Category Archives: School of the Arts
University of Northampton Creative Writing Lecturer Alan Smith celebrated in The Guardian
This week The Guardian has published Alan Smith‘s final Philosophy for Prisoners column alongside a photograph specially commissioned for the article. On 26 February 2013, Smith was the centre of a photo-shoot which celebrated over 10 years of his writings as a Guardian columnist.
CoHaB summer school open lectures on diaspora studies
Submitted by Dr. Larissa Allwork.
The University of Northampton is one of six members of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network called Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging (CoHaB). Other partners are the Universities of Munster, Mumbai, Oxford, SOAS and Stockholm.
This March the 12 international postgraduate students affiliated to CoHaB will be coming to The University of Northampton School of the Arts to engage in CoHaB’s core module on Diaspora Studies. There will also be two postdoctoral students from COMPAS and the English Faculty at Oxford University, who have arranged the programme and will oversee the teaching of the core module of the Summer School on Diaspora studies.
University represented at Holocaust Memory Re-visited conference
Submitted by Dr. Larissa Allwork.
School of the Arts researcher Dr Larissa Allwork will be representing the University of Northampton at the internationally prestigious ‘Holocaust Memory Re-visited’ conference at Uppsala University in Sweden (21-23 March 2013). Dr Allwork will be contributing her research on British/Lithuanian Holocaust memorialisation efforts to the Uppsala conference which addresses recent cultural endeavors to depict and commemorate the Holocaust and Nazi era crimes. Dr Allwork is currently working with Professor Janet Wilson on the EU-Marie Curie funded Centre of Home and Belonging project and Dr Sonya Andermahr’s Working Group for Interdisciplinary Research in Trauma, Narrative and Performance.
Professor Vijay Mishra to address the School of the Arts
The Postcolonial Visual Culture and Narrative Research Cluster in the School of Arts are delighted to announce that Professor Vijay Mishra, author of What was Multiculturalism?, The Gothic Sublime and Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire will be addressing the University of Northampton on Friday March 1 between 1.30pm and 2.30pm. Please come along to Avenue Campus, Room MY120 for what promises to be a stimulating talk entitled Ghostly Spectres of the Transcultural. For more details, please see Professor Mishra’s abstract and biography below.
To register your attendance please contact Larissa.Allwork@northampton.ac.uk.
On Space: in Conversation with Doreen Massey
We’re pleased to present an audio recording of the School of the Arts event On Space: in Conversation with Doreen Massey.
Are you a researcher in the field of social sciences or the arts?
Two conferences are calling for papers from doctoral researchers and research students.
In the Arts “Re-Contested Sites/Sights” Research Conference”, organised by the University of the Arts in London, are calling for papers on the theme of spaces of re-contestation. The conference will be held on May 8th and submission deadline for papers is March 8th.
In the Social Sciences, the Portuguese Association of Economic and Social History conference entitled “State, Society and Markets in a Global World” are calling for papers on the theme of the State’s role in the economic and social system. The conference in Portugal is on 15th and 16th November and paper proposals should be submitted by 31st May.
School of the Arts Research Seminar: Tuesday 11th December
Submitted by Dr Larissa Allwork
On Tuesday 11th December at 12:00 noon (Avenue Campus, Room MY120), the Division of Media English and Culture will be warmly welcoming Professor Richard Godden from the University of California, Irvine to give a research seminar on ‘Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park and the Exquisite Corpse of Deficit Finance’. Professor Godden teaches in the English Department at the University of California, Irvine. His publications include, Fictions of Capital; Fictions of Labour: William Faulkner and the South’s Long Revolution and William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words. He currently works on the narrative poetics of finance capital.
Staff and students from the University of Northampton are welcome to attend and for more information please contact: larissa.allwork@northampton.ac.uk
New research initiatives in the School of the Arts
Submitted by Professor Janet Wilson
In 2012, the School of the Arts has hosted a range of innovative lectures and events as well as developing and launching a number of exciting interdisciplinary research groups. The Annual Postgraduate Conference (11th-14th September 2012) provided a welcome review of the range and vibrancy of doctoral projects within the School as well as featuring a keynote address by Performing Arts scholar at Brazil’s University of Bahia, Claudio Cajaiba.
Conference report: ‘Narratives of difference’ in the global marketplace
Submitted by Professor Janet Wilson
On the 25th and 26th of October 2012, the Centre of Contemporary Narrative and Cultural Theory in the School of Arts at the University of Northampton, in partnership with the Spanish University of Vigo, hosted the international conference titled ‘Narratives of Difference’ in the Global Marketplace.
Media, English and Culture Seminar – 22 Nov 2012
Dr Norbert Bugeja (The University of Kent)
Rethinking the Threshold: A Critique of Liminal Space in World Literary and Postcolonial Critical Discourses
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