‘Body-thoughts’: The CCL Postcolonial Dance Series, 2025 continues this week on Tuesday 20 May (online), when Brahma Prakash (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India), will give a talk on ‘A Manifesto to Decolonize Dance and Movement Discourses in South Asia’.
Note the earlier-than-usual time of 3PM BST.
Best wishes from the CCL
This week we’re in for some treats at the CCL!
Our Postcolonial Performance series returns this week, and this year it is dedicated to dance. We start on Tuesday 13 May at 6PM BST with Jeleel Ojuade (Ojaja University, Nigeria), who will talk about ‘Reclaiming Dance in Africa: Ancestral Heritage and Political Agency’
Click here for more information on Prof. Ojuade’s talk and the registration link.
And click here for the full series ‘Body-thoughts’: The CCL Postcolonial Dance Series, 2025, which in the next weeks will also feature Brahma Prakash (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India), ‘A Manifesto to Decolonize Dance and Movement Discourses in South Asia’ (20 May, 3 PM BST); María Regina Firmino-Castillo (University of California, Riverside, USA),’“Dancing the Pluriverse” redux: (Indigenous) Performance as ontological praxis or anticolonial poiesis?’ (27 May, 6pm BST); and ‘Performance, Memory, and Resistance: A Talk by Palestinian Performance Artist Riham Isaac,’ (University of Exeter, UK), on 2 June, 6PM BST. All talk are online, and are free to attend.
On Thursday 15 and Friday 16 May we host the conference Music to my Ears: Creative Practices in Music and Translation, supported by the Modern Humanities Research Association. The conference is in person.
We look forward to seeing you!
Join us on Thursday 6 March 2025 at 5.30pm UTC (London time) for the Auto / Bio / Fiction series, when we’ll combine a practical writing workshop with with an autoethnographic study reflecting on autofiction through the use of digital game-making:
Beverly Frydman and Rochelle Robshaw, ‘Writing the Ordinary’
and
Xiyuan Tan, ‘Defeating the ‘boss characters’ of my life: Representing life turning points and adversities in an autofiction RPG’
For more information and to register: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/the-auto-bio-fiction-series-beverly-frydman-rochelle-robshaw-and-xiyuan-tan/
We hope to see many of you there,
With best wishes from the Centre for Comparative Literature
Join us on Thursday 6 February 2025 at 5.30pm UTC (London time) for the Auto / Bio / Fiction series, when our focus will be on the essay as dialogical mode of reading and thinking and on the relationship between lived experience, storytelling, and critical theory in British cultural studies.
Lellida Marinelli, “Reading, writing, being writerly selves through essayistic practice. Deborah Levy’s trilogy on writing and Jeanette Winterson’s Art Objects”
and
Elisa Russian, “Landscapes with Social Figures: On the Autobiographical Mode of British Cultural Studies“
For more information and to register: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/the-auto-bio-fiction-series-lellida-marinelli-and-elisa-russian/
We hope to see many of you there,
With best wishes from the Centre for Comparative Literature
Join us on Thursday 9 January 2025, at 5:30pm UTC (London time) for the Auto / Bio / Fiction series with writer Kim Adrian – author, among other works, of Dear Knausgaard and the memoir The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet – and Karen Ferreira-Meyers (University of Eswatini), and critic of autofiction and autobiography.
Kim Adrian, “On Script-Flipping Genres”
and
Karen Ferreira-Meyers, “Unveiling Truths: The Bold Art of Women’s Autofiction”
For more information and to register: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/the-auto-bio-fiction-series-kim-adrian-and-karen-ferreira-meyers/
We hope to see many of you there,
With best wishes from the Centre for Comparative Literature
Join us on Thursday 28 November 2024, at 5:30pm UTC (London time) as the Auto / Bio / Fiction series resumes for this academic year, with biofiction specialists Monica Latham (Professor of British literature in the English Department at the Université de Lorraine, Nancy) and Bethany Layne (Senior Lecturer in English Literature at De Montfort University):
Monica Latham, “Virginia Woolf in the French Imagination”
and
Bethany Layne, “‘As your Queen, and as a grandmother’: Elizabeth II’s tribute to Princess Diana in two works by Peter Morgan.”
For more information and to register: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/the-auto-bio-fiction-series-monica-latham-and-bethany-layne/
Looking forward to seeing many of you there,
Best wishes from the Centre for Comparative Literature
Dear colleagues and friends of the Centre for Comparative Literature,
After some serious disruption due to more redundancies and restructure at Goldsmiths, we have finally been able to start planning our programme for 2024-25.
We start on 24 October at 5pm with “Methodologies in Comparative Literature: Printed and Electronic Resources, a Model from Uzbek Comparatists”, a seminar organised jointly with LINKS (the London Intercollegiate Network of Comparative Studies), hosting professor Gulnoz Khallieva, Head of the Department of World Literature at the Uzbek State University of World Languages. The seminar will take place at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies at Senate House, and online. To register, please visit the ILCS event page and click on “Book now”
We are in the process of finalising the programmes for the Auto / Bio / Fiction series, the Post-Colonial Theatre series, the Sing in Me, Muse series, and other events, including Olympoetics, which had to be postponed last year. Please look out for the announcements, and thank you for your patience!
Looking forward to seeing you soon, online or in person,
With very best wishes,
Lucia, Clare, Isobel and Marie-Claude
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/.
Best wishes from the Centre for Comparative Literature
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/.
Best wishes from the Centre for Comparative Literature
