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Book Launch: Reading Place Writing by David Cooper

Manchester Metropolitan University · Manchester Poetry Library

Book Launch, Manchester Poetry Library

Rebel English Academy: Mohammed Hanif

Newcastle University · Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University | Get directions

All our events are free and open to all, but pre-booking is required. To reserve your place, click the booking link below or telephone our booking voicemail line 0191 208 6136.

SLE Salon: Yuri Herrera discusses his book The Transmigration of Bodies

Structured Liberal Education (SLE) · Florence Moore Hall, SLE Main Lounge, 436 Mayfield Ave, Stanford, CA 94305

Yuri Herrera is a Mexican author, political scientist, and professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University in New Orleans. He has written several short novels, three of which have been…

RDI Workshop Series - Michelle Nancy Huang

Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity · Kelly Hall, Room 114

Michelle N. Huang (she/her/hers, Ph.D. English and Women’s Studies, Pennsylvania State University), jointly appointed in the English Department and in the Asian American Studies Program, has research…

Layli Long Soldier: Writers on Writing

Literary Arts · 70 Brown St., Providence

Layli Long Soldier will take part in Writers on Writing, a reading series hosted by Literary Arts and the Center for Environmental Humanities at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Authorship and Revelation: The case of Robert Alter’s Book of Genesis

Graham School

In this First Friday Lecture, we will examine the ways in which Robert Alter’s project of translating the Hebrew Bible demonstrates how and why we are right to hold as an article of faith that the…

TACIT IMPROV & STORYTELLING

California Institute of Technology · Hameetman Center 206 - Frautschi Rehearsal Hall, Caltech, Pasadena

The Founding Fathers of the European Renaissance: How a Collective Memory Was Forged and Used in the 15th Century

Central European University · Quellenstrasse 51 · Room B505, Vienna

The rise of the humanist movement during the Quattrocento went hand in hand with the invention of a a narrative – the dawn of a new literary era – and the identification of a pantheon of founding…

Let the Record Show: Storytelling, Genocide, and Palestinian Liberation

SOAS University of London · Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), SOAS, Main Building

This event discusses two books by Dr. Ramzy Baroud and Dr, Hanan Kattan as examples of the role of storytelling and witnessing during genocide.

Michif Language, its revitalization, and implications for the Metis Nation with Reid Hala

University of British Columbia

Join featured speaker Reid Hala for an engaging webinar exploring the vital role of Michif language(s) in shaping Métis identity, culture, and wellbeing across their traditional homeland.

Shakespeare Now: Creativity and Controversy

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

How Shakespeare is performed in contemporary theatre and film raises sometimes heated questions about representation, politics, and relevance. Should – must? – Richard III be played by an actor with…

Goldsmiths Writers’ Centre presents Ben Pester and Nell Stevens

Goldsmiths, University of London · 137, Richard Hoggart Building

Join us to hear writers Ben Pester and Nell Stevens read from and discuss their new short story collections, ‘Sail Away Land’ and ‘The Good Time’

The Privacy of Loss in Hamnet and Hamlet

Graham School · Gleacher Center

Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet (and the Oscar-winning film adaptation directed by Chloé Zhao) is two things at once: a story about love and grief, and an effort to imagine how Shakespeare’s Hamlet…

Festive Open Mic - Literature

Keele University · Chapters Cafe, Union Square

Celebrate the season with an evening of festive readings, creative performances and community spirit at our end-of-year Open Mic in Chapters Café.

Beyond the Workshop

Manchester Metropolitan University · Manchester Poetry Library

Reading, Manchester Poetry Library

Fiction and the Archives: Parallel Readings of Archival Documents and Ottoman Fiction in the Early Modern Period

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

Abstract: In Fiction in the Archives, Natalie Zemon Davis emphasized how early modern subjects used narration to tell their stories—their narratives were not mere inventions, yet the way they…

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Community Readings 2027

Divinity School · Swift Hall, Common Room

The Martin Marty Center will hold its fourth annual Community Readings event in celebration of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Day. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to join members of the…

Close Writing: Kathy Acker, Cookie Mueller and Love-in-Pieces, Alice Butler

The Courtauld Institute of Art

Join Richard Meyer, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History and Director of American Studies at Stanford University as he demonstrates how Andy Warhol's attention to daily life sparks…

New Voices in Fiction: A Reading with Harriet Clark

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

Join us for a reading and conversation with the 2027 New Voices in Fiction visiting writer Harriet Clark. Light refreshments will be served.

Snap, Stack, Mark: A Rubrics Repository for All

Centre for Language Culture and Communication · Sherfield Building, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

This talk showcases four years of collaborative work by the Language for Science team at CLCC to standardise assessment criteria, achievement bands, and feedback across languages providing learners…