'Cultures in Contact' Research Forum

The ‘Cultures in Contact’ Research Forum brings academics from across the UK and overseas to the University of Surrey to present and discuss their research.

It provides a valuable opportunity for us to welcome scholars whose work connects with our own research strengths across literature, communication, theory, and creative writing.

The Research Forum is open to interested parties including staff and postgraduate students.

The format is usually a 50 minute talk followed by questions and discussion. Wine and non-alcoholic refreshments will be provided.  The forum usually takes place in room 55AC05.

The Research Forum is coordinated by Greg Tate

Seminars: 2012-13

 

SEMESTER 1

Wednesday 10th October, 5pmDr Pamela Gerrish Nunn, University of Canterbury, Christchurch
‘Visual Texts: Links between Painting and Literature in the Victorian Period’
Wednesday 24th October, 4pmDr Holly Luhning, University of Surrey
‘Novel Adaptation: Eliza Haywood and the Literary Marketplace’
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Dr Paul Vlitos, University of Surrey
‘Homosexualising the Novel: Ronald Firbank, Alan Hollinghurst, and The Swimming-Pool Library’
Wednesday 7th November, 4pmProfessor Helen Hackett, University College London
‘Sisterhood and Female Friendship in a Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany: Constance Aston Fowler’s Manuscript Anthology’
Wednesday 21st November, 4pmDr Brycchan Carey, Kingston University
‘From Peace to Freedom: American Quakers and the First Campaign Against the Slave Trade, 1657-1758’
Wednesday 5th December, 4pmProfessor Jason Whittaker, University College Falmouth
‘Blake and the Gutenberg Parenthesis: Blake after Print’