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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 *** 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 ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/Anthropology-Matters.HTML * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? 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