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01 November 2010 |
Postgraduate Feminist Reading Group
Robyn Wiegman: 'Feminism's Apocalyptic Futures' (2000)
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02 November 2010 |
History of Libraries Research Seminar
Renae Satterley (Middle Temple Library): 'The library of Robert Ashley (1565-1641) of the Middle Temple'. In 1641 Robert Ashley bequeathed his substantial library of ca. 4,000 items, in order to re-establish a library at Middle Temple, one of the four Inns of Court. This collection, which remains intact at Middle Temple, is an important example of an early modern gentleman's library. This talk will provide an overview of its contents, provenance of items, and discuss its place in the history of London libraries.
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03 November 2010 |
Open University Seminar: Biography
Philippa Bernard: 'Biographizing Kathleen Raine' An early graduate of the Open University, Philippa Bernard worked for the French section of the BBC before she and husband established a flourishing antiquarian bookshop in Chelsea, where the poet Kathleen Raine was among their customers. Philippa was General Editor of Antiquarian Books: A Companion for Booksellers, Librarians and Collectors, and she regularly lectures for the National Trust. Her biography of Raine, No End to Snowdrops, appeared in 2009.
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05 November 2010 |
Irish Studies Seminars
Dr Katy Hayward (Belfast), ‘Exacerbation and Transformation: The role of political discourse in conflict’
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06 November 2010 |
George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss
This one-day conference will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the novel which marked a turning-point for Eliot herself, in the terms of a complex working-through of personal history and memories, but also in terms of the development of nineteenth-century fiction. In a letter to her publisher John Blackwood, Eliot wrote of a need for a “widening psychology” to better understand the vicissitudes of modern life. This conference will consider this broadening-out of thinking and subjectivity in the context of “the personal” in the novel; but also in its encounter with the feelings of others, and in its elegiac meditations on the nature of the past and time, and on a society that was rapidly changing. CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION AND MORE INFORMATION.
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06 November 2010 |
Methods and Resources
Dr Wim Van Mierlo Methods and Resources MA Study Day 1: 'Going to the Sources: Heuristic Methods and Bibliographical Resources' The day is loosely structured and will consist of good-practice tips, a demonstration of online catalogues and bibliographical databases, and a number of hands-on exercises. Students are requested (a) to complete an exercise in advance of the session (click here for exercise); (b) to bring a copy of the MHRA Style Guide (which can be downloaded from the website here http://www.mhra.org.uk/Downloads/index.html). It is anticipated that the session will end by 3.30-4pm. An one-hour lunch break (at your own provision) will be around 12.30 or 1pm. For specific inquiries, please contact Dr Wim Van Mierlo at wim.van-mierlo@sas.ac.uk.
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06 November 2010 |
Modernism Research Seminar Series
Late Modernism
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06 November 2010 |
EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination)
Catherine Wilson (University of Aberdeen): ' "Vain Philosophy": A 17th century Theme'
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08 November 2010 |
London Shakespeare Seminar
Roslyn L. Knutson (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, U.S.A.): 'Reportorial Commerce in Marlowe’s Time';
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08 November 2010 |
Djuna Barnes Research Seminar
NB: THIS IS A RE-SCHEDULING OF THE POSTPONED 1 NOVEMBER MEETING Elizabeth Pender (Cambridge): Djuna Barnes' Short Stories. In our second session of the term Elizabeth Pender (Cambridge University) will be leading a discussion of Barnes's short stories. Bringing together a selection of these stories, and paying particular attention to the revisions that occured in later collections, discussion will include a consideration for the ways in which the stories relate to different periods of Barnes's writing (the different contexts of those produced early in her writing career, whether the stories should be seen as precursors to the novels and how Barnes's substantial revisions for Spillway interpret and alter the earlier stories); the way the stories articulate a stance in relation to modernism and to modernism's gender politics; the network of other writers that the stories allude to; the original publication of some of the stories in The Little Review and other little magazines and collections; the status of A Night Among the Horse s as a collection, with poems and plays as well as stories; the contrasts (if any!) between the stories in the 1929 collection and the stories later published in Smoke and Other Stories; the noticeable recognisability of Barnes's writing across a number of different literary forms and publication contexts; and/or other points that arise in the course of the seminar The stories suggested for discussion are: Anyone pressed for reading time is encouraged to concentrate on the *four later stories*, which will be the focus of the discussion. Some of the stories were substantially revised for Spillway (1962), and it would be great if we could look at the revisions to 'The Passion'. The stories can all be found in Collected Stories (1996), ed. by Phillip Herring, in their revised versions. The 1929 versions of 'A Night Among the Horses', 'A Little Girl Tells A Story to A Lady' and 'The Passion' can be found in A Night Among the Horses (1929) OR in Lawrence Rainey's Modernism: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2005). If needed, texts can be sent, please contact me separately if this is the case.
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09 November 2010 |
Reading & Reception Studies Seminar
Ruth Padel (University College London): 'Writing the Forest'. “In that electric moment when human meets king cobra eye to eye, each is liable to confuse the other’s motive. Keep still, he thought. Be very still.” The prize-winning poet Ruth Padel set her first novel Where the Serpent Lives in Indian forest, Devon woodland, and London in the year of the July bombs. Tonight she explores what “forest” is in the context of myth, theatre and the jungle of human relationships. She is now working on a mixed book of prose and poems (a prosimetrum, in fact) on migration and immigration, animal and human. She will illustrate her talk with readings from her novel, from new poems on cells, bird migration and the human need to see human meaning in the wild, and her poems on her great great grandfather Charles Darwin: the meanings, laws and forms Darwin found in nature. Jointly organised with the the Research Project: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe: http://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/rbae/
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10 November 2010 |
Literary and Critical Theory Seminar
Session 3: The Politics of Disappointment: NB: EARLIER START TIME
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11 November 2010 |
Joint Seminar: Digital Text and Scholarship Series & Textual Scholarship Series
Brian Vickers (Institute of English Studies): 'Software programs, authorship attribution, and the nature of language'. NB: ROOM CHANGE.
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12 November 2010 |
Finnegans Wake Research Seminar
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13 November 2010 |
Victorian Popular Fiction Association Study Day
It is the aim of this study day to explore issues of thematic interest in the work and lives of Victorian popular novelists. We are using the life and work of Florence Marryat as a starting point for this exploration but would hope that the nature of the themes under discussion – female detectives, identity, the Victorian press, marriage reform - would be of interest to academics working in similar areas in the work of other Victorian popular novelists. Speakers: Greta Depledge (Royal Holloway): 'Female detectives in late nineteenth-century fiction and Florence Marryat’s In the Name of Liberty'; Georgina O’ Brien Hill (University of Chester): '(Re)claiming Identity in Florence Marryat's Her Father's Name and Wilkie Collins's No Name'; Tatiana Kontou (University of Sussex): '1865: Literature, culture and Florence Marryat'; Beth Palmer (University of Surrey): 'Florence Marryat and the Victorian Press'; Catherine Pope(University of Sussex): '"The chain that galls": Florence Marryat and the campaign for marriage reform' This event is free but if you wish to be kept informed of events organized by the VPFA then a membership form for our association can be downloaded from our website. For further information about VPFA Study Days and Conferences: http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/research/victorian/
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15 November 2010 |
Literary and Critical Theory Seminar
Extra Session: DVD screening of Democracy and Disappointment: On the Politics of Resistance. Alain Badiou and Simon Critchley in Conversation.
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17 November 2010 |
Inter-University Seminar: Romanticism and Postcolonialism
Charles Forsdick: 'Representing the Revolutionary: The Afterlives of Toussaint Louverture' Recommended Reading: William Wordsworth, ‘To Toussaint Louverture’ (1803), C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins (1938), Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past (1995), and Edouard Glissant, Monsieur Toussaint (trans. J. Michael Dash and Edouard Glissant, 2005). Charles Forsdick holds the James Barrow Chair of French at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity (2000) and Travel in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures: The Persistence of Diversity (2005), co-author of New Approaches to Twentieth-Century Travel Literatures in French: Genre, History, Theory (2006), and co-editor of Francophone Postcolonial Studies: A Critical Introduction (2003).
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17 November 2010 |
Open University Seminar: Biography
Maggie Fergusson: 'Biographizing George Mackay Brown' Maggie Fergusson read History at Oxford and began working for the Royal Society of Literature, of which she is currently Secretary, in 1991. Her prize-winning life of the Orcadian poet George Mackay Brown appeared in 2006 and draws on conversations in Orkney with the poet, his family and friends, together with unpublished correspondence held in the Edinburgh University archives. Maggie is currently working on a commissioned life of the children’s author Michael Morpurgo. She was elected FRSL in 2008.
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17 November 2010 |
Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar
Dr Andrea Brady (Queen Mary): Title to be confirmed
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18 November 2010 |
Senate House Friends AGM and Lecture
4.00pm Senate House Friends annual general meeting followed by a lecture at 6.00pm by Ann Jarvis (University Librarian, Cambridge), "Maintaining excellence under pressure: redefining Cambridge University Library's role in a rapidly changing information environment." If you would like to attend please contact Library Office, Senate House Library, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU; tel. 020 7862 8411.
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18 November 2010 |
Medieval Manuscripts Seminar
Dr Jayne Ringrose (Cambridge University Library): 'Cataloguing the Additional Manuscripts of Cambridge University Library'
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18 November 2010 |
London Theatre Seminar
Professor Mary Luckhurst (York University): 'Reality check: Actors Playing Real People'
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19 November 2010 |
Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group
Helen Carr (Goldsmiths College): Ur-Canto 3
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20 November 2010 |
London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar
Spaces of the Screen: Pre- and Early Cinema
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24 November 2010 |
London Old and Middle English Research Seminar (LOMERS)
Chris Jones (University of St Andrews): 'Lineating Old and Early Middle English Poetry'
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24 November 2010 |
Literary and Critical Theory Seminar
Dr Simon Glendinning (LSE): 'The Deepest Wounds: On Blows to Narcissism'. NB: SENATE HOUSE WILL BE CLOSED ON WED 24 NOVEMBER 2010. Literary and Critical Theory Seminar will be held in the Chancellor's Room at Hughes Parry Hall, 19 – 26 Cartwright Gardens, London, WC1H 9EF
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29 November 2010 |
Djuna Barnes Research Seminar
Joanne Winning (Birkbeck): 'Drawing the Line Between: Anachronism and Dialogue in the Art Practices of Thelma Wood and Djuna Barnes'. In addition, Cathryn Setz (Birkbeck) will also be presenting an informal discussion on Nightwood and anachronism. There is no additional reading required for the seminar.
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30 November 2010 |
History of Libraries Research Seminar
David McKitterick (Trinity College, Cambridge): 'Libraries at risk'.
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