre and Planetary Urbanization Lecture by Andy Merrifield 05 October 2011 Christopher … Continue reading

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German Philosophy and Geography

This the session I am organising at the New York AAG (24-28 Feb 2012). The impact of philosophers on geography, in recent years, has largely been from the French tradition—Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Badiou and others. There are exceptions, of course, … Continue reading

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2012 talks

One of the things I’ve been working on since I got back is the schedule of talks for early 2012. I’d already agreed to give a couple of talks on ‘volume’ (part of The Space of the World project) in March … Continue reading

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Berkeley and Tucson

Now back in the UK. Both visits were a lot of fun, and it was great to visit Berkeley for the first time – a lovely campus and great walks in the hills behind it – and Tucson again for … Continue reading

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‘How should we do the history of territory?’ – Berkeley audio

The audio recording of my Berkeley talk is now available. Many thanks to Ilaria Giglioli for making the recording. “How should we do the history of territory”, University of California, Berkeley, 14 September 2011.

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Details of Berkeley and Tucson lectures

14 September 2011 – “How should we do the history of territory?” Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, USA (details) 16 September 2011 – ”How should we do the history of territory?” School of Geography and Development, University of … Continue reading

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Sensualising Deformity – Call for papers

This could be interesting. Sensualising Deformity: Communication and Construction of Monstrous Embodiment, at the University of Edinburgh, June 15-16 2012. The link takes you to the call for papers, and they have a linked blog. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is one of … Continue reading

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Weird Tools and Strange Investigations – call for papers

Preternature 2.1 : Weird Tools and Strange Investigations Objects of all sorts have a long history of serving as bridges to the preternatural world, whether that be in terms of some intrinsic power, or as things possessed or haunted. The … Continue reading

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