SPRING TERM EVENTS
Select from the list below for each week's events during term, including 18th & 19th Century Seminars, Centre for Early Modern & Medieval Studies (CEMMS), American Studies, Research on Language & Linguistics at Sussex (ROLLS), English Graduate Seminar, English Colloquium, Modernist Studies, and Centre for Sexual Dissidence, other conferences, workshops and symposia.
- Week One 30 January - 5th February 2017
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Monday 30 Tuesday 31 Wednesday 1 Thursday 2 Friday 3 Term Begins English Colloquium
Experience and problem-solving
in fiction by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
Dorothy L. Sayers and J.K Rowling
Prof Kate McLoughlin (Oxford)
Jubilee G22 5-7pm
CEMMS
Social Space
Arts B274 - 6pm
Eva Holmberg (Helsinki)
Perceiving Levantines:
British Cultural Descriptions
of the Ottoman Empire
and its Non-Muslim Peoples,
1580-1640’.EGS4-6pm Social Space
B274
Zurina Khairuddin - Week Two 6 February - 12 February 2017
- Week Three 13 February - 19 February 2017
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Monday 13 Tuesday 14 Wednesday 15 Thursday 16 Friday 17 POSTPONED
CEMMS/Art History Event
To be announced
Arts A108 6pm
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Sex Diss Event
14 February
Patrick Kelly Loves... - Sequoia Barnes (Queory)
Tuesday Jubilee G36
4pm-6pmEnglish Colloquium with C18/C19
Jubilee G22 5pm
15 February
Photography and Visual Culture
Luisa Calè (Birkbeck)
‘Extra-illustration and Ephemera:
Altered Books, Loose Pieces,
and the Alternative Forms of the
Fugitive PageAmerican Studies
Research Seminars
Thurs 16 Feb – 4pm – Arts A108
David Sim (UCL)
'Follow the Money: Junk Bonds,
Nationalism and US Foreign Relations
in the Mid-Nineteenth CenturyEGS4-6pm
Social Space
B274
Leah Edens - Week Four 20 February - 26 February 2017
- Week Five 27th February - 5th March 2017
- Week Six 6 March - 12 March 2017
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Monday 6 Tuesday 7 Wednesday 8 Thursday 9 Friday 10 Centre for American Studies
Poet Simon Pettet
4pm , Arts A155
More informationAmerican Studies
Research Seminars
Tues 7 March 4pm
Jubilee G35
Roundtable on contemporary
African-American fiction
with Natalia Cecire (Sussex);
Maria Lauret (Sussex);
Tom Wright (Sussex)
ROLLS
1-2pm Jubilee G36
Alison Wray (Cardiff)
Conceptualising language and
communication in the context of dementia
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English Colloquium
Jubilee G22 5pm
8 March
Modernist Studies
Hope Wolf (Sussex)
‘The Making of Sussex Modernism’
r - Week Seven 13 March - 19 March 2017
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Monday 13 Tuesday 14 Wednesday 15 Thursday 16 Friday 17 American Studies
Research Seminars
Tues 14 March 4pm
Arts A108
Emma Doubt, (Sussex)
‘Gender, Race, and Transculturation
in the Portraiture and Material Culture
of the Cherokee Nation's
'First Family', 1843-1902’
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CEMMS
Arts B274 6pm
Ben Fowler (Sussex)
‘Shakespeare Schaubühne Style:
Disinterring Dukes, Danes,
and Bunchback’d Toads’
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18th- & 19th-Century English Research
Seminar Series.
5 pm Arts B B217
Nan Da (Notre Dame)
‘Intransitive Encounter:
China and the US's Form Before Literary Exchange’.ROLLS
1-2pm Jubilee G36
Louise Sylvester (Westminster)
Technical language in the medieval
period
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English Colloquium
Silverstone 121 5pm *Note venue change*
15 March
Creative and Critical with Modernist Studies
Iain Sinclair,
author of
Lights Out for the Territory, Downriver, and Ghost Milk‘
Marine Court Rendezvous:
Concrete Modernism in St Leonards-on-Sea
and the Colonisation of the World's Oceans
by Cruise Liners’
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Sex Diss Event
15 March
Orlando (Dreamland Cinema)
Wednesday Fabrica, Brighton, 7.30pmEGS 4-6pm
Social Space
B274Emily Jessica Turner - Week Eight 20 March - 26 March 2017
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Monday 20 Tuesday 21 Wednesday 22 Thursday 23 Friday 24 SICK! Festival events this weekhttps://www.attenboroughcentre.com/events/Booking required see web site for details Monday 20th, 4.15pm - Thomas DeFrantz, I am Black (You have to Be Willing Not to Know), a lecture/performance, in the Debating Chamber (Falmer House). This is followed by ‘On the Couch’: Visible and Invisible Identities at 5.30pm - a discussion about visibility, categories of identity, with Thomas, Jaamil, Yaa Asare (Brighton Uni) and Vacuum Cleaner (performer/activist).
Koen De Preter & Theatre Stap - To BelongLocation: ACCA Auditoriumhttps://www.attenboroughcentre.com/events/514/sick-festival-to-belong-koen-de-preter-theatre-stap/
It’s tonight at 9pm, Jason Price will be hosting the post-show discussion. Tickets through the web site.
Sex Diss Event
22 March
A Willesden Song-Cycle - Magid El-Bushra
(Co-Event)
Wednesday
The Marlborough Pub, Brighton, 7.30pm
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No Colloquium
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SICK! FestivalWednesday 22nd, 9.15pm - #negrophobia in the Creativity Zone with post-show discussion between Sara Jane Bailes (Sussex), Jaamil and Madison Moore (King’s).
CEMMS 6pm
New venue***
Jubilee 144
Emma Smith (Oxford)
Annual Shakespeare Lecture
‘‘Exit pursued by a bear’ (again):
reading Shakespeare’s
stage direction’.
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Thursday 23rd, 5-7pm – Creativity Zone
‘White State/Black Mind’ an informal/roundtable talk and discussion between Sara Jane and other Sussex Drama faculty, Jaamil and Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste (sound designer for #negrophobia). Jeremy’s work on this piece was nominated for a Bessie Award last year in the in the category Outstanding Sound Design category. This event is FREE!!!
Sex Diss Event
24 March
A Willesden Song-Cycle - Magid El-Bushra
(Co-Event)
Wednesday
The Marlborough Pub, Brighton, 7.30pm
- Week Nine 27 March - 2 April 2017
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Monday 27 Tuesday 28 Wednesday 29 Thursday 30 Friday 31 Saturday 1
18th- & 19th-Century English Research
Seminar Series.
5 pm Arts B B217
Sharon Ruston (Lancaster)
‘Humphry Davy:
Patents, Priority and Poetry’English Colloquium
Jubilee G22 5pm
Colonial and Postcolonial
John McLeod (Leeds)
‘Writing Transcultural Adoption’Sex Diss Event
30 March
A Willesden Song-Cycle - Magid El-Bushra (Co-Event)
Thursday
The Marlborough Pub, Brighton (Plus Q&A), 7.30pm
American Studies
Artist Jim DineFulton 104 4pm
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Social Space
B274
Ross Owens - Week Ten 3 April 9th April (Spring and Easter Break 8th April to 23rd of April)
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Monday 3 Tuesday 4 Wednesday 5 Thursday 6 Friday 7
CEMMS 6pm
Arts B274
Per Sivefors (Linmnaeus),
‘Representing Manhood in
Tudor and Stuart Verse Satire’.
English Colloquium
Jubilee G22 5pm
American Studies
Rachel Malkin (Oxford)
‘The Limits of Joy (via Wallace Stevens)’
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***The event is taking place on 5th April. News of postponement was in error.
'Pop! Goes the Artschool: Radical Pedagogy and Creative Experiment in Post-Punk LeedsLecture by Prof Gavin Butt The Rose Hill - 6pm.
70-71 Rose Hill Terrace, Brighton - Week Eleven 24 April - 30 April 2017
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Monday 24 Tuesday 25 Wednesday 26 Thursday 27 Friday 28
American Studies
Research Seminars
Tues 25 April5pm –Jubilee G35
Pascale Baker (UC Dublin)
on Chicano/a BanditsROLLS
1-2pm Jubilee G36
Tim Hitchcock (Sussex)
Hearing voices in an 18th century
courtroom: Sound, space
and experience at
The Old Bailey.
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English Colloquium
Jubilee G22 5pm
26 April
Sex Diss with Drama
Gavin Butt (Sussex)
‘Anti-Gravitas: The Politics of Queer Levity’
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David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter Poet
Wednesday 26 April 2017 @ 6.30
Fulton A Lecture Theatre, Fulton Building,
University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton
A rare opportunity to listen to
Thomas Dilworth discuss the
gifted character at the heart of his long awaited biography,
published by Jonathan Cape.
This event is free but with limited capacity, so to reserve your place please visit
http://www.ditchlingmuseumartcraft.org.uk/product/davidjones/EGS 4-6pm
Social Space
B274
Harriet Barratt Dorling
'Extending the Body: Medical Objects and Modernist Patients' - Week Twelve 1 May - 7 May 2017
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Monday 1 Tuesday 2 Wednesday 3 Thursday 4 Friday 5 The Emotional Nature of the
Number of Inches Between:
Body Language,Sexuality, and
Affectual Transfer in Scott Burton's
Behavior Tableaux of the 1970s
David Getsy (Art Institute Chicago)
4-6pm, Silverstone 309English Colloquium
Jubilee 115 - 5pm NOTE new venue
American Studies
‘Black Flesh and the Afrodiaspora’
Rizvana Bradley (Yale)Black Abolitionists in Victorian Britain -American Studies event -Thursday - May 4th - 6pm - Jubilee 144. - Advance Notice of Summer 2017 Events
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May June July 2018 2019 'Reading and its Objects' 8-9 May in the Fulton Building
(Fulton B for keynotes and 104 for panels)
https://readinganditsobjects.wordpress.com/programme/