ies.sas.ac.uk: "We are pleased to announce the first academic conference dedicated to the work of China Miéville. His fiction spans a wide variety of themes, contexts and genre-blurring literary traditions, which metaphorically explores, among other things, the implications of lived cultural, racial and geographical boundaries, collective struggle, and bodily affect.

In addition, Miéville’s monograph Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law was published in 2005 and he has written and edited critical articles for a variety of journals; from Historical Materialism and the philosophical journal Collapse, to the Harvard International Law Journal." Read on

Keynote: youtube / mp3 Plenary Discussion: youtube / mp3

guardian.co.uk: This week sees the launch of a new series on the Books podcast, The Books That Made Me, with China Miéville. He talks about how growing up in a world where music is cobbled together from samples of other music has given wing to his piratical tendencies as a writer, and names Beatrix Potter, Max Ernst and Charlotte Brontë among those who have shaped his writing life." Read on

China Miéville - The Books That Made Me