Visiting Professor, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India, 15-25 July 2013
Jul 15, 2013
Description This Visiting Professorship is to the University founded by Tagore, Visva-Bharati, with which Edinburgh Napier University has an MOU. Twelve lectures and workshops were given People Bashabi Fraser Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
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Forgotten Female Writers - Launch of The Glorious Thing by Christine Orr
Jun 28, 2013
Location Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh Description Photo: Launch in the beautiful Chapel at Craiglockhart campus. Speech by our contributor Yvonne McEwen.
An Edwardian themed tea party with the added bonus of guided visits to The War Poets Collection by the fantastic and irreplaceable Librarian, Catherine Walker.
Representatives from the two charities we are supporting, Scottishpoppy and Scottish Veterans Residences, as well as many of the great and good from the Edward Clark Trust, Edinburgh libraries and local schools.
And of course alumni, publishers, tutors and our families and friends attended to celebrate the culmination of this fantastic project. We even had a special guest who flew in just for the event!People Avril Gray Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries URL https://gloriousthing.wordpress.com/category/latest-news/
Conference Presentation at Joint Annual Conference of the North American, British and Australasian Associations for Victorian Studies in Venice, 2-7 June.
Jun 24, 2013
Location Venice 5 June 2013 People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
Poetry in the House
Jun 13, 2013
Description Poetry reading at Lauderdale House, Highgate, London People Bashabi Fraser Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
invited to give research talk on women and prison writing at the University of Stuttgart, Germany
May 23, 2013
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Linda Dryden, Bashabi Fraser and Indra Nath Choudhuri attended a dinner at Broomhall House hosted by Lord and Lady Elgin to celebrate Scots and Professor Choudhuri's appointment as Tagore Chair.
May 23, 2013
Location 22 May, Broomhall House People Linda Dryden
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Poetry @ the Ivory, Glasgow
May 8, 2013
Description Poetry reading and talk about women in India People Bashabi Fraser Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
gives invited talk in Edinburgh Uni's interdisciplinary Gender History Seminar Series, on 'Convict Voices: Gender, Class and Writing about Prison'.
May 6, 2013
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Talk and Reading of own Poetry at Bathgate Partnership Centre
Apr 24, 2013
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Grand Poetry Event, Dundee Rep. Theatre Cafe
Apr 23, 2013
Description Poetry Reading in which Bashabi Fraser was the guest poet. People Bashabi Fraser Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
Inaugural Lecture as Professor
Mar 26, 2013
Location Craiglockart Campus, Edinburgh Napier University Description Lecture entitled ' Beyond Binarism: the agency of the writer at the crossroads of change' People Bashabi Fraser Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
Under the Covers with Bestselling Authors - Ian Rankin
Mar 4, 2013
Location Edinburgh Napier University Description Best-selling international author Ian Rankin talk to MA Screenwriting and MSc Publishing students.
Co-organisers: James Mavor & Avril GrayPeople James Mavor
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Anne Schwan is giving an invited talk at the University of Amsterdam entitled 'Re-writing Women's Prison History in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace (1996) and Sarah Waters' Affinity (1999)'.
Feb 28, 2013
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Professor Indra Nath Choudhuri has joined CLAW and ScoTs as Tagore Chair of English Literature. Professor Choudhuri's 3 year tenure is funded by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations.
Feb 25, 2013
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Poetry Reading as part of an event for Language Day, Dundee
Feb 23, 2013
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Book Launch, 'Ragas and Reels', Glasgow
Feb 21, 2013
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Talk to Balerno Women's Guild on Multiculturalism in diasporic writing
Feb 7, 2013
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Contribution to Staff Conference Fostering Interdisciplinarity in Learning, Teaching and Research: 'Thinking about crime and punishment in theory and practice - interdisciplinary perspectives and prison volunteering'. With contributions from two final-yea
Jan 10, 2013
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chair of poetry reading, 'Transatlantic Poetry: Gitanjali and Beyond' at WordPower Books, Edinburgh.
Dec 7, 2012
Description Poetry reading by John Menaghan, Alan Riach, and Ian Brown exploring themes of meeting of East and West, chaired by Bashabi Fraser People Bashabi Fraser Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
Book launch of 'Ragas and Reels', poems on migration and diaspora, at Blackwells Bookshop, South Bridge, Edinburgh
Nov 20, 2012
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