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Capturing Witches: Histories, Stories, Images. 400 years after the Lancashire Witches.

2012 will mark the 400th anniversary of the trial and execution of the Lancashire Witches. This conference is part of a year long programme of events ... Read more»

Project staff: Charlotte Baker, Alison Findlay (English and Creative Writing), Liz Oakley-Brown (English and Creative Writing), Catherine Spooner (English and Creative Writing)

 

Jelinek in the Arena

Allyson Fiddler (DELC), Rebecca Braun (DELC) and Karen Juers-Munby (LICA)are planning activities and a conference on the work of Austrian Nobel-Prizin ... Read more»

Project staff: Rebecca Braun, Allyson Fiddler, Karen Juers-Munby (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts)
Keywords: Acting and performing, Austria, Comparative literature, Contemporary literature, Literature, Literature and gender, Literature and location, Literature and politics, Performance, Performance and historical studies, Performance practice, Political literature, Sport, Sporting culture, Text and performance, Theatre and performance, Theories of acting and performing, Transcultural writing, Translating and interpreting, Translation, Twentieth-century literature

 

Non-lyric Discourse in Contemporary Poetry: Spaces, Subjects, Enunciative Hybridization, Mediality

This project, run from the University of Santiago de Compostela and in collaboration with several other Spanish universities, enquires into modern and ... Read more»

Project staff: Cornelia Graebner
Keywords: Contemporary literary studies, Literary and cultural theory, Literary criticism, Literary stylistics, Literary theory, Modern & contemporary poetry in English, Performance poetry, Poetry, Poetry and place, Poetry installations

 

Poetics of Resistance

"Poetics of Resistance" (PoR) is a network of researchers, activists and cultural producers from Europe, Latin America, and the U.S. Network members a ... Read more»

Project staff: Cornelia Graebner
Keywords: Comparative literature, Contemporary literary studies, Contemporary literature, Cross-cultural studies of literacy, Cultural theory, Globalisation, Hispanic studies, Latin America, Latin American cultural theory, Literary and cultural theory, Literary theory, Literature and politics, Literature and power, Performance poetry, Poetry, Poetry and place, Political literature, Twentieth-century literature

 

Researching and Writing About Africa: A One Day Postgraduate Workshop

The African Studies Group at Lancaster University is organising a workshop for postgraduate students undertaking fieldwork in or research relating to ... Read more»

Project staff: Charlotte Baker

 

Resisting Haiderisation

I'm writing a book about the many forms of cultural resistance to right-wing populism in Austria. When Jörg Haider's 'liberal' party formed part of a ... Read more»

Project staff: Allyson Fiddler
Keywords: Contemporary popular culture, German language, culture and society, Literature and politics, Novel, Performance, Popular culture, Theatre studies

 

Writing Life: The Making of the Author in Germany's Media Age

This project focuses on authors as cultural artefacts, and is located at the cusp of humanist literary studies, cultural studies and the social scienc ... Read more»

Project staff: Rebecca Braun
Keywords: Comparative literature, Contemporary literature, Culture and media, German language, culture and society, Literature, Literature and politics, Literature and power, Media, Postmodern literature, Twentieth-century culture, Twentieth-century literature, Twentieth-century popular culture

 

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