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Dan Nexon’s contribution to the afternoon roundtables on “Science Fiction and International Orders,” part of the London School of Economics’ annual Literary Festival, 17 February 2011. My contribution is here. Note that there was also a contribution by Iver Neumann, but he declined to be recorded; note also that I did not record the ensuing q and a. You’ll need Stephanie Carvin’s excellent live blog from the event to get a sense of what happened after we three were done speaking. And in principle, there should be an LSE recording of the earlier session, but I am not sure where that will be posted …

My modest contribution to the afternoon roundtables on “Science Fiction and International Orders,” part of the London School of Economics’ annual Literary Festival, 17 February 2011. Dan’s contribution is here. Note that there was also a contribution by Iver Neumann, but he declined to be recorded; note also that I did not record the ensuing q and a. You’ll need Stephanie Carvin’s excellent live blog from the event to get a sense of what happened after we three were done speaking. And in principle, there should be an LSE recording of the earlier session, but I am not sure where that will be posted …

This is a second version of my “requiem for Samuel P. Huntington” talk/presentation. In this version given at the Elliott School at George Washington University on 5 March — the slides have been remixed from the Rutgers version of the talk — I emphasized more strongly the vision of an agonistic social science dedicated to value-clarification. As before I use Huntington’s account of civilizations as a jumping-off point.

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Here’s the audio of my comments at the ISA meeting in New York City, February 2009, on a roundtable called “Complexity Science Meets the Relational Turn in World Politics.” Just mp3 audio this time — no slides or video. Maybe next year I’ll start videoing my conference performances — then again, maybe not.

Delaware talk

October 24th, 2008 | Posted by ptj in ProfPTJ's Podcasts - (0 Comments)

Here’s an audio-and-slides (.m4a) recording of a talk on my philosophy of science book (in progress), delivered at the University of Delaware on 22 October 2008.

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