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2011-12 Reading Group

2011-2012

Members of the SSC meet to read and discuss pre-circulated papers. The meetings are open to interested individuals, postgraduate and staff, from other areas of academic study.

DateDetails
Wednesday, 9 November

A. Lester (2011) 'Humanism, race and the colonial frontier', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS 2011, doi: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2011.00450.x
Discussant: Prof. David Livingstone

Thursday, 8 December

J. Catala-Gorgues and A. Carneiro (2011) 'Birds of a feather: the cultural origins of Iberian geological cooperation and the European Geological Map of 1896', British Journal for the History of Science doi:10.1017/S0007087411000306
Discussant: Prof. Keith Bennett

Monday, 16 January

R. Leys (2011) 'The turn to affect: a critique', Critical Inquiry 37 (3): 434-472.
Discussant: Dr. Diarmid Finnegan

Thursday, 2 February

E. Schoenberger (2011) 'Why is Gold Valuable? Nature, Social Power and the Value of Things', Cultural Geographies 18(1): 3-24.
Discussant: Dr. Niall Majury

Tuesday, 28 February

D. Lowenthal (2007) 'Islands, lovers and others', Geographical Review 97(2): 202-229.
Discussant: Prof. Steve Royle

The reading group normally meets at 1-2pm in Rm 01009, Elmwood Building

ALL WELCOME