Public lecture – “The Relevance of Ethnographic Inquiry Today: Is It Still Small?, Beautiful?, Critical?, Possible?” by Professor George Marcus, University of California, Irvine – Friday, March 21, 2014 – 16:00–18:00, State Library of Victoria
Full details here.
Two more useful background resources on the Ukraine crisis – a detailed timeline at Critical Legal Thinking and some maps at the New York Times.
The last major role I had at Durham University was as the social science director of the Institute of Advanced Study. I was very sorry to have to give this up when I moved to the University of Warwick. I’m therefore delighted to have been asked to join the Advisory Council of the IAS, along with some very eminent names. This will give me a strong link back to a remarkable academic institution – a place where thinking and genuinely interdisciplinary work are made possible and warmly welcomed.
New Formations – deadline for contributions to the next general issue (issue 83): April 30th 2014
Call for Contributions: New Formations issue 84-85 Societies of Control
The People, Place, and Space Reader, edited by Jen Jack Gieseking & William Mangold, with Cindi Katz, Setha Low, & Susan Saegert
The editors of The People, Place, and Space Reader believe that knowledge should be open to the public and have therefore decided to publicly share their writing in the form of the book introduction and twelve section introductions. If open access (OA) selections from the reader are available, they are hyperlinked on the pages.
Thanks to Clive Barnett’s Pop Theory for the link to this.
Deadline for Antipode foundation funding at the end of March.
The deadline for 2014/15′s Antipode Foundation International Workshop and Scholar-Activist Project Awards is looming large: get your applications to us before 31 March 2014.
International Workshop Awards are intended to support radical geographers holding events (including conferences, workshops, seminar series, summer schools and action research meetings) that further radical analyses of geographical issues and engender the development of a new and better society. They make capacity-building possible by enabling the development of a community of scholars.
Scholar-Activist Project Awards are intended to support collaborations between academics, non-academics and activists (from NGOs, think tanks, social movements, or community grassroots organisations, among other places). They promote programmes of participation and engagement, cooperation and co-enquiry, and more publicly-focused forms of geographical investigation, offering opportunities for scholars to relate to civil society and make mutually beneficial connections.
For more information, including updates from last year’s awardees, see here and here; please get…
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Reposting this call for papers as the deadline is fast approaching and because there are four travel and accommodation bursaries to support the attendance of PhD students or financially insecure post-docs. Apply for a bursary by Monday March 10th.
Power in a World of Becoming, Entanglement & Attachment
‘In every era the attempt must be made anew to rescue tradition from a conformism that is about to overpower it’ (Walter Benjamin)
June 2-3, 2014. University of Warwick
Confirmed Speakers:
Conference Organisers:
Claire Blencowe & Illan rua Wall – Authority & Political Technologies (APT) Warwick
Suggested Themes:
Recently, there have been various calls for a move beyond ‘post-structuralism’ (i.e. Foucault, Deleuze, cultural/critical theory), which had…
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In 2014, the University of Minnesota Press will launch its Forerunners series, which marks our foray into gray literature publishing. Other university presses have recently (or not so recently) begun publishing short digital works. Most of these are focused on books already published—taking sections out that may appeal to a wider audience, trying to solicit attention for backlist titles. At Minnesota, our goal is to move beyond that model and really focus on the fresh ideas that often don’t have a traditional publishing outlet. [more here]
Philosophy Bites – short interviews arranged by theme. Lots of famous names in there – a useful resource. Thanks to Peter Gratton at Philosophy in a Time of Error for the link.
