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With apologies for cross-posting, Cardiff University is hosting a one-day
conference on Shakespeare and Derrida on 29th September. Speakers include
Helene Cixous, Christopher Norris, Nicholas Royle and Richard Wilson. Full
details can be downloaded from the conference website at
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/shakespeare/index.html I've copied the
conference blurb below:
Towards the end of his life Jacques Derrida wrote how he would have liked
to have ‘become (alas, it’s pretty late) a “Shakespeare expert”,’ and that
his desire would remain ‘to read and write in the space or heritage of
Shakespeare, in relation to whom I have infinite admiration and gratitude.’
The aims of this conference are to commemorate the elective affinity
between the French philosopher and English dramatist, to consider the
importance of Shakespeare for Derrida’s thinking, and to project ways in
which Derrida’s work might influence the future understanding of
Shakespeare’s plays. Shakespeare critics have been slow to acknowledge the
implications for Hamlet studies of Derrida’s Specters of Marx, while a
recent highly-regarded biography of the philosopher never once mentions
Shakespeare. The organisers of this Cardiff conference hope that by
bringing Shakespeareans and philosophers together the event will end this
mutual indifference and signpost ways in which for Shakespeare and Derrida
the best is yet to come
Stuart Hampton-Reeves
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Professor Stuart Hampton-Reeves
University of Central Lancashire
Preston
PR12HE
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/host/nexus/
http://www.britishshakespeare.ws
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