Author Archives: Dr Larissa Allwork
School of the Arts Scholars Attend International Conference on Diaspora Studies in Germany
Professor Janet Wilson, Dr Larissa Allwork and CoHaB funded PhD student, Sarah Knor attended the international conference of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network on ‘Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging’ (CoHaB) at WWU Muenster in Germany (22nd – 24th September 2013).
SOTA Postgraduate Conference, 19-20 September 2013
We are delighted to announce the final programme for the annual School of the Arts Postgraduate Conference 2013. This event will feature presentations by our doctoral students; keynote lectures by Professor David Crouch (The University of Derby) and Paul Cureton (The University of Hertfordshire) as well as a poetry reading by Winner of the 2012 New Zealand Post Book Award for Poetry, Rhian Gallagher.
On 1st October 2013 this post was updated with a revised programme and photographs from the event.
Dr Charles Bennett and ‘Five Days That Changed World’ at Worcester Cathedral
On Friday 26th July 2013, I was fortunate to join Dr Charles Bennett and Bob Chilcott, internationally renowned choral composer, for the World Premier at Worcester Cathedral of their latest collaboration.
Read on for further details and an audio recording of Charles Bennett’s talk.
Much Ado About Mansfield and Mods
July has continued to be a busy month for researchers at the School of the Arts.
From Cassin to Adorjan: Trauma Working Group Welcomes University of Melbourne Scholar
On the 27 June I paid a visit to Birkbeck College, University of London to see Yale University Professor Jay Winter deliver a great lecture on Rene Cassin, one of the leading legal figures writing the text and orchestrating the political process which led to the inauguration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948).
School of the Arts Research Seminar Update
The University of Northampton School of the Arts ‘Acts of Remembrance’ Research Seminar with Dr Sonya Andermahr, Dr Larissa Allwork and Dr Esther Jilovsky will be starting at 12.00 as opposed to 12.30 on Wednesday 10th July in MY120, Avenue Campus.
All welcome.
Rehearsed reading of Such A Long Journey at Northampton’s Doddridge Centre
Update: the rehearsed recording of Act I can now be listened to online.
On 19 June 2013, Dr Victor Ukaegbu, Dr Jumai Ewu and Richard Hollingum were joined by five performers (Original Who Can Tell?…! lead actress, Myrle Roach and four undergraduate drama students from the University of Northampton) to rehearse the first episode of Oladipo Agboluaje’s new radio play, Such A Long Journey.
School of the Arts summer show successes and Angry Planet commemorative booklet
Beginning on Tuesday 11th June, English and Creative Writing at the University of Northampton School of the Arts hosted three special events as part of the School of the Arts Summer Show. All of these events were well attended by individuals from both within and outside of the School of the Arts.
Dr Lorna Jowett’s TV Fangdom impresses scholar at Spain’s University of Oviedo
Dr Lorna Jowett, Dr Stacey Abbott (The University of Roehampton) and Dr Mike Starr’s recent success with the TV Fangdom conference on Television Vampires (The University of Northampton, 7-8 June 2013), which featured key scholars Brigid Cherry and Marcus Recht as well as an outstanding presentation on often forgotten British TV vampires by BFI Television curator, Lisa Kerrigan has just welcomed a further success. Dr María Mariño Faza, a lecturer at the University of Oviedo, Spain could not attend the conference but was so impressed by news of the scholars involved that she has decided to spend time researching representations of vampires and the supernatural at The University of Northampton School of the Arts this summer.
Psyche in the Arts Research Network announce symposium on 3 July 2013
Submitted by Dr Patrick Campbell.
The Psyche in the Arts Research Network presents:
Creative Encounters: Arts as Culture / Arts as Therapy?
Wednesday 3rd July 2013, 9.30am-5pm
The University of Northampton School of the Arts, Avenue Campus
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