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Christian Smith

We have been shocked and saddened to learn that our colleague Christian Smith died suddenly in Berlin last Saturday. Christian was a dynamic and highly valued contributor to the Shakespeare in Philosophy programme at both the Temple and the Rose … Continue reading

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Shakespeare and Presentism -programme

KINGSTON SHAKESPEARE SEMINAR UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS SHAKESPEARE AND PRESENTISM ROSE THEATRE KINGSTON – SATURDAY JULY 28 9.30: Registration (Rose Foyer) 10.00 (Rose Gallery): Welcome: Richard Wilson (Kingston University) Lecture: Evelyn Gajowski (University of Nevada Las Vegas) ‘The Shakespearean … Continue reading

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LITTLE STARS AND GALLOPING STEEDS: SEX IN SHAKESPEARE Friday June 22 2018

KINGSTON SHAKESPEARE SEMINAR  LITTLE STARS AND GALLOPING STEEDS SEX IN SHAKESPEARE Friday June 22 2018 Rose Theatre Kingston  09.30 Registration  10:00 Opening remarks: Christian Smith (Kingston University) 10:15 Desire Nell McKeown (King’s College London) ‘Emilia’s Phoenix Love: Female Eroticism in The Two … Continue reading

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KiSSiT: Shakespeare and the Philosophical Turn, Dec 9

KiSSiT: Shakespeare and the Philosophical Turn December 9, 2017 Rose Theatre Kingston-upon-Thames 10.30: Opening remarks: Timo Uotinen 10.45 Panel: Christian Smith (Independent Scholar): “The point is to change it”: Marx’s use of Shakespeare in his move from philosopher to activist … Continue reading

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Shakespeare and Marx -symposium, June 24

KINGSTON SHAKESPEARE SEMINAR AT GARRICK’S TEMPLE SHAKESPEARE AND MARX SATURDAY JUNE 24 2017 10.00: Chair: Richard Wilson (Kingston University)  David Hawkes (Arizona State University) ‘Marx and Shakespeare Today: Towards an Ethics of Representation’ 11.00: Coffee 11.30: Chair: Kiernan Ryan (Royal … Continue reading

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CFP: Karl Marx 200th anniversary – Shakespeare special issue

Call for Papers For a special issue of Shakespeare: A Journal marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx, we are inviting submissions of papers, related to the issue’s central topic of investigating Marx’s impact, in a broad … Continue reading

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Christian Smith on Shakespeare’s influence on Marx

As a primer to our forthcoming symposium on Shakespeare and Marx in June (also for the up-coming Shakespeare and Hegel event) have a look at the work of our friend Christian Smith. He has recently published an article on the … Continue reading

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Philosophical Thresholds -podcast (KiSSiT: Shakespearean Thresholds)

The second panel of KiSSiT: Shakespearean Thresholds featured philosophical papers from Christian Smith, Sophie Battell and Jessica Chiba. Watch / listen to Christian Smith’s talk on a psychoanalytical reading of Coriolanus and Jessica Chiba discussing being and not-being in Shakespeare. … Continue reading

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KiSSiT: Shakespearean Thresholds

KiSSiT: Shakespearean Thresholds The third KiSSiT one-day conference is entitled Shakespearean Thresholds. It will be held at the Rose Theatre, Kingston on April 2, 2016. Free and open to everyone! 10.30: Welcome and opening remarks by Timo Uotinen (Gallery) 11.oo: … Continue reading

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KiSSiT WiP: Shakespearean Dialectics – from Hegel to Adorno, Dec 17

On Thursday December 17 (two days before Shakespeare and the State of Exception) KiSSiT Work-in-Progress will reconvene for a session entitled ‘Shakespearean Dialectics – from Hegel to Adorno’ with Christian Smith (Warwick) and Timo Uotinen (Royal Holloway) presenting. Christian’s paper … Continue reading

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