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The Romance Reading Group would like to welcome 2024 with a film that marked (for better or for worse) 2023: To light up the dark, cold January nights, join us on January 29th for a session on Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. What kind of budget and infernal agreements does this movie have to turn everything pink, … Continue reading “Romance Reading Group – January session: Greta Gerwig’s Barbie”
In our first Page Breaks of the New Year, we’ll be discussing our resolutions for 2024, taking inspiration from eight authors who share their plans, hopes, and resolutions for what they’ll read this year in an article from early January. Come along ready to talk about your own resolutions and get inspiration from others! When … Continue reading “Page Breaks: Reading Resolutions (1pm, Monday 22 Jan)”
The Stuart Hall PGR Reading Group is an interdisciplinary group meeting once a month to discuss the work of the visionary scholar Stuart Hall. Throughout the Spring term, we will be discussing Hall’s work on media and communication. These sessions are run by and for PGRs, but all are welcome – prior knowledge of Hall’s work … Continue reading “Stuart Hall Reading Group”
It’s that time of the year! The Romance Reading Group would like to say goodbye to 2023 with our Christmas Special: Join us on December 12th for a session on Dash & Lily (‘s Book of Dares), a Netflix series based on the novel by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan. (There are two links above, … Continue reading “Romance Reading Group – December session: Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares”
This fortnight’s session focuses on TV Christmas specials, where we’ll discuss the standard tropes and some of our favourites.
For our last Page Breaks of 2023 we are talking about gossip! We will focus on the many iterations, meanings, and implications of gossip, including (but not limited to): the characterisation of gossip as feminine, gossip as idle chatter or a real subversion of power structures, scandal, solidarity, storytelling, folklore, dilemmas, expression, and gossip splitting … Continue reading “Page Breaks: Gossip (1pm, Mon 4 Dec)”
Tuesday 28 November at 6:30 pm BST, Zoom Autumn and winter symbolize death and the hope for the renewal to come in spring. In this spirit (and with a bit of an imaginative stretch)… Join us on the 28th November for our Romance Reading Group session on Akwaeke Emezi’s novel You Made a Fool of … Continue reading “Romance Reading Group – November session: Akwaeke Emezi’s You Made a Fool of Death with your Beauty”
For our next session, we’ll be reading Nirmala Erevelles’s open access article ‘Thinking with Disability Studies’.
Wednesday December 6th 2-4pm, Arts Lecture Room 5. The second seminar of Ekphrastic Encounters – the newly established interdisciplinary discussion/research forum on new forms and approaches to ekphrasis – will be led by Sophie Hatchwell, Associate Professor in Art History.
In our next Page Breaks session, we are reading post-apocalyptic fiction, with an excerpt from After London; or Wild England by Richard Jefferies (1885). Discussion will revolve around the text and what pre-20th century post-apocalyptic texts tell us about images of the future, as well as any other post-apocalyptic fiction examples you bring to the … Continue reading “Page Breaks: Post-Apocalyptic Fiction (1pm, Mon 20 Nov)”
