{"id":639,"date":"2014-02-14T13:50:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T13:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=639"},"modified":"2017-04-20T12:49:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T11:49:49","slug":"school-of-english-hosts-inaugural-lgbt-writers-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2014\/02\/14\/school-of-english-hosts-inaugural-lgbt-writers-week\/","title":{"rendered":"School of English hosts inaugural LGBT Writers\u2019 Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/research\/centres\/gswcentre.html\">The Centre for Gender, Sexuality and Writing<\/a> will be hosting a\u00a0series of lunchtime conversations about writing, sexuality and history\u00a0next week (17th-21st February)\u00a0to mark LGBT History month. The series,\u00a0entitled &#8216;Queer Spaces&#8217;,\u00a0will consider the representation and expression of sexuality in literature through short lunchtime lectures and conversations.<\/p>\n<p>All are warmly welcome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday 17th February, 1:00pm (RX 12)<\/strong>:\u00a0Professor Caroline Rooney (University of Kent), \u201cThe Gay International?\u00a0Reflections on Joseph Massad&#8217;s Desiring Arabs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday 18th February, 1:00pm (RX 12)<\/strong>:\u00a0Dr Harry Newman (University of Kent), \u201c\u2019Prophane fidlers\u2019: Medical texts\u00a0and indecent readers in early modern England\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Plenary Reading 5:00pm ELT2:<\/strong>\u00a0Professor Gregory Woods (University of Nottingham), \u201cQueer Writing, Queer\u00a0Reading\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday 19th February, 1:00pm (RX 11):<\/strong>\u00a0Q&amp;A session with Nicola Ibba and Dr Vybarr Cregan-Reid (University\u00a0College London and University of Kent), \u201cAnglo-Italian Queory &#8211; Forster\u00a0meets Saba\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday 20th February, 1:00pm (RX 11):\u00a0<\/strong>Dr Derek Ryan (University of Kent), \u201cQueer\/ring Love: Marriage in Virginia\u00a0Woolf&#8217;s Orlando\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday 21st February, 1:00pm (RX 12):<\/strong>\u00a0Mendoza (poetry reading).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre for Gender, Sexuality and Writing will be hosting a\u00a0series of lunchtime conversations about writing, sexuality and history\u00a0next week (17th-21st February)\u00a0to mark LGBT History &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2014\/02\/14\/school-of-english-hosts-inaugural-lgbt-writers-week\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2400,"featured_media":642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,143219,124,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639"}],"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\/2400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}