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AHR Conversation: Walls, Borders, and Boundaries in World History (open access)

Posted on January 2, 2018 by stuartelden

AHR Conversation: Walls, Borders, and Boundaries in World History with Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Tamar Herzog, Daniel Jütte, Carl Nightingale, William Rankin and Keren Weitzberg. Since 2006, the AHR has published nine “Conversations,” each on a subject of interest to a wide range … Continue reading →

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies in 2017

Posted on January 1, 2018 by stuartelden

  Walter Benjamin’s thirteen rules for writing Foucault also struggled to get his students to do the reading… Delete your academia.edu account… (there are other ways to share your work) Michel Foucault’s acid trip in Death Valley: Interview with Simeon Wade with great … Continue reading →

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Cycling Tenerife – a ride from Caletillas to the Mount Teide observatories at Izaña

Posted on January 1, 2018 by stuartelden

Over the Christmas and New Year period I was in Tenerife, for a holiday and some cycling. Unfortunately in the second half of the time there I was unwell, and had dizziness and balance problems, so did no further cycling. … Continue reading →

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Derek Gregory’s tribute to Peter Meusburger

Posted on January 1, 2018 by stuartelden

Derek Gregory has a very nice tribute to Peter Meusburger, who died in December.

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William V. Spanos (1925-2017)

Posted on January 1, 2018 by stuartelden

Literary critic and theorist William V. Spanos died on 29th December. His boundary 2 colleague Paul Bové has a brief report here. Although I never met him or heard him speak, I really liked his books Heidegger and Criticism, The Errant Art of Moby-Dick: … Continue reading →

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Novels and biographies read in 2017

Posted on January 1, 2018 by stuartelden

A list of the novels and biographies I read in 2017. For the most part these are the reading I do which is not related to work, though some of the biographies blur that line. A mixed bag, of which … Continue reading →

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A year in review – publications, writing, talks, etc.

Posted on December 20, 2017 by stuartelden

This is my last day of work in 2017. Tomorrow we head to Tenerife for ten days holiday, hoping for sunshine and lots of cycling. The last major work task I completed today was the copyediting queries for Shakespearean Territories. … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2017

Posted on December 20, 2017 by stuartelden

  I don’t think I read as many new books this year as previous years, and the ‘to read’ piles get ever higher… But these are the academic books published in 2017 which I particularly liked: Update: the lists for … Continue reading →

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Workshop Report from Territory, Law and the Anthropocene (Warwick, 1 December 2017)

Posted on December 20, 2017 by stuartelden

My brief Workshop Report from the Territory, Law and the Anthropocene event held at the University of Warwick, 1 December 2017 is now up at the ICE-LAW Project site. On 1 December 2017, the Territory subgroup held its second workshop, Territory, Law … Continue reading →

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Catherine M. Soussloff, Foucault in the Contemporary Archive

Posted on December 20, 2017 by stuartelden

While I’m still waiting for her book, Foucault on Painting, to make it across the Atlantic, Catherine Soussloff has written a very interesting post about working on Foucault’s unpublished writings on painting to be found in the archives. Last spring, … Continue reading →

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