GLITS - Goldsmiths Literature Seminar

Academic Year 2010-11

Organisers: Eva Aldea, Helen Palmer, Jacqueline Rattray

7 Oct	Welcome Evening and Short Film Screening Film: Ballet Méchanique (1924)
14 Oct	Alex Murray (Exeter) Agamben Reading Group 'Philosophical Archaeology' from Signature of All Things: Notes on Method (2010). See the GLITS Autumn Term page on learn.gold.ac.uk for a copy.
21 Oct	James Randall (Goldsmiths) Life/Death Writing: Death in life writing and the specters of the posthumous life in modern fiction, from Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet to José Saramago's The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
28 Oct	Sam Goodman (Exeter) England’s Green, Unpleasant Land: Memory, Myth & National Identity in the novels of Ian Fleming
4 Nov	Jocelyn Page (Goldsmiths) Inspiration and Practice: creative writing reading and workshop
11 Nov	No Seminar
18 Nov	Chris Girard (Goldsmiths, Dept of Arts and Computational Technology ) ‘The Performance of Author’: multimedia installation and experiment in new media poetics. Chris Girard’s Website: www.chrisgirard.com
25 Nov	Seminar CANCELLED due to Anti-Cuts rally
16 Dec	Christmas party with readings by creative writers.
18 Jan	Susana Medina (Open University) 'Leather-bound Stories' a video-work in collaboration with Derek Ogbourne, based on Medina's novel Philosophical Toys
25 Jan	Catherine Humble (Goldsmiths) A Talkative Affair: Intimate Edits in Raymond Carver's Beginners
27 Jan	Helen Palmer (Goldsmiths) 'Time and Space Died Yesterday': The Battle of Chronos and Aion in Deleuze's Futurist Temporalities
3 Feb	Adi Drori (Goldsmiths) Human, All Too Inhuman: Levinas, de Man and the Question of the Other
10 Feb	Judith Niechial 'Lucy Faithfull: Mother to Hundreds' - Researching a biography
17 Feb	Vikki Chalklin (Goldsmiths, Dept of Media and Communications) Queer Theory & Performativity Reading Group (Readings available on learn.gold )
24 Feb	No Seminar
1 Mar	Lucy Bond / Jessica Rapson (Goldsmiths) TBC
3 Mar	Jacqueline Rattray (Goldsmiths) TBC
10 Mar	Eleanor Dare (Goldsmiths, Dept of Arts and Computational Technology) Navigating Subjectivity, South: A psychometric text adventure
17 Mar	Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths, Dept of Sociology) The Cartographic Attributes of the Invisible: Space and Capital in William Gibson's Recent Novels
24 Mar	Seminar CANCELLED due to strike
31 Mar	End of Term Party

Academic Year 2009-10

Organisers: Eva Aldea, Adi Drori-Avraham, Jacqueline Rattray

8 Oct	Eva Aldea (Goldsmiths) 'Deleuze and Magical Realism'
15 Oct	Kristin Ewins (Goldsmiths) 'Leftist Middlebrow Fiction of the 1930s'
22 Oct	Reading group Chair: Frank Krause (Goldsmiths) Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels: Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
29 Oct	Amy Rushton (Goldsmiths) 'Trashing National Identity: How Ethnic Conflict Troubles the Novel in Sub-Saharan Africa'
5 Nov	No Seminar
12 Nov	Gabriel Gbadamosi (Goldsmiths, Pinter Centre) 'Playwright to Playwright: The Changeling'
19 Nov	Seminar cancelled
26 Nov	Douglas Cowie (Royal Holloway) Author of Owen Noone and the Marauder (Canongate 2005) 'Reading from work in Progress and Discussion'
3 Dec	Reading Group Chair: Josh Cohen (Goldsmiths) Sigmund Freud, 'The Theme of the Three Caskets'
8 Dec	Special Guest Lecture: Professor Richard Godden 'Bret Easton Ellis' Fictions of Fictitious Capital: American Psycho, Lunar Park and the Poetics of Deregulation' Room 142, Richard Hoggart Building, 5.30pm
10 Dec	Christmas Party and Readings by Creative Writers (Jenny Kingsley, Kate Miller, Keelan Crampsey, Neil Bradley)
14 Jan	Reading group Chair: Danielle Sands (Royal Holloway) Jacques Derrida, Given Time: 1. Counterfeit Money, Chapter 1 'The Time of the King'
21 Jan	Emma Haigh (Goldsmiths) 'Blots, Others and Desire: The Dossier of the Anxious Spy'
28 Jan	Nerea Arruti (Aberdeen) '"Human beings are humans insofar as they bear witness to the inhuman": Photography and Psychiatry in Humanario (1966-76)'
4 Feb	Reading Group Chair: John McKeane and Adi Drori-Avraham Maurice Blanchot, The Book to Come, Chapter 1 'Encountering the Imaginary' and selections from Homer's The Odyssey
11 Feb	Creative Writing Readings Kate Miller and Jenny Kingsley (Goldsmiths)
18 Feb	No Seminar
25 Feb	Helen Palmer (Goldsmiths) 'Dynamic Nonsense: Deleuze, Futurism and Linguistic Materiality'
4 Mar	Leif Bull (Goldsmiths) 'Writing about Writing While Writing about the Real: Richard Yates and David Foster Wallace'
11 Mar	Francis Gilbert (Goldsmiths) Reading from his memoir, The Shadow of Eros
18 Mar	Adi Drori-Avraham (Goldsmiths) 'The Poet's Gaze: Rilke and Mallarmé' Niall Gildea (Goldsmiths) 'Did the revelation of Paul de Man’s involvement with the collaborationist Belgian journal Le Soir during World War II inaugurate a "turn" in Jacques Derrida’s thought and work?'
25 Mar	End of Term Party and Readings by Creative Writers

Academic Year 2008-9

Organisers: Kevin O'Neill, Jacqueline Rattray, Amy Rushton, Michael Simpson

9 Oct	Welcome Party
16 Oct	Evie Wyld (MA Goldsmiths) Reading from her novel, After the Fire a Still Small Voice
23 Oct	Reading group Chair: Eva Aldea (Goldsmiths) Introduction to Deleuze & Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus. Capitalism and Schizophrenia
30 Oct	Antonio Sanna (Ph.D Westminster) 'Time and Belief in Beowulf’
6 Nov	No Seminar
20 Nov	Reading group Chair: Amy Rushton (Goldsmiths) Wayne C. Booth, 'Why Ethical Criticism Can Never Be Simple'
27 Nov	Patsy Hickman ( Goldsmiths) 'One Writer's Internal Process'
4 Dec	Helena Buescu (Universidade de Lisboa) 'Migration and Humanity: W. G. Sebald, The Emigrants'
11 Dec	Christmas Party Readings by: Sara Bynoe, Jenny Kingsley, Neil Bradley, Kate Miller and Tom McMullen
15 Jan	Kevin O’Neill (Goldsmiths) 'The Shapeshifting Book: McSweeney's and its reading context'
22 Jan	Kirsten Ellis (Goldsmiths) Reading from her acclaimed new biography, Star of the Morning, The Extraordinary Life of Lady Hester Stanhope
29 Jan	Ros Barber(Goldsmiths & Sussex) '16th Century questioners of Shakespeare's authorship'
5 Feb	Kirsty Black (Goldsmiths) Ph.D Celebration '"Making a Shape in Words": Visualising David Jones's Poetry'
12 Feb	Catherine Humble 'From The Classical Detective to The Noir Hero: a Lacanian reading'
19 Feb	No Seminar
26 Feb	Reading group Chair: Adi Drori-Avraham (Goldsmiths) Roland Barthes, 'The Death of the Author'
5 Mar	Emma Haigh ( Goldsmiths) 'Transitioning Through Bond: Shaping the Landscape of the Cold War Spy Novel'
12 Mar	Leif Bull (Goldsmiths) 'Textual Erasure and Intertextual Transformation in Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates'
19 Mar	No Seminar
26 Mar	Lucia Boldrini (Goldsmiths) 'Heterobiography: Form, History, Ethics'

Academic Year 2007-8

Organisers: Leif Bull, Chloe Chourrout, Jacqueline Rattray

11 Oct	Welcome Party
18 Oct	Audrey Small (University of Sheffield) 'Roots, Rhizomes and l’Africano: Traces of Glissant in Tierno Monénembo’s Pelourinho'
25 Oct	Linda Freedman (King’s College, London) 'Meadows of Majesty: Dickinson's Baptismal Imagery and the Aesthetic of Translation'
1 Nov	Ros Barber (Goldsmiths & University of Sussex) 'Exploring Biographical Fictions: The Role of Imagination in Writing and Reading Narrative'
8 Nov	No Seminar
15 Nov	Leif Bull (Goldsmiths) 'The corrosion of everyday language in Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road'
22 Nov	Maria Fusco (Goldsmiths) 'Thinking Machines and Handy Containers: The Artist's Book'
29 Nov	Emma Darwin (Goldsmiths) 'Writing in the Body: senses, metaphors and pseudo-synaesthesia in a fiction-writer's practice'
6 Dec	Zlatan Filipovic (Goldsmiths) 'The (Im)possible Bind: "We who cannot completely say we"'
10 Jan	Margot Backus (National University of Ireland, Galway) 'James Joyce and the New Journalism'
17 Jan	Emily Jeremiah (Ph.D Swansea) 'Strange Encounters: Nomadic Identities in Contemporary Women’s Writing in German'
24 Jan	Chloe Chourrout (Goldsmiths) 'Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Style against Ideas?'
31 Jan	Bart Moore-Gilbert (Goldsmiths) 'Towards a Poetics of Postcolonial Life-Writing'
7 Feb	Wim Van-Mierlo (SAS, University of London) 'Revisions and Revelations in Modern Literary Manuscripts'
14 Feb	No Seminar
21 Feb	Sharon Holm (Birkbeck, University of London) 'Stones, Bones, and Narrative Rights: The Political Aesthetic of Gerald Vizenor's "Postmodern" Trickster'
28 Feb	Richard Hoggart Lecture Series, Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, 6pm Terry Eagleton, 'The Death of Criticism'
6 Mar	Sally Collins (University of Greenwich) 'Signora Tony and DH Lawrence’s "The Dance": Constructions of the English Other'
6 Mar	Holy Chowdhury (Goldsmiths) 'Genre and Writing: The same old story?'
24 Apr	Antonio Sanna (PhD Westminster) 'The Nostalgic Exile of Dante Alighieri and Hannibal Lecter: History and Memory'
1 May	No Seminar
8 May	Jolanta Burgoyne-Johnson (Ph.D University of Ulster, Coleraine) 'A River in the Tress: Applying Literary Absent Sense to the Poetry of Seamus Heaney'

Academic Year 2006-7

Organisers: Helen Carr, Ben Felsenburg, Brooke Mann