A full lecture room welcomed Sara Ahmed to the University of Birmingham for her talk, Mind the Gap: Complaint as Diversity Work, which would prove to be a hugely engaging and thought-provoking evening. Ahmed’s brilliant talk on complaint was just part of a bigger ongoing project she has been undertaking about university institutions and the … Continue reading “Sara Ahmed – Mind the Gap: Complaint as Diversity Work (30/01/2019)”
Month: February 2019
Guest speaker: Het Phillips, ‘The Possibility Of Evil: Shirley Jackson, True Crime and the Horror of the Everyday’ (13/02/19)
Wednesday 13th February, 4.30pm-6pm, Arts LR8 This paper will explore Shirley Jackson’s literary engagement with real life crime and the ways in which she makes use of genre features from various modes of crime writing to radical and disorienting effect. Het Phillips has a PhD on cultural representations of the ‘Moors Murders’ and ‘Yorkshire Ripper’ … Continue reading “Guest speaker: Het Phillips, ‘The Possibility Of Evil: Shirley Jackson, True Crime and the Horror of the Everyday’ (13/02/19)”