We are delighted to report that Qudsia Akhtar will be presenting an amazing line-up of poets Sascha Aurora Akhtar, Hafsah Aneela Bashir, Jamal Mehmood and Alycia Pirmohamed to read and discuss their poems, followed by a Q&A session at London’s Southbank Centre on Wednesday 15th January. The discussion focuses on the poetic concept of the […]
We are delighted to announce Lauren Pearl Holmes’ latest publication which has appeared as a post on the Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons (GEMMS) blog (reviewed by Dr Anne James of the University of Regina). The post is entitled ‘[T]o prevent [thei]r being guilty of like wickedness:” Proto-sentimentalism in Benjamin Wadsworth’s sermon on Judges 5, […]
“COVID-19 and the Slow Death of Interdisciplinarity in the Practice and Teaching of American Studies,” a roundtable panel formed of University of Salford postgraduate researcher Lauren Pearl Holmes, University of Manchester postgraduate researcher Heena Hussain, and University of Salford undergraduate student and qualified primary and secondary school teacher Charlotte Stevenson, has been awarded £5,000 from […]
Lauren Pearl Holmes (University of Salford) and guest speaker Heena Hussain (University of Manchester) presented the seminar “American Studies: Then and Now” on Wednesday 04 December 2024. The seminar considered American Studies’ long understanding that histories and historiographies of American society and culture represent an attempt to impose an ordered narrative on its national origin […]
Caroline will be talking about Harpy at The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast on 28th November at 6:30pm For more details and to register please use the link here.
Scott Thurston and other members of the Arts for the Blues research team are presenting the project this week at the Federation of European Psychodrama Training Organisations (FEPTO)’s annual meeting at the International Psychoanalytic University in Berlin 3-6 October. The theme of the gathering is Unveiling the Connections: Research in Psychodrama and Arts-based Approaches. The […]
Postgraduate researcher Lauren Pearl Holmes will present a paper entitled “‘Had I opportunity but to borrow some of the author’s wit:’ Anne Bradstreet and the Sermons of John Woodbridge” at this year’s “Preachers, Hearers, Readers, and Scribes: New Approaches to Early Modern Sermons in Manuscript” conference, held 3-5th October at Harvard Divinity School and the […]
We are delighted to report that Caroline Magennis will be presenting Harpy: A Manifesto for Childfree Women at this year’s Cheltenham Literature Festival on Saturday 12 October at 10:30am. Please see full details here, including how to book your ticket.
You are cordially invited to attend the UK launches of three new books authored and co-authored by Jack Wilson, Jade Munslow Ong and Judy Kendall. 6:30-9pm, Thursday 19th September 2024 Event Space at HOME Manchester (see venue info here) The event will include a drinks reception and Q&A with the authors hosted by Prof Ursula […]
The three founders of Arts for the Blues: Joanna Omylinska-Thurston, Scott Thurston (both University of Salford) and Vicky Karkou (Edge Hill) were recently interviewed by The Psychologist about the project. You can read the interview online in full here.