@rilch-ljmu
Research Institute for Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. Posting about events, seminars, workshops & activities ran by our fabulous community of researchers and writers. https://linktr.ee/RILCH
Join us in G23 for Dr Annie Webster's talk on Uhyggelig Horror! Annie will unravel the literary response to the rise in the commercialisation of hygge culture via the work of Hassan Blasim. It's sure to make for an engaging talk!
Green-blue-grey blocky soundwaves on background. Centred in black serif lettering “Sonance”, with “journal of early modern sound studies” underneath.
👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.
Spring has sprung @ RILCH! 🌷
Here is our fantastic line up of events, featuring guests from the University of Liverpool, our amazing PGRs, and our very own Professor Gerry Smyth. Keep your eyes peeled for more information regarding these events over the coming weeks :)
Recent Events!
Petra James discusses the “cabinet of curiosities” in European Modernist Fiction, Fiona Tolan unravels the feminist politics of cleaning in British fiction, and Özge Kaya Manav presents her research on queer identity in Trumpet. 🏡
Keep an eye out for our Spring events @ RILCH 🌷
Tomorrow, RILCH hosts the lovely Prof Petra James, who will be discussing the Habsburg imperial and aesthetic legacies of the “Cabinet of curiosities” in Central European and Belgian modernist fiction of the 1880s-1930s.
It's sure to make for an engaging talk, and we hope to see you there @ 5pm!
Kicking things off this semester, we have a joint seminar taking place on Tuesday 10th Feb @ 5PM where Dr Fiona Tolan & PhD student Özge discuss their recent research.
Make sure to follow us at @rilchljmu on instagram or email rilchljmu@gmail.com for any details or queries about the event!
And Filippo’s book is “Postcolonial Historical Materialism:
The Heritage of Critical Theory” www.bloomsbury.com/uk/postcolon...
Emily’s book is “Maritime Relations
Life, Labour and Literature at the Water's Edge, 1850–1914” www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...
Photo of a room full of people with Emily Cuming and Filippo Menozzi at the front.
Straining to see Emily Cuming and Filippo Menozzi at the far end of a crowded room as we celebrate their two new perspicacious publications!
Joe Moran introducing Nick Murray to a packed audience
Murray delivering his paper
Fascinating discussion tonight by visiting fellow, Nick Murray on literary biography
Interior of Ullet Road Unitarian Church, off Smithdown Road, Liverpool, with the backs of people crammed into pews to listen to Michael Palin reminisce with Kate Walchester about his travels and promote his new book on Venezuela.
Fabulous turnout to hear our very own Kate Walchester discuss travel writing with Michael Palin as part of the Smithdown Litfest. Your correspondent might have not picked the best spot for paparazzi images of our two celebrities, but is very much enjoying hearing tales of travel 🫣🥴
Lily Dunn's 'Into Being' is a milestone text in the art of life writing. I'm looking forward to chairing a discussion with her at @rilch-ljmu.bsky.social next month. It will be a great evening about how we raise raw personal material and make it powerfully universal.
Looking forward to hosting this terrific symposium. Come and join us!
Gerry Smith on the left and Hannah Baumeister on the right.
👀 it’s the magnificent Dr Hannah Baumeister from the Law School and our very own prolific professor Gerry Smith discussing law and literature!
On Friday I went to two fascinating events - the first a panel on the most current research in decolonisation and the second a book launch for J.P Maxwell and his new historical thriller based in Liverpool! @rilch-ljmu.bsky.social
This, from my @rilch-ljmu.bsky.social colleague Jake Morris-Campbell, will be excellent:
Heave-ho! Heave-ho!
LJMU Shanty Choir, stepping off the stage at Liverpool Arts Bar after singing some shanties.
Do we have the concept album cover? 🤔
Fabulous to hear @ljmuofficial.bsky.social’s Shanty Choir, led by our one and only Prof Gerry Smyth at the Art’s Bar last night 🙌 🎶 #SailorSong
Here’s the Research Institute for Literature and Cultural History at LJMU - we run events and seminars in Liverpool and we’ll be posting here about anything we’re up to.
*waves* 👋
