ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION Artist’s Series (supported by the London Consortium) Organised by Parveen Adams Friday 5th March EYAL SIVAN 6.30-8.00 In an investigation of the way in which memory is used for political purposes Sivan works with the idea of an archive common to victims and perpetrators – in this case Palestinians and Israelis. His films [...]
A one day colloquium: School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University Friday 26th March 2010, 11am-6pm Organised by ESRC National Centre for Research Methods Networks for Methodological Innovation Researching Affect and Affective Communication Network Director: Professor Valerie Walkerdine Increasingly, social science researchers are pointing to the central importance of affect and affective communication to understanding the [...]
Identity Project: Exhibition and Events What influences or determines our sense of who we are? What makes one person distinct from another? This major new exhibition explores the tension between the way we view ourselves and how others see us. Subjects tackled include twins, phrenology and brain imaging, gender and sexuality, race and prejudice. As [...]
Health in Women’s Writing (proposed special session MLA 2011): abstracts by March 4 Representations of Health and Well-Being in 19th- and Early-20th-Century American Women’s Writing. Exploring the cultural discourse of health and well-being, illness, and disease in 19th- and early-20th-century American literature by women. 250-word abstracts by 4 March 2010; Stacey Lee Donohue (sdonohue@cocc.edu).
Women’s Memoirs and the World of the Sixties (MLA Special Session, Los Angeles, 6-9 January 2011) Many women have written memoirs about their lives in the 1960s. How have they characterized these times? Was it a decade of optimism, hope, accomplishment, regret, anger, betrayal, or confusion? Papers analyzing women’s memoirs from diverse perspectives especially welcome. [...]
Proposed Special Session for MLA 2011 in Los Angeles When Katherine Stubbes “bequeaths” their newborn son to Phillip Stubbes, she asks her husband to “bring up this childe in good letters, in learning and discipline, and above all things, see that he be brought up and instructed in the exercise of true religion.” The late [...]
Friday 12 March 2010, 2.00-4.00pm Room 1.60 Franklin Wilkins Building, King’s College London ‘Micro-ethnography of social interaction as a research approach’ Professor Frederick Erickson University of California The “microethnography of social interaction” approach will be related to other streams of work, including similarities and differences with the “natural history of an interview” approach [...]
UBLIC LIVES, PRIVATE LIVES: NEW RESEARCH ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES A Postgraduate Research Conference WEDNESDAY 2nd JUNE 2010 Grand Parade, UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON The Second Annual Post-Graduate Research Conference Co-organised by the Centre for Research in Memory, Narrative and Histories, University of Brighton and the Centre for Life History and Life Writing, University of Sussex CALL [...]
The Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research open seminars for the Spring and Summer Terms 2010 are at the University of Sussex, usually Tuesdays 12.30-1.50pm. Please note that there is one seminar this term that will be on Friday 30 April. Please also note the room location for each seminar as it varies. [...]
The 13th ISJR Conference is approaching fast, which means it is time to put in your conference submissions if you haven’t already. To be held in Banff Alberta, on August 21-24, 2010, the theme of the conference will be on “Rights and Equality in the Global Community”. The conference line-up features, in addition to Carolyn [...]