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New Voices in Nonfiction: A Reading with Amy Lee Scott

Program in Creative Writing · 915 E 60th Street Chicago, IL 60637

Join us for a reading and conversation with the 2027 New Voices in Nonfiction visiting writer Amy Lee Scott. Light refreshments will be served.

Nonfiction@Brown • Cody Rose Clevidence

English · TBD

Nonfiction@Brown

Language Revitalisation and the (In)Visibility of Indigenous Languages

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

The United Kingdom has a number of indigenous languages which have had an important role in the shaping of the identities of its constituent parts.

Ron Offen Poetry Prize Reading with Callie Siskel

Program in Creative Writing · Logan Center for the Arts

Join us for a reading and conversation with the 2027 Ron Offen Poetry Prize visiting poet Callie Siskel. Light refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public.

“It’s alive!”: Prometheus, Frankenstein, and the Cyborgs

University of Manchester

Meat the Machine:

Phoenix Poets New Voices in Poetry: A Reading with Lloyd Wallace

Program in Creative Writing · 915 E 60th Street Chicago, IL 60637

Join us for a reading and conversation with the 2027 Phoenix Poets New Voices in Poetry visiting writer Lloyd Wallace. Light refreshments will be served.

Anjuman: A New Mushaira

Manchester Metropolitan University · Manchester Poetry Library

Reading, Manchester Poetry Library

TACIT STORYTELLING & IMPROV

California Institute of Technology · Ramo Auditorium, Caltech, Pasadena

Rhetorical Thought in the Syriac-Speaking World: Influences, Innovations, and Models in Antony of Tagrit's Treatise "On Rhetoric"

Central European University · Quellenstrasse 51 · Room D-001, Vienna

Going to the Playhouse with Shakespeare

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

This lecture imagines a trip to a Shakespearean playhouse, accompanied by Shakespeare himself, in three parts: arriving at the theatre, where ballad sellers shape expectations through song; entering…

The Practices and Politics of Film Subtitles

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

From its birth, film has always been a global phenomenon. The arrival of the talkies opened up many opportunities for the popularisation of cinema to different audiences but also posed challenges to…

Kim Moore Presents: Manchester Writing School Alumni Showcase (Carson Wolfe, Sue Kennett)

Manchester Metropolitan University · Manchester Poetry Library

Reading, Manchester Poetry Library

Bunker Talk #174: Simon Moreton

Manchester Metropolitan University · The Salutation Pub, 12 Higher Chatham St, Manchester, M15 6ED

Discussion, The Salutation Pub

Nonfiction@Brown • Jeff Sharlett

English

Nonfiction@Brown

From Deficit to Difference: How Neurodiversity Shapes Language Use

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

It is often taken for granted that autistic and other neurodivergent people have a deficit in communication, especially with figurative language such as metaphor, irony and humour.This lecture…

The Prince of Whitechapel by Rachel Lichtenstein

Manchester Metropolitan University · Manchester Poetry Library

Reading, Manchester Poetry Library

New Light Through Old Windows – Modern Literary Adaptation, from a Writer’s Perspective

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

In this lecture, playwright and writer Hannah Khalil challenges the idea that adaptation is easy or merely a commercial strategy, arguing instead that it is complex and creatively liberating.Drawing…

Language and Reconciliation: The Mapping of Ireland and Brian Friel's Drama Translations

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

Brian Friel’s Translations, first staged in 1980, is one of Ireland’s best-known plays. Its major theme is the language question, and the role of the 19th-century Ordnance Survey in the decline of…

Shakespeare and the Shrinking Canon

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

Samuel Pepys thought Romeo and Juliet ‘the worst [play] that ever I heard in my life’. Today it’s studied each year by thousands of students and holds the stage in playhouses across the world.