Category Archives: People

Emma Rice and Shakespeare’s “Globe’s future artistic direction”

Posted on October 26, 2016 by stuartelden

Emma Rice became the artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe in April 2016. Just six months later the theatre has issued a statement on ‘the Globe’s future artistic direction‘. The summary is that Rice will leave the post after two years. … Continue reading →

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Complete audio recordings of the Early Modern Literary Geographies conference

Posted on October 26, 2016 by stuartelden

The complete audio recordings of the  Early Modern Literary Geographies conference are now  available on Soundcloud and iTunes. They include a better recording of my talk on ‘Denmark, Norway, Poland: Regional Geopolitics in Hamlet‘, and talks by Tiffany Stern, Andrew McRae, Julia Reinhard Lupton, Mary Floyd-Wilson and … Continue reading →

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Giving Life to Politics – conference on work of Adriana Cavarero, Brighton, 19-21 June 2017

Posted on October 21, 2016 by stuartelden

Giving Life to Politics – conference on work of Adriana Cavarero Date and Venue: 19th-21st June 2017, Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics, University of Brighton Keynote speakers: Adriana Cavarero, Judith Butler, Bonnie Honig Deadline for abstract submission: 28th … Continue reading →

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David Harvey Marx & Capital Lecture 3: Value and its Monetary Expression

Posted on October 21, 2016 by stuartelden

The third David Harvey lecture of the current series – Value and its Monetary Expression

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Books received – Greenblatt, Soussloff, Howe, Graham

Posted on October 20, 2016 by stuartelden

Two second-hand copies of books by Stephen Greenblatt, the new collection Foucault on the Arts and Letters in recompense for review work (30% discount here), and two books sent by publishers – Nicolas Howe’s Landscapes of the Secular and Stephen … Continue reading →

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Early Modern Literary Geographies – call for book proposals for Oxford University Press series

Posted on October 20, 2016 by stuartelden

The conference I attended in California last weekend was linked to a book series with Oxford University Press. I’ve shared details of this before, but it was a while ago, and the first volume is now published, so here is … Continue reading →

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Foucault and Shakespeare: The Theatre of Madness

Posted on October 18, 2016 by stuartelden

My paper ‘Foucault and Shakespeare: Ceremony, Theatre, Politics’ should appear in The Southern Journal of Philosophy in late 2017, in the Spindel conference supplement. I’ve recently agreed to write a second piece developing out of this work: Foucault and Shakespeare: The Theatre … Continue reading →

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Early Modern Literary Geographies conference – audio recording of my Hamlet talk

Posted on October 17, 2016 by stuartelden

I’ve just got home from California after a couple of fascinating days at the Early Modern Literary Geographies conference. This was held in the Huntington Library in San Marino, a superb venue set in glorious grounds. The conference was very useful for … Continue reading →

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Jean-Paul Sartre’s refusal of the Nobel prize for literature

Posted on October 14, 2016 by stuartelden

Bob Dylan’s award of the Nobel prize for literature is obviously all over the news and social media. The New York Review of Books has a translation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s short piece on his own refusal of that award over fifty … Continue reading →

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Joe Painter’s appreciation of Doreen Massey in Soundings (pdf)

Posted on October 14, 2016 by stuartelden

Joe Painter’s appreciation of Doreen Massey in Soundings is available to download as a pdf here. I’ve added this to the list of obituaries and tributes on this site.

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