English Colloquium
Autumn 2020
All talks are at 5pm (unless stated otherwise) on Zoom – links will be provided via email to all members of the School of Media, Arts and Humanities
Week 1: Wednesday 30 September
Richard Georges, ‘Dead Reckoning: Hope in the Face of Mass Trauma’, a poetry reading and talk
Week 2: Wednesday 7 October
Work-in-Progress: PhD Research Panel
Featuring: Ahmad Ali, Ashley Barr, Raneem Bosli, Laura Gallon, Jane Pendry, and Maisie Ridgway
Week 3: Wednesday 14 October
Isabel Waidner (Roehampton), ‘What does it mean to innovate in literature now?’, a reading followed by Q&A
Week 4: Wednesday 21 October
Environmental Humanities Panel
Week 5: Wednesday 28 October
Black Lives Matter Panel
Week 6: Wednesday 4 November
Jason Arday (Durham), ‘We All Need to Dream the Same Dream and Want the Same Thing: Collectively Dismantling Racial Inequality in Higher Education’
Week 7: Wednesday 11 November
Tara Puri (Bristol), ‘Becoming Kamala Satthianadhan: The Indian Ladies’ Magazine and transnational print networks in late colonial India’
Week 8: Wednesday 18 November
‘The Artificial Life of the Novel’
Book Launch: The Prosthetic Imagination: A History of the Novel as Artificial Life, by Peter Boxall
Featuring: Nancy Armstrong, Peter Boxall, Laura Marcus, Ankhi Mukherjee, Ato Quayson, Ray Ryan, and Sherryl Vint
NOTE: This event will start at a later time TBC
Co-Hosted by Cambridge University Press and the Centre for Creative and Critical Thought
Week 9: Wednesday 25 November
Bhanu Kapil, ‘Incubation: a space for monsters’, a poetry reading followed by Q&A
Co-Hosted by the Centre for Modernist Studies
Week 10: Wednesday 2 December
TBC
Week 11: Wednesday 9 December
Quick Fictions
Hosted by the Centre for Creative and Critical Thought