Research Roundtable on 'Global Atrocities in Literature and Culture' (online)
Dec 8, 2021
Location Online via WebEx Description The Centre for Literature and Writing (CLAW) is hosting a research roundtable online, featuring Dr Kelsie Donnelly (Queen's University Belfast), Dr Arin Keeble (Edinburgh Napier University), Dr Edel Lamb (Queen's University Belfast) and Dr Georgina Lucas (Edinburgh Napier University) People Anne Schwan
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Events (54)
Research Seminar hosted by Centre for Literature and Writing (CLAW): Maja Brandt Andreasen (U of Strathclyde), 'Just Sex? The Discursive Construction of Sexual Violence in Internet Humour about #MeToo' AND Amy King (Edinburgh Napier U), '"Tied up in knots
Jun 9, 2021
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Research Seminar hosted by Centre for Literature and Writing (CLAW): Professor Nathalie Jaeck (U Bordeaux Montaigne), 'Dickens's Redefinition of the Rhetoric of Landscape'
May 19, 2021
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Research Seminar hosted by Centre for Literature and Writing (CLAW): Dr Alice Kelly (U of Oxford/U of Sussex), 'Commemorative Modernisms - Women Writers, Death and the First World War'
Apr 28, 2021
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Research Seminar hosted by Centre for Literature and Writing (CLAW): Dr Maisha Wester (Indiana U, Bloomington/Sheffield U), 'New World Monsters for an Old World Problem - Redefining Terror in Black Diasporic Gothic Literature'
Mar 17, 2021
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Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature
Dec 9, 2019
Location Edinburgh Napier University Description This symposium brings together a spectrum of new research on the broad subject of neoliberalism and American literature. Though numerous panels and publications have questioned the enduring uses of neoliberalism as a cohesive concept, a keyword or framework for interpretation, this symposium demonstrates a range of productive applications and interpretive possibilities. There will be eight papers (across two large panels) on writers including Colson Whitehead, Jesmyn Ward, Helen DeWitt, Rivers Solomon, Thomas Pynchon, Attica Locke and many others. Following the presentations and discussion, we will celebrate the release of six new academic books over a glass of juice or wine. People Arin Keeble Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries URL https://americanliteratureandneoliberalismsymposium.wordpress.com/
Siblings, allegory and the intersections of slow violence and trauma in Jesmyn Ward's fiction and nonfiction
Mar 4, 2019
Location Birmingham University Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture Description This invited talk explored the way American author Jesmyn Ward has written about trauma and slow violence. People Arin Keeble Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries URL https://blog.bham.ac.uk/cclc/2019/04/01/siblings-kinship-and-allegory-in-jesmyn-wards-fiction-and-nonfiction-04-03-2019/
“A glory that shines upon our tears”: Literature and the Armistice.
Nov 15, 2018
Location National Library of Scotland Description Public engagement workshop. People Andrew Frayn Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge and the Epoch(s) of Neoliberalism - conference paper given at SAMLA 2018 Nov
Nov 4, 2018
Location Birmingham, Alabama, USA Description This conference paper explored the way Thomas Pynchon's novel Bleeding Edge deals with the periodization and periodicity of neoliberalism. People Arin Keeble Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
Visiting Researcher: The Artificial Intelligence of the Victorian Novel
May 16, 2018
Location Merchiston Campus, 10 Colinton Road, Room B2 (3-4.30pm) Description In this research talk hosted by the Centre for Literature and Writing (CLAW), Dr Ward will be discussing her forthcoming book Seeming Human (Ohio State UP, 2018), which finds a new theory of Victorian realist character in the emergence of artificial intelligence in the mid-20th century. Redefining Victorian fictional character through its similarity to machines, this book challenges prevailing assumptions about what makes a realist character real.
Dr Ward is Assistant Professor in British Literature at Oregon State University and currently a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh.
All welcome!People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
Lead Organiser 'Crime Fiction(s): Victorian and Neo-Victorian Narratives of Crime and Punishment'
Apr 27, 2018
Location Merchiston Campus Description One-day interdisciplinary conference under the auspices of the new Scottish Centre for Victorian and Neo-Victorian Studies, co-sponsored by the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS), the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research at Glasgow University, Strathclyde University and Edinburgh Napier's Centre for Literature and Writing. Aside from academic presentations, there will be a talk by the National Library of Scotland's Rare Books Curator and a performance of Martin Travers' new play 'Annville' about two murders in Victorian Lanarkshire. People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
The German Diaspora during World War I: Remembering Internment Camps in Britain and the Commonwealth
Mar 9, 2018
Location The National Archives, Kew. Description Invited talk to promote the above project at one-day public event on Cultural History in Practice: Spies and Spying. Public study day, c. 25 attendees from both academia and general public. (https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cultural-history-in-practice-spies-and-spying-tickets-42859779755) People Andrew Frayn Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
The First World War in familiar and forgotten novels of the 1920s.
Feb 8, 2018
Location Erewash Museum, Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Description Talk at Erewash museum to the Local History Café, drawing on research for Writing Disenchantment: British First World War Prose, 1914-1930 (2014). Invited public lecture to c. 20 attendees.
Associated blog post:
https://localhistorycafe.tumblr.com/post/171445189826/local-history-cafe-at-erewash-museum-thursdayPeople Andrew Frayn Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries URL https://localhistorycafe.tumblr.com/post/171445189826/local-history-cafe-at-erewash-museum-thursday
Invited talk "Crime, Punishment and Social Justice: From Oliver Twist to the Suffragettes." Kilgraston School (Royal Society of Edinburgh Schools Outreach Programme)
Oct 27, 2017
Location Perth, Kilgraston School Description Invited talk to young audience of 16-18 year olds from Kilgraston School, Merchiston Castle School and Queen Victoria School. Approximate number of attendees: 50 (including 7 teachers). People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
David Bishop & Steve MacManus: How a Comic Book Icon Rose to the Top
Aug 15, 2017
Location Bosco Theatre (George Street), Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh. Description For anyone with even the merest interest in comic books, the story of 2000AD is an essential part of their education. David Bishop and Steve MacManus have been editors of the publication in very different eras and are in a privileged position to discuss the inside story People David Bishop Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries URL https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/david-bishop-steve-macmanus-10039
Invited talk "Books or Prisons? Reflections on Literature and Social Justice." Merchiston Castle School (Royal Society of Edinburgh Schools Outreach Programme)
Jan 24, 2017
Location Edinburgh, Merchiston Castle School Description Invited speaker at Annual Scholars' Dinner with an audience of approximately 100 pupils (aged 11 to 18) and teachers. People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
International Prison Education Day
Oct 13, 2016
Location HMP Barlinnie, Glasgow Description Dr Anne Schwan co-organised International Prison Education Day at HMP Barlinnie on 13th October 2016 and acted as judge of a writing and arts competition with entries from prisons across Scotland and Ireland. She secured funding from the RSE Young Academy of Scotland to sponsor a workshop by Glasgow-based performance group 'Street Cones'. 'Street Cones' is a non-profit organisation consisting of people who have experienced the criminal justice system and who are now engaged in preventive community work with at-risk young people. They have a strong commitment to mentoring and peer support to preclude substance misuse, offending and re-offending behaviour. The day's programme overall won the European Prison Education Association's award for the best International Prison Education Day out of all the events that took place across Europe. People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries URL http://www.sps.gov.uk/Corporate/News/News-4526.aspx
CLAW Research Seminar: Dr Andrew Frayn
Sep 21, 2016
Location Merchiston B2 Description Dr Andrew Frayn from the English Subject Group gave a talk on his research entitled 'Writing the First World War: Conflict and Memory, 1914-1930'. People Andrew Frayn Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
Podcast of Dublin Talk
Jun 30, 2016
Description The talk I gave on "Attachments and coping towards the end of the First World War: D. H. Lawrence's Bay (1919)" at University College Dublin in April is now available as a podcast at the following link:http://www.ucd.ie/humanities/events/podcasts/2015/wartime-attachments/#frayn People Andrew Frayn Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
Invited lecture to D. H. Lawrence Society
Jun 8, 2016
Location Newthorpe, Nottinghamshire Description I gave a lecture on 8 June 2016 to the D. H. Lawrence Society on 'D. H. Lawrence's Bay: War, destruction and reconstruction'. People Andrew Frayn Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries