We welcome all to attend these events in the School of English, staff, students and external visitors.
See below for events for: ROLLS (Research on Languages and Linguistics); CEMMS (Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies); English Colloquium; Modernist Studies; 18th and 19th Century Seminars; Creative and Critical Thought; Photography and Visual Culture; American Studies; Hi-Zero Poetry; Sex Diss; and Drama and Performance.
Conferences, workshops and symposia may require advance registration, please check links and details.
- Week One - 5th February - 11th February
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ROLLS with English Colloquium
Wednesday 7th February
All ROLLS talks from 1:00 to 2:30 on Wednesdays, in Jubilee G36
Professor Darius Galasiński (University of Wolverhampton)Discourse analysis and psychology
(This event is cross-listed with the English Colloquium, to take place in the ROLLS time slot)
Cognitive Brown Bag (Talk in School of Psychology)
Tuesday 6th February - Jubilee G31 12 noon
Michael Jonik (School of English)'Materiality and Consciousness' - Week Two - 12th February - 18th February
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English Colloquium
Wednesday 14 February, 5-7pm Jubilee 144
Helen Tyson (Sussex)
’“Monsters within and without”: Marion Milner Reads Virginia Woolf'
(Event co-sponsored by the Centre for Modernist Studies)
ROLLS
All talks from 1:00 to 2:30 on Wednesdays, in Jubilee G36
Wednesday 14th February
Dr Laura Bailey (University of Kent)Let's Go Sussex: Null prepositions in Southeast England
- Week Three - 19th February - 25th February
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English Colloquium
Wednesday 21 February, 5-7pm
Jubilee 144
Sonia Massai (Kings London)
'Standard Accents and Acoustic Diversity in (Radio) Shakespeare'
Annual Shakespeare Lecture
Event co-sponsored by the Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies (CEMMS)
CEMMS Spring Semester Speakers
21 February 5pm Jubilee 144 Annual Shakespeare Lecture
Sonia Massai (King’s, London),
Standard Accents and Acoustic Diversity in (Radio) Shakespeare
Drama and Performance
22 February 2018, 8pm
Augusto Corrieri, In Place of a Show + book launchAttenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA), University of Sussex
https://www.attenboroughcentre.com/events/1632/augusto-corrieri-in-place-of-a-show/
Queer Studies Reading Group
Tuesday 20 February, 6-7:30pm
Queer Studies Reading Group Session 1: New Queer Marxisms
Excerpts from
Holly Lewis, The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection (2016)
and
Petrus Liu, Queer Marxism in Two Chinas (2015)
Arts B217
- Week Four - 26th February - 4th March
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Hi Zero 27th February 7:30pm
Hope and Ruin, Brightonhttps://www.facebook.com/events/829091700631111/
ROLLS
28th February
All talks from 1:00 to 2:30 on Wednesdays, in Jubilee G36
Professor Gerlinde Mautner (Vienna University of Econ. and Bus.)
Sober as a judge: Professional identity through the discourse lens
Drama and Performance with English Colloquium -- cancelled
28 February 2018, 5-7pm
(The Famous) Lauren Barri Holstein, research seminarJubilee 144, University of Sussex
co-sponsored by Drama and English Colloquium
Corpus Linguistics in the South
ConferenceSaturday 3rd March 9-5pm - for more information and to sign up:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/16th-corpus-linguistics-in-the-south-tickets-40183880067 - Week Five - 5th March - 11th March
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No Colloquium this week
ROLLS Cancelled until 18th April
All talks from 1:00 to 2:30 on Wednesdays, in Jubilee G36Wednesday 7th March
Dr Helen Ringrow (University of Portsmouth)
'Beautiful masterpieces': Metaphors of the female body in modest fashion blogs
Drama and Performance
9 March 2018 (time tbc)
Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste performance
The Rosehill, Brighton
(part of Toussaint-Baptiste’s artistic residency in Drama at Sussex)
- Week Six - 12th March - 18th March
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CEMMS Spring Term Speakers
12 March, 6pm in Arts B274
Emma Whipday (UCL)
'"I rest your pore troublesome sister": Sibling Bonds and Familial Roles on the Early Modern Stage'
English Colloquium with Sex Diss Queory
Wednesday 14 March, 5-7pm
Jubilee 144
Benjamin Kahan (Louisiana State University)
'Anthropologia Sexualis and the Macro Environments of Sex'
Event co-sponsored by the Centre for Modernist Studies and the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence
ROLLS
14th MarchAll talks from 1:00 to 2:30 on Wednesdays, in Jubilee G36
Wednesday 14th March
Dr Erez Levon (Queen Mary University London)Stereotypes and the linguistic perception of sexuality among men in Britain
Masterclass on March 14, in conjunction with the colloquium event with Benjamin Kahan.
1 to 3 pm, in Arts B 217 given by Prof Sara Crangle.Masterclass on the Transpacific Queer Aesthetics of José Garcia Villa.
Readings will be circulated in advance - Week Seven - 19th March - 25th March [Easter break 26th March - 9th April
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Hi Zero Poetry
March 27th (Tuesday) 7:30pm (tbc)
English Colloquium with American Studies
Tuesday, 20 March 2018, 5-7 pm
New location Jubilee 144.
Eileen Myles (Poet and former presidential candidate)
Reading from Myles’ new novel Afterglow and poetry performance
(Event co-sponsored by American Studies)
Art History Event (Please send enquiries to this department hahp@sussex.ac.uk)
Museums as Heritage
with speakers Loyd Grossman, and the Directors of Charleston and Ditchling Musuem, Nathaniel Hepburn and Steph Fuller.Admission is free and it’s at 6pm on 20 March in Fulton B.
The School of English presents a theatre masterclass with
Michael Attenborough, CBE D LITT
‘Open your ears’, Henry IV, Part 2, Prologue
Wednesday 21 March
2.30 – 4.30 pm
Creativity Zone, Pevensey 3
Week Eight - 9th April - 15th April
- Week Eight - 9th April - 15th April
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Sussex Critical Points Week - 9-13 April 2018
Queory
Tuesday April 10th, 5 -7 pm
Queory with Dr. Kat Gupta (University of Sussex)
Textual constructions of desire: or, what to do with 1.4 billion words of online erotica
Location: Fulton 104
Aesthetics in the Anthropocene
See our programme
Meeting Room 1, Falmer House, University of Sussex
Day 1, 10 April 2018
9:30 – 10:00: Registration and welcome (with tea/coffee and pastries)
Day 2, 11th April 2018
9:30 – 10:00: Arrival (with tea/coffee and pastries)
African Popular Cultures Workshop 10th April
Tuesday 10th April (14.00 until approx. 18.30)
East African Literary Cultures: from Writivism to Kintu and beyond
7th AFRICAN POPULAR CULTURES WORKSHOP
Fulton 103 14.00-15.00 – Screening of a Sussex-sponsored documentary on the pan-African literary initiative Writivism followed by a Q & A session with the directorial team.
15.00-16.00 – East African Literary Cultures round table featuring John Masterson (Sussex), Kate Wallis (Exeter), Henry Brefo (Birmingham) and Niwagaba Roland Byagaba (Writivism).
- Refreshment break Arts B274
Fulton G15 17.00-19.00 – Jennifer Makumbi in conversation about her award-winning debut novel Kintu, with a book reading, Q & A session and concluding discussion.
19.00-21.00 – Reception in Dhabha cafe
English Colloquium
Wednesday 11 April, 5-7pm Jubilee 144
Tim Gallagher (Sky News) & Adam Vaughan (The Guardian)
‘Reporting Climate Change: America and the World’
(Event co-sponsored by American Studies and part of Sussex’s 2018 Critical Points week)
Thursday 12 April at 5 pm - Jubilee G22Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel
This symposium is part of the ‘Critical Points’ week at the University.
We have three visiting speakers, all of whom are former Sussex English students, and all of whom have just published or are just about to publish remarkable novels:
Naomi Booth, Sealed;Abi Curtis, Water & Glass;Alex Lockwood, The Chernobyl Privileges - Week Nine - 16th April - 22nd April
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CEMMS Spring Term Speakers
16 April, 6pm Arts B274
Alice Equestri (Sussex)
Shakespeare's licensed fools and early modern 'idiocy'?
doubting thomas symposium 17-18 April
Reading-Around GroupTuesday 17th April1-2pm Fulton 106
7pm: screening of Derek Jarman's Caravaggio (1986) at Fabrica gallery in Brighton, introduced by Niall Richardson (MFM). Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/film-at-fabrica-caravaggio-1986-tickets-44630564219
Wednesday 18th April12-4pm, Jubilee G22: Doubting Thomas symposium starting with a keynote talk from Bethan Stevens (English)
Thursday 19 April, 6-7:30 pmQueer Studies Reading Group Session 2: Black/Trans Histories
Excerpts from
C. Riley Snorton, Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identities (2017): pp. 1-12, 55-96.
Arts B217
ROLLS
18th April
All talks from 1:00 to 2:30 on Wednesdays, in Jubilee G36
Wednesday 18th AprilDr Anna Judson (Cambridge)
Scribal spelling: Studying the orthography of the Linear B writing system
Drama and Performance with English Colloquium [ cancelled ]
18 April 2018, 5-7pm
Arabella Stanger, research seminar
Choreographing White Ideality at Black Mountain CollegeJubilee 144, University of Sussex
co-sponsored by Drama and English Colloquium
- Week Ten - 23rd April - 29th April
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Hi Zero Poetry
April 24th (Tuesday) 7:30pm (tbc)
ROLLS with English Colloquium
5pm Jubilee 144
Wednesday 25th AprilDr Evan Hazenberg (University of Sussex)
Revisiting community: Collective identities in sociolinguistics
This event is cross-listed with the English Colloquium, to take place in the EC time slot.
Thursday 26 April - 5 pm, location tbc
Will Self will talk about and read from his new novel, Phone. - Week Eleven - 30th April - 6th May
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English Colloquium
Tuesday, 1 May, 4-6 pm
Fulton 113
Branka Arsić (Columbia)Coral Psyches: Melville on Minds and Islands
Event co-sponsored by American Studies and the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Research Series
Thurs 3 May - 4-6pm
Queory with Dr. Sita Balani
(King’s College London)
Title and location TBA - Week Twelve - 7th May - 13th May
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Saturday, May 12, 2-6pm.
Queory, special edition: Gender, Sexuality, and the Hostile Environment
This special event will bring together scholars and activists to discuss how the government policy to institute a “hostile environment” for migrants intersects gender, sexual, and racial oppression. As borders are increasingly inserted into the mechanisms of the social state, we will investigate the complex interweaving of the hostile environment with struggles around sex worker’s rights, asylum claims, reproductive justice, trans liberation, and free and accessible education. The day will feature panel discussions and workshops.
Location and participants TBA.
No Colloquium
- Summer Term Events
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Hi-Zero Poetry
May 29th (Tuesday)
Oceans and Giants
Reading the Virgin Islands with Richard Georges5-7 p.m. on Monday 21st May Jubilee 144
Drama and Performance
21 – 23 June 2018
Disco! An Interdisciplinary Conference
Hosted by Drama, Film, and Music at the University of Sussex
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