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Due to sickness, the Romance Reading Group session on ‘Queer Romance Novels’ has now been postponed to next week, Thursday 28th January at the same time, 17:30-18:30ish. We are very sorry for any inconvenience. Your registration will remain the same and so will the Zoom link you have been sent, but this will now work … Continue reading “POSTPONEMENT – Romance Reading Group: Queering the Romance, Thurs 28st January, 17:30-18:30ish”
Due to sickness, the below Romance Reading Group session on ‘Queer Romance Novels’ has now been postponed to the following week, Thursday 28th January at the same time, 17:30-18:30ish. We are very sorry for any inconvenience. Your registration will remain the same and so will the Zoom link you have been sent, but this will … Continue reading “Romance Reading Group: Queering the Romance”
Who knows what 2021 has in store for us – but Page Breaks, our weekly reading group for postgraduate researchers in english lit, will be back in the w/c 1 Feb. We’ll continue to meet weekly online via Zoom, and we look forward to seeing new and familiar faces!
Join us for our fun, informal event on Christmas, Romance and Popular Films… Please RSVP now via our website – (https://romancegroup.wixsite.com/home/event-details/christmas-romance-and-popular-films) You will be sent links to Zoom, some short videos and photos to look over. When you think of Christmas romance, Disney films, and princes and princesses, you may expect fairy-tale-like heteronormative narratives of … Continue reading “REMINDER – Romance Reading Group: Christmas Special, Thurs 10th December, 17:30-19:00”
Page Breaks this week will be on Wed 09 December at 1pm. We’ll be returning to our cherished ‘Works Loved’ format. Find out more about Works Loved here: https://blog.bham.ac.uk/englitpostgrad/works-loved/
On Wed 2 Dec our text is the short but intriguing preface to Mariah Carey’s memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey. We’ll think about Mariah’s refusal to acknowledge the concept of time… and perhaps also check in on her enduring presence as a Christmas icon.
On Wed 25 Nov we’ll discuss how country houses and museums have (and have not) grappled with the complex histories that define Britain’s past, including structures of racism and colonialism. Our text for this week is Sumaya Kassim’s video essay ‘The Museum Will Not Be Decolonised’ (2017). See you there!
We are relaunching the Romance Reading Group online just in time for our Christmas Romance special! Our first 20/21 session will be on Thursday 10th December 2020 from 17:30-19:00, so save the date in your calendars! It will be on: Christmas, Romance and Popular Films. Please RSVP via our website (https://romancegroup.wixsite.com/home/event-details/christmas-romance-and-popular-films). Then, closer the time, you … Continue reading “Romance Reading Group: Christmas, Romance and Popular Films”
On Wed 18 Nov we’ll consider the pleasures and problems of pop culture in an era of streaming and digital on-demand. Our text for this week is Simon Reynolds’s 2019 article “Streaming has killed the mainstream: the decade that broke popular culture”. See you there!
Thanks to popular demand, on Wed Nov 11 our regular Page Breaks session will be devoted to classic comfort TV institution The Great British Bake Off. Our episode is an infamous oldie: the attack of the Baked Alaska, aka ‘Bingate’. This will be co-hosted by a superfan (Toria) and a skeptic (Dorothy) so there’s space … Continue reading “Page BAKES: The Great British Bake Off”
