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01 December 2010 |
Institute of English Studies Director's Seminar
M. Soraya García Sánchez (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria): 'Michèle Roberts and the flâneur experience in London' Michèle Roberts is an Anglo-French contemporary, feminist writer, brought up Catholic and Protestant with two languages and cultures merging at the same time. Roberts has written critical essays, poetry, fiction and a memoir: Paper Houses: A Memoir of the ‘70s and Beyond (2007). Roberts’s autobiography combines private and public identities that aim to find paper houses where the heroine can write and feel at home. The historical and literary culture is thus portrayed in Roberts’s personal history. The world of feminism together with the notion of western women writing their own texts, and of a culture that is very much surrounded by books, language, metaphor, action, body, religion and sex are some encounters that I have been able to develop while reading and studying Paper Houses. My focal point in this analysis will be to study Michèle Roberts’s memoir in the parameters of women’s writing and the role of the female flâneur that is walking between Roberts’s inside and outside, between her personal and her public lives, between the streets and the unconscious, between loneliness and crowd. I will also explore how the female flâneur experience taking place in London is combined with the discovering and formation of Roberts’s identity. I will argue how both the political time and the English capital contributed to shape the woman writer Roberts is today. Biographical Note: Dr M. Soraya García Sánchez is a lecturer at the Faculty of English Studies at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain where she has taught language, culture and literature courses both online and on a face-to-face basis. Her research areas are focused on women’s writing, literature, culture and language in contemporary contexts.
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02 December 2010 |
London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship
H. R. Woudhuysen (University College London): 'The Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700' NB: THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FROM 9 DECEMBER.
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02 December 2010 |
Medieval Manuscripts Seminar
Dr Rebecca Rushforth (Cambridge University): 'Beside the Text: Annotated Psalters in Late Anglo-Saxon England'
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02 December 2010 |
London Theatre Seminar
cancelled
Dr Gilli Bush-Bailey (Royal Holloway): 'Performing HerSelf: Autobiography, Historiography and Dramatic Recollections'
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03 December 2010 |
Palaeography and Post-palaeography: Manuscripts from the First to the Twenty-First Century
This one-day conference organized by Michelle Brown and Wim Van Mierlo at the Institute of English Studies, with support from AMARC, will look at aspects of manuscript culture before and after the advent of print. The aim is to discuss practices, problems, theories and methods of analysis irrespective of place or period to see where methodologies overlap or complement each other. Topics will include: medieval manuscript studies in the digital age; integrating and migrating methodologies - quantitative and qualitative, early and modern; what is a modern manuscript?; the codicology of modern paper; handwriting in the twentieth century. CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION AND MORE INFORMATION.
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03 December 2010 |
Irish Studies Seminars
cancelled
Roy Foster (Oxford), ‘Writing the Biography of a Revolutionary Generation’ CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER CONDITIONS: POSTPONED UNTIL A LATER DATE.
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03 December 2010 |
The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar
Michael Gillespie, Professor of English at Florida International University and distinguished Joyce scholar, will give a presentation entitled `James Joyce and the Consequence of Exile'. You are cordially invited to attend. The seminar will continue with its usual work after the presentation, if there is time.
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04 December 2010 |
Radical Imagination: Reflections on the Work of Sally Ledger
This one-day symposium brings together a host of scholars to celebrate the life of Sally Ledger and reflect on her intellectual contribution to the fields of Victorian and Literary Studies. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.
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04 December 2010 |
EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination)
Rethinking Representation in Early Modern Natural Philosophy Alexander Wragge-Morley (HPS, University of Cambridge): 'Force and Signification in Natural History, 1650-1720'; NB: ROOM CHANGE!
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04 December 2010 |
Modernism Research Seminar Series
Future work in Modernism Studies (graduate session). NB: PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT TIME.
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06 December 2010 |
Postgraduate Feminist Reading Group
'Temporal Drag & The Future Anterior'. Reading:
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07 December 2010 |
Textual Scholarship Seminar
Gavin Edwards: 'The political aesthetics of typographic case: Charles Dickens, Millicent Garrett Fawcett and Augusta Webster'. NOTE: ROOM CHANGE
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08 December 2010 |
Senate House Friends Visit: The Guildhall Library
Senate House Friends Visit to the Guildhall Library, City of London. With a tour of the Library and an introduction to the City and the Library's collections by librarian David Pearson. 15 people maximum. No charge. Senate House Library Friends members only. 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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08 December 2010 |
Inter-University Seminar: Romanticism and Postcolonialism
cancelled
Cora Kaplan: 'Imagination and "Hybridity": racial politics and poetics of anti-slavery discourse from More to Barrett Browning' Recommended Reading: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ‘The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point’ (1848), William Wordsworth, ‘To Toussaint L’Ouverture (1803), and ‘The History of Mary Prince (including appendices) (1831). Cora Kaplan is Honorary Professor in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, and is Professor Emerita of English at Southampton University. Her major publications include Sea Changes (1986), Genders (with David Glover, 2000), Victoriana: Histories, Fictions, Criticism (2007), and the collections co-edited with Jennie Batchelor, British Women’s Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century (2005), and Women and Material Culture, 1660-1830 (2007).
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08 December 2010 |
Literary and Critical Theory Seminar
Session 5: Environmental Disappointment:
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10 December 2010 |
Mick Imlah: His Life and Work
Mick Imlah (1956 - 2009) was one of the most brilliant poets of his generation. This conference, timed to coincide with the publication of his Selected Poems (edited by Mark Ford and with an introduction by Alan Hollinghurst), will explore his life and work from a variety of angles. It will be followed by a reading of poems by or about Imlah by writers who knew and admired him. CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION AND MORE INFORMATION.
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10 December 2010 |
Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group
Richard Parker (independent scholar): Canto 120.
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10 December 2010 |
John Coffin Memorial Poetry Reading
Poems by Mick Imlah. Readers: Mark Ford, John Fuller, Alan Jenkins, Peter McDonald, Isabel Fonseca, Martin Amis, Jane Wellesley, Maren Meinhardt, Iona Imlah, Andrew McNeillie, Glyn Maxwell, Bernard O'Donoghue, Andrew Motion, Alan Hollinghurst, Stephen Romer, Helen Simpson Following the day-conference “Mick Imlah: His Life and Work” and followed by a wine reception to mark the launch of Mick Imlah’s Selected Poems (Faber). All welcome. If you would like to attend please contact jon.millington@sas.ac.uk | tel. +44 (0)207 664 4859. Click here if you would like to register for the conference.
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11 December 2010 |
London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar
Novel Spaces
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13 December 2010 |
London Shakespeare Seminar
Gail Marshall (University of Leicester): 'Victorian Actresses as Shakespeare Critics';
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15 December 2010 |
Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar
Dr David Herd (University of Kent): 'Poetry and Migration'
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16 December 2010 |
Wyndham Lewis Reading Group
Scott Klein (Wake Forest University, North Carolina): 'Wyndham Lewis and the Re-emergence of Tarr' Scott W. Klein is Associate Professor and Chair of the department of English at Wake Forest University. He is the author of The Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis (Cambridge, 1994) and editor of the 2010 Oxford World Classic’s edition of Lewis’s Tarr. He will be discussing the creation of this new edition, including his attempt to present Lewis’s novel in the multiple contexts of the aesthetic avant-garde and the more mainstream modernisms of its contemporary British novels; Tarr’s generic play with philosophic investigation and comic construction; dealing editorially with the novel’s sometimes controversial sexual politics; and the ways in which Tarr demands to be read as both a straight-faced exploration of Vorticist aesthetics and as a self-undermining meditation on the relation between thinking and feeling.
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17 December 2010 |
Finnegans Wake Research Seminar
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