{"id":3634,"date":"2021-05-06T15:31:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T14:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=3634"},"modified":"2021-05-06T15:34:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T14:34:03","slug":"school-of-english-summer-school-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2021\/05\/06\/school-of-english-summer-school-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"School of English Summer School 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The School of English has been working hard to make the Summer Term as exciting and intellectually stimulating as possible.\u00a0 Welcome to Summer School 2021 \u2013 a timetable of events including talks, prominent guest speakers, readings, and a range of opportunities to develop your skills.<\/p>\n<p>Please join the many different activities on offer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you want to learn the basics of coding? <em>Sign up<\/em>: <strong>Hacking the Humanities<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/events\/event\/49145\/summer-school-public-workshop-walking-with-refugee-tales\">Do you want to know more about the connections between literature and activism?<\/a> <em>Consider<\/em>: <strong>Literature &amp; Activism<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/events\/event\/49138\/bound-to-speak-artists-books-and-lived-experience-with-dr-stella-bolaki\">Are you interested in exploring the ways in which writers have reflected on the environment and mental health?<\/a> <em>Join<\/em>: <strong>Literature, Mental Health &amp; Environment<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/events\/event\/49140\/catastrophe-history-and-grief-with-dr-jillian-caddell\">What can literature tell us about living in a post-Covid world?<\/a> <em>Contemplate<\/em>: <strong>After the Deluge.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Why not improve your skills in project planning and completion, or (if you are a Stage 3 student) apply for a research internship?<\/li>\n<li>Or join the <strong><em>Research Webinar Series<\/em><\/strong> and learn about why literature matters, how racism structures experience, what\u2019s new in Caribbean literature, and are intellectuals politically complicit?<\/li>\n<li>Or meet publishers\u2019 agents and directors in the <strong><em>Creative Writing Series<\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please browse through the listings below; find what interests you. All events take place <strong><em>online<\/em><\/strong> this year, so you can drop in from whatever location is convenient for you. All students, undergraduate and postgraduate, are welcome! Come and be a part of our unique staff and student research community this summer term.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/moodle.kent.ac.uk\/2020\/course\/view.php?id=3776\">find out more information<\/a> over on Moodle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of English has been working hard to make the Summer Term as exciting and intellectually stimulating as possible.\u00a0 Welcome to Summer School 2021 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2021\/05\/06\/school-of-english-summer-school-2021\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40592,"featured_media":3493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,26567,178181],"tags":[10469],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3635,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions\/3635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}