Welcome to our new and welcome back to our returning students
Incoming 2020 FAQ | Welcome Week Essentials & Things You Must Do
COMPETITION TIME: Win a copy of our alumnus Gabriel Krauze’s Booker Prize longlisted book Who They Was plus selection of titles he quotes in the book including James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room.
Enter by commenting with a question on this Instagram post when our Alumni Engagement Coordinator Nathalie Grey is interviewing Gabriel.
CONGRATULATIONS: The winners of our #SEDHallofFame dissertation photo competition were Fahima Begum and Jessica Amie Cooper (pictured in main image above).
Events
OCTOBER VIRTUAL OPEN DAY & CAMPUS TOURS – 3 OCTOBER 2020
Book now for our virtual event online which will include subject talks, tasters and a chance to ask questions about our inspiring and inclusive courses.
Register and get reminders here
Centre for Poetry at QMUL presents:
On Seamus Heaney: Roy Foster and Ruth Padel in conversation
24 September 2020, Online – Free
To launch and celebrate the publication of On Seamus Heaney (Princeton University Press, 2020), leading historian and biographer, Roy Foster, will appear, via Zoom, in conversation with award-winning British poet, Ruth Padel. With opening words from Miri Rubin, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History, and Susan Rudy, Director, Centre for Poetry.
News & Links
A Season of Bangla Drama (Drama) secured a £15k emergency Arts Council England funding for A Season of Bangla Drama – an online version to be called Home Seasoning. Our technical team in Drama will be applying the pedagogical strategies developed over lockdown to this exciting new challenge: migrating all 15 companies online in blended programming, configuring prerecorded shorts (based on what would have been live pieces) with online interaction and debate.
Brian Dillon (Creative Writing) will read from Suppose a Sentence, a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature at a sold out event at Bold Tendencies in Peckham on Thursday 10 September.
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Patrick Flanery (Creative Writing) has recently launched a short documentary film about South African artist Kate Gottgens. It was produced with her Cape Town-based gallery, SMAC.
Hari Marini (Drama) is participating in Tear in the Fence Festival in September. She will be reading some of my texts from 28 Paths of her in the session Migration, Exile and Place on Saturday 12 September.
Harriet Phillips (English) was runner up for Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award 2020 with her book Nostalgia in Print and Performance, 1510–1613.
Nisha Ramayya (Creative Writing/English) Her book States of the Body Produced by Love is reviewed by The White Review:
‘Ramayya negotiates this reality by simultaneously reflecting on the horrors faced by marginalised peoples, and tying these concerns to the suffering and power of the ancient goddesses.’
Poplar Union Our friends at local arts venue Poplar Union are organising a digital performance festival Outside In Arts Festival and you can apply to get a paid commission to be part of it.
Lucy Sofroniou (English Alumna) is interviewed here by our alumni team on her new venture exploring wellbeing and matters of the mind; A Little Light.
