Category Archives: Travel

Area E1 in the West Bank

Posted on December 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Since the UN vote on giving Palestine non-member observer status, Israel has retaliated in a range of ways. One of them is through suggesting that the moratorium on settlement building in the area known as E1, or East 1, is no … Continue reading →

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Walney to Wear – coast-to-coast cycle route

Posted on August 24, 2012 by stuartelden

Susan and I spent the last few days cycling one of the coast-to-coast routes – from Walney Island in the Irish Sea to the point in Sunderland where the Wear reaches the North Sea (details here). We did some preparation … Continue reading →

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International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

Posted on July 24, 2012 by stuartelden

Long weekend in Ibadan, staying at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture. I’d not been in the south before – Ibadan is a large city in the southwest that sprawls for many miles. The IITA rents rooms and the grounds are … Continue reading →

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Back in Nigeria

Posted on July 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Arrived in Abuja a couple of days ago. Although I was in Abuja briefly on my last trip to Nigeria it wasn’t for that long, and seeing anything was restricted by the security after a bombing. This trip I will have … Continue reading →

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BBC ‘From our own correspondent’ on Nigeria

Posted on July 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Yesterday’s BBC radio From Our Own Correspondent had a section on family planning in Nigeria, and discusses projects Susan works with. The section on Nigeria begins about 18 minutes in. Another recent programme had a few minutes on the situation in … Continue reading →

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Back from Edinburgh

Posted on July 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Good few days in Edinburgh, with a chance to catch up with old friends, though the rotten weather didn’t show the city at its finest. The ‘Bodies in Movement’ seminar on Coriolanus went well, with some really excellent responses from Paul … Continue reading →

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Off to Edinburgh

Posted on July 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Two important lectures, on Coriolanus and Volume; plus chairing Eyal Weizman for Society and Space‘s 30th anniversary .. A busy few days coming up.

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Outside Territory in Nottingham

Posted on May 4, 2012 by stuartelden

After the Paris event we were up early the next morning to get the Eurostar to London, and then a train to Nottingham – made a little trickier by the ASLEF strike action (but a strike that doesn’t disrupt things isn’t a … Continue reading →

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Outside Territory in Paris

Posted on May 4, 2012 by stuartelden

The conference of Ruti Sela and Mayaan Amir’s ‘Exterritory‘ project in Paris was a really interesting event. Sponsored by the Kadist Foundation and the Evens Foundation, it was held in a remarkable space – Le Comptoir Général. As the rain came down, it was … Continue reading →

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Yale conference and homeward bound

Posted on April 15, 2012 by stuartelden

The Yale conference was good, with a wide range of perspectives. Though there was a clear clash of perspectives between the historians and geographies on the one hand, and the political scientists on the other, this was not unpleasant. The … Continue reading →

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