Our next Romance Reading Group online session is based on Dark Romances. Our next session will be on next Monday 31st January from 18:00-19:00 via Zoom, so save the date in your calendars! RSVP via: https://romancegroup.wixsite.com/home/event-details/dark-romances-2/form This month, the Romance Reading Group will be focusing on all things dark romance. Our special guest, Rebecca Frost, will be treating us to a twenty-minute talk on her … Continue reading “Romance Reading Group: Dark Romances”
Romance Reading Group: Winter Holiday Romances
Our second 21/22 session will be on next Monday 6th December from 18:00-19:00 via Zoom, so save the date in your calendars!
Page Breaks – 17 December – Taylor Swift and the Weaponization of Memory
Our next Page Breaks session will be 17 December at 1 pm, and we’ll be discussing Taylor Swift’s re-recording project, the recent 10-minute drop of ‘All Too Well’ and the ‘weaponization of memory’. Thanks to Ellen for this suggestion! Text (Watching + Listening) Taylor Swift ‘All Too Well (The Short Film)’ (via Youtube) Lots of … Continue reading “Page Breaks – 17 December – Taylor Swift and the Weaponization of Memory”
Page Breaks – 24 November – Research Chats: Trading Tips for Organisation, Process, and Tracking Progress
Our next Page Breaks session will be on 24 November at 1 pm, and we’ll be discussing all things research: how we organise our research projects and their processes, how we approach our hurdles (and hopefully, how we overcome them). With special guests! Ellie Dobson Jimmy Packham Will Tattersdill There’s no predetermined agenda here – … Continue reading “Page Breaks – 24 November – Research Chats: Trading Tips for Organisation, Process, and Tracking Progress”
Page Breaks 17 November – How Billionaire Rebekah Neumann Put the Woo-Woo in WeWork
Our next Page Breaks session will be on 17 November at 1 pm, and we’ll be discussing this Vanity Fair article on WeWork’s cofounder, Rebekah Neumann. Text (Watching) Rachel Dodes, ‘How Billionaire Rebekah Neumann Put the Woo-Woo in WeWork’ (via Vanity Fair) “Time” and “Place” Wed 17 November, 1 pm Zoom: Link (Password: pagebreaks) Looking forward … Continue reading “Page Breaks 17 November – How Billionaire Rebekah Neumann Put the Woo-Woo in WeWork”
Page Breaks Research Day – FRIDAY 12 November
On FRIDAY 12 November (from 9:30 am), we will be hosting our monthly Research day. This is an opportunity to work on your own research (while knowing that others are working at the same time), with periodic zoom calls to set and reflect on goals.
Page Breaks – 03 November – Virgin River
[Note from 27 October: Team! I’m so sorry for the clerical error – this week’s Page Breaks was all ready to go and (unbeknownst to me) languishing as an unpublished draft. We’ll push to next week, at which point I will have seen this episode 3 times…TJ] Our next Page Breaks session will be on … Continue reading “Page Breaks – 03 November – Virgin River”
Romance Reading Group: Contemporary Romance
Our next Romance Reading Group online session is based on Contemporary Romance. Our first 21/22 session will be on next Monday 1st November 2021 from 18:00-19:00 via Zoom, so save the date in your calendars! RSVP via: https://romancegroup.wixsite.com/home/event-details/contemporary-romances This month, the Romance Reading Group will be focusing on the most commercially-successful sub-genre of romance: Contemporary Romance. This academic year, … Continue reading “Romance Reading Group: Contemporary Romance”
Page Breaks – 20 October – ‘Who is the Bad Art Friend?’
Our next Page Breaks session will be on 20 October at 1 pm, and we’ll be discussing the recent viral NYT magazine piece, ‘Who is the Bad Art Friend?’. “Her letter, it wasn’t art! It was informational. It doesn’t have market value. It’s like language that we glean from menus, from tombstones, from tweets.” Text … Continue reading “Page Breaks – 20 October – ‘Who is the Bad Art Friend?’”
Page Breaks – 13 October – The Secrets of Lyndon Johnson’s Archives
Our next Page Breaks session will be on 13 October at 1 pm, and we’ll be discussing this love letter to the pleasures and mysteries of archival work (and also, LBJ). Thanks to Professor Rebecca Mitchell for recommending this piece!