With the occasion of the bicentenary of Charlotte Brontë’s birth the Centre for Victorian Literature and Culture held a symposium on 18th March entitled Writing … Read more
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Call for Papers – Cross-disciplinary Phenomenology: A Readiness for the Questionable
Phenomenology has inspired countless pieces of art, literature and music, and has influenced disciplines as diverse as theology, cognitive science, anthropology, ecology, architecture and nursing. Phenomenology can … Read more
Ben Hickman on ‘Poetry’s Undone Politics: Vulnerability after the Avant-Garde’
This Autumn term Dr Ben Hickman gave a research seminar on ‘Poetry’s Undone Politics: Vulnerability after the Avant-Garde’. Following Ben’s presentation, Professor Wendy Parkins, who had … Read more
Preserving Egypt’s Cultural Heritage: Mitigating Threats for a Sustainable Future
At the end of October Professor Caroline Rooney attended a workshop on ‘Preserving Egypt’s Cultural Heritage: Mitigating Threats for a Sustainable Future’. The gathering was enabled … Read more
Reflections on ‘The Cosmopolitan Mr Steinberg’
On 21st October Dr Will Norman gave a research seminar on the ‘strange career of Saul Steinberg, an emigre artist best known for his New Yorker covers … Read more
Victorian Travel and Imperial Spaces
Daný van Dam and Lara Atkin report from a conference celebrating the fascinating cast of opera singers, mountaineers, cross-dressers, actors and tourists of both genders … Read more
The 35th Annual Dickens Universe
The 35th Annual Dickens Universe, and the “Long, Wide Nineteenth Century” conference, both sponsored by the Dickens Project, were held consecutively 31 August- 08 August … Read more
50 Years of Feminism/50 Shades of Sexism, 5th March 2015
After a successful collaboration last March between Kent Union and the Centre for Gender Sexuality and Writing, it was decided that a reprise was long … Read more
Call for Papers: Meta-Play: Early Modern Drama and Metatheatre
University of Kent, 13-14 June 2015 Now that over half a century has passed since Lionel Abel coined the term ‘metatheatre’ with particular reference to … Read more
Liminal Time and Space in Medieval and Early Modern Performance
Liminal Time and Space in Medieval and Early Modern Performance Conference Report 5th-7th September 2014, University of Kent Human experience of time and space has … Read more