Category Archives: Conferences

The Foucault Effect 1991-2011 discussant

An addition to the programme for this event (London, 3-4 June) – I’ve been asked to be a discussant to the first session on the Friday evening. Papers in that session are by Daniel Defert, Colin Gordon, Peter Fitzpatrick and Maria … Continue reading

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Territory: Conceptual, Political, Historical

I’ll be giving a talk at the Hong Kong Baptist University on 18th May. Because the audience will be mixed between faculty and students, I’ve been asked to be more general and so this will give me a chance to … Continue reading

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Spatial Justice workshop videos

The videos from the Spatial Justice workshop at the University of Westminster last year are available here. Chaired by Chantal Mouffe, it includes talks by David Harvey, Doreen Massey, Engin Isin, Mustafa Dikeç and others. (Thanks to Rory for the link.)

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Call for Papers: The Royal Body

Call for Papers Centre for the Study of Bodies and Material Culture, Royal Holloway, University of London 2-5 April 2012 ‘For the King has in him two bodies . a Body natural and a Body politic.’ The idea of the … Continue reading

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The Foucault Effect 1991-2011 conference

More details about this interesting looking conference are available here.

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Two London seminars on Geopolitics

5pm 24th May 2011 Fiona McConnell (University of Cambridge) Rehearsing statehood: the governance practices of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile 5pm 7th June 2011 Adam Ramadan (University of Cambridge) Space, Sovereignty and Territory: Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon These seminars are held … Continue reading

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AAG New York 2012

The last meeting of the AAG in Seattle is barely over, but the call for papers and sessions for the 2012 meeting in New York is already up, here. Part of the reason for the early deadline is that next … Continue reading

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Ananya Roy at the LSE

Cities at the Speed of Light: Asian experiments of the urban century Department of Geography & Environment public lecture Date: Thursday 12 May 2011  Time: 6.30-8pm Venue:  New Theatre, East Building Speaker: Professor Ananya Roy Chair: Dr Gareth Jones The 21st century … Continue reading

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Faith, Citizenship and Globalisation conference in Durham

“Faith, Citizenship and Globalisation: Religion and the Citizen as Categories in a World of Becoming” Durham University, 19-20 May 2011 This one-day conference will explore the relationship between religion and citizenship within our contemporary “world of becoming”, as our guest … Continue reading

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Urban Utopianism workshop in Hong Kong

I posted the call for papers before, but now there is a poster and a provisional conference programme. Unfortunately I get to Hong Kong the day after this ends…

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