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 (ENCS); Creative and Critical Thought; Photography and Visual Culture; American Studies; Hi-Zero Poetry; Sex Diss; and SPEAR Sussex Performance Events and Research
Conferences, workshops and symposia may require advance registration, please check links and details.
- Week One - 4th February - 10th February
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English Colloquium
co-sponsored by the CEMMS Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies and Centre for American Studies
Katherine Ibbett, University of Oxford
Surface Writing: On the Seventeenth-Century Saint Lawrence River
Introduced by Nicole Mennell
Wednesday, 6 February 2019
5-7pm Jubilee 144 - Week Two - 11th February - 17th February
Sussex Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Seminar
Spring Term Events5 p.m., Arts B B217
12 February
Sara Lyons (University of Kent)‘Thomas Hardy and the Value of Brains’
The Annual Shakespeare Lecture
English Colloquium
co-sponsored by Centre for Early Modern and Medieval StudiesEmma Whipday, University of Newcastle
‘You see my sister’s yet at my dispose’: Brothers and Sisters on the Early Modern Stage
Introduced by Tom Collins
Wednesday,
13 February 2019
5-7 pm Jubilee 144
- Week Three - 18th February - 24th February
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The American Studies Playlist: Songs Every Americanist Should Know
Tuesday, 19 February 2019 4-6pm Fulton 202
English Colloquium
Christine Okoth, University of Warwick
Extraction Then and Now: Integrating Contemporary Black Literature
Wednesday
20 February 2019
5-7pm Jubilee 144
SPEAR
Week 3 | Wednesday 20 February, 2pm-9pm | ACCAThe Fine Art of Performance: Living Legacies of the 1970s Art School
a one-day event organised by Gavin Butt and Dave Stephens
ACCA
Pragmatics and Literature: A study day at the University of Sussex
February 22nd 2019
13.00-17.00 pm The Meeting House - University of Sussex
The event is free of charge but you need to register. Please contact Charlotte Taylor (Charlotte.Taylor@sussex.ac.uk) or Roberta Piazza (r.piazza@sussex.ac.uk)
- Week Four - 25th February - 3rd March
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CEMMS
Mon. 25 Feb. – work in progress
Flora Dennis, Nicole Mennell, Joanne Paul. 12.30 – B217
Queer Studies Reading Group.
Readings TBA.
Arts B217
Mon 25th February, 5-6:30 pm
Special Guest Seminar, sponsored by the English Colloquium, the Sussex Humanities Lab, and the Centre for Modernist Studies Psychoanalysis Reading Group
Lydia Liu, Columbia University
Reading to prepare: Lydia Liu, “The Cybernetic Unconscious,” from The Freudian Robot (available as an e-book through the university library)
Tuesday, 26 February
2-4pm
Arts B274Professor Liu will also be available for one-on-one and small group meetings by appointment.
English Colloquium
co-sponsored by the Sussex Humanities LabLydia Liu, Columbia University
The Uncanny in the Digital Machine
Introduced by Emilia Halton-Hernandez
Wednesday
27 February 2019
Sussex Humanities Lab - Silverstone Building - Week Five - 4th March - 10th March
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Sussex Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Seminar
Spring Term Events
5 p.m., Arts B B217
5 March - co-hosted by the Centre for American Studies
Ed Sugden (King’s College London)
‘The Beyonds and Unreals of the Nineteenth Century’
English Colloquium
co-sponsored by the American Studies Research Seminar and the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
Shital Pravinchandra, Queen Mary’s, University of London
Colonizing the Future, Salvaging the Past: Sherman Alexie’s Biomedical Fictions
Wednesday
6 March 2019
5-7pm Jubilee 144
American Studies
Sarah Dunstan, University of Sussex
“‘A New Fascism, the American Brand’: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the French Union and the African diaspora, 1945-1955”
Thursday, 7 March 2019, 4-6pm Arts A108
co-sponsored by History WIPs
ROLLS
Thurs 7 March 3pm FUL-104
Evan Hazenberg
Language variation and social meaning: Gender and sexuality in sociolinguisticsco-sponsored with the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence
ROLLS
Friday 8 March 1pm room TBD
Prof. Andrew Nevins (UCL)
The phonology of handshape in an emerging sign language - Week Six - 11th March - 17th March
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ROLLS
Wednesday 13 March
1pm Jubilee 118
Dr Pia Pichler (Goldsmiths)'I was trying to do the P Diddy step': Conversational humour, verbal duelling and culture concepts as resources for the construction of authentic black hip hop masculinities
English Colloquium
co-sponsored by the Sussex Humanities Lab and the Centre for Creative and Critical Writing
Joseph Walton, University of Sussex
Science Fiction and the Future of Political Economy
Introduced by Maisie Ridgway
Wednesday
13 March 2019
5-7pm Jubilee 144
SPEAR
Week 6 | Wednesday 13 March, 5pm | Creativity Zone, Pevensey III
Christof Migone (Western University, Ontario)
(co-hosted with Music and supported by CRCPA)
CEMMS
Wed. 13 March
staged reading of James Shirley's The Politician
5pm - Attenborough Centre for the Arts (Tower)
Queer Studies Reading Group
Thurs 14th March, 5-6:30 pm
Readings TBA.
Arts B217 - Week Seven - 18th March - 24th March
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American Studies
Yehuda Sharim, University of California, Merced, dir., Seeds of All Things film screening
Monday, 18 March 2019 6-8 pm Arts A01 Lecture Theatre
co-sponsored by Film and the Sussex Centre for Migration Research
a Sussex One World Week event
American Studies
Yehuda Sharim, University of California, Merced, Documenting Migrant Lives: A Filmmaking Masterclass
Tuesday, 19 March 2019, 5-7pm Fulton A
American Studies Research Seminar, co-sponsored by Film and the Sussex Centre for Migration Research
a Sussex One World Week event
English Colloquium
Decolonise English: A Faculty Research Roundtable
theme selected by student vote
Wednesday
20 March 2019
5-7pm Jubilee 144
SPEAR
Week 7 | Thursday 21 March, 5pm | Gardner Tower, ACCA
Prarthana Purkayastha (Royal Holloway, University of London)
‘Decolonizing Human Exhibits: dance, re-enactment and historical fiction’
"Embodied Movement for Social Change"
Workshop with Camille Barton
March 21st 6-9pmACCA
Collaboration with Performing Borders.
This event is free but registration in advance will be required. Further details will be avaialble closer to the event. - Week Eight - 25th March - 31st March
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Tuesday March 26
Hi Zero #69 Contemporary Poetry Readin
The Hope & Ruin
11-12 Queens Road, BN13 Brighton
English Colloquiumco-sponsored by the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Studies Working Group
Robbie Richardson, University of Kent
‘Money speaks sense in a Language all Nations understand’: Wampum in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Wednesday
27 March 2019
5-7pm Jubilee 144
American Studies
Adia Benton, Northwestern University, “Ebola, Epidemic Projections and the Politics of Reckoning”
Thursday, 28 March 2019, 4-6pm Arts C333
co-sponsored by the Sussex Africa Centre
You are warmly invited to come to see TrumpWatchLive next Thursday 28th March, a pop-up American Studies event!
TrumpWatchLive is a live recording of Sussex University podcast TrumpWatchSussex in the lovely ACCA building.
Come and be the audience for a panel of Americanists, journalists and students and ask a question. The event is recorded for TrumpWatchSussex
Email a question about the effects of Trump on the US and the world to Doug Haynes d.e.haynes@sussex.ac.uk and we'll ask the panel what they think.
Event begins with FREE drinks in the ACCA bar at 6pm, a presentation on why we study the US and then the podcast 7-8pm.
The Centre for Creative and Critical Thought warmly invites you to a symposium:
Lit/Ext: Literature, Climate Change and the End of the World
Speakers:Sarah Wood (editor of Angelaki and the Oxford Literary Review), ‘The Game is Up'
Nicholas Royle, ‘Protective Mimicry: Reflections on the Novel Today’Roundtable with Michael Jonik, John Masterson, Nicholas Royle and Sarah Wood
Friday 29 March 2019, 4:30-7 p.m.Arts B 274All are welcome - Week Nine - 1st April - 7th April
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CEMMS
Monday 1st April
Tom Kowalczyck (Sussex)
‘‘In Sight of the World’? Writing Diplomatic Authority in 1590s Istanbul’.
5pm – B274
Sussex Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Seminar
5 p.m., Arts B B217
Spring Term Events
2 April - co-hosted by the Centre for American Studies
Mike Collins (King’s College London)
"The Infernal Intellect of Mark Twain: No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger”
English Colloquium
co-sponsored by Sussex Performance Events and Research [SPEAR] and the American Studies Research SeminarArabella Stanger, University of Sussex
Choreographing White Ideality at Black Mountain College
Introduced by Ashley Barr
Wednesday
3 April 2019
5-7pm Jubilee 144
ROLLS Research on Languages and Linguistics at Sussex Seminar Series
Wednesday 3 April 2019 1.00-2.30 pm Jubilee 118Dr Justyna Robinson (ELL, Sussex)
Dr Julie Weeds (Engineering, Sussex)
Prof Tim Hitchcock (HAHP, Sussex)
Do men and women understand the same concepts differently?
A view from the 19th century London courtroom
American Studies
Christienna Fryar, University of Liverpool
“Fears of Jim Crow: British Sovereignty, American Expansionism, and the 1907 Kingston Earthquake”
Thursday, 4 April 2019, 4-6 pm Arts A108
co-sponsored by History WIP
Thurs 4th April
5-6:30 pm
Queer Studies Reading Group
Readings TBA. Arts B217 - Week Ten - 8th April - 14th April [Teaching and Easter Break 15th April to 28th April]
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English Colloquium
co-sponsored by the Centre for Creative and Critical WritingJoseph Luna, University of Surrey
Sketch for a Financial Theory of the Poem
Introduced by Mitchel Pass
Wednesday
10 April 2019
5-7pm Jubilee 144
April 10th
English Language and Linguistics Postgraduate Conference(details to be confirmed later)
- Week Eleven - 29th April 5th May
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CEMMS
Monday 29th April
Matthew Champion (Birkbeck)Dove-Medcalf lecture
'The Shifting Sounds of Time: Europe, 1321–1600'
6pm – B274
Sex Diss Doctoral Network Workshop with Prof Petra Doan at the University of Sussex
(this event is only open to PhD students)
Tues 30th April
Details on this Doctoral Network event will be sent to doctoral students. - Week Twelve - 6th May - 12th May
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Creative space and Homelessness:
Listening to the Unheard Voices of the Unhoused
May 7th 2019 17.00-19.00 in the Social Space
I get up,
I get up.
Still breathing,
I get up.
Poem – First Base Participants
This presentation is the result of a series of HEIF-funded creative workshops held at First Base Day Centre for the Homeless or Unhoused in Brighton & Hove in Summer and Autumn 2018.
The workshops were led by theatre-maker and facilitator Emma Higham, and included writing, drawing, film-making and performance. Participants were offered an opportunity to express their voice and opinions, and enabled a group who sleep rough and tend to concentrate mostly on quotidian survival matters to express themselves creatively. The topic chosen by the participants was The City and through this stimulus, First Base clients reflected on their life and selfhood.
The outcome of these activities at First Base was a series of filmed diaries of the group’s sessions and a final short film summarising their experiences (produced by Emma Higham and RBD Design). The film is accompanied by the ethnographic observations of an observer and participant, Roberta Piazza.
‘The project offered me a new avenue of hope in the future.’ First Base Participant
Centre for Modernist Studies‘May Sinclair's Manuscript Drafts and the Difficulties of Scholarly Editing’
Rebecca Bowler (Keele) and Claire Drewery (Sheffield Hallam)
Wednesday 8th May 2019, 10am-12pm
Room 4, The Language Learning Centre, Arts A
The Centre for Modernist Studies is delighted to announce the first of a number of workshops opening up the treasure trove of modernist archives held in the University of Sussex Special Collections at the Keep.
This talk and interactive workshop will explore the archive of May Sinclair (1863-1946). Modernist novelist, short story writer, philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist, May Sinclair was the first to use the phrase ‘stream of consciousness’ to describe modernist writing, she wrote pamphlets for the suffrage movement, promoted the poetry of T. S. Eliot, H. D., and Richard Aldington, was on the board of one of the first psychotherapeutic clinics in Britain, and also went to Belgium with an ambulance unit at the beginning of the First World War.
The workshop will be of interest to anybody with an interest in modernist writing, archives, scholarly editing, and to anyone who simply wants to learn more about the archives housed at the Keep. Everyone is welcome!The workshop will be led by Rebecca Bowler (Keele) and Claire Drewery (Sheffield Hallam), general editors of the new Edinburgh Critical Editions of the Works of May Sinclair.
Dr Helen Tyson
Please join us for our next Queory event, featuring Dr. Dhiren Borisa (Leicester University) who will speak about ""Walking Desires, Writing Queer: Readings of the City through Intimacy and Dialogue in Delhi"
Thursday 9 May, 5-7pm in Jubilee G36.The event is free and all are welcome - Summer Term 2019 Events Advanced Notice
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Postponed
English Colloquium
co-sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence
and the American Studies Research Seminar, in collaboration with King’s College LondonJordy Rosenberg (University of Massachusetts, Amherst
title tbcTuesday
28 May 2019
time and location tbc
Dr Roberta Piazza - Talk on 'Gypsies and Travellers' (title tbc) with East Sussex County and Brighton & Hove at the Jubilee Library on June 20th 9-13
CEMMS
Fri. 7 June – London conference, ‘Writing Islam’, Museum of the Order of St. John. TBC
Summer Term | July (date tbc)
Aurora Nova at the Edinburgh Fringe 2001-9: collectivity, impact and legacy
One-day symposium organised by William McEvoy
Women, Money and Markets Conference - June 2019
To celebrate the mid-point of the AHRC funded project, “Small bills and petty finance: co-creating the history of the Old Poor Law”, a joint investigation led by the Universities of Keele and Sussex, this year’s Women, Money and Markets conference theme is ‘Petty Finance’.
The conference will open at 9.00am on Thursday 13th June and close at 6.30pm on Friday 14thJune. A conference dinner is taking place on Thursday 13th June and will be held at a local restaurant in Brighton. If you wish to attend, please purchase a ticket for the dinner in addition to your conference ticket
https://onlineshop.sussex.ac.uk/product-catalogue/conference-seminars/english/women-money-and-markets-conference-june-2019