by chrisa | Aug 23, 2017 | Seminars
Organisers: Professor Finn Fordham (Royal Holloway, University of London) & Stefano Rossignoli (Trinity College Dublin) The Finnegans Wake Research Seminar is a reading group that has been running regularly since 2007. It reads James Joyce’s final work, Finnegans...
by chrisa | Aug 21, 2017 | Seminars
Organisers: Amy Evans (University of Kent) & Professor Robert Hampson (Royal Holloway, University of London) The focus of the seminar is contemporary innovative poetry and its antecedents. The speakers are predominantly either final-year research students or...
by chrisa | Aug 18, 2017 | Seminars
Organisers: Helen Saunders (King’s College London) & Dr Steven Morrision (University of Nottingham) The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar is devoted to the line-by-line reading and analysis of James Joyce’s Ulysses and it has acted as a focal point for academic...
by chrisa | Mar 1, 2017 | Seminars
Sociology and history have framed discussions regarding the humanities after Brexit and Trump. We’ve considered such realities as the shrinking of safe and shared public spaces; the increasing prevalence of exclusionary zones in the biosphere as well as the...
by chrisa | Feb 3, 2017 | Seminars
Notions of exclusion, the shrinking of spaces in which people are included and can flourish. Questions regarding the nature of liberty and the obliteration of the questioning mind. Visions of a ‘contact democracy’ which articulates new forms of public...
by chrisa | Jan 17, 2017 | Events, Seminars
In a few days, the United States will inaugurate as its president one of the least experienced politicians in modern times. Known for intemperate opinions and unreflective statements, his actions mean fundamental changes both internally and worldwide. In the UK, the...
