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GLITS Current Programme

When: Thursdays at 6.30pm
Where: Seminar Room A, Ground Floor, Warmington Tower

Academic Year 2011-12

Organisers: Alice Condé, Emma Grundy Haigh, Jacqueline Rattray

 12 Jan Brittain Bright (Goldsmiths)
'The Case of the Lady Writer: Women Authors and the Foundations of the Detective Novel, 1920-1940'
 19 Jan Seraphima Kennedy (Creative Writing, Goldsmiths)
'"The loss of a self that you did not have to lose": Reconfigured Identities in a Multiplicity of Parents'
David Nash ( Creative Writing, Goldsmiths)
'Dépaysement -- Poems of (and in) Exile, Place and Placelessness'
 26 Jan Reading Group
Chair: Johanna Franklin (Goldsmiths)
Kate Millett, 'Theory of Sexual Politics' (Chapter 2 from Sexual Politics)
  2 Feb Francis Gilbert (Goldsmiths)
'"But sir, I lied" - the value of teachers using their own autobiographical writing in the classroom and the therapeutic benefits of using autobiographical discourse and "life fiction" in the classroom'
  9 Feb Adi Drori-Avraham (Goldsmiths)
'Haves, Have Nots: Heidegger, Levinas and the Question of Poverty'
 16 Feb No Seminar
 23 Feb Jasmine Richards (Goldsmiths)
'Lavinia's Blush: Female Silence, "Feminine Voice" and The Anxieties of Female Authorship in Ursula Le Guin's Lavinia'
   1 Mar Jack Underwood ( Creative Writing, Goldsmiths)
'Dynamic Doubt: The Problem of Uncertainty, and why it isn't a Problem'
   8 Mar Sam Goodman (Exeter)
'Between Battleground & Fairground: British Espionage Fiction and the Post-War City'
 15 Dec
Naomi Booth (Sussex)
'Self-Shattering Textualities: Ian McEwan’s Atonement and Freud’s Primal Scene in Pieces'
Alice Condé (Goldsmiths)
'The Decadent Cruel Woman, Masochism, and the Dynamics of Control'
 22 Mar Wine and nibbles with readings by creative writers.


Autumn Term 2011

 13 Oct
Welcome Evening
 20 Oct Alistair Roberts ( Creative Writing, Goldsmiths)
Reading from his novel: Worksongs of the Mekong Stevedores
 27 Oct Reading Group
Chair: Des Freedman (Goldsmiths, Dept. of Media and Communications)
The Assault on Universities: A Manifesto for Resistance
   3 Nov Naomi Folb ( Goldsmiths, Dept. of Educational Studies)
'Dyslexic Writers and the Idea of Authorship'
 10 Nov No Seminar
 17 Nov Agnes Woolley (University of Leeds)
'Cosmopolitan Representation: Para-textual Practice in Kate Clanchy's Antigona and Me'
 24 Nov Reading Group
Chair: Emma Grundy Haigh (Goldsmiths)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, 'Deconstructing Historiography'
   1 Dec Katrina Naomi ( Creative Writing, Goldsmiths)
'Beyond Gentility - Poetry and Violence'
   8 Dec
Chris Lloyd (Goldsmiths)
'"There's a life here": Hurricane Katrina and Biopolitics in Dave Eggers' Zeitoun and Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke'
  15 Dec Christmas party with readings by creative writers.