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Thursday, November 1, 2007

“Exploring Ways to Shorten the Ascent to a Ph.D.” from the New York Times. The only good news from this article is that I’ll be younger than the average (American) Ph.D. at time of graduation. Figures for Canada are comparable to those given for the US in the article (except Canadians tend to be about [...]

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Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture & the Humanities

Sunday, October 7, 2007

The programme for the Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture & the Humanites conference, to be held between October 12-14 at Carleton University, Ottawa, can be found here.

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Forthcoming: “Constitutional Theory” by Carl Schmitt

Thursday, August 9, 2007

Constitutional Theory (Duke UP) Carl Schmitt Edited and translated by Jeffrey Seitzer; With a foreword by Ellen Kennedy and an introduction by Jeffrey Seitzer and Christopher Thornhill

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The Schmitt/Strauss Debate on Hobbes

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Barret and I are looking for someone who wants to talk about Schmitt and Strauss on Hobbes at the meeting of the Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture and the Humanities, which meets October 12-14 at Carleton University in Ottawa. Standard conference format: three presentations followed by questions/discussion. Leave a comment here or send me an [...]

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CFP: Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture and the Humanities

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

CANADIAN INITIATIVE IN LAW, CULTURE AND THE HUMANITIES 2ND BIENNIAL CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS We are pleased to announce that the Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture and the Humanities will be hosting its second biennial conference at Carleton University in Ottawa. The conference will take place over the weekend of 12-14 October, 2007. The conference [...]

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“Complications” by Claude Lefort

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Columbia University Press is pleased to announce the publication of Complications: Communism and the Dilemmas of Democracy, by noted French political theorist Claude Lefort (Cloth, 237 pp., $35.00) Praise for Complications: “The so-called triumph of capitalism that accompanied the real collapse of communism in 1989 has led Americans to ‘bury communism’—and forget it. But in [...]

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CFP: Crime, Law and Regulation

Friday, May 11, 2007

Centre of Criminology Graduate Student Association CALL FOR PAPERS Crime, Law and Regulation: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference October 25-26, 2007, University of Toronto

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CFP: The Politics of Populations

Friday, May 11, 2007

CFP/Edited Collection The Politics of Populations David Karjanen and Courtney Helgoe, editors.

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New Issues of Baudrillard, Foucault and Zizek Studies

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

The fourth issue of Foucault Studies, the first issue of Zizek Studies, and the first issue of the fourth volume of Baudrillard Studies are all available.

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New Book: Julian Reid – “The Biopolitics of the War on Terror”

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

The Biopolitics of the War on Terror Life Struggles, Liberal Modernity and the Defence of Logistical Societies Julian Reid Manchester University Press, Reappraising the Political Series (Jon Simons and Simon Tormey eds.) December 2006

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