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CIRCL in action…

Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein writes: Bielefeld Institute of Advanced Study Workshop on ‘Transformation of Childhood in Contemporary Britain’ Dr Jess Sage and Professor Karín Lesnik-Oberstein from the Department’s Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media (CIRCL), gave presentations … Continue reading

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The Tony Watkins Lecture: 30th October 2014

Tony Watkins Annual Lecture on Children’s Literature, Culture, Media 2014 CIRCL is very pleased to announce that the Tony Watkins Annual Lecture for 2014-15 will take place on October 30th 2014, at 6 pm in Palmer Building room 109: Dr … Continue reading

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‘What is with Alice?’ Jess Sage’s paper in detail.

Following a very successful research seminar run by CIRCL (Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media), Jess Sage’s paper, entitled ‘What is with Alice?’ has raised interest more widely. As a result of this we are delighted to … Continue reading

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Tony Watkins Annual Lecture

We are delighted to announce that the Tony Watkins Annual Lecture for 2013-14 will be given by Professor Erica Burman of Manchester University on March 4th 2014 at 6 pm in HUMSS 27 on: ‘The child and Fanon: paradigms of subjectification and … Continue reading

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CIRCL Seminar – all welcome!

On Wednesday 6th November, from 1 pm to 3 pm, in HUMSS 106, Whiteknights Campus, CIRCL PhD student Krissie West will give a CIRCL seminar on ‘Observation and Conversation: A. Bronson Alcott’s Constructions of Childhood’.

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Talk at MERL: Wilderness as a baptism of nature

Dr Sue Walsh will be giving a seminar at the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) entitled ‘Wilderness, as a baptism of nature: Childhood and the Nature Fakers’ on 19th February 2013, from 4.30-6 pm. Taking up late C19th and early C20th … Continue reading

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CIRCL event: ‘What is with Alice?’

Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media SEMINAR SPRING 2013 On Wednesday March 13th at 1 pm in HUMSS room 106, Whiteknights Campus, Jess Sage, CIRCL PhD student, will give a seminar on ‘What is with Alice? Reading Alice … Continue reading

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Congratulations to CIRCL PhD student Yu-Kuan Chen for passing her viva

Congratulations to CIRCL PhD student Yu-Kuan Chen for passing her viva on 21-01-2013 with her thesis on ‘Objects of Vision: Text, Colour, Gesture’! External Examiner: Professor Sara Thornton of the University of Paris 7 and Internal Examiner Dr Neil Cocks, … Continue reading

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Neil Cocks at the Museum of English Rural Life

Dr Neil Cocks: “Country Education and late-eighteenth century literature” On 27th November 2012, from 4.30-6 pm, CIRCL’s Dr Neil Cocks will be giving a seminar at the Museum of English Rural Life on “Country education and late-eighteenth century literature“.   … Continue reading

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Tony Watkins Lecture by Dr Daniela Caselli

The inaugural ‘Tony Watkins Annual Lecture on Children’s Literature, Culture, Media was delivered by Professor Fred Inglis, then from the University of Sheffield, on 19th of June, 2003. The subject was ‘Educational Narratives and the Good Society’. The lecture was … Continue reading

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