2024-25
Event:
Methodologies in Comparative Literature: Printed and Electronic Resources, a Model from Uzbek Comparatists
At this seminar, organised in conjunction with the London Intercollegiate Network for Comparative Studies (LINKS) and taking place at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Professor Gulnoz Khallieva will present her books, written in Turkish, Russian, English and Uzbek, and the electronic platform “Comparative Studies”, created on the basis of a scientific project in the Ministry of Higher Education of Uzbekistan. She will also talk about the new journal Comparative Studies which is published at the Uzbek State University of World Languages. These will provide the basis for discussing approaches to teaching and researching comparative literature and the scientific and methodological foundations of the discipline.
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2023-24
Annual Lecture:
12 October 2023 (in person and online)
Marina Warner, Viral Spiral: Multiple Shape-shifting from Ovid to Covid
A group of metamorphoses in myths and legends features gods and in between creatures, who are not quite divine and not quite mortal either, who can change their shape multiple times. For example, Mestra, the daughter of Erichsychthon, is given this gift by the gods when her father sells her, and she is able to elude the clients he panders her to.
Marina Warner explores stories of multiple transformations in and out of different bodies, and reflect on their significance in relation to today’s concerns with fluid identities and interspecies contact and contagion.
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Conferences:
Conference: Auto / Bio / Fictional Graphic Narratives: A Symposium
(26-27 June 2024, online)
Completing the 2023-24 Auto / Bio / Fiction series at the CCL, this online symposium reflects on the combination of life-writing, in its many forms, and comics and graphic narratives 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.
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Conference: Maryse Condé and Caribbean Crossings
(10 May 2024, in person)
A celebration of the work of Maryse Condé in the Caribbean context, jointly organised by the Centre for Comparative Literature and the Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, with the Institut français du Royaume-Uni. This conference examines how crossings manifest themselves not only geographically, but in multiple intersecting ways in Maryse Condé’s works.
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Conference: Work and Smell: Comparative Perspectives
(25-26 April 2024, online)
This conference, organised jointly with the Decadence Research Centre, aims to investigate literary depictions of smell pertaining to work-specific contexts from comparatist angles, or in different cultural contexts that invite comparison.
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Workshop:
Workshop: Building Charles 400: An Interdisciplinary Resource
The workshop is part of the Building Charles 400 project to create a new interactive web resource that presents a rich array of source material (objects, buildings, maps, texts, music and dance) exploring Charles I’s legacy that will feed directly into the exam boards’ syllabi, so that teachers can quickly and easily access a range of new teaching materials.
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Ongoing seminar series:
The Auto / Bio / Fiction series (online)
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The Sing in Me, Muse: the Classical, The Critical and the Creative series (online or in person)
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The London Beckett Seminar (online)
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The 2023-24 programme;
The 2022-23 programme;
The 2021-22 programme.
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The CCL Postcolonial Theatre series (online)
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2022-23
Conferences:
Auto / Bio / Fiction in Practice: A Symposium
8 June 2023
A multi-disciplinary inquiry into the critical and creative practices of autofiction, biofiction and their neighbouring genres, as part of, and culmination of, our ongoing Auto / Bio / Fiction seminar series for 2022-23.
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Spectacular Orientalism in Early Modern Europe II: Asia and the Far East (C16th-C18th)
27-28 April 2023 (online)
The second ‘Spectacular orientalist’ conference, organised by the CCL in collaboration with the Society for European Festivals Research.
Following the success of the first Spectacular Orientalism conference in June 2022, largely devoted to the Ottoman Empire and the image of the Turk, it is our hope that papers for the follow-up conference will focus more specifically on Asia and the Far East. These two further days of talks and discussion will explore new perspectives on the representation of the Orient in early modern European art and performance in a period that witnessed the founding of the first Christian mission in Japan by the Portuguese (1549), the establishment of the English, Dutch and French East India Companies at the turn of the seventeenth century, the rise of European travel to Persia under the Safavid dynasty and the resulting spate of publications.
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Decadence and the Fairy Tale
24 March 2023 (in person)
Organised by the British Association of Decadence Studies (BADS) and the Goldsmiths’ Decadence Research Centre in association with the CCL.
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Seminar series:
The CCL Postcolonial Theatre series (online)
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The Auto / Bio / Fiction series (online)
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The Sing in Me, Muse: the Classical, The Critical and the Creative series (online or in person)
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The London Beckett Seminar (online)
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The 2023-24 programme;
The 2022-23 programme;
The 2021-22 programme.
2021-22
Conferences:
Spectacular Orientalism in Early Modern Europe (1529-1683)
8-9 June 2022, online.
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Seminar series:
The CCL Postcolonial Theatre series (online)
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Remnants of the Iraq Wars: Iraqi Literature Twenty Years after 9/11 (online).
Two events organised by Hanan Jasim Khammas, Visiting Doctoral Scholar at the CCL:
Iraq: Corporeality & Memory. Iraqi literary production, twenty years after the 9/11 attacks. With Sinan Antoon, Dunya Mikhail, Adnan Al-Sayegh, Jenny Lewis, Haytham Bahoora, and Hanan Jasim Khammas. 7 September 2021.
Aftermath Bodies: Corporeality in Contemporary Iraqi fiction. With Hanan Jasim Khammas, Ikram Masmoudi and Hanna Simpson. 22 September 2021.
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The London Beckett Seminar (online)
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The 2023-24 programme;
The 2022-23 programme;
The 2021-22 programme.
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Talks:
Margaret M. McGowan † (1931-2022), Dance, Performance and Politics: A Study of how Choreography developed in Court Ballets to meet changing political needs (online).
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2020-2021
Seminar:
In, on, around, across the Mediterranean: Displacement, ethics & the challenge of representation in fiction, drama, life writing & the arts. 4 December 2020 (online).
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