#SEDdigest – Events and Opportunities Digest – Wednesday 17 January 2018

Here’s the second round up of events and opportunities in the School for 2018.

Please do get in touch if you have any listings for our next edition.

Events

The week ahead

English PGR Seminar: Mark Wormald ‘Poetic Electrons: Ted Hughes and the Mayfly’ | Thursday 18 January 2018 | 5.15pm | Lock-Keeper’s Cottage | QMUL Mile End

In 1981, the artist Leonard Baskin wrote to the poet Ted Hughes with a list of fifteen projected poems about insects that would feature in their next collaboration. It began with ‘The Mayfly’.

This paper describes Hughes’s education in the mayfly. Like its subject, it had a long and hidden larval stage, but took memorable flight in a fishing trip to Ireland in May 1982, which ended at Saint’s Island on Lough Ree. Two remarkable prose accounts of this trip are among Hughes’ papers in the British Library. Between them they shape a visionary narrative, beginning with an Oxford tutorial in entomology from his son Nicholas, and detailing Hughes’s attempts, in the company of a group of fanatical Irish fishermen, to catch lough trout on imitations of its dun, or Green Drake, and spinner, or Spent. The poetry that emerged from this experience is faithful to these circumstances but also transcends them, offering a powerful vision of ecological interconnection not just to lovers of poetry but to all those concerned for the health of our rivers and lakes.

Dr Mark Wormald is Fellow and College Lecturer in English at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is the editor of the Ted Hughes Society Journal and with Terry Gifford and Neil Roberts co-edited Ted Hughes: from Cambridge to Collected (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013). He is completing The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes, to be published by Little Toller Books.

 

 

Quorum Seminar: Mojisola Adebayo ‘An Afriquia Theatre Retrospective’ | Wednesday 24 January 2018 | 6pm | ArtsOne RR2, QMUL Mile End

In 1981, the artist Leonard Baskin wrote to the poet Ted Hughes with a list of fifteen projected poems about insects that would feature in their next collaboration. It began with ‘The Mayfly’.

This paper describes Hughes’s education in the mayfly. Like its subject, it had a long and hidden larval stage, but took memorable flight in a fishing trip to Ireland in May 1982, which ended at Saint’s Island on Lough Ree. Two remarkable prose accounts of this trip are among Hughes’ papers in the British Library. Between them they shape a visionary narrative, beginning with an Oxford tutorial in entomology from his son Nicholas, and detailing Hughes’s attempts, in the company of a group of fanatical Irish fishermen, to catch lough trout on imitations of its dun, or Green Drake, and spinner, or Spent. The poetry that emerged from this experience is faithful to these circumstances but also transcends them, offering a powerful vision of ecological interconnection not just to lovers of poetry but to all those concerned for the health of our rivers and lakes.

Dr Mark Wormald is Fellow and College Lecturer in English at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is the editor of the Ted Hughes Society Journal and with Terry Gifford and Neil Roberts co-edited Ted Hughes: from Cambridge to Collected (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013). He is completing The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes, to be published by Little Toller Books.

 

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Jobs, Careers Events & Paid Internships

NEW WORK CO-ORDINATOR at Talawa Theatre | Deadline: 19 Jan

Are you passionate about new writing, and interested in supporting the development of Black artists?

 

Opportunities & Volunteering

Artists Callout for Richmix New Creatives | Deadline: 20 Jan

Existing and original pieces for the New Creatives’ ‘FIRSTS’ event at RichMix in Shoreditch.

 

Artist Callout: Queen Mary Visual Arts Collectives | Deadline: 31 Jan

Queen Mary Visual Arts Collective is looking for artwork in any medium by undergraduate and postgraduate students from all disciplines across Queen Mary and Barts to showcase the artistic talent of our academic students.

The exhibition will be held at Hundred Years Gallery in Hoxton on 8th-11th and 14th-18th February. It will feature an opening night party, poetry by PEACH, a screening by Nice Mover, sound art performances and more.

We are accepting submissions of art in any medium (previously we’ve featured paintings, drawings, embroidery, photography, video art, digital art, performance art, sculpture and installations but we’re open to suggestions!) by students at any level and from any discipline.

Send an email with your name, subject and some information about your piece with images where appropriate to qmvisualarts@gmail.com by the end of January.

Search ‘QM Visual Arts Collective’ on Facebook to like the page, view the exhibition event page and join the contributors group. Don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions.

 

Postgraduate Open Events 2018

We are delighted to meet prospective students at the following events:

English

#SEDdigest – Events and Opportunities Digest – Wednesday 10 January 2018

Here’s the first weekly events and opportunities digest for 2018.

Please do get in touch if you have any listings for our next edition.

Events

Book Ahead

Writers @QMUL: Anjali Joseph reading & in conversation | 31 January | 5:30-7.30pm | Free

anjali joseph

In the second of our ongoing Writers @QMUL series, prize-winning novelist Anjali Joseph will read and be in conversation about her work. Joseph was born in Bombay, has taught English at the Sorbonne, and was Commissioning Editor for ELLE (India). Her first novel, Saraswati Park, won the Betty Trask Prize and Desmond Elliott Prize. Another Country, her second novel, was published in June 2012. A third novel, The Living, appeared in 2016.

Reception to follow reading and Q&A.

 

Theatre in the Dark | 6-9 February 2018 | Battersea Arts Centre

To mark the 20th anniversary of Battersea Arts Centre Playing In The Dark season in 1998, and the launch of Theatre in the Dark: Shadow, Gloom and Blackout in Contemporary Theatre, a new book edited by Martin Welton and Adam Alston, join us for a week of Theatre In The Dark, presented with Queen Mary University.

FICTION | 6 – 8 Feb | 7:30pm & 9pm | £5 with code below

A surreal, immersive experience taking place in total darkness. Don a pair of headphones for an intimate journey through the scrawling architecture of dreams.

Exclusive student offer: £5 tickets for Fiction with the code FICTION5

THEATRE IN THE DARK: DIALOGUE | Curated by Queen Mary University and Battersea Arts Centre | 7 Feb | 8:45pm | Free

Join us for a free post discussion following Fiction.

THEATRE IN THE DARK SCRATCH NIGHT | 9 Feb | 7:30pm | Pay What You Can

A selection of Scratch performances, all performed in the darkness by a variety of artists.

 

This week

English PGR Seminar: Mark Wormald ‘Poetic Electrons: Ted Hughes and the Mayfly’ | Thursday 18 January 2018 | 5.15pm

In 1981, the artist Leonard Baskin wrote to the poet Ted Hughes with a list of fifteen projected poems about insects that would feature in their next collaboration. It began with ‘The Mayfly’.

This paper describes Hughes’s education in the mayfly. Like its subject, it had a long and hidden larval stage, but took memorable flight in a fishing trip to Ireland in May 1982, which ended at Saint’s Island on Lough Ree. Two remarkable prose accounts of this trip are among Hughes’ papers in the British Library. Between them they shape a visionary narrative, beginning with an Oxford tutorial in entomology from his son Nicholas, and detailing Hughes’s attempts, in the company of a group of fanatical Irish fishermen, to catch lough trout on imitations of its dun, or Green Drake, and spinner, or Spent. The poetry that emerged from this experience is faithful to these circumstances but also transcends them, offering a powerful vision of ecological interconnection not just to lovers of poetry but to all those concerned for the health of our rivers and lakes.

Dr Mark Wormald is Fellow and College Lecturer in English at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is the editor of the Ted Hughes Society Journal and with Terry Gifford and Neil Roberts co-edited Ted Hughes: from Cambridge to Collected (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013). He is completing The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes, to be published by Little Toller Books.

For more SED events see our calendar here

 

Jobs, Careers Events & Paid Internships

Career Conversation: Life as a London Barrister | Wednesday 17 January 1-2 pm,  ArtsTwo. In conjunction with QMUL Bar Society.

Click on the link above for more info & to book your place. Andrew Simmonds is currently an MA student at QM but previously spent 35 years as a Barrister, he became a QC and later a deputy High Court Judge.  This is a great opportunity to learn more about the realities of life as a barrister.  N.B. This discussion will not focus particularly on how to become a barrister.

 

Opportunities & Volunteering

PLUGGED IN: Revolutionary and radical relationship building for young creatives | Wednesday 7 February | 5pm

An evening curated by GUAP Magazine, Design for Disability, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) and A New Direction for young creatives aged 18-24 and cultural organisations to connect, debate and revolutionise the way they work together.

 

Calls for Papers/Contributions

 

CfP: The BACLS Biennial Conference | Deadline: Wednesday 28 February

Details from Zara Dinnen:

‘The following cfp might be of interest to those of you working on contemporary literary, theatre and cultural studies. It is for the recently launched British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS); the first conference, What Happens Now?, will run in July 2018 at University of Loughborough with a special focus on gender and sexuality studies. I am co-organising the conference with Jennifer Cooke (Loughborough). We are excited about how the line-up is coming together. It will include performances and readings, workshops, publisher events as well as three exciting keynotes. And all the papers!

Details of the cfp, which I hope might be of interest to some of you, are here: https://www.bacls.org/conferences/the-bacls-biennial-conference/

Would be great to see QMUL people there!’

 

English and Drama Newsletter – January 2018

Welcome to the NEW YEAR edition of our English and Drama newsletter.

Here’s a quick run down of what’s new for 2018:

Events

FEATURED OPEN EVENTS

Postgraduate Virtual Open Day
Wednesday 17 January, 12:00-18:00 GMT

Postgraduate Open Day
Wednesday 7 February, 16:30-19:30 GMT

English and Drama Offer Holder Days 2018
Saturday 10 February, Saturday 10 March and Wednesday 28 March

 

Offer Holder Day

 


JANUARY DIARY

Staging Atmospheres
Writers @QMUL: Anjali Joseph reading & in conversation
Wednesday 31 January, 5.30pm
QMUL – Mile End

In the second of our ongoing Writers @QMUL series, prize-winning novelist Anjali Joseph will read and be in conversation about her work. Joseph was born in Bombay, has taught English at the Sorbonne, and was Commissioning Editor for ELLE (India). Her first novel, Saraswati Park, won the Betty Trask Prize and Desmond Elliott Prize. Another Country, her second novel, was published in June 2012. A third novel, The Living, appeared in 2016.

Titus Andronicus at Barbican
Titus Andronicus at the Barbican Centre
Thursday 18 January 2018, 7.15pm

£4 Tickets available (exclusively for QM Shakespeare members)
We are also offering £6 tickets to non-members.

Must be purchased by Sunday 7th January from the SU website: www.qmsu.org/events/15240/10565/
For more info, please email qmshakespeare@hotmail.com

Jen Harvie
V&A/RCA Research Seminar: Jen Harvie
Thursday 25 January 2018, 5.15pm
RCA White City, Room GH109, Garden House

Our very own Jen Harvie will present her seminar ‘Designing Resistance to Adversarial Ageism in Caryl Churchill’s Escaped Alone and Split Britches’ Ruff’.
RSVP to hod@rca.ac.uk.


BOOK AHEAD

‘The Drill’ by Breach Theatre
5-17 February, 7pm
Battersea Arts Centre, London

MA Theatre and Performance Graduate Billy Barrett will be presenting his theatre company’s new show ‘The Drill’ at Battersea Arts Centre.

News

TED talk

Tiffany Watt Smith’s TED talk on the history of emotions was featured on the front page of TED.com in December 2017 and has had over 714,437 views as of 4 January 2018.

Cub Magazine

1. Keep your eyes peeled for the latest edition of CUB Magazine which will be available around campus in February! If you can’t wait til then, check out the CUB website (cubmagazine.co.uk) for new, weekly content. If you would like to contribute to CUB magazine and join a team of 54 students, please email editorcub@gmail.com or send a message on Facebook @cubmagazine.

Aslom Ullah

2. Our 2007 English alumnus Aslom Ullah (now an English teacher in Kuwait)‏ got in touch via Twitter and shared his hilarious and honest blast from the past video from his time at SED…we bet he is his students’ favourite teacher!
Watch Aslom’s video Teaching Shakespeare to Primary School Students

3. Don’t forget to catch our 2017 Drama graduates MEGANDALEX in their debut Bodies (broken 4 u) on 25 January 2018 at Camden People’s Theatre as part of the Calm Down Dear festival of innovative feminist performance.

4. It’s not too late to apply to present a 10 minute ‘theatre in the dark’ piece at a special Scratch Night at Battersea Arts Centre. Apply by 8 January. See the call out