Dr Sarah Dillon to give Plenary Address at Transmodern Perspectives Conference, Universidad de Zaragoza

Dr Sarah Dillon is to give a Plenary Address at an international conference at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, 26th-28th April. The conference is entitled ‘Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English’ and Dr Dillon will be speaking on David Mitchell’s novel Cloud Atlas and its film adaptation in relation to memetics and theories of cultural evolution. 

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Dr Sarah Dillon talks to the Times Higher about the launch of BACLS

  Dr Sarah Dillon gives an interview to the Times Higher about the launch of the new British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies which she will Chair from January 2018. BACLS opens for membership in January 2017 with the following mission statement: The British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies brings together scholars and practitioners from across the […]

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Professor Page Plenary Talk on Performance, Imagination and the Early-Romantic Guitar

Professor Christopher Page will be a keynote speaker at a conference on Performing Knowledge being held at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge on April 25-26, 2016. Bringing together performing musicians engaging in practice-led research, ethnographers of Western art music, and psychologists specialising in tacit knowledge research, this two-day conference explores performers’ interpretative processes and their uses of tacit knowledge […]

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