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ICE LAW Project schedule for Spring/Summer 2017

Since arriving at Durham in 2013, I’ve slowly been developing the core structure of The Project on Indeterminate and Changing Environments: Law, the Anthropocene, and the World (The ICE LAW Project). Thanks to a generous grant from the Leverhulme Trust…

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Three useful pieces of writing and other academic advice

‘How to make writing in the humanities less lonely‘ – Times Higher Education ‘The No-Fail Secret to Writing a Dissertation‘ – Chronicle Vitae ‘Impostor Syndrome Is Definitely a Thing‘ – The Chronicle of Higher Education   There are lots more collected at Writing and … Continue reading

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What We Talked About at ISA: The Climate for Women in International Relations and Politics

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
Yesterday, The Guardian reported on the level of sexual harassment in British universities. Based on Freedom of Information requests (and for this and other reasons necessarily a partial insight into the incidence of…

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Interview with Philippe Bonditti on Foucault and the Modern International

Interview with Philippe Bonditti, one of the co-editors of the new book Foucault and the Modern International. Silences and Legacies for the Study of World Politics published in the CERI Sciences Po Series on International Relations and Political Economy, Palgrave MacMillan, 2017. … Continue reading

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8 Critical Theory books that came out in February 2017

Another useful roundup – Eagleton, Oliver, Negri, Connolly, Ciccariello-Maher, Bown, Althusser, Bell. As Eugene Wolters says, “If you’re an author or publisher with a forthcoming book, send us a line at tips@critical-theory.com”

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Back from Oslo and the ‘Technologies of Space: Verticality, Volume, Infrastructure’ symposium

I’m now back after a good trip to Oslo for the Technologies of Space: Verticality, Volume, Infrastructure symposium I spoke on the topic of “Terrain’s Volume”, which was a version of a talk I’ve now given in Gießen, Durham, and London. It’s nearing a … Continue reading

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CFP 2017 Annual Millennium Conference – The Politics of Time in International Relations

CALL FOR PAPERS – Deadline 15 June, 2017 2017 Annual Millennium Conference The Politics of Time in International Relations Keynote Address: Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago) Opening Address: Kimberly Hutchings (Queen Mary, University of London) Full details:  https://millenniumjournal.org/annual-conference/

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Geography Books

Originally posted on Pop Theory:
It’s sad, I know, but one of my favourite places is the Bookbarn, in Somerset on the road from Bristol to Wells. It is, as the name suggests, a big barn full of old books…

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‘The Bibliothèque Nationale is no doubt the one place in which Foucault spent the most years of his life’

As I renew my British Library card for another three years, and think all the years I’ve been working here – initially in the old reading room in the British Museum, and then for almost twenty years at the St … Continue reading

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A roundup of posts on time management etc.

And following that last post, a bit of a round-up of a number of posts by others on time management etc. While some of the things here are not for everyone, part of the overall motivation is to help to prioritise, … Continue reading

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