{"id":687,"date":"2020-05-26T12:30:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T11:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/?p=687"},"modified":"2020-06-17T08:15:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T07:15:53","slug":"page-breaks-language-of-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2020\/05\/26\/page-breaks-language-of-kindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Page Breaks: The Language of Kindness, with Prof David James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thu 4 June, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/staff\/profiles\/english\/james-david.aspx\">Professor David James<\/a> will be joining us to talk through his recent work on medical memoirs, and the intersections of life-writing, activism, and personal confession. David is keen to discuss the questions he&#8217;s still grappling with, and is curious to hear how we&#8217;ll respond to the extract for this week, from Christie Watson&#8217;s <em>The Language of Kindness<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DbzuUaQUwAE_14r.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"513\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 23px\">Time and Place:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;font-weight: 400\">2.30pm, Thu 4 June 2020<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Zoom: <a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/88967928270\">Link 1 (Use at 2.30pm) <\/a>\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/87494963846\">Link 2<\/a>\u00a0(Password: pagebreaks)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Texts:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><b>Christie Watson, from <em>The Language of Kindness<\/em>: <em>A Nurse\u2019s Story <\/em>(Chatto &amp; Windus, 2018). (<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/page-breaks-texts\/\">PDF<\/a>)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Trigger warning: this material describes the death of Watson&#8217;s father to cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Note: You will need a password to access PDFs. Please contact <a href=\"mailto:t.johnson@bham.ac.uk\">t.johnson@bham.ac.uk<\/a> and\/or <a href=\"mailto:d.butchard@bham.ac.uk\">d.butchard@bham.ac.uk<\/a> for details, or to let us know if you have any difficulty accessing the readings.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>About the Postgraduate Seminar:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This is an informal weekly reading group within the Department of English Literature. There will be tea, coffee and biscuits and you are very welcome.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ASFMU9rFmU\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/page-breaks\/\">Page Breaks: Postgraduate Seminar in English Literature<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#8220;Page Breaks: Postgraduate Seminar in English Literature&#8221; &#8212; Postgraduate Research in English Literature \" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/page-breaks\/embed\/#?secret=ASFMU9rFmU\" data-secret=\"ASFMU9rFmU\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thu 4 June, Professor David James will be joining us to talk through his recent work on medical memoirs, and the intersections of life-writing, activism, and personal confession. 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