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Join us on Wednesday 26 June from 10.00am and Thursday 27 June from 9.30am (both BST/UTC+1/London Time) for Auto / Bio / Fictional Graphic Narratives: A Symposium.

Completing the 2023-24 Auto / Bio / Fiction series, this online symposium will reflect on the combination of these two forms in order to explore how auto / bio / fictional graphic narratives and comics mobilise – and may put in tension – the visual and the verbal, the individual and the collective, the historical and the fictional, the documentary and the imagined, as well as popular culture and ‘serious’ literary fiction in constructing historical lives with varying degrees of fictionality and purposes.

The Symposium will take place online. Registration is free but necessary to receive the Zoom link to attend.

For programme, abstracts and speakers’ biographies, and for a registration link, please go to: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/auto-bio-fictional-graphic-narratives-a-symposium/.

Join us for the last London Beckett Seminar of the season, on Friday 19 April at 6pm UTC, online:

Dr Nicholas Taylor-Collins (Cardiff Metropolitan University), “Samuel Beckett’s Theatrical Prose Bodies”

For more information and to register, go to: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/london-beckett-seminar/.

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Join us for the London Beckett Seminar on Friday 22 March, 6pm UTC, online:

Olwen Fouéré (Independent), “On the 2015 Staging of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Lessness’ at the Barbican”

For more information and to register, go to: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/london-beckett-seminar/.

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Join us on Thursday 7 March 2024, at 5:30 UTC (London time), for the Auto / Bio / Fiction series:

Maaheen Ahmed, “Representations of children in autobiographical and autofictional graphic novels”

and

Elisabetta Varalda, “Virginia Woolf’s life in images and words”

For more information and to register: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/the-auto-bio-fiction-series-maaheen-ahmed-and-elisabetta-varalda/

Looking forward to seeing many of you there!

The Centre for Comparative Literature

Join us for the London Beckett Seminar on Friday 23 February, 6pm UTC, online:

Prof Patrick Bixby (Arizona State University), “Beckett, Lefebvre and the Everyday”

For more information and to register, go to: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/london-beckett-seminar/.

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Join us on Thursday 8 February 2024, at 5:30 UTC (London time), for this month’s seminar in the Auto / Bio / Fiction series:

Alexandre Gefen, “Philosophies of biofiction”

and

Zoey Forbes, “‘Your Fucking Struggle?”: Karl Ove Knausgård and the limits of possessive individualism”

For more information and to register: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/the-auto-bio-fiction-series-alexandre-gefen-and-zoey-forbes/

Looking forward to seeing many of you there,

The Centre for Comparative Literature

Join us for the first London Beckett Seminar of 2024, on Friday 26 January, 6pm UTC, online:

Elizabeth Barry, “‘The Salvation Army is no better’: Beckett and the Ethics of Social Need”

For more information and to register, go to: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/london-beckett-seminar/.

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On Thursday 11 January, at 5:30 UTC (London time), the Auto / Bio / Fiction series returns with a session focused on Annie Ernaux:

Guido Mazzoni (University of Siena), “Like everyone else. Annie Ernaux’s The Years”

and

Carole Sweeney (Goldsmiths), “Writing feminist philosophy: Annie Ernaux and Simone de Beauvoir”

For more information and to register: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/the-auto-bio-fiction-series-guido-mazzoni-and-carole-sweeney/.

Looking forward to seeing many of you there, and with our best wishes for the new year,

The Centre for Comparative Literature

Join us for the London Beckett Seminar this Friday, 15 December, 6pm UTC, online:

Dr James Baxter, “‘fun, hats, sex, etc’: Samuel Beckett, New World Writing and the Institutional Avant-Garde”

For more information and to register, go to: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/london-beckett-seminar/.

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The Auto / Bio / Fiction and the Sing in Me, Muse series join up this week to host Professor Nora Goldschmidt (Durham), who will speak on “Before Biofiction”.

Thursday 7 December, 6pm UTC, in person and online.

For more information and to register to attend: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/the-auto-bio-fiction-and-sing-in-me-muse-series-nora-goldschmidt/.