Evenin’ campers! We’re back at the Athenæum to celebrate the publication of @glendanorquay.bsky.social’s new biography of Robert Louis Stevenson! reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/robert-...
RILCH at LJMU
@rilch-ljmu.bsky.social
Research Institute for Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. Posting about events, seminars, workshops & activities ran by our fabulous community of researchers and writers. https://linktr.ee/RILCH
#CfP: “Stuart Drama” conference, 6-9 July 2027, @ljmuofficial.bsky.social. Abstracts by 2 October 2026 #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents stuartdrama.com
Tomorrow's RILCH event! Poet and critic Jennifer Lee Tsai is coming to discuss all things inspirations and writing practices. The session starts at 6pm in 2.06 of the SLB - make sure to come along and capture some wisdom from one of Bluecoats' artists-in-residence!
Join us in G23 for Dr Annie Webster's talk on Uhyggelig Horror! Annie will unravel the literary response to the rise in the commercialisation of hygge culture via the work of Hassan Blasim. It's sure to make for an engaging talk!
👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.
Spring has sprung @ RILCH! 🌷 Here is our fantastic line up of events, featuring guests from the University of Liverpool, our amazing PGRs, and our very own Professor Gerry Smyth. Keep your eyes peeled for more information regarding these events over the coming weeks :)
Recent Events! Petra James discusses the “cabinet of curiosities” in European Modernist Fiction, Fiona Tolan unravels the feminist politics of cleaning in British fiction, and Özge Kaya Manav presents her research on queer identity in Trumpet. 🏡 Keep an eye out for our Spring events @ RILCH 🌷
Tomorrow, RILCH hosts the lovely Prof Petra James, who will be discussing the Habsburg imperial and aesthetic legacies of the “Cabinet of curiosities” in Central European and Belgian modernist fiction of the 1880s-1930s. It's sure to make for an engaging talk, and we hope to see you there @ 5pm!
Kicking things off this semester, we have a joint seminar taking place on Tuesday 10th Feb @ 5PM where Dr Fiona Tolan & PhD student Özge discuss their recent research. Make sure to follow us at @rilchljmu on instagram or email rilchljmu@gmail.com for any details or queries about the event!
Straining to see Emily Cuming and Filippo Menozzi at the far end of a crowded room as we celebrate their two new perspicacious publications!
Fascinating discussion tonight by visiting fellow, Nick Murray on literary biography
Fabulous turnout to hear our very own Kate Walchester discuss travel writing with Michael Palin as part of the Smithdown Litfest. Your correspondent might have not picked the best spot for paparazzi images of our two celebrities, but is very much enjoying hearing tales of travel 🫣🥴
Lily Dunn's 'Into Being' is a milestone text in the art of life writing. I'm looking forward to chairing a discussion with her at @rilch-ljmu.bsky.social next month. It will be a great evening about how we raise raw personal material and make it powerfully universal.
Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social · last yr.Join us next month as @lilydunn.bsky.social hits the road next month to launch her new book, 'Into being', sharing the secrets of writing memoir. Coming to a bookshop, festival or university near you, visit our Events page for more info and tickets: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events #booksky
Looking forward to hosting this terrific symposium. Come and join us!
Society for Renaissance Studies@srsrensoc.bsky.social · last yr.SYMPOSIUM with the brilliant team of the Early Modern Scholars of Colour Network. Join us for an afternoon of exciting research papers as well as discussion of academia beyond the academy. 11 September, 12:45-17:15, Liverpool John Moores Uni All info & programme: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/emsoc-...
👀 it’s the magnificent Dr Hannah Baumeister from the Law School and our very own prolific professor Gerry Smith discussing law and literature!
On Friday I went to two fascinating events - the first a panel on the most current research in decolonisation and the second a book launch for J.P Maxwell and his new historical thriller based in Liverpool! @rilch-ljmu.bsky.social
Do we have the concept album cover? 🤔 Fabulous to hear @ljmuofficial.bsky.social’s Shanty Choir, led by our one and only Prof Gerry Smyth at the Art’s Bar last night 🙌 🎶 #SailorSong
Here’s the Research Institute for Literature and Cultural History at LJMU - we run events and seminars in Liverpool and we’ll be posting here about anything we’re up to.
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