‘I never read. I only look at art.’ Andy Warhol ‘There is no contemporary reader.’ Hélène Cixous ‘I write in order to give the contemporary … Read more
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David Ayers to Give Keynote at CLC, Ilia State University, Georgia 24-26th June
David Ayers will give a keynote talk entitled “Coming Out of Oneself: The Question of European Supra-national Identity” at the International Comparative Literature Conference: Transforming … Read more
Conference Report: Chaucer in Bohemia 15th-16th June, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
Four members of staff from the School of English – Professor Peter Brown, Professor Tony Edwards, Dr Ryan Perry and Dr Sarah James – attended … Read more
Status, Power and Authority Study Day, 31st May @ The London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre
On 31st May, Catherine Richardson was one of the organisers of a training day focused on ‘Status, power and authority’ at LAARC – the London … Read more
‘The Global and the Local’ NAVSA, BAVS and AVSA Conference, San Servolo, Venice, 3-6 June, (Angie Dunstan, Barbara Franchi, Michael Hollington, Wendy Parkins and Cathy Waters)
The School of English was well represented at a major supernumerary conference, ‘The Global and the Local’, that brought together the North American Victorian Studies … Read more
Thursday 13 June ; Final session of the seminar “The ‘Crisis of the Frame’ and the Avant-Garde” with the participation of Jean-Pierre Cometti, Jean-Marc Poinsot, David Ayers and Natalia Smolianskaïa.
On Thursday 13 June David Ayers will participate on a round table concerning the state of the contemporary avant-garde. The round table is part of a … Read more
“Reading Chaucer” Inaugural Lecture by Prof. Peter Brown
Friday (10 May) Peter Brown used his inaugural lecture at Kent on ‘Reading Chaucer’ to inaugurate two other Chaucer-related items. First, the School of English … Read more
In Conversation: Catlin’s ‘Vanishing Indians’ and the politics of Indian agency, National Portrait Gallery, May 9 2013, 7pm.
In Conversation: Catlin’s ‘Vanishing Indians’ and the politics of Indian agency, National Portrait Gallery, May 9 2013, 7pm. Next Thursday (9th May) Jacqueline Fear-Segal and Rebecca Tillett will be representing … Read more
Wild Woman to New Woman: Sex and Suffrage on the Victorian Stage
Tuesday, 14 May 2013 to Friday, 31 May 2013 Kent’s Centre for Gender, Sexuality and Writing, in partnership with the International Centre for Victorian Women … Read more
Material Histories – Catherine Richardson (MEMS – Kent) and Tara Hamling (Shakespeare Institute – Birmingham)
Catherine Richardson and Tara Hamling maintain a Blog called Material Histories (http://materialhistories.wordpress.com/). The blog promotes their collaborative work on three projects (A Day at Home … Read more