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  • 4/20: Julian Yates, Shakespeare's Cosmopolitics

    Please join us for a talk by Julian Yates, professor of English, University of Delaware

    When: Thursday, April 20, 4 p.m.

    Where: Conference room of the UConn Humanities Institute, fourth floor, Babbidge Library

    Talk Description:

    Drawing on the work of Isabelle Stengers and Peter Sloterdijk, this paper concerns bubbles: time-bound, communities of breath, or atmospheres, pneumatic pacts of shared air. If, in the near future, explicit climate policy will become the foundation of community formation against (or with) increasingly hostile environs, then what do texts past, written from within an immediate and knowable precarity, offer us as we seek to imagine successive bubbles today? The “bubble, bubble, toil, and trouble” of Macbeth’s, extra-terrestrial witches, outside, beyond, or within the infrastructures of the world of the play, provides one place to think in these terms. 

     

     
    For more information, contact: George Moore, Department of English at george.p.moore@uconn.edu

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