English and Creative Writing events archive

Thursday 7 February 2013

• GLITS: Blanchot Reading Group chaired by Beth Guilding (Goldsmiths)

Thursday 24 January 2013

• GLITS: Rachel Thompson (Goldsmiths), 'Metaphors of Return: Trauma and History in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory'

Wednesday 23 January 2013

• The Goldsmiths Writers’ Centre in association with the New Statesman presents James Kelman

Thursday 17 January 2013

• GLITS: Monika Loewy (Goldsmiths), 'Death Proof: Proof of and Against Breaking Down' and Chris Lloyd (Goldsmiths), '“F*ing Around on Tobacco Road”: Female Revenge, Genre-play, and the Southern Road Movie'

Thursday 10 January 2013

• GLITS: Gilles Delueze on Cinema as Image of Thought in Negotiations

Wednesday 12 December 2012

• Booker Prize-winng novelist Howard Jacobson will read from his new novel Zoo Time and reflect on the art of fiction

Monday 10 December 2012

• DR. PHILIP MCGOWAN - Resurrecting Neverland: Las Vegas after the Crash

Thursday 6 December 2012

• GLITS: Jasmine Richards (Goldmsiths), 'Torn Webs and Spider Women: Nancy K. Miller’s ‘Arachnologies,’ The Feminist Poetics of Exclusion and the Problem of Women’s Creative Autonomy'

Wednesday 5 December 2012

• PROFESSOR EDITH HALL - 'Putting class back into the History of Greek And Latin Classics'

Thursday 29 November 2012

• GLITS: Reading Group chaired by Eva Aldea (Goldsmiths), discussing Chapter 1 of When Species Meet by Donna Haraway

Wednesday 28 November 2012

• Stephen Knight, Blake Morrison and Francis Spuford reading from their recently published books

Thursday 22 November 2012

• GLITS: Niall Gildea (Queen Mary, University of London), 'Aliens in Cambridge: Henry Alford, John Holloway, and the spacetime of deconstruction'

Thursday 15 November 2012

• GLITS: Johanna Franklin (Goldsmiths), 'Reforming Resistance: romantic thralldom as affective social performance in Jean Rhys’s After Leaving Mr Mackenzie'

Thursday 1 November 2012

• GLITS: Patsy Hickman, 'A Memoir on Sculpture'

Thursday 25 October 2012

• GLITS: Susan Watson, '‘Points of stars in the dark’: writing about reading' and Philip Cogger, 'Someone Loves You'

Wednesday 24 October 2012

• Reading by Sharon Olds

Thursday 18 October 2012

• GLITS: Emma Grundy Haigh, 'Redefining Patriotism: Women’s Heroism in the Spy Story'

Wednesday 10 October 2012

• Wendy Jones & Suzanne Joinson

Sunday 22 July 2012

• Olympic Torch Relay - Maria Macdonald, Department of English and Comparative Literature

Wednesday 27 June 2012

• English Masterclass

Friday 22 June 2012

• GLITS Conference 2012: Ludus: The Narrative of Games and the Art of Play

Friday 8 June 2012

• LINKS Graduate Conference

Thursday 26 April 2012

• Bernardine Evaristo: a special reading and Q&A
• Sister Earth: Global Relationships in Contemporary Women’s Writing

Wednesday 25 April 2012

• Ross Raisin Reading

Wednesday 4 April 2012

• Other Cultures Within: Beyond the Naming of Things

Thursday 29 March 2012

• 'Poetry and the Olympics - ancient and modern'

Thursday 15 March 2012

• GLITS: Double Session on Ian McEwan’s Atonement and Masochism in Decadent LIterature

Wednesday 14 March 2012

• MARTIN ROWSON

Thursday 8 March 2012

• GLITS: 'Between Battleground & Fairground: British Espionage Fiction and the Post-War City'