Shiloh Krupar will give the second Neil Smith lecture at St Andrews on Tuesday – ‘Operation Banality: Medical Geographies of Administration and the Biopolitical Grotesque’.
Thanks to Derek Gregory’s Geographical Imaginations for the link – also reports lecture will be online after the event.
Crisis: Knowledge, History, Law – University of Kent, 29th January 2016
One-day Workshop of the Social Critiques of Law Research Group (SoCriL), 29th January 2016, Darwin Conference Suite 3, University of Kent
Free, Registration requested via the link below: https://www.kent.ac.uk/law/socril/events/2016/crisis.html
Organizer: Thanos Zartaloudis (Kent Law School & AA School of Architecture)
Assistants: Michalis Zivanaris (PhD Candidate, Kent Law School) & Gian Giacomo Fusco (PhD Candidate, Kent Law School)
Funded by: Social Critiques of Law Research Group (Directors: Emilie Cloatre & Donatella Alessandrini) & Kent Law School, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Confirmed Speakers:
- Janet Roitman (The New School for Social Research, New York)
- Emanuele Coccia (Centre d’Histoire et Théorie des Arts (CEHTA – EHESS), Paris, and The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University)
- Marika Rose (University of Durham, Department of Theology and Religion)
- Anton Schütz (Birkbeck College, School of Law)
- Esther Leslie (Birkbeck College, Department of English and Humanities)
- Stathis Gourgouris (Columbia University, Classics, English; Institute for Comparative Literature and Society)
- Ilias Papagianopoulos (University of Piraeus, International and European Studies)
- Marina Lathouri (Architectural Association, London, School of Architecture & University of Cambridge, School of Architecture)
- Bo Isenberg (Lund University, Faculty of Sociology)
More details here; details on thematic outline and indicative reading, please see here – pdf download; for more information on the conference please contact Thanos Zartaloudis.
I’ll be giving a talk with the title of ‘The Territories and Majesty of Shakespeare’s King John’ tonight at UCL.
Monday 23rd November, 6pm, IAS Talking Points seminar, Common Ground, University College London – with responses by Professor Helen Hackett, Department of English and Dr James Kneale, Department of Geography. Free pre-registration is requested.
This lecture will discuss Shakespeare’s play King John around two themes – the question of majesty and that of territories. Majesty is a continual concern throughout the play, described as ‘borrowed’, ‘banished’, ‘resembling’, ‘dangerous’ or ‘the bare-picked bone’. John is seen as a usurping monarch, denying Arthur his rightful inheritance, but by the end of the play majesty has been so diminished by events it is perhaps worth very little. But what is that majesty over? Among other things, it is the lands of the kingdom. King John is one of only a handful of Shakespeare’s plays in which the word ‘territories’ appears. There is one mention in the opening scene, and one in the final act. The first of these had caused editors much confusion, because it is used with a definite article – ‘the territories’ – rather than a possessive ‘his’, ‘her’, ‘its’ or ‘their’ territories. What might this mean, and what might it indicate? Thinking about these questions of majesty, land, and territories, the talk will discuss how King John and contemporary play The Troublesome Reign of King John anticipate the dual themes of domestic disorder and foreign conquest found in Shakespeare’s other history plays.
Very few new posts this week – I was in Paris working at the Bibliothèque Nationale, and the manuscripts reading room does not have wifi. Very good for working with no distractions! More on the work I did there on the Foucault project on Monday.
This is rather good – from jasonya.com via Laurence Berg.
A petition to save Ashgate press is here.
Ashgate Publishing Company was purchased by Informa (Taylor & Francis Publishing) in 2015. On November 24th, 2015, the North American office of the press in Burlington, Vermont will close and Ashgate’s US staff members, including Erika Gaffney, Ann Donahue, Margaret Michniewicz, Alyssa Berthiaume, Kathy Bond Borie, Seth Hibbert, Stephanie Peake, Martha McKenna, Lea Durfee, Suzanne Sprague, and Emilly Ferro will cease to be representatives of Ashgate.
According to an e-mail sent to series editors, plans are still being discussed for Ashgate’s publishing business in the UK. However, information has since emerged that the UK office is scheduled to close in December.
Independent academic presses like Ashgate have offered a safe haven for scholars working in certain subfields as University presses closed entire publishing specializations and fired editorial staff in response to campus austerity measures. Academic presses are more than profit margins, income from the backlist, utility bills, payroll, and marketing campaigns. Ashgate flourished through the bonds formed between editors and authors, the care and attention of copy editors, and above all, the good will of authors and readers. We the undersigned authors, readers, and reviewers of Ashgate books write to voice our appreciation for the accomplishments of Ashgate’s North American office. We urge Taylor & Francis to reverse course immediately and restore Ashgate’s US and UK offices.
I’ve only worked with Ashgate once, but it was a good experience. Jeremy Crampton and I were struggling to find a publisher for the Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography collection, and Val Rose at Ashgate understood the project and supported it. We even managed to get them to agree to a simultaneous paperback and hardback, and it has done, for an academic book and especially an edited collection, very well. Ashgate’s pricing strategy is something I’ve complained about before, but they supported books that other presses would not, so they deserve support. Please do sign the petition and share.
Commentary and video to accompany a new piece in Society and Space.
This gallery contains 16 photos.
Originally posted on Cartographies of the Absolute:
[Talk delivered at Historical Materialism 2015, on a panel with Jason E. Smith and Jessica Whyte on The Ends of Homo Sacer] For fame had rumour’d that a fleet at sea, / Would…
New issue of Society and Space now out…
“Mourning becomes the law“—Judith Butler from Paris at the Verso website
[Update: it appears that the page has been removed – the link was previously correct. Please comment if you know the new site. There is an archived version here.]
