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Patrick Durdel

@pdurdel.bsky.social

climate fictions 1500-1800 & speculation, postdoc at oxford. first book project on "writing performance: early modern drama and the work of interpretation." other things on intention, non-performance, plot, mistakes, pig bladders. https://patrickdurdel.org

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Simon Kővesi@kovesi.bsky.social · 2d ago

Four baselines for academic conference attendance: 1) keep to your allocated speaking time. 2) everyone is clever; stand out by being warm & kind. 3) be interested in everyone equally - from postgrad to Prof to conference administrator to catering & hotel staff. 4) in Q&A, ask an actual question.

Courtney Weiss Smith@cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 3w ago

Any ideas for great undergraduate-friendly scholarly readings to be paired with Midsummer Night’s Dream on an introduction to the major course? (So a course not terribly historicist in general bent…) Also welcome ideas for fun theory readings that can stand alone to get prospective majors excited?!

CEMS KCL@cemskcl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Annual CEMS Colloquium - 11th June! This year's theme is 'Periodizing the Early/Modern'. Featuring three panels and a roundtable. Join us on 11th June. Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...

Periodizing the Early/Modern - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog

The annual CEMS colloquium. This year’s theme is on Periodizing the Early/Modern. The colloquium will feature several panels and a roundtable. The Colloquium will take place on 11th June.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk

Patrick Durdel@pdurdel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

if someone gives me a lot of money i will do a "very experimental" live camera stuff etc production of Fulgens and Lucrece entirely in the style of The Bachelor (no one will fund this, no one should)

Patrick Durdel@pdurdel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

my only shakespeare hot take is that romeo and juliet would be a much better play if juliet didn't die in the end & that trying to figure out how that could work (theatrically) actually shows us some extremely interesting things about the play (so a hot take and a dare!)

evey reidy 🐌@eveyreidy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’m so glad I got to write this piece for the @folger.edu’s Collation blog about the work I’m doing as part of my short-term Artistic Research Fellowship! www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...

Re-writing and Reimagining Early Modern Witchcraft Through Creative Practice | Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

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EarlyModernista@ellierycroft.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is a big one - one of my favourite journals publishing one of the first major outputs of my walking research. In the article 'Walking and Performances of Elite Masculinity' I establish a model for how the collective walking of men negotiates early modern gender politics. A big day! Link below

Elite Masculinity and Early Modern Performances of Walking | English Literary Renaissance: Vol 56, No 2

Abstract This essay explores the surprising importance of walking to the production of early modern masculine identity, demonstrating that pedestrianism was a culturally significant performance that w...

journals.uchicago.edu

Patrick Durdel@pdurdel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

i have so many thoughts about this building but what i still find most striking is that it has an architectural logic of exclusion that feels distinctively american – and that in oxford, a city fundamentally shaped by colleges cultivating their very own kind of architectural exclusion

Oxford’s new £185m humanities hub is polished, refined … and funded by a Trump ally

Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman’s portrait hangs discreetly in a building that promises cultural clout and architectural poise – yet can seem rather bland and bloodless

theguardian.com

Patrick Durdel@pdurdel.bsky.social · 4mo ago

just saw Icke's R&J with Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe. probably the best R&J I've seen, not perfect (what would that even mean lol), some gimmicky stuff, but in its best moments it cuts through the heavy layers of canonicity with the scalpel of language – exceptionally wielded by Sink. more tmrw maybe

Patrick Durdel@pdurdel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I bought a copy of the 1919 Huntington facsimile reprint of Fulgens and Lucres for 10 quid. They printed 200 numbered copies of this and I was shocked to discover that mine is apparently number one!!

The cover of a book, it reads: The Henry E. Huntington Facsimile Reprints, 1, Fulgens and Lucres, by Henry MedwallA page in a book; it reads: Of this book 200 copies have been printed, No. 1