Category Archives: Conferences

Exterritory project event on Extraterritoriality

Interesting and intriguing invitation to speak at an event on extraterritoriality by the Exterritory Project. The project is run by two Israeli artists – Ruti Sela and Maayan Amir. They’ve done things like project art works onto the sails of … Continue reading

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Radical Foucault

The conference was very good, and my lecture seemed to be well received. There were a lot of questions and good discussion afterwards, which I always take to be a good sign. Lots of interest in the course I was … Continue reading

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Afghanistan and the War on Terror – Ten Years On

Wednesday 5th October – public meeting Afghanistan and the War on Terror – Ten Years On 7pm, Herschel Building, Lecture Theatre 1 Newcastle University, UK SPEAKERS Lindsey German – National Convenor of Stop the War Coalition since 2001, co-author of … Continue reading

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War’s Affects: Mediating Conflict and Emotion, 1700-1900 Symposium

Conference at the Australian National University – more details here.

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Lectures on Foucault

I give two different lectures on Foucault this month. One is at the Radical Foucault conference in London (8th-9th Sept), and then the second is given at both UC Berkeley and University of Arizona the following week. The paper for … Continue reading

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International Association for Philosophy and Literature conference

The 36th International Association for Philosophy and Literature conference will be held in Tallinn, 28 May – 3 June 2012. Further details here. The theme is ‘Archeologies of the Future: Tracing Memories, Imagining Spaces’.

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XV International Conference of Historical Geographers

To be held in Prague, August 6-10 2012. Further details here (website) and here (pdf). I went to the last one of these, held every three years, in Kyoto. It was a great conference, but I particularly appreciated the hospitality and … Continue reading

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Tyneside Stop the War events

From the Tyneside Stop the War coalition: The tenth anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan on October 6th 2001 is fast approaching… …and Tyneside Stop the War is organising/supporting two events in early October 1. Wednesday 5th October – public … Continue reading

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Radical Foucault registration

Radical Foucault – An International Conference September 8 & 9, 2011. 9.30am – 6.30pm University of East London The Centre for Cultural Studies Research at the University of East London is pleased to announce that registration is now open for … Continue reading

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AAG session on Borders CFP

Call for papers: AAG 2012, New York City, February 24-28, 2012 http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting Border Matters! Organizer: J.J. Zhang (Durham University) There has been an understanding of borders as static, unmoving, and fixed – something that people have to work around rather … Continue reading

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