{"id":2581,"date":"2025-11-07T13:52:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/?p=2581"},"modified":"2025-11-07T13:52:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:52:29","slug":"pop-culture-theory-group-wednesday-12th-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2025\/11\/07\/pop-culture-theory-group-wednesday-12th-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Culture Theory Group (Wednesday, 12th November)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The next session of PCTG will be held on Wednesday, 12th November 5pm-7pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the recent passing of Bonfire\/Guy Fawkes Night, I have been thinking about the depiction of the past in popular fiction and the use of historical periods in political discourse. We&#8217;ll be meeting to discuss the nature of temporality in popular culture and the way writers use the relationship between the past and the present to convey certain messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To grab the info about the reading, room booking, or the Zoom link, please email Kit at&nbsp;klr272@student.bham.ac.uk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next session of PCTG will be held on Wednesday, 12th November 5pm-7pm. With the recent passing of Bonfire\/Guy Fawkes Night, I have been thinking about the depiction of the past in popular fiction and the use of historical periods in political discourse. We&#8217;ll be meeting to discuss the nature of temporality in popular culture &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2025\/11\/07\/pop-culture-theory-group-wednesday-12th-november\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pop Culture Theory Group (Wednesday, 12th November)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2363,"featured_media":2539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,261],"tags":[262],"class_list":["post-2581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-lit","category-events","tag-pctg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581","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\/2363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2582,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions\/2582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}