The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this month. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. 1st November 2017, 4pm – 5.30pm, Babbage, Room 319 Art History- Gemma Blackshaw: ‘Waiting for a Cure: Oskar Kokoschka’s Portraits from the Sanatorium du Mont-Blanc’ 1st November 2017, 4.30pm – 6pm,… Continue reading Arts and Humanities Research Events This November
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Language, gender and Politics, University of Plymouth: ‘What Difference did the War Make’ project.
On Friday, 6th October, Plymouth University hosted the first event in the AHRC funded project ‘What Difference did the War Make?’ Working with project partners from the University of Lincoln and Parliament’s Vote 100 Project, ‘Language, Gender and Politics’ was the first of three public events commemorating the centenary of the Representation of the People… Continue reading Language, gender and Politics, University of Plymouth: ‘What Difference did the War Make’ project.
Arts and Humanities Research Seminars in October
The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this month. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. 4th October 2017, 5pm – 6.30pm, Roland Levinsky, Room 307 Performance. Experience. Presence. Welcome and introductory session- “What person or idea is currently haunting your research?” 4th October 2017, 7.30pm – 8.30pm,… Continue reading Arts and Humanities Research Seminars in October
David Sergeant awarded AHRC Research Leadership Grant
Congratulations to Dr David Sergeant who has recently been awarded a 2 year AHRC Research Leadership Grant. The award is a 2 year AHRC ECR Leadership Fellowship, titled Imagining Alternatives: Utopia, Community and the Novel,1880-2015. The project explores how the novel has been used since the late nineteenth century to imagine better forms of community, and… Continue reading David Sergeant awarded AHRC Research Leadership Grant
The Pronoun Utopia by David Sergeant
By David Sergeant For a while now a lot of my research has been circling around ideas of utopia, and how it relates to prose fiction; a reading that has involved drawing on a range of fields and approaches, from narratology to environmental criticism. However, it wasn’t until I was a fair way into assembling… Continue reading The Pronoun Utopia by David Sergeant
Plymouth University lecturer short listed for short story award
Wild Gestures, the first collection by Plymouth University Lecturer in English and Creative Writing Lucy Durneen, has been shortlisted in the Best Short Story Collection category at the Saboteur Awards. Published by Midnight Sun Publishing, the book brings together stories of loss, desire and opportunities missed and was released in January this year. The winner… Continue reading Plymouth University lecturer short listed for short story award
Plymouth University Lecturer shortlisted for prestigious writing prize
An award-winning novelist and academic at the University has been shortlisted for the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Alumnus, Tom Vowler, is one of just 21 writers to be selected from 6,000 entries for the honour of the best piece of unpublished short fiction in English. Tom, an Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing in the… Continue reading Plymouth University Lecturer shortlisted for prestigious writing prize
Plymouth researcher, David Sergeant, publishes new collection on Doris Lessing
Dr David Sergeant, Lecturer in English at Plymouth University, has co-edited and published a chapter in the book Doris Lessing and the Forming of History (Edinburgh University Press). Co-edited with Kevin Brazil and Tom Sperlinger, the volume considers Lessing’s writing as a whole and in retrospect, focusing on her innovative attempts to rework literary form to engage with the challenges thrown up by the… Continue reading Plymouth researcher, David Sergeant, publishes new collection on Doris Lessing
30 November 2016: Research seminar on drowning in early photography
English & Creative Writing Research Seminar Breathless: the look of drowning in early underwater photography Speaker: Dr Matt Kerr (University of Southampton) 3.30-5pm on Wednesday 30th November 2016 in Babbage 406, Plymouth University This paper investigates the imaginative links between photography and drowning in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. If photography can be thought of as… Continue reading 30 November 2016: Research seminar on drowning in early photography
Arts & Humanities Research events this week at Plymouth University
The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this week. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. Art+Sound Seminar: 2pm on 30th November 2016 in Nancy Astor Building, NAB 006 History Seminar: Dr Todd Gray on “Carving out the Renaissance in Devon”. 4pm on 30th November in Babbage… Continue reading Arts & Humanities Research events this week at Plymouth University