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Shakespearean Colonial Territories

Elsden

Wednesday 16 January 2013, 4.15PM to 17:30

Speaker(s): Prof Stuart Elden, Department of Geography, Durham University

Shakespeare was writing at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century: a time when the modern conception of sovereign territory was emerging. He therefore helps us understand its variant aspects, tensions, ambiguities and limits.

Biography

Stuart Elden is Professor of Political Geography, Academic Director of the International Boundaries Research Unit, and Social Science Director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University. He is the editor of the journal Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, and the author and editor of several books including Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty (University of Minnesota Press, 2009). The Birth of Territory is forthcoming in 2013 with University of Chicago Press.

Location: W/222