Dear Anthropology Matters readers,
I would appreciate if you could circulate the following message within your
departments, institutes, to interested parties and your students.
Many thanks,
Maria
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Dear colleagues,
You are cordially invited to the two-day international workshop
entitled *‘Carbon
Democracy and Revolution: Perspectives from the Middle East and the
Mediterranean’* that will take place on the 13th and 14th of February, at
Durham University, UK.
As part of this workshop, Professor Timothy Mitchell will deliver a public
lecture on ‘Carbon Democracy and the Corporate Future’, on Friday 13th
February. For more information, see the poster attached.
The full programme of the two-day workshop is accessible here
<https://www.dur.ac.uk/dei/events/?eventno=23450> and at the end of this
message.
Kindly note that attendance to this workshop is FREE but registration is
essential. You can register for *day-one* events, including the public
lecture through this link
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carbon-democracy-and-the-corporate-future-public-lecture-tickets-15417785010>.
Note that spaces for *day-two* (Saturday 14th February) are very limited
and you must register *separately for this* here
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carbon-democracy-and-revolution-critical-perspectives-from-the-middle-east-and-the-mediterranean-tickets-15450388528>
.
Warm wishes,
Maria Kastrinou and Matteo Capasso
*Carbon Democracy and Revolution: *
*Perspectives from the Middle East and the Mediterranean*
*PROGRAMME *
*13 February 2015, Ken Wade Calman Lecture theatre*
*Registration for Day One*
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carbon-democracy-and-the-corporate-future-public-lecture-tickets-15417785010>
4.00 – 5.30 pm
*Carbon Democracy and Revolution: Introducing the theme*
Maria Kastrinou (Brunel University)
Matteo Capasso (Durham University)
*Windbag of Aeolus* - screening of documentary film trailer about the
contentions of ‘green’ energy in crisis-era Greece and Q&A with the director
Nasim Alatras
*T**he Miners of the Great Northern Coalfield: Energy, Education,
Empowerment*
Jim Coxon (Durham University)
6.00 – 7.30 pm
(perhaps public is better because it denotes that the event is open) *Public
Lecture*: *Carbon Democracy and the Corporate Future*
Timothy Mitchell (Columbia University)
*__________________________________*
*14 February 2015 **–** St Mary**’**s College *
*Registration for Day Two*
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carbon-democracy-and-revolution-critical-perspectives-from-the-middle-east-and-the-mediterranean-tickets-15450388528>
8.30 – 9.00 *Coffee and registration*
9.00 – 11.00 Panel ONE: *ENERGY AND RESISTANCE*
*Discussant*: Wilf Wilde
*“Our oil won't feed our slavery”. Battles around pipelines in wartime
Algeria *
Roberto Cantoni (LATTS – IFRIS, Paris, France)
Marta Musso (University of Cambridge, UK)
*Energy and Intifada: Natural Resources and Resistance to Colonialism in
Western Sahara*
Joanna Allan (Leeds University)
*Low-carbon hypocrisy? Hydropower, bio-fuels and “revolutionary democracy”* *in
Ethiopia*
Dr Edward G. J. Stevenson (Durham University)
11.00 – 11.30 *Coffee Break*
11.30 – 1.00 Panel TWO: *URBAN ECOLOGY*
*Discussant*: James Piscatori
*Political ecologies of urban energy: the case of Amman and Beirut*
Eric Verdeil (Université de Lyon, CNRS)
*A ‘Silent**’* *Revolution? Reflections on Petro-Urbanism and Violence in
the early Oil Age*
Nelida Fuccaro (SOAS, London)
1.00 – 2.00 *Lunch Break*
2.00 – 4.00 Panel THREE: *CARBONIZED DEMOCRACY*
*Discussant: *Elisabeth Kirtsoglou
*Confessions of a Dangerous Paradigm: Democratisation, Transitology and
Orientalism*
Andrea Teti (Aberdeen University)
*Democracy Inc: Humanitarian Intervention and Economentality*
Matteo Capasso (Durham University)
*The revolution will be scaled: Solidarity and security in the
Mediterranean*
Nikolas Kosmatopoulos (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
4.00 – 4.30 *Coffee Break*
4.30 – 6.00 Roundtable discussion
Contact conference organisers: Maria Kastrinou [[log in to unmask]];
Matteo Capasso [[log in to unmask]]
*Dr Maria Kastrinou*
*Lecturer in Social Anthropology*
*College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences*
*Brunel University London*
*UB8 3PH*
*+44 (0) 1895 265059 <%2B44%20%280%29%201895%20265059>*
*Recent publications*
Kastrinou, A. M. A., Ahmad, B., Al-Habash, L., and Ghanem, M. 2014. 'Muslim
Women and Violent Protest: Syria,' *Encyclopaedia of Women and Islamic
Cultures* (EWIC), General Editor Suad Joseph. Brill Online.
http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopedia-of-women-and-islamiccultures/muslim-women-and-violent-protest-syria-COM_002005
Kastrinou, A. M. A. 2014. ‘Sect and house in Syria: History, architecture
and *bayt *amongst the Druze in Jaramana.’ *History and Anthropology*,
25(3): 313-335. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2013.878713
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