Durham IAS 2017-18 Structure Fellowship is now open – closing date 10th June 2016

Durham IAS 2017-18 Structure Fellowship is now open – closing date 10th June 2016

The Institute of Advanced Study is Durham University’s flagship interdisciplinary research institute, providing a central forum for debate and collaboration across the entire disciplinary spectrum. The Institute seeks to catalyse new thinking on major annual themes by bringing together leading international academics as well as writers, artists and practitioners.

The theme for 2017/18 is Structure, interpreted in its broadest sense – scientifically, symbolically, legally, philosophically, literarily, politically, economically, and sociologically. Applications for the 2017/18 Fellowship will open on 20 April 2016. Up to 20, three-month fellowships (October-December 2017 and January-March 2018), linked to the annual theme. Applicants may be from any academic discipline or professional background involving research, and they may come from anywhere in the world. IAS Fellowships include an honorarium, funds for travel, accommodation, subsistence and costs associated with replacement teaching or loss of salary (where appropriate).

Research

Fellows will contribute to the Institute’s annual theme.The Institute provides its Fellows with a setting that offers them time and freedom to think, away from the demands of their everyday professional lives. By recruiting Fellows from all around the world, the IAS also provides an exciting intellectual environment in which thinkers from diverse cultural and disciplinary backgrounds can exchange ideas. Fellows will engage and forge strong links with at least one department at Durham, and be given the opportunity to deliver papers at events organised to coincide with the annual theme.

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Levinas conference in Toulouse, July 4-8, 2016

A major Levinas conference on The Neighbour and the Stranger

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THE NEIGHBOR AND THE STRANGER

July 4th – 8th, 2016, University Jean Jaurès, Toulouse, France

An international conference under the auspices of the North American Levinas Society (NALS) & Société internationale de Recherche Emmanuel Levinas (SIREL)

Conference organizing committee :Flora Bastiani (France), Erik Garrett (USA), Dara Hill (USA), Nelson Lerias (France), Diogo Villas Bôas Aguiar (Brasil)

As the seventh year is the year of fallow land, this seventh year of the Toulouse International Conference tends to take place somewhere else than in the foothold in the land, somewhere else than in the autochthony, taking under consideration the landless, the undocumented, the migrant that each human being conceals, those that through their misery oblige to reconfigure the rules of living together.

Current affairs have (and for some time now) imposed the ethical problem of most deviant: his difference—which is at the same time unpredictable and inexhaustible.

The stranger appears in…

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Guardian Shakespeare Solos – new set of videos

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The final set of films in the Guardian’s Shakespeare Solos series has been released. The five videos feature outstanding actors performing some of the playwright’s best known speeches. Damian Lewis delivers the funeral oration from Julius Caesar, Zawe Ashton gives the “seven ages of man” speech from As You Like It, Riz Ahmed plays Edmund in King Lear, Laura Carmichael is Portia from The Merchant of Venice and Paterson Joseph portrays Shylock.

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b20 an online journal from boundary 2

Announcing b2o: an online journal!
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In Spring 2016, boundary 2 launched a new website that includes, in addition to the already existing b2 review, new reviews and interventions sections, as well as a new journal. The new journal will publish both full issues, edited by members of the editorial board or guest edited, as well as peer-reviewed and non peer-reviewed individual articles, interviews, short pieces, and other texts. The journal’s focus will be on publishing time-sensitive materials and generating critical online debate.

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My review of David Farrell Krell, Phantoms of the Other: Four Generations of Derrida’s Geschlecht in Derrida Today

63134_covMy review of David Farrell Krell, Phantoms of the Other: Four Generations of Derrida’s Geschlecht, Albany: State University of New York, 2015 has now been published in Derrida Today (open access) or try here if that doesn’t work.

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In Memoriam: Doreen Massey (1944-2016) by Tracey Skelton

A new tribute to Doreen Massey, by Tracey Skelton at the Society and Space open site. More tributes here – https://progressivegeographies.com/2016/03/13/tributes-to-doreen-massey/

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Books received – Shakespeare, Sartre, Neocleous, TCS, Gabrys, Foucault

A pile of books received – three second-hand books for the Shakespeare work, Jean-Paul Sartre’s What is Subjectivity?, Mark Neocleous’s The Universal Adversary, the new issue of Theory, Culture & Society, Jennifer Gabrys’s Program Earth, and the 2004 special issue of Le Magazine Littéraire on Foucault.

Sartre’s book was recompense for review work, and the Neocleous and Gabrys were sent by the publishers. IMG_1474.JPG

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CFP Authority & Political Technologies 2016: Biopolitical Matters June 13-14, Warwick

Authority & Political Technologies 2016: Biopolitical Matters

Warwick University June 13th-14th  – abstract submission deadline May 13th

Key Notes:

Kathryn Yusoff (Queen Mary) ‘Geopower: biopolitics and matter after life’
Celia Lury (Warwick) ‘Better than you: a topological imaginary’
Didier Fassin (Princeton IAS) ‘The Rise – and Fall? – of Punitive Society’

Call for Papers:

Biopolitical Matters: What is biopolitics today? What are its discontents? Is there life after biopolitics?

The Authority & Political Technologies (APT) network at Warwick aims to foster and support work in the critical social sciences that is informed by Foucauldian, Deleuzian and cultural-theory perspectives. In particular we are interested in work that carries forwards these traditions, but which takes seriously the arguments concerning their failure to speak to the ethical and political demands of the present; that is to say work that is striving to refigure and reinvent the ethical and political dimension of these perspectives for contemporary problematics.

In this our second biannual symposium we address transformations in what constitutes ‘biopolitical matters’ – including changing practices of how forms of life are understood, measured, hierarchized, produced and controlled – and their relevance in contemporary theoretical and political debate. We invite papers that explore plural and divergent accounts of biopolitics, from its original treatment by Michel Foucault, through its expanded use in an array of settings to address the merging of life and politics, to contemporary approaches that question the ‘bio’ as the frame of politics. This includes new regimes of police and security; environmental catastrophe in the Anthropocene, and new questions about ‘big data’ and its increasingly powerful behaviouralism. We encourage submissions from a range of disciplines including, but not limited to, sociology, politics, philosophy, law, history, geography, cultural studies and anthropology. In addition to standard conference papers we welcome proposals for panel discussions, films, exhibits and performance.

The deadline to submit proposals is Friday 13th May. Please follow this link to submit an abstract.

For further info and updates please see the symposium website.

Organisers: Illan Wall, Amy Hinterberger & Claire Blencowe.

Supported by the Institute for Advanced Studies, Sociology, Law and the Social Theory Centre University of Warwick.

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Jerry Brotton to give Inaugural Denis Cosgrove Lecture in the GeoHumanities, June 16th, 2016, Royal Geographical Society

To celebrate its launch, the new Centre for the GeoHumanities at Royal Holloway University of London is hosting the inaugural Denis Cosgrove Lecture in the GeoHumanities on the evening of June 16th, 2016, at the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), Kensington Gore, London. We would love to see you there (and offer you some free refreshments and stimulating talk in return!).

The lecture will be given by Professor Jerry Brotton (School of English and Drama, QMUL), with a response by Professor Steve Daniels (School of Geography, Nottingham). Jerry’s lecture is entitled ‘This Orient Isle: The Cultural Geography of Elizabethan England and the Islamic World’.

The logistical details are:

Date: Thursday June 16th

Time: 6.00pm until c. 9.00pm (with welcome drinks and snacks)

Location: Royal Geographical Society (with the IBG), 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR

Registration: The event is free, but please signal intention to attend via Eventbrite

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Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Geography, 18-19-20 May 2016 programme

wgp.jpgThe next Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Geography will be held at the University of Warwick on 19-20 May, 2016, with a screening and discussion of Sur les toits the evening before.
The topic of this year’s conference is: “(Dis)Assembling state spaces: Conceptualising geometries of power” and keynote speakers are Prof. Michael Woods (Aberystwyth) and Leopold Lambert from The Funambulist. The full programme can be found here.
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