***apologies for cross-postings***

Dear all,

A further reminder of these upcoming sessions at the AAG in Chicago. We hope to see you there. 

With best wishes,

Alex, Alex, Colin


Author Meets Critics Sessions at the AAG:
Retort, Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War (London: Verso, 2005)

Thursday March 9, 2006
Crystal Room (Palmer House Hilton)
8:00 am-11:40 am

Sponsors: AAG Enrichment Fund, Political Geography Speciality Group, Socialist and Critical Geography Speciality Group, Urban Geography Speciality Group, School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Verso Publishers, and New Left Review.

Organisers: 

Dr. Alex Jeffrey - The University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Dr. Colin McFarlane - Open University 
Dr. Alex Vasudevan - University of Nottingham

Panellists:
Arjun Appadurai - John Dewey Professor in the Social Sciences, New School, New York
David Campbell - Professor of Political and Cultural Geography, Durham University
Cindi Katz - Professor, CUNY Graduate Centre
W.J.T. Mitchell - Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History, University of Chicago
Gerard Toal - Professor, Government and International Affairs, Virginia Tech

Retort: 
Iain Boal - Geography Department and the Institute of International Studies at University of California, Berkeley
T.J. Clark -  Professor and George C. And Helen N. Pardee Chair, Modern Art, University of California, Berkeley
Joseph Matthews - Independent Scholar
Michael Watts - Class of 1963 Chair in Undergraduate Studies and Chancellor's Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Session Description: This Author Meets Critics Panel will be an interdisciplinary discussion bringing together a range of established scholars concerned with the current imperial moment. Afflicted Powers was written by four members of RETORT, a collective based for the past two decades in the San Francisco Bay Area. Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews, and Michael Watts relate the struggle for hegemony to the realm of images. In bringing capital and geopolitics into a central relation with the spectacle, this book makes a new and demanding contribution that is interdisciplinary in nature and urgent in its politics. In addition to participation from RETORT, five panellists selected from across the social sciences and humanities will respond to the book: Arjun Appadurai, David Campbell, Cindi Katz, W.J.T. Mitchell, and Gerard Toal. 

The sessions will be followed in the evening by an 'Author Event' hosted by the Seminary Coop Bookstore (5757 S. University Ave). The event will take place at the bookstore in Graham Taylor Hall at 7pm. The hall is just across the street from the main entrance to the University of Chicago campus. For directions see http://semcoop.booksense.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=regionalcatalog&page=254510#uave





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