{"id":2474,"date":"2025-03-05T16:32:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/?p=2474"},"modified":"2025-03-05T16:33:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:33:42","slug":"pop-culture-theory-group-5pm-wed-12th-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2025\/03\/05\/pop-culture-theory-group-5pm-wed-12th-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Culture Theory Group (5pm, Wed 12th March)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The next session of PCTG will be on&nbsp;<strong>Wednesday 12th March<\/strong>, from&nbsp;<strong>5-7pm GMT<\/strong>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<strong>Arts 105<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll be discussing (per a recommendation from Philo) worldbuilding, aka the process of constructing an imaginary world or setting, particularly from the perspective of geography. To do so, we&#8217;ll be reading\u00a0&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.literarygeographies.net\/index.php\/LitGeogs\/article\/view\/239\">Critical Worldbuilding: Toward a Geographical Engagement with Imagined Worlds<\/a>&#8216;, an article by Jeff Vance Martin and Gretchen Sneegas, which is around 7 pages long, though if you fancy digging your teeth in, you can also read a second, slightly meatier source: &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/jfsdigital.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/01_Articles02_What-in-the-World-2.pdf\">What in the World? Storyworlds, Science Fiction, and Futures Studies<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As usual, if you&#8217;re unable to get to the reading, do please still come along! You may be able to jump in with additions beyond the reading, and it&#8217;s always great to hear different perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As always, to grab the info about the room booking or zoom link, email Georgie @\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:gxr697@student.bham.ac.uk\">gxr697@student.bham.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2023\/10\/Pop-Cult-Header-1024x500.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2023\/10\/Pop-Cult-Header-1024x500.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2023\/10\/Pop-Cult-Header-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2023\/10\/Pop-Cult-Header-768x375.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2023\/10\/Pop-Cult-Header.png 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the next session of PCTG, we&#8217;re discussing worldbuilding, the process of constructing an imaginary world or setting, particularly from the perspective of geography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":2122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[262],"class_list":["post-2474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-lit","tag-pctg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2476,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474\/revisions\/2476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}