Past events
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Leverhulme Visiting Professor Lecture: Prof. Karen Karbiener (NYU), 'With Walt Whitman in Manchester: Local Access to America’s Global Poet'
15:00 - 16:30 2 April 2025
Leverhulme Visiting Professor Karen Karbiener (NYU) will deliver a public lecture on Walt Whitman: 'With Walt Whitman in Manchester: Local Access to America’s Global Poet' Venue: Ground floor event space, John Rylands Library. **Please note change from previously advertised venue** Organised by Dr....
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EACW Students' Choice Event: Dr. Suryia Nayak (Salford): 'Hosting a Dinner Party with Audre Lorde'
15:30 - 17:00 31 March 2025
Students in the Department of English, American Studies and Creative Writing have voted to invite Dr. Suryia Nayak to speak in the Department. Monday 31st March, 4.30 - 6pm Venue: G20, Mansfield Cooper Followed by a drinks reception My workshop offers a method of talking with Audre Lorde rather than...
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CSSC/EAC Book Launch: Dr James Metcalf (UoM), Churchyard Poetics: Landscape, Labour, and the Legacy of Genre (Oxford University Press, 2025)
17:30 - 19:00 26 March 2025
Dr James Metcalf (UoM) Churchyard Poetics: Landscape, Labour, and the Legacy of Genre (Oxford University Press, 2025) Book Launch and Roundtable Discussion with Dr Clara Dawson, Dr Noelle Gallagher and Prof Emeritus Hal Gladfelder C1.18 seminar room, Ellen Wilkinson Building All welcome! Organised...
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"The Moss Side "joint enterprise" case and miscarriage of justice concerns in the criminal trial system" - David Conn
15:00 - 16:00 19 March 2025
Refreshments will be provided. In 2017, 11 young black people were convicted of the killing of Abdul Hafidah, who was fatally stabbed by one of them. Seven were convicted of murder, four of manslaughter, after a "joint enterprise" prosecution that presented evidence that the young people were in a...
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Leverhulme Visiting Professor Lecture: Prof. Karen Karbiener (NYU), 'Whitman, Censorship, and the Question of Truly Free Verse'
16:00 - 17:15 19 March 2025
Leverhulme Visiting Professor Karen Karbiener (NYU) will deliver a public lecture on Walt Whitman: 'Whitman, Censorship, and the Question of Truly Free Verse' Venue: Samuel Alexander Lecture Theatre Organised by Dr. Gordon Fraser --- Karen Karbiener is an American scholar, writer, curator, and...
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