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 - 30th September - 6th October
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English Colloquium co-hosted by SexDiss and ENCS
All Colloquium talks are on Wednesdays, 5–7pm in Jubilee 144.
Week 1
2 October 2019 Christine “Xine” Yao, University College, University of London
“The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling: Race, Affect, and Disaffection”
Dhaba Square Choir - Autumn Term Session
All in Arts B274 Social Space 1-1:50pm
http://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/dhaba-square-choir/3rd October (Taster Session)
- Week Two - 7th October - 13th October
English Colloquium
All Colloquium talks are on Wednesdays, 5–7pm in Jubilee 144
Week 2
9 October 2019 Rachel O’Connell, University of Sussex
“Willam Belli and the Fully Commodified Self:
Femininity, Visibility, and Precarity in Social Media and RuPaul’s Drag Race”co-hosted by SexDiss
American Studies
October 8, 4 pm, ARTS A 155
Maribel Morey (Clemson)
“ “Uncovering Carnegie’s White World Order:
The Colonial African Roots to Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma.”
The Hidden Shelf book club
4-6pm in Arts B2749 October: Welcome meeting
Dhaba Square Choir - Autumn Term Session
All in Arts B274 Social Space 1-1:50pm
http://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/dhaba-square-choir/10th October
- Week Three - 14th October - 20th October
English Colloquium
All Colloquium talks are on Wednesdays,
5–7pm in Jubilee 144
Week 316 October 2019
Toni Morrison: An Appreciation roundtablewith Maria Lauret • Hannah Ludikhuizje • John Masterson • Sam Solomon • Pam Thurschwell • Carol Watts
American Studies
October 15, 4 pm, ARTS A 155
Rona Cran
'Space Occupied: New York City Women Poet-Editors
and the Mimeograph Revolution from the 1950s to the 1970s."https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/english/cran-rona.aspx
ROLLS
Wednesdays, 1.00-2.30 in Jubilee G31Week 3, 16th October
Christian Ilbury (Queen Mary)
‘Beyond the Offline’: Social media and the social meaning of variation in East London.
SPEAR talk Sussex Performance Events and Research
Ahmarnya Price
‘Navigating the grey: on the merits of difficult conversations in community-engaged,
solo interdisciplinary performance’6pm | Friday 18 October
Creativity Zone, Pevensey III
https://spearsussex.wordpress.com/
CEMMS
Monday 14th October 2019, 4-6pm,
English Social Space, B274,
Dr Chloe Porter (Sussex)
"Tell me who made the world":
Diabolical Beginnings in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus'- Week Four - 21st October - 27th October
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English Colloquium co-hosted by SexDiss
All Colloquium talks are on Wednesdays, 5–7pm in Jubilee 144
Week 4
23 October 2019Patricia Stuelke, Dartmouth College
“Reparative Reading and Other Drug War Fictions”
The Hidden Shelf book club
4-6pm in Arts B27423 October: Black Panther (Book 1) by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Dhaba Square Choir - Autumn Term Session
All in Arts B274 Social Space 1-1:50pm
http://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/dhaba-square-choir/
24th October
CEMMS in collaboration with the Department of History Work-in-Progress seminar
Thursday 24th October, 4-6pm
Arts A 108
Professor Alison Rowlands (Essex)
‘The Life and Times of Michael Würth:
Writing an Historical Biography of a Man Accused of Witchcraft in Germany in 1663’ - Week Five - 28th October - 3rd November
Hi Zero #73 Contemporary Poetry Readings
7:30pm 29th october 2019
The Hope and Ruin Pub, Queens Road, Brighton
New Daughters of Africa: A Cultural Industries PerspectiveWednesday 30th of October
16.00 until 18.00
Fulton Lecture Theatre A
Free event, all welcome – please book free tickets via Eventbrite (click on link).
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/49818
English ColloquiumAll Colloquium talks are on Wednesdays, 5–7pm in Jubilee 144
Week 530 October 2019
Perspectives on West Side Story roundtablewith Sam Ladkin • Maria Lauret • Sam Solomon • Arabella Stanger • Ellie Rodgers • Kirsty Rolfe • Natalie Wright
- Week Six - 4th November - 10th November
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ROLLS
Wednesdays, 1.00-2.30 in Jubilee G31Week 6, 6th November
Mel Evans (Leicester University)
Language and power in Tudor royal texts: a case for corpus-assisted historical discourse analysis
English Colloquium
All Colloquium talks are on Wednesdays, 5–7pm in Jubilee 144
6 November 2019Merve Emre, University of Oxford
“Too Close Reading from Dickens to Davis”
Dhaba Square Choir - Autumn Term Session
All in Arts B274 Social Space 1-1:50pm
http://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/dhaba-square-choir/
7th November - Week Seven - 11th November - 17th November
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A Research Talk
Monday, 11 November 3-5pm brought to you by the
Sex Diss and the Centre for Global Political EconomyJules GleesonGender Transitions & Intersex Identities - Communities, Consciousness & Social ReproductionPevensey 1 2A1
The Museum of Forgetfulness By Gabriel JosipoviciTuesday 12th November 2019 – Performance 6pm
Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
Falmer Campus, University of Sussex BN19RA
ROLLS (note different location for this event)
Week 7, 15th November (10-17,
Language Centre, rooms 3 & 4)Interdisciplinary Narrative Symposium
English Colloquium
All Colloquium talks are on Wednesdays, 5–7pm in Jubilee 144
13 November 2019
Louisa Egbunike, City College, University of London“Imagining Biafra: Collective Memory, History and Narrative”
The Hidden Shelf book club
4-6pm in Arts B27413 November: An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon - Week Eight - 18th November - 24th November
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American Studies
November 19, 4 pm, ARTS A 155Georgina Colby (University of Westminster)
"Feminist Solidarity and Experiment in Kathy Acker’s Early Writings"
Eighteenth-and-nineteenth century seminars
Dr Justine Pizzo (Southampton)
Tuesday 19 November Arts B217 6PM
'Victorian Climate Science and Hardy’s Dissoluble Female Subjects’.
English Colloquium co-hosted by ROLLS
All Colloquium talks are on Wednesdays, 5–7pm in Jubilee 144
Week 820 November 2019
Elena Semino, University of Lancaster“Metaphor, Creativity and Illness”
Dhaba Square Choir - Autumn Term Session
All in Arts B274 Social Space 1-1:50pm
http://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/dhaba-square-choir/
21st November
Demons
A Roundtable on Literature, Theory and Politics
Thursday 21 November, Jubilee Building 144, 4-6 pm
SPEAR talk Sussex Performance Events and ResearchMojisola Adebayo (Queen Mary University of London)
‘Afriquia Theatre Activism:
Black Queer Kunto towards Ubuntu’(co-sponsored with Film Studies, Sussex)
5:30pm | Friday 22 November
Gardner Tower, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
https://spearsussex.wordpress.com/
- Week Nine - 25th November - 1st December
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Hi-Zero New Poetry - Tom Betteridge, Caitlin Doherty, Tom Crompton
26th November 7:30pm
The Hope and Ruin Pub
Brighton
English Colloquium co-hosted by CEMMSAll Colloquium talks are on Wednesdays, 5–7pm in Jubilee 144
Week 927 November 2019
Natalya Din-Kariuki, University of Warwick“Credit, Credibility, and Corporations in Early Modern Travel Writing”
- Week Ten - 2nd December - 8th December
- CEMMS in collaboration with the Department of Art History
Tuesday 3 December, 4:15-6:30
Arts A 108
Dr Flora Dennis,
University of Sussex
'Cooking Pots, Tableware and the Changing Sounds of Sociability in Italy, 1300-1700'
The Hidden Shelf book club
4-6pm in Arts B274
4 December: Ban en Banlieue by Bhanu Kapil
Dhaba Square Choir - Autumn Term Session
All in Arts B274 Social Space 1-1:50pm
http://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/dhaba-square-choir/
5th December - Week Eleven - 9th December - 15th December
- Sex Diss Events
Wed11th December, 1-5pm.
Brighton University Grand Parade campus in town, room TBC.
A workshop with Dr. Meg-John Barker on writing about sexuality and gender for general audiences. There will be limited space on the workshop, and a call for expressions of interest will be circulated in October. The workshop will be followed by a book launch for Dr. Barker's Life Isn’t Binary.
This event is sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence in collaboration with Uni of Brighton’s Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender. e-mail sexgencentre @ brighton .ac .uk as pre-registration is needed due to numbers!
There is an evening soiree following for the launch of M-J Barker’s newest book ‘Gender: A Graphic Guide’ from 6-8pm also in Edward Street Rm 105. There will be some wine and nibbles, the chance to buy the book and get it signed!
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