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Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing: spring term seminars 2021
Please see below for the spring term seminars for the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing. To join, please email cbcp@reading.ac.uk.
Health Humanities Seminars for spring term 2021
This terms programme of talks from the Centure for Health Humanities. All papers will be delivered online: to join, email a.s.mangham@reading.ac.uk
Online book launch: John Scholar on Impressions and Impressionisms – Henry James and Beyond
Impressions and Impressionisms – Henry James and Beyond An Online Roundtable Discussion and Book Launch. Thursday 17 September 4-5.30pm (UK time) Click here to book a place. Participants: Max de Gaynesford (Philosophy, University of Reading), Dorothy Hale (English, UC Berkeley); Max Saunders (English, King’s College … Continue reading
Making space: Connecting BAME students in the Department of English Literature
In this post, Part 3 students (and soon-to-be 2020 graduates!) Georgia Courtney-Cox and Yinka Olaniyan and Lecturer Dr Nicola Abram discuss the BAME English Literature students’ network launched in 2019/20. Find the BAME network end of year poster here. Yinka: … Continue reading
Natasha Robson on the need for Critical Thinking.
Natasha Robson writes: Dear reader, This is a call to action. I have a simple and easily implementable proposition. Recently, there has been talk of and movement towards a restructuring of the history curriculum in the UK – and not … Continue reading
DEL Island Discs Episode Ten: Bear Hunt and Fat Puss
Welcome to the tenth episode of DEL Island Discs! This week we’ve handed the reins to some junior readers, who are going to cast away two of their favourites: the Bear from We’re Going On A Bear Hunt by Michael … Continue reading
DEL Island Discs Episode Nine: Robinson Crusoe
This week’s castaway is Robinson Crusoe from the proto novel of the same name by Daniel Defoe, introduced by Professor Peter Robinson, whose own contribution to the Robinsonade genre is a tercentennial publication called The Constitutionals: A Fiction (2019), in … Continue reading
DEL Island Discs Episode Eight: Esther Greenwood
Welcome to Episode Eight of DEL Island Discs! Our presenter this week is Sybil Ruth and our castaway is Esther Greenwood from Sylvia Plath’s 1963 novel, The Bell Jar. Sibyl Ruth graduated forty years ago, and as part of her English … Continue reading
DEL Desert Island Discs Episode Seven: Mickey Sabbath
This week’s castaway is Mickey Sabbath, the protagonist of Philip Roth’s Sabbath’s Theater (1995), and our presenter is Professor David Brauner of the Department of English Literature. Sabbath’s Theater is Philip Roth’s masterpiece. Its protagonist is one of the great … Continue reading