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Summer term 2013 seminars and events

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 13 May-19 May

 

 

 Hélène Cixous, ‘Ayaï! The Shout of Literature’, Asa Briggs Lecture Theatre, A1, Monday 13 May, 5 p.m.

           

 

 

Programme for Graduate Careers Development DayGraduate Careers Development Day Poster

Graduate Career Development Day

Wednesday 15th May 2013 Arts B2741pm – 5:30pm

Includes lunch, and drinks reception

at 5:30pm-6:30pm in Arts B274 Followed by drinks reception in B274 at 5:30pm

RSVP by 10 May to s.newell@sussex.ac.uk

 

    

17 May

Modernist Intimacies Conference

9:30-6:30 

Register in advance to 

Ruth Charnock

r.n.e.charnock@sussex.ac.uk

£15

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Saturday 18th May

The Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence presents:

Audre Lorde's International Feminisms

Film Screening of 'Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years, 1984-1992' [79 mins]
With an introduction by the director, Prof. Dagmar Schultz, followed by
responses from Dr. Gail Lewis (Open University) and Dr. Stella Bolaki
(University of Kent) and an audience Q&A.

Saturday 18th May 2013 1.15pm-4.15pm
University of Sussex
Fulton Building
Lecture Theatre A

This event is part of the (Im)possibly Queer International Feminisms
Conference, hosted by the International Feminist Journal of Politics.

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 20 May - 26 May

 

 

 

From image to language: three vignettes of work in transition Tuesday 21 May 18:00 until 19:00 Arts A1 lecture theatre

 Poster for lecture by Leonard Barkan, From Image to Language

Speaker: Professor Leonard Barkan, Princeton University
Part of the series: Joint Centre for Early Modern Studies and Centre for Visual Fields Annual Lecture

In this lecture, Professor Barkan will consider Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and Caravaggio in a sequence of frameworks - labelled as Substitution, Marginality, and Translation - that together seek to illustrate the interdisciplinary range of Comparative Literature

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Timothy Morton, ‘The Only Emergency is the Lack of Emergency: Reflections on Creativity in the Anthropocene’, Asa Briggs Lecture Theatre, A2, Tuesday 21 May, 5 p.m.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 27 May - 31 May

Bank Holiday

 

 

 

 

 

Interponed as a sheet of waste paper:
Writing Early Modern Lives

Early Modern Biography

29th May 2013 4-6pm Fulton A Lecture Theatre

 Poster with Dutch peepshow of interior, wooden box painted scenes Samuel Hoogstraaten National Galley image.

3 speakers: Jim Shapiro (Columbia University, author of 1599 and Contested Will); Charles Nicholl (author of The Reckoning and Shakespeare on Silver Street) and Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex, author of Edmund Spenser: A Life). Chair: Tom Healy (Sussex).

 

 

 

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 3 June 7 June

 

Keston Sutherland talk on 4 June, 16-18.00, in Fulton 202

 

 

 


 

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