Our guest speaker Dr Chris Vardy (University of Manchester) presents: ‘Contemporary Prehistories’ Wednesday 26 April 2-4pm at the University of Salford Irwell Valley campus Please write to S.Thurston@salford.ac.uk if you would like to join us! Abstract This paper analyses the representation of human ‘prehistory’ in contemporary writing. Politicised and racialised fantasies about the ‘prehistoric’ human […]
Scott Thurston will be delivering his inaugural professorial lecture entitled ‘Kinepoetics: an embodied journey through dance, poetry and therapy’ on Tuesday 19 March at 5:30pm at the University of Salford’s MediaCityUK campus in the Digital Performance Lab. The lecture is described as follows: With the worldwide challenge of mental health at an all-time high, we […]
We are delighted to announce further details of this book launch taking place this week. UK Book Launch: Jade Munslow Ong and Andrew van der Vlies, eds., Olive Schreiner: Writing Networks and Global Contexts (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024) 7:00pm-9:00pm Friday 15th March 2024 Event Space, Home MCR All are warmly welcome to attend the UK launch of the co-edited […]
Hazel Price’s recent research in collaboration with the UK House of Lords is now available. The chapter ‘Respeaking as a Form of Intralingual Translation: Intersections between linguistics and respeaking in the live subtitling of parliamentary debates‘ was published last month with Routledge. The chapter reports on a collaborative project between linguists, a subtitler and the Editor […]
Professor Jade Munslow Ong will host this year’s prestigious Percival Lecture on the South Africa’s relationship with modernism and its modernist writers. The lecture, entitled ‘South Africa’s Modernism, Modernism’s South Africa’ will take place at The Old Fire Station, University of Salford, on 18 April at 6pm, and is organised by Manchester Lit & Phil, […]
Caroline Magennis will be launching her latest book Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women (Icon Books, 2023) at the International Anthony Burgess Centre in Manchester on Thursday 9th May at 6pm. Caroline will be in conversation with author and academic Prof Claire Lynch to discuss how the book attempts to look beyond the often-divisive conversation […]
Szilvi Naray-Davey will be launching her new book Plays from Contemporary Hungary: ‘Difficult Women’ and Resistant Dramatic Voices (Bloomsbury, Methuen Drama) at the Digital Performance Lab at the University of Salford’s campus at MediaCityUK on Thursday 7th March at 6:30pm. The book is a unique collection of five translated contemporary plays (extracts from which will be performed at […]
Scott Thurston will be launching his selected poems Turning (Shearsman) at the New Adelphi Studio on Tuesday 27th February at 6pm. Here’s the book’s cover endorsement by Robert Sheppard: Thurston’s poems always danced, as the early writings here demonstrate, in line and spacing, long before dance as a practice became his poetic focus and his […]
Jack Wilson’s new book Pragmatics, Utterance Meaning, and Representational Gesture has just appeared from Cambridge University Press in the ‘Elements’ series. The publisher’s summary of the book is as follows: Humans produce utterances intentionally. Visible bodily action, or gesture, has long been acknowledged as part of the broader activity of speaking, but it is only […]
South African Modernism is delighted to celebrate a series of new publications An academic article on the making of the film All That is Buried in the journal Media Practice and Education can be found below. The authors were Maire Tracey, Simon Stanton-Sharma, Sanja Nivesjö, Emma Barnes and Jade Munslow Ong. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25741136.2023.2289095 Here are some […]