Dr Sarah Dillon is to give the keynote address at an International Conference on contemporary author David Mitchell, to be held at the University of St Andrews on Saturday 3rd June. Sarah will be delivering a paper on the politics of adaptation.
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Dr Sarah Dillon to give Plenary Address at ‘Graphic Reading’ Symposium, University of Birmingham
Dr Sarah Dillon is to give a Plenary Address at a symposium on Graphic Reading at the University of Birmingham on Friday 19th May. Dr Dillon will be delivering a paper entitled ‘The Ungrammatical Knife: A Feminist Rereading of Ghost Dance‘ which will present material extracted from a chapter of her book, Queer Intimacies: Deconstruction, Feminism, Film, forthcoming […]
Continue ReadingDr 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.
Continue ReadingProfessor 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 […]
Continue ReadingDr Andrew Zurcher Plenary Lecture Epistolary Cultures Conference
Dr Zurcher gives the Plenary Lecture at the Epistolary Cultures – Letters and Letter-writing in Early Modern Europe conference, University of York, Friday 18 March. Bringing together speakers from around the globe who are working on early modern letter writing and its networks, this conference explores the many aspects of early modern epistolary culture in the […]
Continue ReadingProf Christopher Page Keynote at International Guitar Research Centre Conference
Professor Christopher Page will be a keynote speaker at the International Guitar Research Centre Conference, University of Surrey, 18 March to 23 March 2016. Some of the most distinguished and highly regarded scholars and musicians from around the world will gather for this major international conference featuring six public concerts, four keynote lectures, and over 50 lecture-recitals and academic papers.
Continue ReadingDr Ian Patterson Plenary Lecture at Obscure Modernism Conference
Dr Ian Patterson gives the plenary lecture at the Obscure Modernism Conference, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, Saturday 27 February. This one-day conference explores modernism, its practitioners and cultural products, under the aspect of their obscurity, understood in a variety of ways.
Continue ReadingDr Edward Allen receives Wellcome Trust Grant
Dr Edward Allen, Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College, has been awarded a Medical-Humanities Small Grant from The Wellcome Trust for a project entitled ‘Ear Pieces: Listening, Diagnosing, Writing – 1815-2015’. The grant will enable Dr Allen to undertake archival research in the US in Summer 2016, and to run an international conference in September 2016 in the Faculty of […]
Continue ReadingChristopher Tilmouth & Katrin Ettenhuber Plenary Lectures – Literature and Philosophy 1500-1700
Katrin Ettenhuber and Christopher Tilmouth delivered plenary lectures at University of Sussex Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies Postgraduate ‘Literature and Philosophy 1500-1700’ conference. This conference explored the relationship between early modern literature and philosophical thought, theories and issues and took place between the 14th and 16th of July. Dr Tilmouth’s lecture was entitled […]
Continue ReadingThe Places of Early Modern Criticism, 23rd-24th March 2015
‘The places of early modern criticism‘, an interdisciplinary gathering of literary and art historical scholars convened by Dr Gavin Alexander (English), Dr Emma Gilby (French), and Dr Alexander Marr (History of Art). Supported by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH), the Faculty of English and the Faculty of History […]
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