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Oil and Politics Conference
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Thursday 10 - Friday 11 May
SOAS, Vernon Square Campus, Pentonville Road, London
Organised by CSISP | Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths | School of Geography, Oxford University | Department of Development Studies, SOAS
Speakers include:
- Andrew Barry | Geography, Oxford University
- George Frynas | Middlesex University Business School
- James Marriott | Platform, London
- Timothy Mitchell | Politics, New York University
- Martin Skalsky | Film-maker, Czech Republic
- Ricardo Soares de Oliveira | Centre of International Studies, Cambridge
- Alberto Toscano | Sociology, Goldsmiths
- Alex Vines | Chatham House, London
- MIchael Watts | Institute of International Studies, Berkeley
- Gisa Weszkalnys | Geography, Oxford University
Oil is one of the most crucial and controversial substances today. This conference opens up the field to film-makers and artists, social anthropologists, human geographers, and social and cultural theorists in order to connect oil to a wide set of concerns, to make links across seemingly disparate issues, and to begin to develop and explore a variety of methods and methodologies suitable for the investigation of oil.
Topics include:
- Oil in West Africa
- Oil and Finance
- Documenting the Politics of Oil
- Oil and the New Imperialism
Click link for the provisional schedule [PDF: www.goldsmiths.ac.uk]
Donations of £10 per day (students and unwaged £5 per day) would be very welcome. Please click link for the conference registration form [PDF: www.goldsmiths.ac.uk]