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Lecture: Gayatri Spivak

Monday, January 22, 2007

The Public Faces of Ethics Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities Director, Center for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University 7:00 pm, February 8, 2007 Alumni Theatre Carleton University, Ottawa Co-sponsors: the Centre on Values and Ethics, the Office of the VP-Research, the Departments of English, Law, Political Science, and Philosophy, the [...]

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CFP: “Cylons in America”

Friday, January 19, 2007

Call For Papers – Edited Collection Cylons in America: Critical Studies of Battlestar Galactica Edited by C. W. Marshall and Tiffany Potter (University of British Columbia) Proposals are invited for an edited collection of original essays that examine BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, an award-winning science fiction television series presently in its third season. Since its debut as [...]

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CFP: “Foucault Studies” Issue 5

Friday, January 19, 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS We are delighted to announce the continuation of the Foucault Studies journal under the new editorial structure of Sverre Raffnsøe as editor in chief. At the same time, we welcome submissions for issue no. 5 of Foucault Studies, to be published September, 2007. Foucault Studies is an electronic, international, peer-reviewed journal for [...]

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“Deleuze Camp” at Cardiff

Tuesday, January 9, 2007

“Deleuze Camp” A Summer School for postgraduate students interested in the work of Gilles Deleuze. Who? Ian Buchanan, Claire Colebrook, Gregg Lambert, Paul Patton and  Daniel W. Smith. What? A hectic combination of lectures, seminars, and workshops on the work of Gilles Deleuze lead by some of the most important Deleuze scholars writing today. The [...]

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CFP: The Human Condition – Empire

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS October 31st, 2006 THE HUMAN CONDITION SERIES Inaugural International Multidisciplinary Conference Conference Theme: EMPIRE May 17-19, 2007 Laurentian University, Georgian College Barrie, Ontario http://humancondition.wordpress.com/

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Book Launch: Lorna Weir

Friday, November 3, 2006

Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics On the Threshold of the Living Subject Lorna Weir Part of Routledge Publishing’s Series: Transformation: Thinking through Feminism Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics: On the Threshold of the Living Subject (London: Routledge) examines the way mid-twentieth-century medicine unsettled birth as the entry into human status. This book argues that when physicians of [...]

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Frantz Fanon Documentary

Monday, October 16, 2006

Monday, October 23 and Monday, October 30 Ideas on CBC Radio 1, 9:05PM THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH His writing helped shape the thinking of a generation of revolutionaries, agitators and anti-colonialists throughout Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean. His book, The Wretched of the Earth, became a handbook for Black Power groups and [...]

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David Held – “Reframing Global Governance”

Monday, September 18, 2006

October 19, 2006 Lecture 7:00-8:30 p.m. with reception to follow Fenn Lounge Carleton University David Held Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science London School of Economics Reframing Global Governance: Apocalypse Soon or Reform Seating is limited; contact the Political Science Department for information. David Held will explore one of the greatest paradoxes of our time; [...]

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Upcoming Intellectual Events

Friday, September 8, 2006

With the start of the new academic year, universities and departments are slowly advertising their speaker series. As is often the case, universities in the same area have rather similar lists of speaks – the academic version of a world tour, I suppose. So far, Trent University, in Peterborough, has announced the most interesting series, [...]

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CFP: Nietzsche, Power & Politics

Friday, September 1, 2006

THE 16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELANDNietzsche, Power & Politics March 23 – 25, 2007 UNIVERSITY OF LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS CALL FOR PAPERS Nietzsche’s legacy for politics and political thought is profoundly ambivalent and controversial. A self-declared ‘antipolitical’ German, he condemned politics and all things political, yet he also called [...]

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