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
time tbc
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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English Colloquium
co-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
- 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 Satanic Intellect of Mark Twain: The Case of “The Mysterious Stranger, No. 44”’
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
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
- Summer Term 2019 Events Advanced Notice
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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
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