The next seminar in the Auto / Bio / Fiction series will take place this week, on Thursday, 9 March 2023, at 5.30pm (London time), with
Lorenzo Marchese, ‘A Brief History of Italian Autofiction’
and
Julia Kritsikokas, ‘The Writing of Trauma in French Women’s Autofiction: Annie Ernaux and Nina Yargekov’
The seminar will be online. Click here for more information and to register (registration is required to receive the zoom link).
A reminder that on Friday 24 February 2023, at 6pm GMT, the London Beckett Seminar welcomes Clara Simpson (Théâtre de la Manufacture), “Performing Not I”
To attend, please register by email.
We are sorry to announce that the next event in the Sing in Me, Muse series, Emily Hauser’s talk ‘Recovering the Women of the Trojan War‘ and reading from her novel For the Most Beautiful, initially scheduled for Thursday 16 February, has been postponed to Thursday, 23 March 2023, at 6.00pm (London time), due to UCU strike action.
If you had already booked to attend, the ticket remains valid, and you will receive the zoom link the day before the seminar, and again about 1 hour before the start.
We apologise for the inconvenience and hope you understand that we cannot ask our speakers to cross (even virtual) picket lines.
We are sorry to announce that the Auto / Bio / Fiction seminar with Guido Mazzoni (“Like everyone else. Annie Ernaux’s The Years“) and Jarred McGinnis (“Alchemizing the self for fiction”), which was scheduled for Thursday 9 February 2023 at 5.30pm UTC, has had to be cancelled due to UCU strike action.
Guido Mazzoni will be rescheduled to a new event dedicated to Annie Ernaux in the next academic year.
Jarred McGinnis will be keynote speaker at a new Auto / Bio / Fiction event in June 2023, focused on auto- and biofictional creative writing.
Full details will be announced as soon as we have finalised them. Keep an eye on the Auto / Bio / Fiction page on our website!
The seminar on 9 March 2023, 5.30pm UTC, with Lorenzo Marchese and Julia Kritsikokas is not affected by the strike and should go ahead as normal. Please join us for that!
We apologise for the inconvenience and hope you understand that we cannot ask our speakers to cross (even virtual) picket lines.
A reminder that the next seminar in the Sing in Me, Muse series is this Thursday, 2 February 2023, at 6.00pm (London time):
Michael Simpson and Barbara Goff, “‘Votes for Medea: The British women’s suffrage movement and the classical franchise”.
The talk will be in Room 144, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths (Lewisham Way, New Cross, London SE14 6NW). (Click here for directions to Goldsmiths and for a campus map.)
Note that this event will be in person and will not be recorded.
Click here for more information and to register.
A reminder of the next seminar in the Auto / Bio / Fiction series:
Thursday, 26 January 2023, at 5.30pm (London time):
Anna Borgarello, “Of Adventurers and Storytellers: Narrations of the Self and the Other in Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone and Limonov by Emmanuel Carrère”
and
Riccardo Castellana, “Biofiction in Italy: typologies, traditions and reception”
The seminar will be online. Click here for more information and to register (registration is required to receive the zoom link).
With many apologies: due to unforeseen circumstances, Marina Warner’s Annual Lecture, “Viral Spiral: Multiple Shape-Shifting from Ovid to Covid”, due to be delivered tonight at 6.15pm UK time, has had to be postponed to a date to be confirmed.
We apologise for any inconvenience.
Very best wishes from the CCL
Welcome back to the CCL for the Spring term events, and happy 2023!
A reminder of the two events scheduled for this week:
On Thursday 19 January 2023, at 6.15pm, Marina Warner gives the inaugural Annual Lecture ‘Viral Spiral: Multiple Shape-shifting from Ovid to Covid‘. Click on the title for more information and links to register to attend (in person or online).
On Friday 20 January 2023, at 6pm, the London Beckett Seminar also resumes, hosting Dr Marco Bernini (Durham University), with a talk on “Beckett and the Apparent Self: Awakenings, Predictions, Protentions”
To attend, please register by email.
In 1923, the Radio Corporations of China was established; the Walt Disney Company was founded; Howard Carter opened the tomb of Tutankhamen; Khalil Gibran published The Prophet; Katherine Mansfield died from tuberculosis; W.B. Yeats won the Nobel Prize for literature….
What does 2023 have in reserve for us? We don’t know yet, but come along to our events, and you can look forward to a lot of fun and intellectual stimulation!
In the meantime, very best wishes for a happy, healthy, peaceful and successful New Year from the CCL!
A reminder of two events scheduled for this week:
The next seminar in the Auto / Bio / Fiction series is this Thursday, 15 December 2022, at 5.30pm (London time):
Laura Cernat, ‘Portraits of the Artist’s Wife in a Slanted Mirror: Reader, Mother, Lover, Sorceress’ and Varsha Panjwani, ‘The Many Lives of Judith Shakespeare: Feminist Life-Writings’.
Click here for more information and to register (registration is required to receive the zoom link).
On Friday 16 December 2022, at 6pm, the London Beckett Seminar will host Prof Pascale Sardin (Université Bordeaux Montaigne), with the paper “Feelgood Godot? A Discussion of Emmanuel Courcol’s Un triomphe(The Big Hit)”.
To attend, please register by email.
