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founded in 2010 that publishes a range of subjects including philosophy, literature, and arts. The journal is listed in the

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. The Editors are supported by Contributing Editors Ben Segal, Feliz Lucia Molina, Sherrin Frances, Fintan Neylan, Frederick Arias, Rosemary Lee, Isaac Linder, John Gallic, Matt Bernico and Sophie Wagner. ''Continent'' is published under a

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being developed between Jamie Allen and Bernhard Garnicnig, and its advisory board comprises: *

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, The New School for Social Research, New York *

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, The Centre for Modern Thought * Erin Manning, Concordia University *

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, Columbia University *

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, Clemson University *

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, University of California Irvine * Lucia Santaella, São Paulo Catholic University *

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Events

''Continent'' participated in the BABEL 2012 post-medieval conference �
Cruising in the ruins: the question of disciplinarity in the post/medieval university
�� at Northeastern University in Boston and presented a panel called ''All In A Jurnal's Work: A BABEL Wayzgoose'' critiquing and questioning the idea of the academic journal. ''Continent'' also appeared at the University of Basel's
Aesthetics in the 21st Century
conference in September 2012. In June 2013, ''Continent'' sponsored its first academic conference in Tirana, Albania. Organized by Adam Staley Groves of the

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, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei of the

University of New York in Tirana Introduction University of New York Tirana (UNYT) is the first private university in Albania founded in 2002. UNYT offers English language teaching including three cycles of studies. Many of UNYT alumni are currently employed by major companies ...

, and Nico Jenkins of

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and the Honors College at the

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, and entitle
Pedagogies of the Disaster
the three-day conference featured keynote presentations by Chris Fynsk of the

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, Judith Balso of the

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; European Graduate School, Saas-Fee,

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, and Andreas Vrahimis of the

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. The conference sought to interrogate and challenge both the idea of teaching as well as being taught, and a catalogue of the event is available from punctum books.

References

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