Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture events programme

Our theme this year is ‘Mixed Media.’ We will be exploring the various ways that media convergence and co-existence inform contemporary cultural texts and production, creative practice and our own research methods.

Events are free and all are welcome unless otherwise stated.

• When does an audiobook stop being a book?
  Monday 3 October 2016 - 17:15
• The COVE and SHORE: responding to the crisis facing the humanities
  Monday 10 October 2016 - 17:15
• Jackie Kay and Kit de Waal
  Monday 10 October 2016 - 20:00
• What is ambient literature?
  Monday 14 November 2016 - 17:15
• Sound as affect on/as meaning and nervous receptivity
  Monday 28 November 2016 - 17:15
• Bad books: in the library with Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell
  Monday 5 December 2016 - 17:15
• Challenging the automaton: clog-dancing for the digital age
  Monday 16 January 2017 - 17:15
• Love's revival: film practice and the act of dying
  Wednesday 1 February 2017 - 15:30
• A Queer method? Samuel Delany's empiricism and the uses of the literary
  Monday 20 February 2017 - 17:15
• The friction of representation in contemporary visual culture
  Monday 13 March 2017 - 17:15
• Live public reading of Frank O'Hara's Meditations in an Emergency curated by Dr Rona Cran
  Wednesday 3 May 2017 - 18:00
• New media affects curated by Dr Zara Dinnen
  Wednesday 17 May 2017 (afternoon)
• Graphic reading: a comics symposium curated by Dr Charlotta Salmi and Dr Angus Brown
  Wednesday 19 May 2017 (full day)

Programmed by/Enquiries to: Danielle Fuller (d.fuller@bham.ac.uk), Director of the CCLC.