Soon I am off, for China and New Zealand and a few lectures and papers. In one of my regular acts of shameless self-promotion (thank God I don’t have one of those silly facebook accounts!), the titles:
Venerating Lenin – invited public lecture, Beijing Foreign Languages University, 20 August.
On the Myth of Classicism - keynote address at Renmin University Summer Institute on Christian Culture, Suzhou 27-31 August.
A Dead Spouse, A Vegetable Garden and a Cousin’s Field: On Private Property – paper at Bible and Critical Theory Seminar, Auckland, 1-2 September.
Trading Ventures and Other Tall Tales of the Hebrew Bible – seminar at Otago University, Dunedin, 7 September.
As you can see, both ‘The Matriarch’s Muff’ and ‘The Music Album Musical Bum of the Bible’ have yet to be unleashed.
17 August, 2012 at 11:24 pm
Sorry to leave a totally unrelated comment, but could I get your opinion about which physical, non-abridged edition of Marx’s Capital the best? I’m a student just really starting to explore Marxism, so sorry if this comes off as totally naive or anything.
18 August, 2012 at 11:32 pm
The Penguin edition is easy to find in second hand bookshops, but more enjoyable is the volume (35) in the collected works.
18 August, 2012 at 1:48 pm
Well who’s a busy beaver? But I sincerely hope that all this work doesn’t mean you’ll miss the publication of Peter Brown’s “long-awaited history of the Roman 1% and the triumph of Christianity”, Through the Eye of a Needle, while you’re away playing The Turbo-Prof™ . And some people say that the Occupy Movement would have no lasting effects! What do you say now, you naysayers and grumpy pooh-poohers? Eh? Eh!? Peter BROWN!!
18 August, 2012 at 11:28 pm
Peter who?
18 August, 2012 at 11:30 pm
Hmmm … the ‘Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History Emeritus’. What a grand title. I’m sure he’s important, almost as much as the The Steggles Chicken Professor of Circular Argumentation, Social Disharmony and Mystification …
21 August, 2012 at 8:42 am
What if anything do you make of the trial of Gu Kailai (and the fall of Bo Xilai)? Meanwhile, I finally watched this for the first time the other day (right at the very center, at the very heart, you can catch a fleeting glimpse of Stalin shedding tears for Lenin–true love if I’ve ever seen it!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeWK5iRp0BE