Category Archives: Derek Gregory

Derek Gregory Miliband Lecture

Posted on November 20, 2010 by stuartelden

Ralph Miliband series on the restructuring of World Power War in the borderlands Derek Gregory Professor Gregory discusses the evolving character of conflicts in the borderlands of former empires and the blurring of the conceptual borders of war itself. Wednesday … Continue reading →

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A few shorter pieces

Posted on September 7, 2010 by stuartelden

There will be a few shorter pieces coming out in the next several months. A piece on Lefebvre’s theory of moments, and his work on time more generally, for a book project entitled Learning from Vancouver. This seems an interesting … Continue reading →

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The State of Critical Geopolitics

Posted on September 2, 2010 by stuartelden

Papers from a conference at Durham on the current state of Critical Geopolitics are published in a theme section of the journal Political Geography. Papers by Derek Gregory, Katharyne Mitchell, Gearóid Ó Tuathail, Simon Dalby and Jennifer Hyndman, introduced by … Continue reading →

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Ambitious Geography Books

Posted on August 25, 2010 by stuartelden

I was thinking today about books by geographers, written in the last thirty years or so, that would stand as real testaments to what the discipline is about or what it can do. By this I’m meaning something other than … Continue reading →

Posted in David Harvey, David N. Livingstone, Derek Gregory, Doreen Massey, Publishing | 10 Comments

Erlangen – academic

Posted on August 1, 2010 by stuartelden

Some academic thoughts on the trip to Erlangen. The lecture seemed to go well. A good size audience in a nice modern lecture room in the castle – now part of the University. Though I knew it was being recorded … Continue reading →

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Links on Wikileaks, and Political Geography

Posted on July 26, 2010 by stuartelden

The Guardian has been running a live update all day about reaction to the Wikileaks, here. Loads of things to follow up there. Peter Gratton has a link to a post on links here. If you want to know the … Continue reading →

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Blind Beggar

Posted on June 23, 2010 by stuartelden

Because I was going to see Derek Gregory give a talk at Queen Mary this evening (which was very good), I decided to get off the tube at Whitechapel and walk towards QM and find a pub to watch the … Continue reading →

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Derek Gregory in London

Posted on June 8, 2010 by stuartelden

Derek Gregory of Geography at UBC is giving a talk at Queen Mary on 23 June. Details here As I’ve said before Derek is a terrific speaker, and his work is very interesting. Should be good. Register and get there … Continue reading →

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Alexander von Humboldt lecture

Posted on May 30, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve been asked to give one of the Alexander von Humboldt lectures at the Radboud University of Nijmegen in September 2010. I’m really pleased to accept this. The theme is on Making European Space(s). They’ve had some really interesting people … Continue reading →

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Speaking as performance

Posted on May 6, 2010 by stuartelden

On the way to give another talk, I’m thinking about what it means to speak in public. There are so few really good academic speakers – strange given the element of performance that must be part of the motivation. Derek … Continue reading →

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