Author Archives: stuartelden

Also next week, I’ll be giving the Fourth Denis Cosgrove Lecture in the GeoHumanities, at the British Academy, 23 May 2019, 6.15pm The title of the talk is “Shakespearean Landscapes”, and while I will say something about the Shakespearean Territories … Continue reading →

Coming up next week – 20 May, 3pm book launch for Canguilhem, gloknos/CRASSH, S1, Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge (with Inanna Hamati-Ataya and Simon Reid-Henry)

Originally posted on Kingston Shakespeare Seminar:
The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare and Political Theology event consists of two related events, both of which highlight current thought on political theology in Shakespeare. The first day, held in the Jane Seymour Room at Hampton…

Simon Reid-Henry, Empire of Democracy: The Remaking of the West Since the Cold War, 1971–2017 – Simon & Schuster, 2019 Book launch – London Review Bookshop, 24 June 2019, 7pm The first panoramic history of the Western world from the … Continue reading →

After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance and Response, edited by Dan Bulley, Jenny Edkins, Nadine El-Enany – Pluto 2019 Currently 50% off – royalties to charity On the 14th June 2017, a fire engulfed a tower block in West London, seventy-two people … Continue reading →

Originally posted on andy merrifield:
I was in New York recently, and as per custom I like to walk its streets checking out used bookstores. Used bookstores are a species in danger of extinction in Manhattan, ever more picked off…

Professor Couze Venn: Memorial and Celebration – Goldsmiths, May 22nd 2019 6-8 pm Professor Couze Venn Memorial and Celebration Please come to this event to remember and celebrate the life of Couze Venn, the pioneering cultural, social and post-colonial theorist. … Continue reading →