When: 5 April 2018, 6.30–8.30pm Who: Senate House Library, in collaboration with Queer Tours of London with special guests from the Gay Liberation Front Where: Seng Tee Lee Seminar Room, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Polari, the gay slang which faded away with the decriminalisation of male homosexuality and the advent of gay liberation, […]
Image: Spine of the Sterling first folio What, one might wonder, remains to be said about any single known Shakespeare first folios? Have not Anthony West’s 2003 detailed twenty-first censuses, alone and with Eric Rasmussen’s 2011 publication covered everything? Not quite, says Dr Karan Attar, and both the Senate House Library first folios have repaid […]
Third year PhD Student Nicole Robertson explores the works of Arthur Schnitzler and the history of the ‘Englishing’ of the great Viennese dramatist. Why does this research matter? It’s a question the best of us might struggle to answer when immersed in the nitty-gritty of humanities study. My own indebtedness to the public purse often […]
Image: Léa de Lonval (Michelle Pfeiffer), the Baronne de la Berche (Bette Bourne), Madame Aldonza (Nichola McAuliffe) and Charlotte Peloux (Kathy Bates) in Mme Peloux’s ‘mausoleum’ in Chéri (dir. Stephen Frears, 2009) Ahead of the release of the biopic Colette, which premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, Dr Will Visconti examines some of […]
Image: a picture of Jerusalem from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493) The explosion of virtual reality (VR) technology is transforming how we think about travel, says Dr Matthew Coneys. With a VR headset and the right app you can enjoy a risk-free ascent of Everest, or visit the Australian outback without the inconvenience of flying halfway around […]
Image: Ciarán Owens in Tumulus, © Michael Carlo By day he is a mild-mannered university administrator and by night, early mornings before work and on the weekends, he is a playwright. Christopher Adams explains how he manages his double life and why a university environment is ideal for pursuing creative projects. Share this article:
Modern communication is evolving as we speak, says Thomas Hills, professor of psychology at Warwick University. The best-selling novels in Japan in 2007 were all written on mobile phones and read more like text messages than the standard chapter format many of us are used to. With text messages demanding brevity over elegance and our […]
Dr Dominic Glynn, lecturer in French studies at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, remembers Paul Otchakovksy-Laurens, a major figure in the French publishing industry who died in a car crash in the French Antilles. Share this article:
A year ago Professor Sarah Churchwell, public engagement chair at the School of Advanced Study and professorial fellow in American literature at its Institute of English Studies, thought she knew what she would be doing – in terms of big projects at least – for 2017. And it didn’t include writing the book she has […]
When: 18-19 Jan 2018, 9:30am – 6:00pm Who: The Institute of English Studies in partnership with the School of English, Newcastle University Where: Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Humanities research is developing at a new scale and in new directions. requiring us to ‘think bigger’ (and differently) than before. How is English as a […]
