Category Archives: Territory

Legal Terrain – video of my London Review of International Law lecture

Posted on June 15, 2017 by stuartelden

In February 2017 I gave the London Review of International Law annual lecture at SOAS under the title of ‘Legal Terrain: The Political Materiality of Territory’. The plan is for the written article to appear in the journal later this … Continue reading →

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Translation of ‘Territory without Borders’ in Iran’s Shargh Daily

Posted on May 31, 2017 by stuartelden

My 2011 short essay ‘Territory without Borders‘, which originally appeared in the Harvard International Review, has been translated for the May 28, 2017 issue of the Iranian paper Shargh Daily. My thanks to Sahand Sattari for making the translation. In 2015 he … Continue reading →

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International Law and The Territorial Gains and Losses of Non-State Actors – project report in Diplomat Magazine by Mahmoud Abdou

Posted on May 11, 2017 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned a project on International Law and The Territorial Gains and Losses of Non-State Actors, run by the London Centre of International Law and Practice, before – I spoke at their launch event in London back in October. Mahmoud Abdou has … Continue reading →

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Territory in Indeterminate and Changing Environments – Amsterdam, 12 May 2017

Posted on May 10, 2017 by stuartelden

A reminder that the first workshop of the Territory sub-theme of the ICE-LAW Project, on Territory in Indeterminate and Changing Environments, will take place at the University of Amsterdam on Friday 12 May 2017. It will be held in the Bushuis, room … Continue reading →

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Territory – The Map is Not…

Posted on May 3, 2017 by stuartelden

Thanks to dmf for pointing me to this intriguing project: Territory – themapisnot.com Territory is a literary project about territories and the maps that will always fail to capture them. It’s about the naive dream of objectivity, and how we use … Continue reading →

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Terrain’s Volume – video of my lecture to the Technologies of Space symposium in Oslo

Posted on April 28, 2017 by stuartelden

Terrain’s Volume – video of my lecture to the Technologies of Space: Verticality, Volume, Infrastructure symposium in Oslo in March 2017. The overall introduction is by Liv Hausken; the introduction to my lecture is by Susanne Østby Sather. The version here doesn’t show … Continue reading →

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The ICE LAW Project comes out from the cold

Posted on April 23, 2017 by stuartelden

The ICE LAW Project is close to concluding its first full year of funding and we’re in the midst of a particularly active few months. We’ve been providing regular updates on the ICE LAW Project’s website and Twitter feed. However,…

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The End of Term 2

Posted on March 27, 2017 by stuartelden

The Maynooth and Dublin events were the last of a sequence of talks. Over this term I also gave talks in London (SOAS, IHR, British Library), Durham, Oslo, and Kingston. Often invitations grew after acceptance – come to give a seminar, but also … Continue reading →

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Off to Maynooth and Dublin – talks on Terrain, publishing and Foucault

Posted on March 23, 2017 by stuartelden

It’s a little difficult to treat today as just another day, after the events in London yesterday, but I’m just about to head to Ireland for a couple of events. This evening at 4pm I’ll be giving a talk entitled “Terrain: … Continue reading →

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Vertical Power – reflections from the Oslo workshop by Liv Brissach (in Norwegian)

Posted on March 11, 2017 by stuartelden

Vertical Power – reflections from the Oslo workshop at which I spoke last week – by Liv Brissach (in Norwegian). My own thoughts are here.    

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