“Concerning the Novel Chapter”, Nicholas Dames, Columbia University, Wednesday 14 November 2018, 5.30pm, GR05, Faculty of English

What does the fictional chapter do? Why do novels have them and how have they changed? This talk will propose the chapter — among the most innocuous and pervasive of the novel’s formal features — as a new object of analysis, and offer suggestions on what methods are appropriate in order to approach a phenomenon so ubiquitous and so […]

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Settled status applications for EU/EEA and Swiss nationals

In this time of uncertainty over the final shape of Brexit I wanted to write to let you know that the University continues to be committed to supporting its EU, EEA and Swiss staff, many of whom we know are concerned about their immigration status after the UK leaves the EU next year. Our people […]

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Dr Sophie Seita performs Transpositions at Murray Edwards College on 24 October 2018, 8pm

Dr Sophie Seita has been commissioned to make a new performance piece in response to a research project in Sociology and an exhibition at Murray Edwards on reproductive technologies and reproductive labour. Her piece Transpositions will reflect on the concept and choreography of transposition, queer kinship, corn as a queer plant, ritual, the ritornello, and the cross-pollinating possibilities of […]

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