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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CLAW hosted a joint presentation by scriptwriter James Mavor (Screen Academy) and Ian Rankin, entitled 'The Curse of the Justified Sinner: A Case Study in the Challenges of Adapting James Hogg's Gothic Classic into a Feature Film'.
Feb 22, 2013
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Book Launch, 'Ragas and Reels', Glasgow
Feb 21, 2013
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CLAW hosted a research talk by Dr Joyce Goggin (University of Amsterdam) on 'The Perils of Fictional Credit: Cecilia Or, Memoirs of an Heiress'.
Feb 8, 2013
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Talk to Balerno Women's Guild on Multiculturalism in diasporic writing
Feb 7, 2013
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CLAW hosted a research talk by Dr Rhian Williams (University of Glasgow) on '"Parochial histories": The Poetics of Ecological Record-Keeping and Material Change, c. 1780-1830'.
Jan 25, 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
Isobel Armstrong, Professor Emeritus at Birkbeck and Fellow of the British Academy, is giving a talk at CLAW entitled ‘Small Things and Large Materialisms in Five 19th-Century Novels: Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling a
Nov 28, 2012
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Book launch of 'Ragas and Reels', poems on migration and diaspora, at Blackwells Bookshop, South Bridge, Edinburgh
Nov 20, 2012
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Professor Walter Goebel from the University of Stuttgart, one of the English Suite's new Erasmus partners, gave a talk at CLAW entitled 'From Sentiment to Sentimentality: Interpreting Changes of Taste from the Early 18th Century to Charles Dickens'.
Nov 2, 2012
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An Evening with Sharmila Tagore chaired by Sangeeta Datta
Oct 26, 2012
Location Craiglockhart Description A public interview with Dr. Sharmila Tagore by film directer Dr. Sangeeta Dutta attended by around 185 people People Bashabi Fraser Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
chair of book launch of Jean Rafferty's 'Myra beyond Saddleworth'.
Oct 17, 2012
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Dr Andrew Mangham from the University of Reading 'Interdisciplinary Conversations on the Long Nineteenth Century'. CLAW Research Talk Series
Oct 6, 2012
Location 28/09/2012 Description Dr Andrew Mangham from the University of Reading kicked off this year's research talk series entitled 'Interdisciplinary Conversations on the Long Nineteenth Century'. Mangham spoke about the impact of discourses of forensic medicine on Charles Dickens's early journalism. People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
Chairing showing of film 'Images Unbound: Life and Times of Rabindranath Tagore' with Director, Mujibor Rahman
Oct 5, 2012
Location 14 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh Description Event organised jointly by Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies, Edinburgh Napier University and Centre for South Asian Studies, Edinburgh University(Director, Dr. Crispin Bates). Showing of film 'Images Unbound: Life and Times of Rabindranath Tagore' with Director, Mujibor Rahman, chaired by Bashabi Fraser. People Bashabi Fraser Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
Invitation to contribute to panel on "Prison Reading Groups"
Sep 14, 2012
Location 14 September 2012 Description Anne Schwan was an invited panel speaker at the AHRC-funded "Prison Reading Groups Event", marking the conclusion of a major Knowledge Transfer grant at Roehampton University. Schwan was asked to give an overview of her student volunteering project at HMP Edinburgh. People Anne Schwan Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries
Co-convener, seminar on 'Literary canons for the Atlantic Archipelago: towards a de-centring of English Studies', ESSE conference, Istanbul
Sep 4, 2012
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Author event at Edinburgh International Book Festival
Aug 27, 2012
Description Author event, 'Where Scotland and India Meet', RBS Corner Theatre, Edinburgh International Book Festival. Launches 'Ragas and Reels' and 'Scots Beneath the Banyan Tree: Stories from Bengal' People Bashabi Fraser Org Units School of Arts and Creative Industries