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. 16th May 2017, 7pm in Roland Levinsky Building Lecture Theatre 2 – Prof Lucy Bland on “Britain’s ‘Brown Babies’: The Children of Black GIs and White Women Born in World War… Continue reading Arts and Humanities research events this week at Plymouth University
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22 March 2017: Evening of Poetry and Marine Science
An evening of Poetry and Marine Science 22nd March 2017 at 5.30 pm at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory You are welcome to attend an evening of science, poetry and discussion, featuring talks and readings from five pairs of poets and scientists who have been working together to explore subjects ranging from algal blooms to ecosystem modelling, renewable energy… Continue reading 22 March 2017: Evening of Poetry and Marine Science
Arts and Humanities research events this week at the University of Plymouth
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. 14th March, 2-4pm in Rolle Building room 204 – Impact Case Study workshop with Dr Rebecca Sullivan (CEO of the HIstorical Association and REF 2014 panellist), hosted by the Arts Institute.… Continue reading Arts and Humanities research events this week at the University of Plymouth
New book about British Women in WWI
A new book entitled British Women of the Eastern Front, by Dr Angela Smith, explores the experiences of British women who worked on the Eastern Front in Serbia and Russia during the First World War. Angela is Associate Professor (Reader) in English at Plymouth University. The book tracks the adventures of women from the early days of… Continue reading New book about British Women in WWI
A Time of Judgment (23-24 June 2016): Conference Report
Judgment everywhere. Implacable judgment in scarlet up in the Central Criminal Court or delivered in measured tones in the High Court of Chancery. Beside the Embankment in the imperial senate, judgment confidently uttered before the witnesses in committee chambers or mumbled amid the gilded crockets of a stifling House of Lords. Judgment by the bearded… Continue reading A Time of Judgment (23-24 June 2016): Conference Report
23-24 June 2016: What did ‘Judgement’ mean in the 19th century?
Registration is now open for ‘A Time of Judgement: The Operation and Representation of Judgement in 19th century Cultures’ to be held on 23 and 24 June 2016 at Plymouth University. Please note that you can benefit from the Early Bird Delegate rate and save £25 by booking before 31 May. This international, interdisciplinary conference seeks… Continue reading 23-24 June 2016: What did ‘Judgement’ mean in the 19th century?
Feature: “Milton, Woolf and the mad Magnificat”
BY MIN WILD Because what we do as academics is demanding, and coercive in so many ways – ways both good and bad – there is seldom any time for play, or experiment, or sheer foolery. Even when the day-to-day demands of teaching or admin ease, our own research involves restrictions, parameters, duties and certain… Continue reading Feature: “Milton, Woolf and the mad Magnificat”
Feature: “Rules to (perhaps) live by: Samuel Richardson and 18th century educational writing”
BY BONNIE LATIMER One of the funniest texts of the mid-eighteenth century is Jane Collier’s acerbic An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting (1753). Collier sardonically imagines that most people’s true goal in life is ‘to plague all their acquaintance’. She helpfully lays down rules for doing so, encompassing masterpieces of passive aggression—for example,… Continue reading Feature: “Rules to (perhaps) live by: Samuel Richardson and 18th century educational writing”
24 March 2016: “Thinking through Space in Fiction” seminar
You are welcome to attend the following talk by Dr David Sergeant (Lecturer in English) on “Thinking through Space in Fiction” Thursday 24 March 2016 at 4.30pm in the seminar room on floor 3 of the Link Building, Plymouth University (as part of the CogNovo What’s Up series) Narrative is, by its very nature, temporal,… Continue reading 24 March 2016: “Thinking through Space in Fiction” seminar