Category Archives: Travel

Yale borders conference

Arrived in New Haven yesterday for the ‘Walls and Fences’ conference after several great days in and around the GSD. Neil was a great host, and some good conversations with him, his colleagues at the GSD and visitors. Got to … Continue reading

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Rereading novels

The Guardian has a couple of features on rereading novels – a piece discussing it here, and some contemporary authors’ favourite novels to re-read here. This isn’t something I do very often with novels. I did when younger but now I … Continue reading

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Kentucky Social Theory lecture

The lecture was yesterday, and seemed to be well received. It was a busy day – an interview with the graduate student journal disClosure, a lunch with the faculty teaching the Social Theory seminar, the lecture itself, followed by questions, … Continue reading

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Kentucky

Now at the University of Kentucky for a few days. The talk is on Friday but lots of other things scheduled beforehand. Already met up with Sue Roberts, Michael Samers and Ted Schatzki. I’ve only ever been through Kentucky before … Continue reading

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End of 2011, and a look to 2012

I meant to post this before I went offline for a couple of weeks for Christmas and a holiday in the Gambia, but didn’t do so. Anyway, it is a brief review of my 2011 and a look to 2012… … Continue reading

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Kentucky-Harvard-Yale

This has been a bit of a logistical challenge. I’m speaking in Kentucky to the Committee on Social Theory on March 30th. They’ve just sent me this nice poster advertising the series. I was also asked to speak at Yale … Continue reading

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To do list

In the immortal words of Malcolm Tucker, “I’ve got a to-do list longer than a Leonard Cohen song”… One of the things that has suffered has been this blog. As the last, somewhat grumpy, post indicated, we are moving, and so that has … Continue reading

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November is the cruelest month

With all due respect to T.S. Eliot, I think November wins the prize. Setting the clocks back is brutal, the weather is tough, and the days continue to get shorter. Getting some disappointing news in the middle of the month … Continue reading

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End of October

October has been a slog. I’ve now done half of my teaching for this academic year. In one month. Okay, this means that the rest of the year is going to be relatively easy on that front, but naturally there … Continue reading

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2012 talks

One of the things I’ve been working on since I got back is the schedule of talks for early 2012. I’d already agreed to give a couple of talks on ‘volume’ (part of The Space of the World project) in March … Continue reading

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