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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/.

Best wishes from the Centre for Comparative Literature

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/.

 

The London Beckett Seminar return this week with Dr Lois More Overbeck (Emory University), on “Just a Little Correspondence… : Introducing Chercher”

Friday 17 November, 6pm UTC, online.

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

 

 

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.

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

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!

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.

Dear CCL friends,

The 2023-24 programmes for:

the Auto / Bio / Fiction series

the Sing in Me, Muse: The Classical, the Critical and the Creative series

and the London Beckett Seminar (first event tonight at 6pm, online!)

have been published. Keep an eye on our website: other events are being planned and will be announced when details are finalised.

A reminder also that the Annual Lecture by Marina Warner, Viral Spiral: Multiple Shape-shifting from Ovid to Covid, will be on 12 October 2023, 6pm (online and in person).

All events are free to attend.

We hope to see (or e-see) you at some or all of those!

All best wishes from the CCL