Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture at the University of Birmingham (Cover art by Angela Dooley)
Birmingham, England
Joined November 2018
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A new CCLC Profile is up this week! This time, we talked to @LyndseyStonebri, Interdisciplinary Chair and Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at @unibirmingham.
Lyndsey discusses telling stories, @mashagessen, @lea_ypi, & more!
Read it here: bit.ly/3wUuLvG⚡️
Continuing with our CCLC Profiles from last summer, we have a new interview with Dr Rona Cran, Senior Lecturer in 20thc American Literature at @unibirmingham and the Co-Director of @ACS_brum!
Read here: bit.ly/38qzVrn 📚🌳
This Thursday!
FREE LIVE LITERATURE IN BIRMINGHAM!
This Thursday [18th] 5.45pm, The Exchange Building, Centenary Square. Sign up + join us for this @BeingHumanFest event. @MrCaseyBailey @asha_pb @fatmamohiuddin @WritersBlocUoB @CCLC_bham will all be there.
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Our friends @CMCbham are running this exciting seminar on Modernism & Teaching. Sign-up through Eventbrite, it's going to be a popular one!
‘MODERNISM AND TEACHING’
We are hosting the wonderful @plathpoem, @Bdavidhagen, @LAHeffernan and @rbuurma in discussion on Zoom.
Wednesday 10 Nov 2021, 12.00 EST / 17.00 GMT
Sign up here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/modernism…
@modernistudies @msatweet @CLEMT_bham @EDACS_UoB
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Two weeks left! Looking forward to some live poetry from Brum's Poet Laureates @MrCaseyBailey @fatmamohiuddin as well as @WritersBlocUoB students. We will also hear from @asha_pb @EDACS_UoB @artsatbham . Join us at 5.45pm 18th November, FREE tickets here: eventbrite.com/e/live-and-lo…
A fully-funded PhD with our co-director @dramyburge - deadline 12th January!
Boosting this Midlands4Cities (M4C), AHRC-funded collaborative PhD at Uni of Birmingham w/ Mills & Boon!
It's fully-funded and open to international students 🎉
Applications are open now, deadline 12 Jan 2022.
Full details and contact info: midlands4cities.ac.uk/wp-con…
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Don't miss the truly excellent @DrFarihaShaikh (@unibirmingham & @bbcthree/@ahrcpress #NewGenerationThinker) in her most exciting role yet: the *C19th pudding detective* for @R3TheVerb. She chats puddings migrating across cultures & South Asian deserts🥮
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The inestimable @asha_pb, author of State Sponsored Literature (OPU 2020), is giving a snapshot of her work at the @artsatbham @unibirmingham #ArtsMatters lunchtime lectures tomorrow at 1pm! Link below 🥳
On Wednesday at 1pm on
@unibirmingham Youtube channel, our own @asha_pb
gives this week's #ArtsMatters lunchtime lecture - "Whoever heard of Britain's state sponsored literature?"
Watch (and set a reminder!) here:
youtube.com/watch?v=igtZ4R86…
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If you missed our @CCLC_bham @iaspr @cbddepaul roundtable on Black British romance you can now watch the recording! Many thanks once again to our panelists @TaliaHibbert @andiosho and @FrancesMensahW
blog.bham.ac.uk/cclc/2021/10…
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link for tickets here: eventbrite.com/e/live-and-lo…
Our next event is this FREE @BeingHumanFest cafe at UoB's newest city-centre venue. Organised by CCLC member @zoebulaitis and featuring readings from poet laureates, @EDACS_UoB students, and academics, all reflecting on the city, creatively and critically. Sign-up to book!
Excited to be organising a live event!
This time next month [5.54pm on 18th November!] in The Exchange @EngLit_UoB @artsatbham.
It is part of @BeingHumanFest: free and open to all! Details here: beinghumanfestival.org/event…
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Event alert. 🚨🚨 @LisaMendelman will be speaking at @CMCbham (via Zoom) on 24th June, at 7pm UK time. Her paper title is: ‘The Sentimental Science of Modern Selfhood’. Details and sign-up here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-senti…
We have a new CCLC Profile on our blog with co-director of the Centre @dramyburge!
Amy talks us through her current research, how the pandemic affected her & her work, some favourite recent texts, and what's next...
Give it a read here: blog.bham.ac.uk/cclc/2021/06…
Reminder that this is tonight! Be sure to join us, it will be a treat.
Next Wednesday 16th June at 4pm, we are speaking to @hayfestival's Digital Director Adrian Lambert about organising the festival during the pandemic and their 2021 digital edition🎪
More info & Zoom link can be found here: bit.ly/355LU86
All welcome!
Next Wednesday 16th June at 4pm, we are speaking to @hayfestival's Digital Director Adrian Lambert about organising the festival during the pandemic and their 2021 digital edition🎪
More info & Zoom link can be found here: bit.ly/355LU86
All welcome!
Following this event, @ellenaddis wrote a blog reflecting on @jesspres's Bookishness, literary festivals, and how books change the way we look at literary and new media studies.
Read it here: blog.bham.ac.uk/cclc/2021/06…
This Wednesday at 5pm, Prof David James and
Dr Rebecca Roach will be talking with Jessica Pressman (@jesspres) about her new book 'Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age'.
For the Zoom link, email r.sykes[at]bham.ac.uk or a.burge[at]bham.ac.uk
Reminder that this is happening today at 5pm! Don't miss.
This Wednesday at 5pm, Prof David James and
Dr Rebecca Roach will be talking with Jessica Pressman (@jesspres) about her new book 'Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age'.
For the Zoom link, email r.sykes[at]bham.ac.uk or a.burge[at]bham.ac.uk
This Wednesday at 5pm, Prof David James and
Dr Rebecca Roach will be talking with Jessica Pressman (@jesspres) about her new book 'Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age'.
For the Zoom link, email r.sykes[at]bham.ac.uk or a.burge[at]bham.ac.uk
T-minus 2 hours until we chat with Kevin Brazil, with readings from his forthcoming book of essays, What Ever Happened to Queer Happiness?
Find tickets and more info here eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-ever…
