Monthly Archives: December 2012

All welcome to poetry discussion group

This Thursday, 13th December, at the usual time of 5:15pm in HumSS 110, Whiteknights Campus, is the final poetry discussion group of the year! We have based the selection of this week’s poems around the theme of winter. The poems are: … Continue reading

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Professor Peter Stoneley talks on O’Hara – all most welcome.

  A reminder about today’s Monday Literary Seminar at 5pm, at which Professor Peter Stoneley  is speaking about FRANK O’HARA, BLACKNESS & THE PRIMITIVE.      Looking forward to seeing you there!    

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Help and advice for postgraduates

A reminder for all postgraduates in the departments of English and Modern Languages: As part of the Postgraduate Research Group series, Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein will be leading a session on *teaching and disability* from 1 – 2.30pm tomorrow (Tuesday 11th … Continue reading

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David Brauner on the BBC

On 5th December at 3pm David Brauner appeared on the Sarah Walker show on BBC Radio Berkshire, to talk about the cultural significance of the Beat Generation, prior to an interview with Carolyn Cassady, widow of Neal Cassady, who was … Continue reading

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All welcome to Minority Identities research seminar

 FAHSS Minority Identities: Rights and Representation Research Theme   Research Seminar :  Signifying Corporeality: The Body as bearer of Neocolonial trauma, pain and suffering in Anita Desai’s Postcolonial Fictions – Bhawana Jain, Visiting Research Fellow, School of Literature and Languages … Continue reading

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Salinger and Twain in school

David Brauner writes: On 21st November, I visited St Bartholomew’s School in Newbury to give a  talk to a group of sixth-form English students. I began by talking to the group about what studying English at university entails, what to … Continue reading

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