Our very own Professor Jerry Brotton writes in the Guardian today on the battle of who wins in history, and the importance of looking at historical women’s voices rather than just labeling them a winner, or loser.
The opinion piece is around Mary Queen of Scots in time for the film released this week.
Join us for 2019’s edition: bit.ly/showandtell19
It was recorded on Wednesday 19 September 2018.
Host
Rupert Dannreuther
Rupert is responsible for marketing within Queen Mary’s School of English and Drama. He has worked for numerous organisations including Cineworld, Hackney Empire, The Yard Theatre and Rose Bruford College. In his spare time he runs To Do List a website about offbeat things to do in London: http://todolist.org.uk.
Shahidha Bari
Shahidha Bari is a writer, academic and broadcaster working in the fields of literature, philosophy and art. Born in 1980, she was one of the first ever BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers (2011) and a winner of the Observer Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism (2015). She is Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and Fellow of the Forum for European Philosophy at the LSE, and writes for the TLS, Guardian and Financial Times, amongst others. She features frequently on BBC Radio 4, and currently presents BBC Radio 3’s nightly Arts and Ideas programme Free Thinking. She lives in London.
Mojisola Adebayo
Mojisola Adebayo BA, MA, PhD, FRSL, is a performed and published playwright, performer, producer, director, workshop facilitator and teacher. She has been making theatre internationally for over 25 years, from Antarctica to Zimbabwe.
Karina Lickorish Quinn
Karina is a Peruvian-British writer and a PhD student and teacher of creative writing here at Queen Mary. She has published short stories and translations in various journals and is working on her debut novel about ghosts, guano and two-headed cats.
Billy Barrett
Theatre-maker, Breach Theatre and MA Theatre and Performance student.
Show and Tell is back for 2019 with a whole host of exciting new speakers.
See the line up and book a free ticket here: bit.ly/showandtell19
Artist Development from Pleasance Theatre for Edinburgh Fringe
Application are now open for The Charlie Hartill Special Reserve. The Pleasance will provide an emerging theatre company with £10,000 financing, mentoring, support, PR, marketing, accommodation, travel, accessible performances and so much more to enable them to bring a fully produced theatre production to Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019. An unmissable opportunity!
Deadline, 10am 31st January 2019.
Website to apply https://www.pleasance.co.uk/charliefund
Information pack https://bit.ly/2H2Ezgt Information pack https://bit.ly/2H2Ezgt
HOW TO GET INTO PUBLISHING… from those that know! Thursday 31st January 6pm – 7.45pm, People’s Palace PP1.
We are delighted to have two major publishers coming on to campus to talk about their organisations and the type of work experience, internship & entry level roles that they have available.
We will be joined by Lisa Goll – Events Manager at Bloomsbury and Owner of London Writers’ Café and Christiana Markou – Recruitment Advisor at HarperCollins, as well as a Junior Editor from Bloomsbury and a recent recipient of a HarperCollins BAME internship.
Lisa and Christiana will give presentations and will be interviewed about general recruitment questions. The Junior Editor and HarperCollins intern will also be interviewed about how they secured their opportunities and their reflections on their experiences. There will also be opportunity for your questions to all our guests.
RESERVE YOUR PLACE NOW: https://qmul.targetconnect.net/leap/event.html?id=5435&service=Careers+Service
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A Career Conversation… Life as a National Newspaper Journalist with Sarah Oliver, from the Mail on Sunday. http://www.saraholiverwriter.com/ Wednesday 30th January lunchtime 1.15 – 2.15pm, LAWS Room 1.19
We are delighted that Sarah Oliver is coming to QM to speak about building a career as a newspaper journalist. Sarah is an established QMentor supporting one QM student each year interested in building a journalism career. Now we have an opportunity for lots more students to benefit from her knowledge and experience.
As a foreign news correspondent Sarah covered the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as stories across the world from Kosovo to Malawi. In more recent years she has focused on features, columns and celebrity interviews. With Sarah we will explore what it takes to get started on a newspaper career, how a career can develop, skills & experienced required to get a foot in the door, as well as perhaps exploring some of her most memorable career moments.
If you are interested in any aspect of newspaper journalism this is a definitely a ‘not to be missed session’.
RESERVE YOUR PLACE NOW: https://qmul.targetconnect.net/leap/event.html?id=5595&service=Careers+Service
Careers in Charities: 21st January 6-7pm
CharityWorks will be talking about how to begin a career in the non-profit sector, provide you with an overview of the graduate scheme for the UK non-profit sector
RESERVE YOUR PLACE HERE: https://qmul.targetconnect.net/leap/event.html?id=5453&service=Careers+Service
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Careers in Ideas: 22nd January 6 – 8pm
If you would like to consider a law career in Intellectual Property, come and speak to a range of firms who will be promoting their work experience and graduate opportunities! N.B. Definitely do some research on the role & firms coming in advance, so that you understand their areas of interest.
DETAILS & BOOKING HERE: https://qmul.targetconnect.net/leap/event.html?id=5431&service=Careers+Service
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Google Skills: The Importance of Self Promotion, 28th January 6 – 7.30pm
This 90 minute workshop is aimed at women & underrepresented groups. The workshop will help you to highlight the importance of self promotion in your career, and provide you with the tools to start developing this skill.
RESERVE YOUR PLACE HERE: https://qmul.targetconnect.net/leap/event.html?id=5433&service=Careers+Service
ON TRACK FESTIVAL 19 – 20 Feb
Are you 14 – 25 and looking to break into the creative industries?
On Track is back – After huge success the free two day festival designed to fuel the next generation of performers and artistic entrepreneurs is back at Hackney Empire. You’ll get access to some of the industry’s biggest players and influencers working right now.
Sign up to masterclasses, seminars, panels debates, up-skill yourself with vital tools and knowledge to help you take things to the next level, plus network with peers and some of the industry’s biggest names
Here’s a selection of English and Drama events coming up this semester at Queen Mary University of London.
Join our in house theatre company for a festival of new writing.
Show and Tell is a series of TED-talk style events where speakers from the arts, humanities and creative industries tell their stories at Queen Mary University of London.
Join us for an evening reception with drinks to find out about our English Master’s offering: MA English Literature. 4:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Group sessions with top academics from Queen Mary will look at key A-level English and Drama texts and concepts to help with your revision. 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Chaired by Professor Cora Kaplan
The philosopher mediating alone in his study is a cliché of western culture. But behind the hackneyed image lies a long history of controversy. Was solitude the ‘school of genius’, as Edward Gibbon claimed, or did it breed irrationalism, dogmatism and melancholy, as Dr Johnson and others insisted? In the 1730s David Hume suffered a breakdown which he attributed to his solitary philosophising; three decades later, in a much-publicised quarrel with Jean-Jacques Rousseau,Hume attacked Rousseau’s reclusiveness as ‘savage’, ‘bestial’,the mark of an ‘arrant madman’. A life of lone thought was pathological: a judgement that still finds echoes in present-day concerns about social isolation and loneliness.
We have just announced the following 2 academic job opportunities.
Please see the links below to get more information about the roles.
UK/EU PhD applicants have the opportunity to apply for London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP) studentships as well as Queen Mary Principal’s Studentships (QMPS) but the deadlines differ.
Please see below for useful information from Dr Rehana Ahmed (Director of Research) or email sed-research@qmul.ac.uk.
London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP):
QM Principal’s Studentships (QMPS):
English Reader Dr Nadia Valman’s article on her project celebrating the diverse history of the London Hospital, The Last of The London has been published today on Spitalfields Life.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Welcome to our January newsletter. We wish you all the best for 2019 and look forward to seeing our students and staff from next week when semester 2 begins.
Photo from Winter graduation 2018 in December
JAN 15
11 days left to apply to study with us Study English, Creative Writing, Drama
all with a year abroad. Courses start this September 2019.
See our study abroad hub for more information.
Show and Tell is back for 2019 every Wednesday in February with a diverse line up of inspiring speakers from the arts, humanities and creative industries.
Book free tickets online
BOOK AHEAD
The Inaugural Lecture of Professor Barbara Taylor – Philosophical Solitude
ArtsTwo Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary University of london
Tuesday 26 February 2019, 6.30pm The philosopher mediating alone in his study is a cliché of western culture. But behind the hackneyed image lies a long history of controversy. Was solitude the ‘school of genius’, as Edward Gibbon claimed, or did it breed irrationalism, dogmatism and melancholy, as Dr Johnson and others insisted? In the 1730s David Hume suffered a breakdown which he attributed to his solitary philosophising; three decades later, in a much-publicised quarrel with Jean-Jacques Rousseau,Hume attacked Rousseau’s reclusiveness as ‘savage’, ‘bestial’, the mark of an ‘arrant madman’. A life of lone thought was pathological: a judgement that still finds echoes in present-day concerns about social isolation and loneliness.
Barbara Taylor is Professor of Humanities at Queen Mary, based in the Schools of History and English and Drama. She is currently leading a 4-year project, ‘Pathologies of Solitude,18th – 21st C’, funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Read more
JANUARY
Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature:
Seminar: Dr Lucy Wooding, Oxford ‘The Book as Image: Tudor Religious Culture and Perceptions of Print’
ArtsTwo 3.16, Queen Mary University of London
Wednesday 9 January 2019, 5-7pm
This paper will discuss the relationship between word and image in
early modern England, focusing in particular on the ways in which books were conceptualized within religious discourse as variously text, object and image, suggesting that the dialogue about and between these different forms offers important insights into the evolution of religious culture in an era of reform.
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Travelling Queer People’s History Show – Scratch PerformanceQueen Mary University of London
Saturday 19 January 2019, 6pm
The Travelling Queer People’s History Show takes the audience on a startling journey underneath the foundations of some of Britain’s biggest galleries to uncover a hidden history of queer prisoners, prisons and penal colonies.
English Postgraduate Research Seminar 2019ArtsOne lecture Theatre Queen Mary University of London
Thursday 17 + 31 January, 14 + 28 February, 14 + 28 March and 23 May 2019, 6pm Our groundbreaking postgraduate research seminar continues with a wide range of speakers in 2019.
| Harriet Baker (English PhD) has won The Tony Lothian Prize for Rural Hours: Interwar Female Writers project. Read more here |
OPEN CALL: EcoFutures: Queer, Feminist and Decolonial Responses to Ecological and Environmental Changes” (4-19 April 2019) Read more
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE WORK EXPERIENCE: Work experience applications open on 8 January. Information here
18c FELLOWSHIP: The Queen Mary Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, in conjunction wit the British Society for Eighteenth-Century StudiesShort-Term Early-Career Visiting Fellowship 2018-19. Deadline: 17 January 2019
JOBS AT QMUL: Start the new year with a new job working with Queen Mary as a Hospitality & Events Manager, Library Shelver, Digital Communications Officer, Public Engagement Officer and many more.
To enter simply email us your photo sed-web@qmul.ac.uk or use the hashtag #SED2019 and tag us on Instagram or Twitter. The photo theme could be themed around: winter wonderland style scene a highlight from your festive break books you’re looking forward to reading in 2019 performances you’re looking forward to in 2019 Photo above ‘Bushey Park’ by Matthew Mauger (photographer and Senior Lecturer in English and e-Strategy Manager at QMUL)
To enter simply email us your photo sed-web@qmul.ac.uk or use the hashtag #SED2019 and tag us on Instagram or Twitter. The photo theme could be themed around:
Competition is open until 31 January 2019 at 17:00 GMT.
Photo above ‘Bushey Park’ by Matthew Mauger (photographer and Senior Lecturer in English and e-Strategy Manager at QMUL)
See the full programme below
The evening promises to be entertaining and relaxed. Speakers will each deliver a TED-style talk, and these will be followed by a chance for guests to ask questions, before the evening ends with socialising and networking over refreshments.
Show and Tell runs on the evenings of the 6, 13, 20 and 27 February 2019, taking place between 18:00 and 20:00 at the ArtsOne Building on the Mile End Road of Queen Mary’s Mile End campus. Everyone is welcome from sixth-form students, new QMUL freshers, alumni, school teachers, researchers and anyone who has a general interest in the arts and humanities.
If you have any questions or would like to register a group please email: showandtell@qmul.ac.uk
Please note all speakers appearances are subject to change
Queen Mary has a dedicated network of Mental Health First Aiders who are trained in listening non-judgmentally and helping you find the support you may need.
In the School of English and Drama:
If none of these people are available please consult the building based list here. You can talk to any of the Mental Health First Aiders in confidence.
Specialist and confidential advice and support for welfare, financial, emotional and psychological issues.
www.welfare.qmul.ac.uk / 020 7882 8717 / welfare@qmul.ac.uk
Confidential advice, guidance and support for students with diagnosed mental health conditions and those who have experienced a mental health crisis.
www.dds.qmul.ac.uk / 020 7882 2756 / dds@qmul.ac.uk e
“You may well know this already, but this is just to let you know that there will be a Year One End of Term Party, Thursday 13th December 4-6pm, ArtsOne foyer. There will be nice nibbles, and good cheer, and it’ll be a chance to celebrate the conclusion of your first semester at Queen Mary.
Wishing you a happy week 12, and hope to see you on Thursday.” Rachael Gilmour, Head of English.
Panel and Literary Quiz | Thursday 13 December | 5.15pm | ArtsOne Lecture Theatre and SCR BarIn a change to the usual format, we will be welcoming two current PhD students and members of last year’s PGRS committee to give papers on their research. We will then be heading over to the Senior Common Room Bar for a special Christmas quiz.
Our speakers are:
Harriet Baker, Will Burgess, Hannah Donovan, Charlotte McCallum, Charlie Pullen, Julie Tanner, Frith Taylor, Vincenzo Torromacco, Alice Wickenden
Watch this space for details or follow us on Twitter @QMEnglishPGRS
‘Our monthly variety night where you can perform anything you want!
We welcome anyone and everyone to join us for a night of singing, dancing, poetry, spoken word, comedy, and any other talents! If you would like to watch, all that is required is small donation (50p upwards) which will be given to charity.
Details here: https://theinstitute.info/?p=3252 and this is the Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/316809979170519/
Spirals is a poetic journey that crosses geographical borders and unites European female voices in an exchange of languages, cultures, personal narratives and modes of expression. Through the symbol of the spiral, the project explores thresholds, migration, path, nature, home and sense of belonging; the spiral acts as a sign of becoming, transforming and awareness. Poems written by contemporary female poets, recorded material, music and movement are part of a series of performances, photography and video-work. Women create and walk on spirals in a variety of places, such as London, Broadstairs, Coventry, Barcelona, Athens and Belgrade.
Hari Marini – PartSuspended (UK) (www.partsuspended.com/)
Read more about the piece here:
https://www.interimpoetics.org/35-4/hari-marini-partsuspended
https://www.interimpoetics.org/35-4/hari-marini-trans-theo-kominis
Andy has just graduated from Kings with a BA in English and lands a job with Miranda Priestly, the most wickedest dragon lady in all of East London fashion! She quickly finds herself struggling with the job, no thanks to her so called “friends” Avocado & Toast, her boyfriend Nate, and Emily “Blunt Cunt” Charlton. Luckily for her, Fairy Nigel is just around the corner, to give her a transformation that could just about change her life.
Expect bad jokes and panto chaos in QMTC’s adaptation of one of the greatest films ever made.
8th and 9th December 7pm in the Pinter Studio, ArtsOne
Tickets £6-9
https://www.facebook.com/events/369509427215129/
Get your pen and paper ready for an evening of playwriting!
This workshop is designed for writers of all abilities – those who have written hundreds of plays, those who need advice, and those who have never written before. We will do a few exercises to generate ideas, create characters, and will have the chance to get some scenes up on their feet. Just in time for the New Writers Festival pitch night…
4th December 7pm in ArtsOne Lecture Theatre
Calling all playwrights!
Have you written a play or plan to write one over the Winter break? Then come and pitch it for our next festival! Our New Writers’ Festival is a chance to put on any work you’ve written of any kind in a professional and friendly environment. Come along and pitch it to QMTC members and be proud of your creation, or listen to all of our pitches and vote for your favourite!
12th December 6.30pm in the Pinter Studio, ArtsOne
https://www.facebook.com/events/359105954853486/
Celebrate the holidays QMTC-style with our Christmas Quiz 🎅 Round up a group of six friends, relatives or unwitting strangers, brush up on your trivia, and get ready to have some fun!
10th December 5.30pm in Blomeley Room 1
£3 members / £4 non-members
https://www.facebook.com/events/1006478369553089/
Our monthly variety night where you can perform anything you want!
We welcome anyone and everyone to join us for a night of singing, dancing, poetry, spoken word, comedy, and any other talents! If you would to perform, please send a message to the Slappin Da Bass Facebook page linked below. If you would like to watch, all that is required is small donation (50p upwards) which will be given to charity.
15th December, Pinter Studio in ArtsOne, 7pm
This is fantastic news for students who live in London but still would like to gain a more complete university experience by living away from home.
Eligibility Criteria:
To qualify for our accommodation guarantee students must meet the following criteria:
For more information about our first-year accommodation guarantee and how to apply, please visit the following page: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/study/accommodation/first-year-undergraduate-accommodation-guarantee/
