Category Archives: Conferences

Millennium conference – date correction

Posted on March 22, 2012 by stuartelden

Please note the date 20-21 October 2012 is correct – not as previously advertised.

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Derek Gregory – Deadly Embrace

Posted on March 20, 2012 by stuartelden

The audio and slides of Derek Gregory’s British Academy lecture ‘Deadly Embrace: War, Distance and Intimacy’ are available here. He gave the same lecture at the University of Manchester yesterday, and it was excellent. Great dinner with Derek, Maja Zehfuss, … Continue reading →

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Materialism and World Politics – Millennium conference

Posted on March 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Update: this conference is 20-21 October 2012, not as previously advertised:

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South Asian Governmentalities Workshop

Posted on March 6, 2012 by stuartelden

30th March, British Academy,  London. Organised by Stephen Legg, and featuring papers by Colin Gordon and others. Full details here.

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The George Story Lecture in Humanities

Posted on March 3, 2012 by stuartelden

I’ve been invited to give the George M. Story Lecture in Humanities at Memorial University, Newfoundland in Winter 2013. The lecture series is named after George Morley Story, and though I can’t find a list of previous lecturers, I do know … Continue reading →

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AAG reflections

Posted on February 29, 2012 by stuartelden

I enjoyed the AAG, as much for the possibilities it created as for the sessions themselves. Gerard Toal has written up some reflections which I fully agree with – it has become huge, and it is just impossible to negotiate a … Continue reading →

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The Geopolitics of King Lear – discussion

Posted on February 28, 2012 by stuartelden

Here is the audio file of the discussion following my presentation to the Anachronic Shakespeare conference. It took a bit of work to clean up the recording and balance the volume levels a little better. The recording of the lecture itself … Continue reading →

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Steve Mentz – A Poetics of Nothing

Posted on February 26, 2012 by stuartelden

Steve Mentz, author of At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean, is turning to the question of air: ‘A Poetics of Nothing: Air in the Early Modern Imagination’. March 2nd, 2pm, CUNY Graduate Center. Details here.

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Anachronic Shakespeare

Posted on February 25, 2012 by stuartelden

The Anachronic Shakespeare conference was excellent – a really interesting set of papers, engagingly delivered and with some really good discussion. John Archer gave a talk on sonnets 50 and 51 on the relation between human and animal, which he … Continue reading →

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The Geopolitics of King Lear: Territory, Land, Earth – audio

Posted on February 25, 2012 by stuartelden

This is the audio recording of my lecture at the Anachronic Shakespeare conference. The accompanying Powerpoint slides are here. Thanks to Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz for the introduction. There was a good, challenging but helpful, discussion afterwards. The recording for that didn’t … Continue reading →

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