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Professor Sebastian Groes on Information Overload, the Brain and Evolution (Part II)

Posted on January 16, 2019 by

Part I: Can your head ever be full? Part II: Can we retrain our brains too? In the digital age our brains process an incredible amount of information. This causes concern. We suffer from fatigue and sleeplessness, and from new … Continue reading →

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Research Seminar: 24 April – Dr Annika Bautz on Walter Scott, Celebrity, and Stage Adaptation

Posted on April 20, 2018 by

Dr Annika Bautz, Plymouth University, will be speaking on ‘The “universal favourite”: Daniel Terry’s Guy Mannering; or, The Gipsey’s Prophecy (1816)’, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 14.00 – 15.30, Room MC232. All are welcome. This paper explores the contemporary reception of the first adaptation … Continue reading →

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Public Lecture: 13 Mar., Carolyne Larrington on Game of Thrones

Posted on March 1, 2018 by

CTTR and the School of Humanities welcome Professor Carolyne Larrington from the University of Oxford to the City Campus on Tuesday 13th March 2018, 6 p.m.-7.30, MK045 for a public lecture, ‘Winter is Coming: Game of Thrones and Medieval Culture’, in which … Continue reading →

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Research Seminar Room Change

Posted on January 31, 2018 by

Professor John Strachan, Bath Spa University, will be speaking on ‘Wordsworth among the Fascists’, Thursday, 1 February 2018 14.00 – 15.30, Room MU504. All are welcome.

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Jane Austen – Germaine de Staël Anniversary Keynote

Posted on July 17, 2017 by

Benjamin Colbert, Co-Director of CTTR, delivered the opening keynote address at the Chawton House Library conference, Reputations, Legacies, Futures: Jane Austen, Germaine de Staël and their Contemporaries, on Thursday, 13 July 2017.  Celebrating the bicentenary of the deaths of Austen … Continue reading →

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TransLive, 30 June 2017

Posted on June 28, 2017 by

When? 30 June 2017, 2pm Where? Student Union. University of Wolverhampton ‘TransLive’ aspires to raise awareness and highlight the importance of  literary translation as a creative practice that can enhance intercultural awareness in the UK’s and the region’s linguistically diverse … Continue reading →

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Research Seminar: 16 May 2017, Dr Yarmilla Daskalova on Poe and Baudelaire

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Dr Yarmila Daskalova, University of Sts Cyril and Methodius, Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria, will be speaking on ‘New Dimensions in Conceptualizing Beauty and the Principle of Originality in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire’, Tuesday, 16 May 2017, 14.00 … Continue reading →

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Research Seminar: Anglo-Saxonism in Migration Debates

Posted on March 15, 2016 by

Sita Balani (King’s College London) and Kathryn Maude (KCL/University of Swansea) will be speaking on ‘Narratives of Anglo-Saxonism in Contemporary Migration Debates’ on Thursday, 17 March 2016, at 2.00 p.m. in the LATTE room MC229. About the Speakers: Sita Balani is an activist … Continue reading →

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Public Event: Novelists Catherine O’Flynn and James Hannah in conversation

Posted on March 11, 2016 by

Monday 14 March 2016, 6 – 7.30pm Wolverhampton Art Gallery – Georgian Room Novelists Catherine O’Flynn (Costa Book Award winner, Booker and Orange Prize nominee, Galaxy Book Award winner) and James Hannah (The A to Z of You and Me, shortlisted … Continue reading →

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BCLA 2016 – Final Call for Papers – 30 April Deadline

Posted on February 5, 2016 by

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We’ve gathered an exciting group of international paper and panel proposals already, but places remain for more. We are pleased to announce, therefore, a third and final Call for Papers with a deadline of 30 April…

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