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Session 1 James Mussell (Birmingham): ‘“Scarers in Print”: Literacy and Media Practice from Our Mutual Friend to Friend Me on Facebook’ Bob Nicholson (Manchester): ‘“Goodbye, old fellow, I must skedaddle!”: Reading the American Voice in the Late-Victorian Press’Session 2 Claire Potter (U Paris Diderot): ‘The Weight of the Voice/The Slant of the Word: Circulations of Melancholia in Hardy’ Roisin Quinn-Lautrefin (U Paris Diderot): ‘Giving Utterance: Mary Barton and the Language of the Working…See More

Session 1 James Mussell (Birmingham): ‘“Scarers in Print”: Literacy and Media Practice from Our Mutual Friend to Friend Me on Facebook’ Bob Nicholson (Manchester): ‘“Goodbye, old fellow, I must skedaddle!”: Reading the American Voice in the Late-Victorian Press’Session 2 Claire Potter (U Paris Diderot): ‘The Weight of the Voice/The Slant of the Word: Circulations of Melancholia in Hardy’ Roisin Quinn-Lautrefin (U Paris Diderot): ‘Giving Utterance: Mary Barton and the Language of the Working…See More

This is a group for anyone studying an element, a piece, a bit, a portion, something not quite intact, or part of a larger whole. Anyone with an interest in disengaged or broken-up fragments of bodies, things, concepts, or historical ideas is welcome.See More

The London Sound Seminar offers an opportunity for research students and faculty in London to explore issues relating to the history and theory of all forms of sound-making and auditory culture.NB Listserv joining instructions below.See More

The London Sound Seminar offers an opportunity for research students and faculty in London to explore issues relating to the history and theory of all forms of sound-making and auditory culture.NB Listserv joining instructions below.See More

The London Sound Seminar offers an opportunity for research students and faculty in London to explore issues relating to the history and theory of all forms of sound-making and auditory culture.NB Listserv joining instructions below.See More

This relaxed postgraduate group discusses a range of texts from the nineteenth century. We meet over a drink on the third monday of the month. Contact susancivale@yahoo.com for further information.See More

“As I write, shot after shot falls on the fugitives, who are wailing loudly over those they know are already slain – Oh let thy kingdom come.”140 years ago, in Darkest Africa, David Livingstone gave H. M. Stanley a harrowing account of a massacre he witnessed, in which slave traders slaughtered 400 innocent people in a village market. Stanley’s report of the massacre in the world press would change the course of history.When he wrote this diary, Livingstone was stranded without supplies in…See More

“As I write, shot after shot falls on the fugitives, who are wailing loudly over those they know are already slain – Oh let thy kingdom come.”140 years ago, in Darkest Africa, David Livingstone gave H. M. Stanley a harrowing account of a massacre he witnessed, in which slave traders slaughtered 400 innocent people in a village market. Stanley’s report of the massacre in the world press would change the course of history.When he wrote this diary, Livingstone was stranded without supplies in…See More

The London Sound Seminar offers an opportunity for research students and faculty in London to explore issues relating to the history and theory of all forms of sound-making and auditory culture.NB Listserv joining instructions below.See More

The London Sound Seminar offers an opportunity for research students and faculty in London to explore issues relating to the history and theory of all forms of sound-making and auditory culture.NB Listserv joining instructions below.See More

The London Sound Seminar offers an opportunity for research students and faculty in London to explore issues relating to the history and theory of all forms of sound-making and auditory culture.NB Listserv joining instructions below.See More

Rubbish is coming to Birkbeck this summer: a series of events on reading the matter and metaphors of waste and value in and through spaces, objects and language. See More

The London Sound Seminar offers an opportunity for research students and faculty in London to explore issues relating to the history and theory of all forms of sound-making and auditory culture.NB Listserv joining instructions below.See More

Prof. Andrew Stauffer (University of Virginia), Director of NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship)This paper is part of a larger project on the troubled archive of nineteenth-century literature, which investigates both how nineteenth-century British authors worried over the material record, and also how current digital transformations are troubling that record in ways both revealing and problematic. (Part of…See More