Common out of Chaos: Utopia in Mohsin Hamid and Kae Tempest’s Contemporary Londons
This meeting will be taking place virtually over zoom on Tuesday, 11th May 2021 6:00pm – 7:15pm. To attend, please sign up via the IES website, or email literarylondonrg@gmail.com at least 24 hours … Continue reading
Apocalyptic London: Contagion and Airpocalypse from Mary Shelley to H. G. Wells to Lockdown
We warmly invite you to join our next session of the Literary London Reading Group where Dr Eva-Charlotta Mebius will be leading discussion on the urban airscape of London in … Continue reading
Writing London: Hanif Kureishi’s ‘The Buddha of Suburbia’
We invite you to join us for our upcoming LLRG session where Dr Ruvani Ranasinha (KCL) will be leading discussion on Hanif Kureishi’s 1990 novel The Buddha of Surburbia. The … Continue reading
From Cesspool to Supersewer: Placing London’s Subterranean Waste
We invite you to join us for our first LLRG of the new year where Dr Paul Dobraszczyk will be introducing reading material on London’s nineteenth-century sewerage systems. The meeting will … Continue reading
Strings Attached: The Arts Council of Great Britain and Post-War British Fiction
We invite you to join us for our second LLRG meeting where Dr Christopher Webb will be introducing ‘Strings Attached: The Arts Council of Great Britain and Post-War Fiction for … Continue reading
Connecting Past and Present: Claudia Jones and Race Politics in Brexit Britain
We cordially invite you to the first seminar of the 2020/2021 academic year on Tuesday 13th October 6:00 pm–7:00 pm. Dr Kennetta Hammond Perry will be introducing ‘Connecting Past and … Continue reading
‘Ghetto Poet’: John Rodker’s Pre-War London
We warmly invite you to the next LLRG meeting. Dr Evi Heinz will be introducing ‘Ghetto Poet’: John Rodker’s Pre-War London. The meeting will take place on 11 February, 6 … Continue reading
Material, process, time: The fragment in Michael Landy’s Break Down
We are very happy to invite you to our next meeting of the Literary London Reading Group. Dr Lindsay Crisp will be introducing ‘Material, process, time: The fragment in Michael … Continue reading
[Race/Gender Matters] Soho Typescripts: The Craft and Commerce of Pornography in Post-war London
Helen Wickstead, ‘Soho Typescripts: The Craft and Commerce of Pornography in Post-war London’ Location and time: Ram Books, 66 Holloway Road N7 8JL; 6pm-7.30pm Tuesday 5th November For the first … Continue reading
Medieval Foundations: St Erkenwald and the Hidden Histories of St Paul’s Cathedral
We are delighted to invite you to the first seminar of the academic year 2019/2020, which will take place on Tuesday 8 October, 6.00pm to 7.30pm. Dr Alastair Bennett will … Continue reading
