All staff, students and external visitors are welcome to attend events hosted by English at Sussex.
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 - 27th January - 2nd February 2020
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Final-year students, share feedback on your course in the National Student Survey, open now at thestudentsurvey.com
The University will donate £2 to the Woodland Trust for every eligible student who takes part, which will go towards vital work to protect trees
More information: sussex.ac.uk/nss
English Colloquium
Wednesday, 29 January 2019
5pm, Silverstone 309
Natalya Din-Kariuki
University of Warwick
Credit, Credibility, and Corporations in Early Modern Travel Writing
Introduced by Zeyneb Maksudoglu
Hi Zero - New Poetry
Tuesday 28th January 2020 (£3)
7:30pm, Hope and Ruin Pub, Queens Road, Brighton
Dhaba Square Choir
Thursday 30th January
1:00 to 1:50pm,
Social Space, Arts B274
All welcome to attend any or all sessions, just come along to the Social Space.
- Week Two - 3rd February - 9th February 2020
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English Colloquium
The English Colloquium and the Sussex Humanities Lab present
GABRIEL EGAN
Centre for Textual Studies,
De Montfort University
Why Teach Humanities Students Letterpress Printing?
Wednesday, 5th February 2020
Workshop: hands-on printing demonstration on our new Albion press:
Arts B134, 3pm
Talk: Sussex Humanities Lab,
Silverstone Building
5-7pm,
chaired by Tomasz Kowalczyk - Week Three - 10th February - 16th February 2020
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CEMMS
Week 3
Monday 10th February 5pm
English Social Space B274Dr Tom White - University of Oxford
Working Theories of the Book: Late Medieval Ink Recipes and the Poetics of Practicality
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Seminar Series (in Collaboration with the Centre for Modernist Studies)Henry James, Invisible Wounds, and the Civil WarThomas Constantinesco (Associate Professor, Université Paris Diderot; Visiting Fellow, Oriel College, Oxford).Tuesday 11 February, 5pm, B217.
English Colloquium with Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century StudiesWeek 3
12 Feb 5pm Silverstone 309
Helena Ifill, University of Aberdeen
Agency and Consent in Fin-de-siècle Medical Gothic Fiction
Dhaba Square Choir
Thursday 13th February
1:00 to 1:50pm,
Social Space, Arts B274
All welcome to attend any or all sessions, just come along to the Social Space.
CEMMS
Thursday 13th February, 5-7pm, LLC Room 4
On Ulysses: Homer, Dante, Joyce
Professor Lino Pertile, Harvard University,
‘On Ulysses: in Praise of Literature’,
and Professor Brian Cummings, University of York, ‘Ulysses and Time Travel: Homer, Dante, Joyce’
with discussants Dr Ambra Moroncini and Professor Andrew Hadfield, University of Sussex, in collaboration with Sussex Centre for Language Studies Language and Culture Series - Week Four - 17th February - 23rd February 2020
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The English Colloquium and Research on Language and Linguistics at Sussex present
ROBERTA PIAZZA
University of Sussex
‘We didn’t want a castle, only a home and they brought us here’
The construction of space-identity in a group of IrishTravellers
Moderated by Alexandra Kempton
Wednesday19 February 2019
5pm, Silverstone 309
SPEAR
Never Stand Still: Artist Talk by Harry Clayton-Wright6pm | Monday 17 FebruaryJane Attenborough Studio, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
- Week Five - 24th February - 1st March 2020
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Due to strike action by UCU, it is likely that events listed here will not be able to take place
CEMMS
Week 5 Monday 24th February, 4pm,
English Social Space B274Dr Kurosh Meshkat, British Library,
title tbc, in collaboration with the Department of History Work in Progress Seminar
English ColloquiumWeek 5
26 Feb 5pm Silverstone 309
Joan Anim-Addo, Goldsmiths, University of London
title tbc
ROLLS
Week 5, 26th February1–2 in Jubilee G36 unless otherwise stated
Co-hosted with SCLS
Adam Schembri (University of Birmingham)
British Sign Language Corpus project: What we have learnt thus far
Dhaba Square Choir
Thursday 27th February
1:00 to 1:50pm,
Social Space, Arts B274
All welcome to attend any or all sessions, just come along to the Social Space. - Week Six - 2nd March - 8th March 2020
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Due to strike action by UCU, it is likely that events listed here will not be able to take place
SPEAR
The Chore of Enchantment by Vincent Gambini
Followed by post-show discussion with Dr. Jason Price(supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England)8pm | Tuesday 3 MarchAttenborough Centre for the Creative ArtsTo book tickets: https://www.attenboroughcentre.com/events/3515/vincent-gambini-the-chore-of-enchantment/
ROLLS
Week 6, 4th March
1–2 in Jubilee G36 unless otherwise statedKhadij Gharibi (Essex)
The role of cross-generational attrition in heritage language development
- Week Seven - 9th March - 15th March 2020
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Due to strike action by UCU, it is likely that events listed here will not be able to take place
CEMMS
Week 7
Monday 9th March, 5pm, English Social Space B274Professor Charles Nicholl, University of Sussex,
'Naked Tragedy': True Crime Drama on the London Stage, 1598-1605
English Colloquium with SPEARSPEAR TALK
Faisal Hamadah (Queen Mary University of London)
‘Back to the Grave: Theattrical Repetition and the World-System in1234 Boom! and Summer Doldrums’
(co-sponsored with English Colloquium, Sussex)5pm | Wednesday 11 MarchSilverstone 309https://spearsussex.wordpress.com/2019-20-overview/
Dhaba Square Choir
Thursday 12th March
1:00 to 1:50pm,
Social Space, Arts B274
All welcome to attend any or all sessions, just come along to the Social Space. - Week Eight - 16th March - 22nd March 2020
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THESE EVENTS THIS WEEK HAVE NOW BEEN CANCELLED
CEMMSWeek 8 Monday 16th March, 5pm, venue tbc
The Annual Shakespeare Lecture,
by Dr Hester Lees Jeffries - St Catharine’s College Cambridge
Silken Terms Precise: Shakespeare’s Textile Imagination
The Centre for Creative and Critical Thought
warmly invites you to
SCHERZOS BENJYOSOS
Thoughts on a work in progress + a readingKeston Sutherland
in conversation with
Nicholas RoyleEveryone welcome
Fulton 101
1400-1600, Tuesday 17th March
The English Colloquium and EGS present
ISABEL WAIDNER
University of Roehampton
We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff
Reading and Talk
programmed by the English Graduate Symposium
moderated by Ashley Barr .Wednesday,
18 March 2020• 5pm,Silverstone 309
Dhaba Square Choir
Thursday 19th March
1:00 to 1:50pm,
Social Space, Arts B274
All welcome to attend any or all sessions, just come along to the Social Space. - Week Nine - 23rd March - 29th March 2020 (Spring Vacation 30th March - 19th Paril)
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ROLLS
Week 9, 25th March
1–2 in Jubilee G36 unless otherwise statedMarcello Giovanelli (Aston)
Siegfried Sassoon and the experience of War: Cognitive Grammar, creativity and context
English Colloquium with Modernist StudiesWeek 9
25 March 5pm Silverstone 309
Rebuilding: Modernist Pedagogic Spaces
Conference Plenary
with Maurice Howard, Alexandra Loeske, Assemble, Owen Hatherley, Jane, Rendell, et al.http://www.sussex.ac.uk/modernist/newsandevents/rebuilding
Dhaba Square Choir
Thursday 26th March
1:00 to 1:50pm,
Social Space, Arts B274
All welcome to attend any or all sessions, just come along to the Social Space. - Week Ten - 20th April - 26th April 2020
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CEMMS
Week 10 Monday 20th April, 5pm, venue tbc
The Dove-Medcalf Lecture
by Dr Marianne O'Doherty, University of Southampton
Transnational Travel Texts and the Expanding Globe in the later Middle Ages
ROLLS
Week 10, 22nd April
1–2 in Jubilee G36 unless otherwise statedRhys Sandow (Sussex)
Language as currency: The value of words on the linguistic marketplace in Cornwall
English Colloquium with SexDiss
Week 10Sophie Jones, Birkbeck, University of London
Towards a Crip Politics of Reproduction”
2pm Silverstone 309 (note time!) - Week Eleven - 27th April - 3rd May 2020
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English Colloquium with Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Studies
Week 11
29 April 5pm Silverstone 309
Tita Chico, University of Maryland, College Park
“Hooke’s Ant: Scrutiny and the Global Eighteenth Century” - Week "12" and beyond - Week ++
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CEMMS
Week 12 Tuesday 5th May, 5pm, English Social Space B274
Dr Anna McSweeney, University of Sussex
The Legacy of al-Andalus: Architectural Fragments from the Fifteenth-century Torrijos Palace
Summer5 June TBC
Glyn Salton-Cox, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
title tbc, with Modernist Studies and SexDiss
Summer term, 17–19 June
5th Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2020 (details to be confirmed)
Charlotte Taylor