This week at the CCL: Barbara Graziosi on Reading Homer with Virginia Woolf

This week, the Sing in Me, Muse series welcomes Barbara Graziosi (Princeton), who will give a talk on “‘The chancy story of the Phoenician woman’: Reading Homer with Virginia Woolf”

Thursday, 2 November 2023, at 6.00pm GMT, in person and online.

Click here for more information and to book.

We look forward to seeing you!

The Goldsmiths Centre for Comparative Literature.

Call for Papers for the Conference Work and Smell: Comparative Perspectives

The Centre for Comparative Literature will hold a conference on Work And Smell: Comparative Perspectives on 25 April 2024. For more information, please visit https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/work-and-smell-comparative-perspectives/.

The call for papers (deadline: 8 December 2023) is at https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/cfp-work-and-smell-comparative-perspectives/.

With best wishes,

The Goldsmiths Centre for Comparative Literature

Coming up this week at the CCL: Auto / Bio / Fiction and the London Beckett Seminar

On Thursday 19 October, 5.30 BST, our Auto / Bio / Fiction series resumes with

Alexandra Effe, “Thinking (Im-)Possibilities: Probability Estimations and Cognitive Feedback Loops in Processing Autofiction”
and
Natasha Bell, “Autofiction and the Implied Author”

The seminar will be online. Go to https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/the-auto-bio-fiction-series-alexandra-effe-and-natasha-bell/ for more information on the speakers and their papers, and to register to receive the Zoom link.

See https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/events-series-auto-bio-fiction/ for the full 2023-24 series.

 

On Friday 20 October, 6pm BST (online), the London Beckett Seminar will feature Prof Lucas Margarit (University of Buenos Aires), on “Beckett’s Presence in the South: Notes from Buenos Aires”.

Please visit the London Beckett Seminar page for more information and to register.

 

We look forward to seeing you!

At the CCL this week: Marina Warner, “Viral Spiral: Multiple Shape-shifting from Ovid to Covid” 

Marina Warner’s CCL Annual Lecture, “Viral Spiral: Multiple Shape-shifting from Ovid to Covid” is this week, Thursday 12 October 2023, at 6.00pm BST.

If you haven’t booked yet, you can still do so, in person or online – go to the Annual Lecture’s page for more information and to book.

We look forward to seeing you!