Events in the Centre for Contemporary Literature and Cultures In 'Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture' Centre for Contemporary Literature and CultureAboutCCLC NewsEventsPostgraduate StudyResearchStaffContact us New events will appear here shortly Previous Events 2022 23rd November - Academic Buzzwords 2021 27th January - Work in Progress Workshop 2020 17th December - Testament – 'Black Men Walking'12th December - Planning and Leading a Seminar11th November - Negotiating the Job Market14th October - Academic Buzzwords24th February - People & Pages - Poetry Evening 2019 11th December - Infrastructure and Literature28th October - Bandung Generation: Decolonization, Cold War, and Global Literature26th February - People&pages: poetry evening30th January - CCLC Public Lecture: Sara Ahmed - Complaint as Diversity Work 2018 5th December - Contemporary Studies Network reading group: Women's Pain28th November - CCLC book launch27th November - Poetry evening21st November - Hijacking Human Rights: Neoliberalism, the New Historiography, and the End of the Third World19th November - Reading, Writing, and Racism: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and African American Literacy in Cold War America14th November - Queer and Now reading group29th October - Black Histories in The Barber Collection24th May - Young Adult Fiction Afternoon Symposium2nd May - Contemporary Confessionals Afternoon Symposium25th April - Work in Progress session21st March - Queer & Now: A Reading Group - Disturbing Attachments19th March - 'Spring People': an evening of poetry12th March - Where's My Igloo Gone?: strategies and stories of climate change24th January - The Contemporary Studies Network Reading Group - Environmental Studies 2017 6th December - The Contemporary Studies Network Reading Group - Stuplimity in the Age of Trump27th November - Burdens of Representation? Contemporary theatre by minority artists in Britain15th November - Queer & Now: A Reading Group6th November - Reading Communities: Connecting the Past and the Present18th October - People and Pages: a showcase of local and regional poets11th October - Work-in-progress (staff only)2nd October - Nikesh Shukla In Conversation