Sheffield School of English Colloquium, 2012
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We all need to set them and stick to them! Boundaries limit you to what you can do! A life without boundaries appear to be a life w/o discipline!
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#painted #lines on #cement. Who could know that such #simple things #create actual #boundaries. (Taken with instagram)
The delicious cupcakes were provided by the lovely Caroline from Four and Twenty Bakery, check out her website: http://fourandtwentybakery.tumblr.com/
Massive thank yous to the Univesrity of Sheffield Alumni Foundation, Clare Pickerden from the White Rose Consortium, Prof. Adam Piette and Dr. Jonathan Rayner from the School of English, Dr. Jim Byatt (pictured) who came all the way from St Andrews and to everyone who came on the day!
For more photos, check out our Facebook page
From the Book of Abstracts, full image set on our Facebook page. Or for a PDF version email cjplews1[at]shef[dot]ac[dot]uk
Don’t forget to register: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NXDHG57
Programme for Monday 21 May 2012. If you would like a PDF copy of the programme please email cjplews1[at]shef[dot]ac[dot]uk. Register for the colloquium at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NXDHG57
Jim Byatt currently teaches in the School of English at the University of St Andrews. He studied as an undergraduate at Wolverhampton and completed an MA and PhD at Warwick. His interests are in contemporary British writing, with a particular focus on extreme topics, marginal authors and experimental novels. He has published on authors including JG Ballard, Tom McCarthy and Paul Sayer, and is currently working on two monographs, one on marginality and tabooed identity in contemporary Britain, the other on literary representations of the afterlife. He teaches in areas of modern and contemporary literature, science fiction and American literature.
Our keynote speaker is Dr. James Byatt from the University of St Andrews.
His paper is entitled:
Folk Devils Revisited: Homo Sacer, Marginalisation and Modern Britain
He’s an excellent academic and a great speaker, we’re all looking forward to hearing his keynote on Monday 21st May! We hope to see you there!
(Don’t forget to register so we can cater for everyone!)
Registration for the Colloquium is now open (so we have an idea of numbers), please go here
