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Centre for Literary Creativity, Community and Place
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Events archive

The LCCP centre has hosted numerous past events, including annual conferences, postgraduate workshops, the Byron Lectures, and interdisciplinary seminar series.

Former research groups

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18th century research seminar

This programme of seminars aimed to reach across disciplinary boundaries and provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of new work based in the 18th century.
 

 

All CRLC past events

Poetry Performance Evening: Colin Herd, Iain Morrison, and Vicky Sparrow

Poetry Performance Evening: Colin Herd, Iain Morrison, and Vicky Sparrow
Date
29/03/2017
Location:
Five Leaves Bookshop, Nottingham
Description
Poetry Performance Evening run by the Nottingham Poetry Series and hosted by Five Leaves Bookshop in Nottingham city centre. Poetry from Colin Herd, Iain Morrison, and Vicky Sparrow. 29th March 2017, 7pm.

Reading Group Meeting: 'Paean to Place' by Lorine Niedecker

Date
09/03/2017
Location:
Trent A35
Description
Reading group meeting for the Nottingham Poetry Series, 9th March 2017, 6pm, Trent A35. 'Paean to Place' by Lorine Niedecker.

Nottingham Poetry Series Seminar

Date
23/02/2017
Location:
Trent A35
Description
Nottingham Poetry Series seminar February 2017

Born in Prison: Justice Mapping and the African-American Prison Population

Date
25/01/2017
Location:
Trent A35
Description
January session for Landscape, Space, Place Research Group.

Sophie Collins and Linda Kemp @ Five Leaves Bookshop

Date
13/12/2016
Location:
Five Leaves Bookshop, Nottingham

Norse-Gaelic Interactions: A half-day seminar

Date
30/11/2016
Description
A half-day seminar reporting on research research on interactions between Norse and Gaelic speakers, during the Viking Age and afterwards.

Nottingham Poetry Series

Date
17/11/2016
Location:
LG9 Trent Building
Description
Dr Bridget Vincent will be presenting a paper entitled 'Some Legacies of Geoffrey Hill'.

Snotrur (Old Norse Reading Group) 8/11/16

Date
08/11/2016
Location:
A 62 Trent

The Life of D. H. Lawrence: A Critical Biography

The Life of D. H. Lawrence: A Critical Biography
Date
16/07/2016
Location:
DH Lawrence Birthplace Museum, Eastwood
Description
Book launch with extracts read by Dr Andrew Harrison.

Literature and the Welfare State in Post-War Britain

Literature and the Welfare State in Post-War Britain
Date
29/06/2016
Location:
Senate Chamber, Trent Building
Description
How does literature register Britain's post-war welfare capitalism? What critiques of British state welfare have been put forward by writers across genres in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? Can these broad questions be systematised into a coherent idea of 'Welfare State Literature'? Centred on an invited lecture from Professor Michael Gardiner on Thatcher and the post-war consensus, this half-day workshop is dedicated to beginning a conversation on British Welfare State culture. Everyone is welcome to attend.

The Europe Question: Theology and International Relations

The Europe Question: Theology and International Relations
Date
22/06/2016
Location:
The Hemsley (Room B2)
Description
On the day before the momentous EU referendum, the CoTP is holding a study day with the Theology Department of the University of Fribourg to consider the account of Europe and International Relations given by John Milbank and Adrian Pabst in their forthcoming book, The Politics of Virtue: Post-Liberalism and the Human Future.

Manuscript workshop

Date
23/05/2016
Description
We are very excited to offer first year undergraduate students the chance to explore the University's Manuscripts and Special Collections.

Poets Laureate Then and Now: Creating National and Local Identities through Poetry

Date
21/05/2016
Description
This unique event brought together contemporary poets and critics to explore the relationship between poetry and local and national identities.

Letters to Robert Southey 1774-1843 the other side of the story

Letters to Robert Southey 1774-1843 the other side of the story
Date
21/05/2016
Description
We are delighted to announce this upcoming talk for the Interdisciplinary Eighteenth Century Research Seminar "Letters to Robert Southey 1774-1843 the other side of the story".

A Storytelling Workshop: Bringing Greek Mythology to Life

Date
07/05/2016
Location:
Broadway
Description
The University of Nottingham is proud to present a one-day workshop with renowned storyteller Tim Ralphs.

Birds of Prey and Passage, Imagining Britain in India, 1780-1856

Birds of Prey and Passage, Imagining Britain in India, 1780-1856
Date
15/03/2016
Location:
Staff Club
Description
On Tuesday the 15th of March Dr Máire ní Fhlathúin (University of Nottingham) will be delivering a talk for the Interdisciplinary Eighteenth Century Research Seminar entitled "Birds of Prey and Passage": Imagining Britain in India, 1780-1856'.
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2018-19

2017-18

Urn & Drum, poetry book launch with Lila Matsumoto, supported by Vicky Sparrow

Urn & Drum, poetry book launch with Lila Matsumoto, supported by Vicky Sparrow
Description
Please join us for the launch of Lila Matsumoto's new collection of poetry from Shearsman Books, Urn & Drum. Lila will be joined by poet Vicky Sparrow.

Poetry Reading Group

Description
Come along to our Poetry Reading Group meeting.

Poetry Reading with Rachael Allen, Camilla Nelson, and Leah Wilkins

Poetry Reading with Rachael Allen, Camilla Nelson, and Leah Wilkins
Description
Join us for an evening of poetry with Camilla Nelson, Rachael Allen, and Leah Wilkins.
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2016-17

Benign Fiesta: Wyndham Lewis's Texts, Contexts, and Aesthetics

Benign Fiesta: Wyndham Lewis's Texts, Contexts, and Aesthetics
Description
Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) was one of the twentieth century's most innovative and most controversial avant-garde painters, writers, and theorists. This conference will mark the 60th anniversary of Lewis's death and is intended to be a scholarly celebration of his work.
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2015-16

Birds of Prey and Passage, Imagining Britain in India, 1780-1856

Birds of Prey and Passage, Imagining Britain in India, 1780-1856
Description
On Tuesday the 15th of March Dr Máire ní Fhlathúin (University of Nottingham) will be delivering a talk for the Interdisciplinary Eighteenth Century Research Seminar entitled "Birds of Prey and Passage": Imagining Britain in India, 1780-1856'.

Letters to Robert Southey 1774-1843 the other side of the story

Letters to Robert Southey 1774-1843 the other side of the story
Description
We are delighted to announce this upcoming talk for the Interdisciplinary Eighteenth Century Research Seminar "Letters to Robert Southey 1774-1843 the other side of the story".

Manuscript workshop

Description
We are very excited to offer first year undergraduate students the chance to explore the University's Manuscripts and Special Collections.

Poets Laureate Then and Now: Creating National and Local Identities through Poetry

Description
This unique event brought together contemporary poets and critics to explore the relationship between poetry and local and national identities.
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Centre for Literary Creativity, Community and Place

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