Progressive Geographies

Gregynog Ideas Lab VI Summer School 

We are delighted to be able to announce that the Gregynog Ideas Lab VI will take place from 10 – 15 July 2017 in Newtown, Wales, UK. Set up in 2012, the Gregynog Ideas Lab is a unique opportunity for graduate students and academics working in international politics from a range of critical, postcolonial, feminist, post-structural and psychoanalytic traditions to re-examine their own work and meet new people in an open space for thinking and generating new ideas. It offers guest professor seminars, round table discussions, methodology workshops, artist talks and one-to-one tutorials with the guest professors. For more information, please see the documents attached.

Provisionally, our guest professors for 2017 are: Andrew Davison (Vassar), Jenny Edkins (Aberystwyth), Tom Lundborg (Swedish Institute of International Affairs), Himadeep Muppidi (Vassar), Sam Okoth Opondo (Vassar), Michael J Shapiro (Hawaii), Erzsebet Strausz (Warwick), Rob Walker (Victoria) and Andreja Zevnik (Manchester).

There is a reduced rate for bookings received before 31 January.

For more information about the Ideas Lab, visit our blog at http://gregynog.blogspot.co.uk/ , join our facebook group at  https://www.facebook.com/groups/675435315871900/  or email the organisers, Andreja Zevnik and Erzsebet Strausz on gregynogideaslab@gmail.com

If you would like to hear more about what it is like to attend the summer school from a participant’s point of view please free to email Muriel at muriel.bruttin@unil.ch, who would be happy to share her experience.

I’ve updated the list of my forthcoming publications and added a few pre-prints which are available to download. These include my article on Foucault and Shakespeare, an encyclopaedia entry on the relation between territory and the urban, and some older pieces on terricide, Shakespeare, and Foucault and geometrics.

For already published work, much of which is available to download on this site, there are separate pages for articles and chapters, books, interviews, audio and video, and reading lists.

A number of mainly recently published books from Polity, in recompense for review work.

Thomas Parker, Tasting French Terroir: The History of an Idea reviewed at H-France Review by Rod Philips. Thanks to Mike Heffernan for bringing this to my attention.

The first book in the Society and Space book series is Dan Bulley’s  Migration, Ethics and Power: Spaces Of Hospitality In International Politics. I posted about the series as a whole earlier this week, and now the editor copies of this book have arrived. It looks terrific. The book’s description is:

In 2014, the ethics and politics of hospitality were brought into stark relief. Three years into the Syrian conflict, which had already created nearly 2.5 million refugees and internally displaced 6.5 million, the UN called on industrialised countries to share the burden of offering hospitality through a fixed quota system. The UK opted out of the system whilst hailing their acceptance of a moral responsibility by welcoming only 500 of the ‘most vulnerable’ Syrians. Given the state’s exclusionary character, what opportunities do other spaces in international politics offer by way of hospitality to migrants and refugees?

Hospitality can take many different forms and have many diverse purposes. But wherever it occurs, the boundaries that enable it and make it possible are both created and unsettled via exercises of power and their resistance. Through modern examples including refugee camps, global cities, postcolonial states and Europe, as well as analysis of Derridean and Foucauldian concepts, Migration, Ethics and Power explores:

• The process and practice of hospitality
• The spaces that hospitality produces
• The intimate relationship between ethics and power

This is a brilliantly contemporary text for students of politics, international relations and political geography.