Next Monday, at 1pm, the Discussion Group is excited to be able to welcome Yousif M. Qasmiyeh for a discussion of, and reading from, his acclaimed poetry collection Writing the Camp (2021). This event will take place online (Microsoft Teams), and will require registration. Please see the events page for more details.
This week, we welcomed Stefano Evangelista, and a panel including Patrick McGuinness, Galin Tihanov, Aoife Cantrill, and Matthew Reynolds, to celebrate and discuss Evangelista’s most recent book, Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle: Citizens of Nowhere (Oxford University Press, 2021). This Special Session of our Discussion Group drew a fantastic audience, and featured a timely conversation. Thank you to everyone who came!
Calls for Papers and Events:
1. CfP: Leverhulme Trust ECFs at Lancaster University
The Department of Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University encourages high-quality postdoctoral scholars to apply to the 2022 round of the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship scheme:
DeLC's research spans Spanish, German, French, and Chinese studies. Our research expertise cover topics such as:
- translation studies
- critical disability studies
- comparative and world literature
- creative criticism and languages
- gender studies
- digital literature and culture
- poetics of resistance
- memory studies
- ecocriticism....
Please send any expression of interest, consisting of, in the first instance, a CV, and a 500-word summary of your project agreed by your chosen mentor (see staff list here), to Derek Hird and Delphine Grass by the 29 October 2021. Do not hesitate to contact me for more information on departmental research interests and application procedures in the meantime.
2. Event: BCLT Research Seminar Events
You are very welcome to join the two remaining events of this term’s BCLT Research Seminar:
24 November, 5.30pm - 7pm GMT (Arts 2.07 and online): Kathryn Batchelor (UCL)
Re-Reading Jacques Derrida’s Qu’est-ce qu’une traduction “relevante”? (What is a “Relevant” Translation?)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/195954524257
8 December, 1pm - 2.30pm GMT: Hilary Brown (Birmingham)
Feminist Translation Practices: Historical Perspectives
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/195973501017
3. Event: The Syria Writes Literary Festival
The Syria Writes Literary Festival will run from Saturday 30 October to Friday 26 November. It will feature public talks from Syrian authors and activists, and intimate lunchtime conversations with some of Syria’s most beloved authors. The Festival is co-hosted by Suzan Meryem Rosita, Curator of "Syria and Silence," and Mohamed-Salah Omri, Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, University of Oxford.
The first event sees Khaled Khalifa in conversation with Dr Ali Souleman, Professor Mohamed-Salah Omri, and Suzan Meryem Rosita, and takes place on Saturday 30 October at 6pm GMT, in the Weston Library Lecture Theatre, in Oxford. For more information, including how to book tickets for this event, and the other events of the Festival, visit here.
