Category Archives: Travel

Seattle and the Greeks

Posted on October 20, 2010 by stuartelden

Now in Seattle, at University of Washington. Slowly getting the infrastructure of life and work established, but dealing badly with West-coast jetlag. To be honest part of me is glad to be out of the UK as the comprehensive spending … Continue reading →

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Peace of Nijmegen

Posted on September 13, 2010 by stuartelden

 Some photographs from the museum…

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Leaving Nijmegen

Posted on September 10, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ll be leaving Nijmegen early in the morning to head back to London. The Alexander von Humboldt lecture seemed to be well received. It didn’t go quite as smoothly as I wanted but it was well attended and there were … Continue reading →

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Nijmegen

Posted on September 8, 2010 by stuartelden

Arrived in Nijmegen. Now the rain has stopped I’ve had a chance to look around a little. There are two chapels that were part of a castle built by Frederick Barbarossa on the site of an earlier castle of Charlemagne … Continue reading →

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Erlangen – travel

Posted on August 1, 2010 by stuartelden

I was also able to see something of the area while in Erlangen. There are some interesting nearby towns with architecture that survived the war, such as Bamberg which has an impressive cathedral. The highlight was a visit to the … Continue reading →

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A weekend in the country

Posted on June 21, 2010 by stuartelden

Quiet weekend in rural Wiltshire, with two good bike rides in beautiful hilly countryside. Nice to get out of London. Also read Cary Wolfe’s What is Posthumanism? which had some interesting moments (I particularly liked the final chapter on Byrne and Eno’s My … Continue reading →

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overcommitment

Posted on June 8, 2010 by stuartelden

The very interesting medievalist Jeffrey Jerome Cohen has a good post on overcommitment… It’s easy to say ‘no’ when the invitations are unexciting; much harder when they are interesting opportunities. The ‘problem’ is I nearly always get asked to do … Continue reading →

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Class and Politics

Posted on May 6, 2010 by stuartelden

I’m currently doing something I’ve never done – sitting in First Class having paid for the privilege. I have had a couple of upgrades before on flights (once to first, once to business), and remember one time sitting in first … Continue reading →

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Copenhagen

Posted on May 2, 2010 by stuartelden

Beautiful day in Copenhagen… good to see another city that seems to have worked out how to make cycling safe and easy, unlike London.

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Copenhagen and the history of territory

Posted on May 1, 2010 by stuartelden

Heading to Copenhagen early tomorrow to give a talk at a workshop on Sovereignty, Territory and Emerging Geopolitics. My talk is entitled ‘Towards a History of the State of Territory’. It begins with some general comments about the project behind a … Continue reading →

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