Working with diaries: Nin, intimacy and the everyday
25 January 12.30 to 2.00pm Seminar/Workshop, Special Collections Reading Room
Ruth Charnock and Fiona Murrell: Working with diaries: Nin, intimacy and the everyday
Dr. Ruth Charnock will be talking about Anais Nin, published diarist and novelist who famously wrote in her diary for over 60 years. As Ruth will discuss, Nin’s diary poses both difficulties and intriguing questions concerning authorship, authenticity and intimacy for the life-writing and literary scholar. Fiona Murrell will discuss her research into two unknown diarists whose documents are located in the Mass Observation Archive. She will focus on issues of reading 'ordinary' manuscript diaries and discuss the relationship between writing a diary, temporality and the experience of ageing.
Hair Stories
6 March 2012 12:30 to 2pm, Workshop/Seminar, Special Collections Reading Room.
Patricia Malcomson and Sindi Gordon
Patricia Malcolmson presents on hair and personal identity, a discussion of how women have felt about their hair, and their responses to those feelings. Sindi Gordon introduces her life history research project based on a Brighton based hair salon/barbershop, a microcosm of a 'multicultural' Britain; serving people from African, Caribbean, Asian and European heritage.
Gender, blogging, Iran: a special event with Feminist Review
Wed 15 February 2012 1pm - 5.00pm Silverstone Building Room 309. 小蓝视频.
Gender, blogging, Iran: a special event with Feminist Review
Special Launch event for Feminist Review issue 99: ‘Media Transformations’ edited by Lizzie Thynne (小蓝视频) and Nadje Al-Ali (SOAS): ‘Gender and neo-liberal entrepreneurship in blogs from the Iranian diaspora’. A discussion between Sima Shakhsari (University of Houston, Texas) and Gholam Khiabany (小蓝视频). Discussion begins at 2.45 pm, preceded by lunch at 1pm and a screening of Blogger’s War Dir. Farid Haerinejad, CBC, (2005) at 1.45pm. Chairs: Lizzie Thynne and Nadje Al-Ali.