The Centre for Gender, Sexuality and Writing will be hosting a series of lunchtime conversations about writing, sexuality and history next week (17th-21st February) to mark LGBT History month. The series, entitled ‘Queer Spaces’, will consider the representation and expression of sexuality in literature through short lunchtime lectures and conversations.
All are warmly welcome.
Monday 17th February, 1:00pm (RX 12): Professor Caroline Rooney (University of Kent), “The Gay International? Reflections on Joseph Massad’s Desiring Arabs”.
Tuesday 18th February, 1:00pm (RX 12): Dr Harry Newman (University of Kent), “’Prophane fidlers’: Medical texts and indecent readers in early modern England”.
Plenary Reading 5:00pm ELT2: Professor Gregory Woods (University of Nottingham), “Queer Writing, Queer Reading”.
Wednesday 19th February, 1:00pm (RX 11): Q&A session with Nicola Ibba and Dr Vybarr Cregan-Reid (University College London and University of Kent), “Anglo-Italian Queory – Forster meets Saba”.
Thursday 20th February, 1:00pm (RX 11): Dr Derek Ryan (University of Kent), “Queer/ring Love: Marriage in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando”.
Friday 21st February, 1:00pm (RX 12): Mendoza (poetry reading).