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Douglas Clark

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Early Modern Literature. Tutor in English at Oxford.

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Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Join us in #Atlanta for 'Oceanic Risk in the Early Modern World' at the next @saaupdates.bsky.social conference. Our seminar examines how seafaring informs early modern conceptions of risk, while also exploring how models of mind were shaped by the hazards associated with oceanic travel. #shax2027
A ship approaching a rock jutting from the sea. Jacques Callot, 'Ship Navigating Near Rocks', 1628 (National Gallery of Art).
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Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It was a real pleasure to contribute to this new Access project @wadhamcollege.bsky.social.
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We celebrate the success of our first 'Wadham Reads' programme
Year 12 students from across the UK marked the end of their book club programme on the futuristic theme, “Possible Worlds”, with a literary day at Wadham.
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Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Just a 'lytell propre Jeste' found in the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk today. They look like they're having fun!
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Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I saw so many families have fun at this event last year. If you're in DC, you should definitely visit! #folger #dc
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Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Really disappointed that I won't make the @saaupdates.bsky.social conference this year in Denver. I hope everyone has a great time! If anyone sees my book at the @universitypress.cambridge.org stall, I'd love to see evidence that it exists out there. Book selfies encouraged! #shax2026
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The Will in English Renaissance Drama
Cambridge Core - Renaissance and Early Modern Literature - The Will in English Renaissance Drama
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CRIMINAL SIMPSONS @criminalsimpsons.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Tomorrow, a download button will appear on our webpage and that’s also when most In Our Time listeners outside the UK will get to hear Misha’s first programme via usual providers including bbc.com. (UK BBC Sounds listeners are always 28 days ahead.) We enjoy making these & hope you enjoy listening
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Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
A (not too grim) blog post about my book for @universitypress.cambridge.org, featuring biscuits and Frodo Baggins! #cambridgeuniversitypress #hobbits #shakespeare
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A World of Wills in Shakespeare and Beyond
It’s another dull, grey Tuesday morning. A colleague asks you how you are. Reflecting on the seemingly endless flow of tedious meetings in the day ahead, you reply that you’re “losing the will the live”. Your co-worker chuckles and walks back to wherever they need to be.
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Shakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
We’re excited for #Shax2026 in Denver, but have you considered submitting a proposal for #Shax2027 in Atlanta? The deadline to submit proposals to the #Shax2027 program committee is February 15! Have questions? Check out our website: linktr.ee/saaupdates
Image of bold black and teal type reading “hashtag shax 2027.” Below this is smaller, regular black type sharing information about the Program Committee’s call for submissions of seminars, workshops, and panels for the 2027 Atlanta conference. Members are welcome to contact the committee with questions before the February 15 submission deadline. At the bottom of the image is a black and teal quill pen. End ID.
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Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
After a little blip in the release of my book, I'm happy to say that accurate digital and physical versions are now available from @universitypress.cambridge.org! #earlymodern #renaissance #elizabethan #tudor #drama #jonson #marlowe #middleton #shakespeare #thewill 'Look not so fierce on me'
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The Will in English Renaissance Drama
Cambridge Core - Renaissance and Early Modern Literature - The Will in English Renaissance Drama
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Amy Lidster @amylidster.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for ‘Clio Reframed’, a conference at Oxford on 18-19 June 2026 exploring early modern women as writers of history. @engfac.bsky.social @oxfordcems.bsky.social Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...
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Call for Papers
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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Job announcement: part time, fixed term contract for a research assistant for a global Renaissance exhibition @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social Suitable for advanced doctoral candidates/early career applicants #earlymodern #16thcentury history.web.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/ra...
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Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org · 23/11/2025
What happens when Shakespeare’s line shifts from 'hope' to 'dread' and from 'brain' to 'will'? Jacke Wilson talks with Douglas Clark about the meaning of will-making in English Renaissance drama. 🎧 Listen now on The History of Literature podcast: cup.org/4oUVgeo
An image displaying the cover of the book 'The World in English Renaissance Drama' by Douglas Clark, featuring a painting of a thoughtful historical figure. Below the book cover is a digital audio player interface with playback controls.
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Applications are open through December 15th for Folger Institute Long-Term Fellowships -- $70,000 for the 2026-2027 academic year
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Apply for a Fellowship | 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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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 18/09/2025
Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS! 1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622 2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
All historians know the sinking feeling of tracking an "authoritative" reference back through several generations of writers to an unsourced assertion by someone nobody's ever heard of. Now AI can make up new ones in no time at all.
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Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
What a great opportunity.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
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Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Happy to share the flyer for my book 'The Will in English Renaissance Drama', which is out this August with @universitypress.cambridge.org. Maybe your library would like a copy?! The 20% discount may be of interest to those heading to @srsrensoc.bsky.social! #earlymodern #drama #renaissance
A flyer that describes the content of my book, The Will in English Renaissance Drama.
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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
My letter in today’s Guardian.
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
When Universities are mismanaged or run into financial issues, it's always the staff and NEVER the management who lose their jobs. On the contrary, they get above-inflation pay rises that are the equivalent to one or two of the full time jobs they cut. How and why do we let this happen?
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Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Want to hear about some of the hidden manuscript gems that the @folger.edu holds? Do you need more seventeenth-century English pastoral plays in your life?! If so, you may be interested in the talk I gave at the #Folger this May. Here's the first part of the event. #earlymodern #renaissance #drama
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"A Springtime Revival" with Douglas Clark
YouTube video by FolgerLibrary
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Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
'onely a sigh broke prison'. I'm trying to chase off the midweek blues at @folgerlibrary.bsky.social #earlymodern #folgerfinds #manuscripts
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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Virginia service worker Jennifer Piggott voted for Trump knowing others would suffer she just never thought… 🐆💀
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Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Patrick Durdel's @pdurdel.bsky.social paper on prop use and the practicalities of (bloody) performance was wonderful. The #nextgenplen @saaupdates.bsky.social never fails to disappoint #shax2025
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Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Looking forward to speaking at @folgerlibrary.bsky.social in May about one of their unique manuscript plays. It would be great to see some #shax2025 attendees there! @saaupdates.bsky.social
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Cocktails and Conversation: "A Springtime Revival" with Douglas Clark | 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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Patrick Hart @silcrow.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Job alert: the National Library of Scotland is looking to recruit a permanent, F/T curator of early modern books and other printed material. Please share widely! nls.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
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Curator (Early Modern Era) - Edinburgh
This is a permanent curatorial role in the Department of Published Collections. The role of the Curator (Early Modern Era) is to curate the Library’s published collections from 1455 -1690, a period th...
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Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
What a great lineup of speakers! #marlowe #msa #mla
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Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Very happy to share the latest issue of The Seventeenth Century on 'The Uses and Abuses of Civility'. Our contributors discuss the lives and writing of figures like: Catherine of Braganza, Richard Brathwaite, Margaret Fell, John Fletcher, William Gouge, Philip Massinger ... 1/2 #earlymodern
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The Seventeenth Century
Volume 39, Issue 6 of The Seventeenth Century
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ANZAMEMS @anzamems.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Exactly how high was submitting a proposal for our #medieval and #earlymodern studies conference on your list of new year's resolutions? Might as well get that one done early. Come join us in Melbourne on 3-5 Dec, just get your proposals in before 14 Feb. conference.anzamems....
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Work, Authenticity, & Social Identity in Early Modern Britain @earlymodern2025.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Please share the CFP for our Work, Authenticity, and Social Identity in Early Modern Britain Conference, to take place 10-11 June 2025 at the University of Warwick, with keynote addresses from Steve Hindle, @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social & @brodiewaddell.bsky.social!
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Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Sounds like a great conference.
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David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Job alert! Suits Shakespeareans! The University of Waikato (NZ) is hiring in pre-1900 and a second position in post-1900. Applications close Dec 6: elhs.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Lecturers in the English Programme
Te Kura Toi School of Arts have two lecturer opportunities, one specialising in Literature in English pre-1900 and the other specialising in Literature in English post-1900. Both roles will involve te...
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Karen Boyle @profkarenboyle.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Excited to announce 3 #AcademicJobs in Humanities at Uni Strathclyde funded through the Charlotte Lythe bequest. I'm new here, so appreciate your help in getting the word out! The jobs are in History, Media and English/Creative Writing. Details below in my first bsky thread (drumroll please...)
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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
*VERY EXCITING VACANCY* Join our team behind the superb Renaissance Studies as editor -- guided expertly by Wiley. Ability to combust into flames and shrug it off not a requirement. #EarlyModern excitement is Deadline: 31 Jan 2025 All info: rensoc.org.uk/vacancy-edit...
Renaissance Studies is one of the leading journals in the field of Renaissance studies, with an interdisciplinary emphasis, and a worldwide readership. Established in 1987, Renaissance Studies is published in partnership by the Society for Renaissance Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Wiley).

The Council of the Society for Renaissance Studies (SRS) seeks to appoint an Editor for Renaissance Studies to succeed Professor Kevin Killeen, who retires as Editor in December 2025.

It is hoped that the new editor(s) will be able to take over responsibility from 1 January 2026 and serve for a 5-year term until 19 December 2031. Interviews will be held online in February/March 2025.

The Editor is responsible for the editorial content of the journal, for obtaining peer reviews of articles submitted, and for the supply of edited copy to Wiley. The Editor works with, and leads, a team consisting of an Associate Editor (whose main responsibility rests with the Special Issues of the journal), Book
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Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Great idea!
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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
We are ✨excited✨ about our upcoming conference on #earlymodern 'Interconnections' in Bristol. So we're pulling together all our speakers and Council members in one starter pack to get the conversation already going. Here's what's in store for #RenSoc25: go.bsky.app/DVyFCxt
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 23/08/2024
Brutalised Africans made Glasgow amazing disgrace, how sweet the civic amnesia… mansions without plaques unrevised street names no memorial. —Kate Tough, “People Made Glasgow” “A contemporary sickness has its roots in unredressed wrongs” www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/people-...
People Made Glasgow
Kate Tough

Shame in our hulls
why else would we drink to incoherence
jump on the heads of passing men
punch our women
tell our children in a checkout queue,
‘Ah hate bank holidays cuz it means
Ah huftae look at youse fir three days no two.’

The whip’s crack
comes a little after
the whip’s stroke.

People Make Glasgow
obese, rotten-mouthed
stroke-felled, emphysemic
tumour-choked
aye, an proud ae it.
What we murdered them for
we kill ourselves with.

The whip’s crack
comes a little after
the whip’s stroke.

Brutalised Africans made Glasgow
amazing disgrace, how sweet
the civic amnesia…
mansions without plaques
unrevised street names
no memorial.
So, sign-up for the new city tour –

The Glasgow Merchant Experience!
below deck on the Waverley
100 unclothed families
close-chained to plank beds
30 dead since it left Dunoon!
On the dock, a real live auction!
Feel the excitement as you bid
for your very own slave!
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Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Here's a little piece on unexamined manuscript poetry that I wrote for the #Folger library's 'Collation' blog: www.folger.edu/blogs/collat... #earlymodern #manuscripts #poetry
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Welcome to the Banquet | 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 explor...
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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 14/10/2024
Dr Chloe Preedy invites submissions on the subject of Ecocritical Marlowe for a special edition of "The Journal of Marlowe Studies", an international, peer-reviewed online journal. Deadline for submissions May 2, 2025 rensoc.org.uk/event/specia... #skystorians #DeptfordRewilding #earlymodern
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Special Issue CfP: Ecocritical Marlowe – Society for Renaissance Studies
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James A. Palmer @jamespqr77.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Medieval job alert! Assistant Professor, Medieval or Early Modern History of Science, Technology, and/or Medicine at Rice.
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H-Net Job Guide
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Malone Society @malonesociety.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
We're delighted to share that registration for the 2024 Malone Society Conference - on John Lyly's CAMPASPE - is now open! Do join us at St Anne's College, Oxford, on 20 October - register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/malone-soc...
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Malone Society conference: CAMPASPE
The Malone Society conference 2024 - CAMPASPE
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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
*boom* www.theguardian.com/books/articl...
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‘I thought of the church as a friend and it slapped me in the face’: historian Diarmaid MacCulloch on the Church of England’s hypocrisy
The award-winning author, ecclesiastical historian and church-goer on his incendiary new book about sex and the church, challenging centuries of self-serving homophobia, fakery and abuse. He is primed...
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Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
A great decision. I hope more bands and organizations take heed.
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Massive Attack in Bristol: Band hope Clifton Down gig will change music industry
The band say their home town show in Bristol this weekend will be the lowest-carbon gig of its scale ever performed.
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gabriel b @gyzyby.bsky.social · 09/08/2024
for the evening crowd!
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gabriel b @gyzyby.bsky.social · 07/08/2024
My department (USNA English) is hiring for a tenure-track position in literature and science, broadly conceived -- think ecocriticism, environmental humanities, lit and medicine. Please spread this ad far and wide, and pass along to potentially interested candidates! www.usna.edu/HRO/jobinfo/...
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Assistant Professor (English)
Assistant Professor (English) page for Human Resources at USNA.edu. Updated Wed Aug 07 08:16:02 EDT 2024.
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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 23/07/2024
It’s PUBLICATION DAY!!! 🥳 I’ll post a little teaser every day on each ch. In our introduction, Chloe Preedy & I…er…introduce vol. & explain what on earth possessed us to publish a book on a writer mostly associated ŵ prose in a PLAYS companion series. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526149466
“Thomas Nashe and Literary Performance” ed. Chloe Kathleen Preedy and Rachel Willie in Revels Plays Companion Library. Greene strip to left [it’s what Nashe would have wanted] and white text on black background to the right. 

https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526149466
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 16/07/2024
Hard, cold, and short? The first episode of @markhailwood.bsky.social’s NEW Historical Association podcast busting some common assumptions about life in early modern England history.org.uk/podcasts/cat... manyheadedmonster.com/2024/07/16/w... 🗃️
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Everyday Life in a 17th Century English Village Episode 1
In this episode, Dr Hailwood (University of Bristol) asks whether everyday life in English villages 400 years ago was really as uncomfortable and harsh as we generally tend to think. Not everybody die...
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Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social · 12/04/2024
Not yet decided on what seminar you'll audit this morning? Join us for the 'Reconsidering Stage Properties' seminar at 11am in the Pettigrove room of the Porter Curio hotel! #Shax2024
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