On 20 May at 3pm there will be a book launch for my recently-published book Canguilhem, hosted by gloknos/CRASSH at the University of Cambridge. I’ll be in conversation with Inanna Hamati-Ataya and Simon Reid-Henry.
It will be held in S1, Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge.
Full details here. Many thanks to Inanna for suggesting and organising this event, and to Simon for agreeing to be part of it.
New website for the Centre Michel Foucault
Présentation
Le Centre Michel Foucault est une association fondée le 31 mai 1986 à l’initiative de chercheurs internationaux qui ont accompagné le développement du travail et de la pensée de Michel Foucault.
Initialement créé pour rassembler documents, archives et travaux liés à l’œuvre de Foucault, pour faciliter et coordonner des recherches se rapportant à sa pensée ou s’inspirant de ses orientations et de ses méthodes, et pour développer les échanges internationaux autour de cette œuvre, le Centre Michel Foucault a également accompagné durant les trois dernières décennies la publication des Dits et écrits puis des cours au Collège de France, en lien avec des activités de recherche menées à partir des archives déposées à l’Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine et, depuis 2013, à la Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Le Centre Michel Foucault continue à ce jour d’accompagner la publication de cours, conférences et matériaux inédits, notamment la…
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Translating Philosophy and Theory – Style, Rhetoric and Concepts, Warwick, 11 May 2019
One-day interdisciplinary conference at HRC WarwickSaturday, 11th May 2019
Keynote speakers
Dr Lisa Foran, Lecturer in Philosophical Studies, Newcastle University, UK
Professor Andrew Benjamin, Kingston University London, UK / University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
conference registration is open – closes on 25th April.
A provisional programme is now available: Provisional Programme Conference TPT March-April 2019
Conference organised by Melissa Pawelski
Full details here.
Paper Trails Conference, 4th July 2019, University College London
Often there is
more than research inside the books we read. Bookmarks, train tickets,
receipts, and menus tucked into pages offer clues about the life of the book
itself. Yet the lives of our research material often go unmarked, lost between
the gaps in disciplinary boundaries and narrow definitions. The biographies of
books and documents can illuminate their contexts, as printed matter that is
sold, passed down or abandoned. What happens when we consider the three moments
of production, transmission, and reception together with our own research
stories? Documents, like people, have births, lives, and even deaths, so what
does it mean to investigate the biographies of texts, objects, and archival
records? Beyond the formal roles of cataloguing and archiving, what part do
researchers play in shaping the emergent archive?
This is not
strictly an intellectual history, nor even a material book history, but
something more like a social history…
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Altering cartographies of climate change, Royal Academy, London, 15 April 2019, 6.30-8pm
A panel discussion looking at both material and imagined borders, and the ways in which global warming challenges Western conceptions of territory.
In 2014, Studio Folder initiated the Italian Limes project to survey the fluctuations of the boundary line across the Alps in real time. As a continuation of this project, they have been fascinated by the effects climate change can have on geopolitical understandings of borders and the methods used to represent them.
In this conversation, our panellists will discuss topics of nationalism and cartography using the example of a “moving border” introduced by Italy, Austria, and Switzerland to acknowledge the volatility of the geographical features on Italy’s northern border. The latter is continuously shifting as a result of climate change and often contradicts its representations on official maps. They will both place this case study into a wider context of the history of boundary making and discuss possible spatial interventions that correspond to a world where ecological processes are increasingly dominating geopolitical affairs.
This conversation is inspired by A Moving Border: Alpine Cartographies of Climate Change, published by Columbia University Press co-published by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City and ZKM | Karlsruhe in March 2019.
Speakers: Andrea Bagnato is an architect, researcher and book editor whose research is focused on architecture and epidemiology. He is also the editor of SQM: The Quantified Home (2014).
Stuart Elden is Professor of Political Theory and Geography at The University of Warwick, whose research is at the intersection of politics, philosophy and geography. He is also the author of The Birth of Territory (2014).
Marco Ferrari is an architect, designer and co-founder of Studio Folder, an agency for visual and spatial research.
Susan Schuppli is an artist and researcher whose current work explores the ways in which toxic ecologies are producing an “extreme image” archive of material wrongs.
Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt (chair) is a designer, writer, and editor. She is the assistant director of Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, and the managing editor of the Avery Review.
Benjamin West Lecture Theatre, Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts
£15, £9
Update: 5 April – just been told a few places are available, but be quick.
WORKSHOPOrienting Ourselves in the World: The Particular and the GeneralThursday 9 May 2019, 11am-5:30pm (coffee from 11, programme start at 11:30)The University of Manchester, University Place 2.220Speakers:Molly Andrews (University of East London)Amanda Beattie (Aston University)Martin Coward (University of Manchester)Naeem Inayatullah (Ithaca College)Uma Kothari (University of Manchester)Joe Turner (Sheffield University)Convenors: Maja Zehfuss and Jenny EdkinsOrganised by the Critical Global Politics Research Cluster, University of ManchesterWhen we think and act, we often – possibly always – bring together the particular and the general. As we forge ways to lead our life, we do things that we experience as personal, unique. At the same time, we do so in the context of our immigration status, racialization, gender, ideas about what constitutes love or the kind of education we aspire to. The world becomes sensible to us through general ideas, even as we interpret, disrupt and produce our relationalities in profoundly personal ways. This need to connect two apparently distinct ways of perceiving and indeed being in the world also give rise to different modes of generating scholarly work, one ostensibly abstract or analytic, the other engaging and personal.In this context, the workshop asks:• How do we think the particular and the general together to orient ourselves in the world?• Does becoming ever more personal simultaneously approach the universal?• Does decolonization involve a rethinking of relations between the particular and the universal?• What implications does engaging with these questions have for our ways of being scholars?• What sort of responses does telling stories prompt that academic reflections don’t (and vice versa)?• Can fiction approach the universal more easily than non-fiction?• What role do theory and abstraction play in experiencing, thinking about and representing the particular?The sessions of the workshop will combine brief analytic provocations and short stories designed to set the scene for a wide-ranging general conversation examining the questions at stake.This is a free event but booking is required and places are limited. Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/orienting-ourselves-in-the-world-the-particular-and-the-general-tickets-59225666563This workshop is sponsored by the BISA Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group, the BISA Post-structural Politics Working Group and the University of Manchester.
Kristin Ross to give the Antipode lecture at the AAG meeting
Please join us for the 2019 Antipode American Association of Geographers Lecture on Thursday 4th April between 5:00pm and 6:40pm in the Blue Room, Lobby Level, Omni Shoreham Hotel (2500 Calvert Street NW, Washington, DC 20008).
The Lecture will be followed by a drinks reception sponsored by Antipode’s publisher, Wiley. This will see the return of the Antipode Groovefest with our very own DJ Mod to celebrate 50 years of the journal, 1969-2019.
Geography as conceived by the practitioners and theorists who have been recurrent figures in my work (Reclus, Kropotkin, Gracq) is a means of approaching landscapes with a sensitivity to what state boundaries obscure: unexpected natural foundations and modes of life that spring up below the radar of authority. The occupational movement to block an international airport in western France known as the “zad” is one such landscape. Using the zad (zone à défendre)…
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Sara Fregonese, War and the City: Urban Geopolitics in Lebanon, IB Tauris, September 2019, afterword by Klaus Dodds
Keith Jacobs, Neoliberal Housing Policy: An International Perspective – Routledge, May 2019
Neoliberal Housing Policy considers some of the most significant housing issues facing the West today, including the increasing commodification of housing; the political economy surrounding homeownership; the role of public housing; the problem of homelessness; the ways that housing accentuates social and economic inequality; and how suburban housing has transformed city life. The empirical focus of the book draws mainly from the US, UK and Australia, with examples to illustrate some of the most important features and trajectories of late capitalism, including the commodification of welfare provision and financialisation, while the examples from other nations serve to highlight the influence of housing policy on more regional- and place-specific processes.
The book shows that developments in housing provision are being shaped by global financial markets and the circuits of capital that transcend the borders of nation states. Whilst considerable differences within nation states exist, many government interventions to improve housing often fall short. Adopting a structuralist approach, the book provides a critical account of the way housing policy accentuates social and economic inequalities and identifies some of the significant convergences in policy across nations states, ultimately offering an explanation as to why so many ‘inequalities’ endure. It will be useful for anyone in professional housing management/social housing programs as well as planning, sociology (social policy), human geography, urban studies and housing studies programs.
Walter Benjamin and Shakespeare symposium
Saturday April 6, 2019, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton
David Garrick built his Shakespeare Temple beside the Thames at Hampton in 1755 as a place where ‘the thinkers of the world’ would meet to reflect on the plays. He hoped Voltaire would come. Now the Kingston Shakespeare Seminar is realising the great actor’s vision, with a series of symposia on Shakespeare in Philosophy.
The first of the 2019 symposia focuses on the German philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). Confirmed speakers are Hyowon Cho, Julia Ng and Bjorn Quiring.
This event, open to all, will include talks by leading philosophers and Shakespeare scholars, coffee and tea in the riverside garden designed by Capability Brown, and lunch at the historic Bell Inn. Tickets are £20, all profits go to supporting the Temple.
Book your tickets at: benjaminandshakespeare.eventbrite.co.uk
Full programme here
