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Subject:        Reading Kant's Physical Geography workshop
Date:   Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:14:31 -0600
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Professor Stuart Elden [log in to unmask]


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Reading Kant's Physical Geography

This workshop will be held on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th January 2008 at Durham University.

Speakers include


§         Robert Bernasconi, University of Memphis
§         Michael Church, University of British Columbia
§         Robert Louden, University of Southern Maine
§         Eduardo Mendieta, Stony Brook University.
§         Onora O'Neill, President of the British Academy
§         Werner Stark, Philipps-Universität Marburg
§         Charles Withers, University of Edinburgh


The workshop is funded by the Department of Geography, Durham University and by a British Academy Conference Grant. Places are limited, so please let me know if you would like a place reserved.

There will be a small charge of £20 waged and £10 unwaged to cover coffee and lunch on both days. Participants should make their own arrangements for dinner and overnight accomodation.

This is the second of two workshops - the other will be held at Stony Brook University, Manhattan Campus in November 2007 - leading to an edited book: Reading Kant's Geography, edited by Stuart Elden and Eduardo Mendieta (Albany: State University of New York Press). Other planned contributors include Paul Guyer, David Harvey, Jeff Malpas, Holly Wilson, Walter Mignolo, Edward Casey, Andrew Mitchell, David Morris, Olaf Reinhardt and John Zammito.

By way of background, Kant's Physische Geographie was published from his lecture notes and student transcripts, but until now has never been fully translated into English. An English translation is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. This project was conceived as an interdisciplinary dialogue between geographers, philosophers and others about the importance, problems, possibilities, and contemporary relevance of this text.

The workshop will be preceded by a Durham Institute of Advanced Studies lecture on Thursday 17th January, 6.15pm in the Debating Chamber, on Palace Green.

Robert Bernasconi, University of Memphis - "The Policing of Race Mixing"

All are welcome to that lecture, with no need to pre-book.

Professor Stuart Elden
Geography Department
Durham University