{"id":388,"date":"2018-12-13T12:40:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T12:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/upgrade-gendersexualityandwriting\/?page_id=388"},"modified":"2020-10-13T18:17:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T17:17:26","slug":"past-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/gendersexualityandwriting\/past-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual &amp; Transgender Writers&#8217; Week 2016<\/h2>\n<div class=\"snippetBox\">\n<div class=\"upcomingEventsSnippet\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>15 February 2016 <\/strong>&#8216;Re-radicalising Queers: a public discussion&#8217; featuring Peter Tatchell<\/li>\n<li><strong>16 February 2016\u00a0<\/strong>Zoe Strachan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>17 February 2016\u00a0<\/strong>&#8216;Queering the Canon: the reception of Sylvia Townsend Warner&#8217; Professor Jan Montefiore<\/li>\n<li><strong>18 February 2016 <\/strong>Screening of the film &#8216;Tangerine&#8217; (2015) with panel discussion led by Dr Sean Grattan (University of Kent)<\/li>\n<li><strong>19 February 2016 \u2018Audre Lorde\u2019s Legacy\u2019<\/strong>, Queer Voices Poetry Reading<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"view-all\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/events\/allevents.html\">More events<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Also part of the LGBT Writer&#8217;s Week:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>International Critic in e-Residence:<\/strong><br \/>\nMadelyn Detloff, Associate Professor of English and Women&#8217;s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Miami University (Ohio).<br \/>\nTweets @DrDetloff<\/p>\n<h2>Conferences<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Emerging Scholars&#8217; Day symposium<\/strong>\u00a0(Saturday, 25 July 2015). This symposium\u00a0was the final event in the Queering Paradigms series to discuss and develop emerging queer scholarship, with a particular focus on gender, sexuality and disability studies.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fear and Loathing: Phobia in Literature and Culture<\/strong>, University of Kent, 9-10th May 2014.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Literature and Physical Culture\u00a0<\/strong>(De Montfort University) 10th &amp;11th April 2014. Please click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/literatureandsport.wordpress.com\/conferences\/cfp2014\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0for further information.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u2018Writing Women\u2019s Literary History: Problems and Possibilities\u2019<\/strong> (Sep 2009-June 2010); supported by Centre for Studies in the Long C18 and MEMS.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u2018Audre Lorde\u2019s Legacy\u2019<\/strong>, Women\u2019s Library (May 2012)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Seminars and lectures<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Special Screening of Carol and panel discussion at Curzon Canterbury<\/strong><br \/>\nSunday 6th December 2015, 2.45pm<\/p>\n<p>This screening will be followed by a panel discussion led by members of the Centres for Gender, Sexuality and Writing and American Studies at the University of Kent:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Open lectures<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>10 December 2015: \u2018Self-Care as Warfare: Fragility, Militancy and Audre Lorde&#8217;s Legacies\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor Sara Ahmed, Goldsmiths, University of London. Listen to Sara Ahmed&#8217;s lecture\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/player.kent.ac.uk\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=9232575d-61dc-48de-8c4e-5e07b6a3a9d5\">here<\/a><br \/>\nBook launch to follow: Stella Bolaki and Sabine Broeck (ed)\u00a0<em>Audre Lorde&#8217;s Transnational Legacies<\/em>\u00a0(University of\u00a0Massachusetts Press, 2015)<\/p>\n<p><strong>23 November 2015: \u2018The Queer Persistence of Shakespeare&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor Stephen Guy-Bray (British Columbia).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seminars<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>February 2013: School of English Research Seminar paper by Holly Furneaux (Reader in 19C Literature, University of Leicester).<\/li>\n<li>February 2013: Feminist Theory Workshop, Duke University.<\/li>\n<li>May 2013: Public lecture by Kate Newey of Exeter to launch an exhibition at the Templeman \u2013 \u2018Guerilla Theatre and the New Woman\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Other activities and affiliations<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>16th-20th February 2015: <\/strong>As part of LGBT week -Queer Feelings\/Feeling Queer- a variety of events taking place on campus and in Canterbury over the week.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/events\/QueerFeelingsFeelingQueer.pdf\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0for the full schedule of events.<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 2013<\/strong>: Exhibition and public lecture on Drama and the New Woman at the fin de si\u00e8cle in association with Canterbury Christchurch University held at the Templeman: both events organised in association with Canterbury Christchurch University.<\/li>\n<li><strong>February 2012<\/strong>: Postgraduate participation in Duke University Feminist Theory Workshop<\/li>\n<li><strong>Summer 2011<\/strong>: Visiting Training Fellow Guray Tezcan (Istanbul University)<\/li>\n<li><strong>September 2009<\/strong>: Marilyn Hacker residency and T.S. 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