Category Archives: Conferences

Critchley on Tragedy

Posted on October 26, 2010 by stuartelden

Tilburg Philosophy Summer School – ‘On the Tragic and its Limits’ A Seminar with Simon Critchley | July 12-21, 2011 Is the tragic an adequate category for thinking about the nature of contemporary conflicts, and their cycles of revenge, violence … Continue reading →

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University of Washington seminar

Posted on October 21, 2010 by stuartelden

Tomorrow I give my first talk of this North America trip, at the University of Washington. Details here. There will be an informal lunch with postgraduates first, discussing the ‘Land, Terrain, Territory’ paper forthcoming in Progress in Human Geography. Although … Continue reading →

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Governing Emergencies – workshop at Durham

Posted on October 20, 2010 by stuartelden

Governing Emergencies 9/10 December 2010 (Starting at 2.00 on the 9th) Two Day Workshop. Department of Geography, Durham University Papers include: Peter Adey (Keele University), Ben Anderson (Durham University) and Steve Graham (Newcastle): Event and Anticipation: Governing Emergencies in UK … Continue reading →

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Middlesex Philosophy Seminars

Posted on October 2, 2010 by stuartelden

Despite CRMEP being moved to Kingston, and the closure of the undergraduate programme for new entrants, Middlesex philosophy has some very impressive people coming to give seminars next year. Christian Kerslake posts the details here.

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Geography and Object-Orientated Philosophy

Posted on September 29, 2010 by stuartelden

(reposted from Crit-Geog-Forum) Call for Papers: The Difference of Things Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 12-16th April 2011, Seattle, USA. Session organised by Deborah Dixon, JP Jones, Sallie Marston and Keith Woodward   If difference in the world is … Continue reading →

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AAG session on Territoriality and Political Violence

Posted on September 22, 2010 by stuartelden

(I have no involvement in this session, but it may be of interest to some readers -via PGSG) Territoriality, political violence, and armed conflict Call for Papers Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting Seattle, WA, April 12-16, 2011 Last Day … Continue reading →

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Steve Graham seminar in London

Posted on September 20, 2010 by stuartelden

“Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructure Fails”, London Group of Historical Geographers seminar, 12 October 2010, 5pm; Wolfson room, Senate House, London, WC1E 7HU (via London Political Geography Network).

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Geographies of Intelligence

Posted on September 17, 2010 by stuartelden

This looks really interesting… Call for Papers, Association of American Geographers 2011, Seattle, USA April 12-16, 2011 Organisers: Jeremy Crampton (Georgia State University) and Trevor Barnes (University of British Columbia).  Session jointly sponsored by the Political Geography Specialty Group and … Continue reading →

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Territoriality workshop day 2

Posted on September 17, 2010 by stuartelden

Four more very interesting papers today. I was particularly struck by the paper by Claudio Minca that situated Raffestin within debates in Italian geography. Although Raffestin is Swiss, he publishes in Italian (as well as French) and has played an … Continue reading →

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Territoriality workshop day 1

Posted on September 16, 2010 by stuartelden

End of the first day of the Territoriality/Raffestin workshop. Papers by Alec Murphy, myself, Jean Ruegg, Mike Heffernan and Juliet Fall. There was also a discussion session led by Elena dell’Agnese around three pieces of Raffestin’s work. The workshop was … Continue reading →

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