CuSPP Literary Studies Seminar Series 2019: Paul Magee 'Writing is Speaking'
Seminar
Writing is Speaking Why is it that when we read a passage of dense theoretical prose, say in Frederic Jameson, or encounter a “garden path” sentence (e.g. The old man the boat), or just generally want more clarity from the text in front of us, that we slow down and sound the words out? The direct…
Centre for Classical Studies presents: Public reading of Homer's Iliad
Other
On Friday 22 March 2019, the Centre for Classical Studies will present a public reading of Homer's Iliad for the Festival Europeen Latin Grec. Some of our brightest and best students in Classics will read aloud sections of Book 22 of this ancient epic poem in Ancient Greek and in English. Book 22…
Eco‐regional Identities in the 19th‐Century French Caribbean Novel
Seminar
Eco‐regional Identities in the 19th‐Century French Caribbean Novel: Traversay’s Les Amours de Zémédare et Carina and Bergeaud’s Stella Caribbean literature ‘has continuously addressed, rather than belatedly discovered, its commitment to the environment’. Traversay’s Les Amours de Zémédare et…
Lancaster University Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Corpus Linguistics workshop
Workshop
This free two-day workshop, arranged jointly by the Australian National University Lancaster University Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, offers a series of sessions on topics in corpus linguistics and the application of corpus techniques in discourse studies and the study of health(…
Tina Dixson (TPR): What does it mean to be a queer refugee woman?
Seminar
What does it mean to be a queer refugee woman? Collective self‐discovery of lived experiences through trauma and agency Queer refugees occupy a marginal space within refugee narratives. They appear to be more tolerable for the hosting country as their queerness signifies modernity, yet they are…
Conversation with French Journalist and Author Annick Cojean
Book launch
Annick Cojean is one of France's most widely revered journalists. Senior reporter for French daily newspaper Le Monde since 1981, she published an interview of Lady Diana Spencer and numerous description of famous personnalities that let her known from the public. Her international reportings about…
Jane Scott, Lost Amazon of the Strand
Seminar
In February 1817 Jane Scott's gothic melodrama Camilla the Amazon was staged, at her own theatre in London's Strand, the Sans Pareil, a house that four years later became the Adelphi, and is still in business. In the same year, the other Jane - Jane Austen - published her comically gothic work,…