by katythompson | Nov 23, 2018 | History of the Book, MA Programme
Hi! My name is Alex Wingate and I’m an M.A. student at the Institute of English Studies for the History of the Book. I hail from Fairfax, Virginia on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. I have a B.A. from the College of William and Mary (2nd oldest college in the U.S.,...
by katythompson | Nov 15, 2018 | CFPS
Goldsmiths, University of London 18-19 July 2018 Aestheticism and Decadence are fundamentally preoccupied with time and archives, with medievalism, apocalypticism, fallen Classical civilizations, as well as with collections and connoisseurship. Aesthetes turn to the...
by katythompson | Oct 12, 2018 | CFPS
ROYAL HOLLOWAY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 4–6 APRIL 2019 The fourteenth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at Royal Holloway, University of London, from Thursday 4 April until Saturday 6 April 2019. Keynote speakers will...
by katythompson | Sep 25, 2018 | CFPS
When: Monday – Tuesday 17 – 18 December 2018 Where: 17 December: Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village (Compton, Surrey). A shuttle service will be available from Guildford Station. 18 December: 43 Gordon Square, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London WC1H 0PD This...
by katythompson | Sep 3, 2018 | Conferences, Events
The Book as Cure: Bibliotherapy and Literary Caregiving from the First World War to the Present Friday 14 September This one-day event, part of the annual programme of the History of Books and Reading (HOBAR) research collaboration at The Open University, explores in...