Category Archives: Conferences

Territoriality workshop day 2

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

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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Publishing workshop

Back in Durham for three days. Yesterday, Alec Murphy from the University of Oregon and I led a workshop on publishing for early-career researchers. The idea was that as editors of journals, Alec and I could offer some insight and … Continue reading

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Leaving Nijmegen

I’ll be leaving Nijmegen early in the morning to head back to London. The Alexander von Humboldt lecture seemed to be well received. It didn’t go quite as smoothly as I wanted but it was well attended and there were … Continue reading

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Political Life of Things workshop

The Political Life of Things A One Day Workshop The Imperial War Museum, London, UK 3rd December 2010 Keynote 1: Jeremy Deller (Turner Prize Winner, 2004) Keynote 2: Jane Bennett (Johns Hopkins, author of Vibrant Matter)  The BISA Poststructural Politics … Continue reading

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Vertical Geographies workshop

Vertical Geographies workshop in December – details here

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The Birth of Territory

The title of most of the lectures I will be giving this autumn will be ‘The Birth of Territory’. It’s increasingly clear to me that this is also the title of the book I’ve been writing, with no complicating subtitle.

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Nijmegen Alexander von Humboldt lecture series

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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

An interesting looking conference – “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects in the Early Modern and Medieval Periods”, March 11-2 2011, George Washington University.  Jane Bennett is the keynote. Details here.

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Updates to talks

A bit more detail on talks in the autumn here. The programme of the Nijmegen Humboldt lectures is here; and the Radical Philosophy Association draft conference programme is here.

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