Humanities events

Activating Queer Archives

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0100

[2024/06/1911:0013:00] How do we hear Queer Archives? What do we imagine we will hear? In our digital era of archival abundance, how do we attend to sonic absence and silence?

Album Launch Party: Too Many Sweets

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0100

[2024/06/187:30] You are invited to a celebration of composer and University of Southampton Associate Professor Benjamin Oliver‘s first portrait album TOO MANY SWEETS. The album features artists including Ensemble Saxologie (Montreal), Riot Ensemble, Clíodna Shanahan & Dorothy Chan (New York).

Preserving our Digital Pasts: Stories, Methods, Futures

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0100

[2024/06/13] We’re thrilled to announce our upcoming event, “Preserving our Digital Pasts: Stories, Methods, Futures". We look forward to welcoming professionals involved in digital preservation, cultural heritage, and related fields.

Saints and Heretics Conference

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0100

[2024/06/1210:0017:00] Prior to the Reuter Lecture, the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture will host a conference from 10AM - 5PM on the topic of Saints and Heretics which fits with the theme of Professor Ann Curry’s talk on ‘Joan of Arc and the English, 1429-2024'. The lecture is held in honour of Professor Timothy Reuter who was Professor of Medieval History at Southampton from 1994 until 2002.

Woodfalls Band & Southampton University Brass Band Joint Concert

Sat, 08 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0100

[2024/06/0816:00] Presented by Woodfalls Band and Southampton University Brass Band

MA Holocaust Webinar | The Parkes Institute | University of Southampton

Join members of the Parkes Institute and the Department of History to learn about our MA Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage in this upcoming webinar. Whether you're thinking of applying for the course, supporting a potential applicant or simply curious to find out more about how you can expand your Holocaust education, this webinar will offer an opportunity to discover the course and speak with those involved.

This event takes place online via Zoom. Registration is required, but all are welcome.

John Collins: Is there a linguistic signature of ontological commitment? | Humanities | University of Southampton

It is broadly assumed, after Quine, that quantification is a signature of ontological commitment. In fact, though, this was not his 'official' position, given the eliminability of quantification-variable complexes. I shall argue, regardless, that there is no such signature in natural language and nor does the concept of a domain secure commitment either. So far so Azzouni. I shall raise a problem for this position, however, in the shape of the distinction between weak and strong quantifiers, where the former appear to express commitments. I shall argue that a pragmatic approach to the apparent import of the constructions defangs the objection.

If you would like to participate, please let Giulia Felappi know (g.felappi@soton.ac.uk) and she will send you the Microsoft Teams link.

Arts and Humanities Day | ’A Place of Refuge’ Exhibition

The exhibition explores the lives of seven European refugees who fled persecution in the 1930s and 1940s, settling in Great Britain and eventually establishing academic careers at the University of Southampton. You will encounter distinguished scholars from disciplines ranging from Politics to Chemistry, History to Medicine, and Law to Engineering, and discover just how significant a contribution refugees made to the early development of the university across a wide variety of fields.

The exhibition was recently featured on ITV Meridian in a piece highlighting the remarkable life and career of Edgar Feuchtwanger. Don't miss your chance to see the exhibition on display in Southampton's Cultural Quarter.

Anti-Judaism, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust: The Weight and Consequences | The Parkes Institute

Join us for the first event in the Parkes Institute 24/25 event and seminar series.

About the event

The idea that Christianity was in any way related to the racial antisemitism that informed the Holocaust was widely resisted in the early years following the Second World War. Christian apologetics rang forth from the Protestant and Catholic arms of the Church in efforts to distinguish the anti-Judaism of Christianity from Nazi racial antisemitism. Statements condemning antisemitism called attention to its unChristian nature, stressing that the Church judged harshly all forms of injustice and hatred. While openly confessing that some members of the churches had fallen prey to antisemitism, the Church itself was seen and portrayed as irrefutably distanced from the antisemitic ideology that underwrote the murder of European Jews. Yet before the end of the Holocaust century, major bodies of Christianity, both Catholic and Protestant, had labelled traditional Church attitudes toward Jews as fuel for 'fires of hatred' and called on the Church to 'submit her own history to critical examination'. By the turn of the millennium, formal confessions had been made throughout western Christendom for historical denigration of Jews and Judaism, for silence in the face of Nazi perpetrations, and for causal relations between Christian teachings on Jews and Nazi antisemitism. Looking retrospectively at what is now in its eighth decade of development and scholarly study, this seminar addresses some of the historiographic, philosophical, and theological complexities and challenges surrounding the issues and implications of Christian complicity in antisemitism during the Holocaust years.

Chair: Tony Kushner

Event programme

Carolyn Sanzenbacher, 'Solving the Jewish Problem through Conversion: Anti-Judaism or Antisemitism?'

John K. Roth, 'What is Antisemitism?'

John T. Pawlikowski, 'Uprooting Antisemitism from Christianity: What Needs To Be Done'

Event Recording

Speaker Biographies

John T. Pawlikowski, OSM, is a Catholic priest of the Servite Order and Professor Emeritus in Social Ethics at Catholic Theological Union, University of Chicago, where he directed the Catholic-Jewish Studies Program for 48 years. He has held visiting professorships at Cambridge University (UK), Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley (California), and lectured at over a hundred universities in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, Australia and the Middle East. He has authored/edited some fifteen books including Christ in the Light of the Christian-Jewish Dialogue and over a hundred articles. He served four board terms by U.S. Presidential appointment at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, where he chaired what is now the Committee on Ethics, Religion and the Holocaust. He served for six years as President of the International Council of Christians and Jews based in Heppenheim, Germany, and in 2014 was awarded the John Courtney Murray Award by the Catholic Theological Society of North America. In 2019 a Festschrift titled Righting Relations After the Holocaust and Vatican II was released in his honour.

John K. Roth is the Edward J. Sexton Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Claremont McKenna College, where he taught for more than forty years and was founding director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights (now the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights). In addition to serving on the United State Holocaust Memorial Council and the editorial board of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, he has authored or edited more than fifty books, including The Failures of Ethics (2015), Sources of Holocaust Insight (2020), Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy (2023), and Stress Test: The Israel-Hamas War and Christian-Jewish Relations (forthcoming 2025). Holocaust related appointments have included Visiting Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa (Israel), the Koerner Visiting Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and an Ina Levine Invitational Scholar at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is the holder of several honorary degrees and a recipient of the Holocaust Educational Foundation's Distinguished Achievement Award for Holocaust Studies and Research.

Carolyn Sanzenbacher is an Honorary Fellow of the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations at University of Southampton. She is a founding member of the International Network for Interreligious Research and Education (INIRE) inaugurated at Duke University Kenan Institute of Ethics in 2017, and past chair of the panel on the Church and the Holocaust at the European Academy of Religion. She holds PhD, MA, and BA degrees in history, philosophy, and liberal studies, with research focus on the instantiations, transitions, convolutions and patterns of Christian teachings on Jews in the history of antisemitism, and is currently writing an historiography on the Church and the Holocaust. She is the author of Tracking the Jews: Ecumenical Protestants, Conversion, and the Holocaust (Manchester University Press, 2024).

BFE Autumn Conference - Creative writing, music and ethnography | Humanities | University of Southampton

Conventional academic writing is limited. It often precludes the complexities, nuances, contexts of our social worlds. It also leaves out much of the knowledge we encounter through research.

Experimental creative writing enables other ways of knowing and other understandings. It reveals our sensory experiences, our gaze and our positionalities. It humbles us and connects us to our academic communities and other audiences.

From Zora Neale Hurston’s (1935) Mules and Men, to the 1980s/1990s ‘literary turn’ in anthropology and ethnomusicology. From explorations of ordinary lives (e.g., Lortat-Jacob 1995), form (e.g., Taylor 1998), and embodied experience (e.g., Hahn 2007, Aduonum 2022). Academics have struggled to capture the complexity of people’s lives through creative writing.

This conference aims to explore issues in experimental writing. It will cover aesthetic, epistemological, methodological, phenomenological, and ethical issues. The focus is music ethnographies and other musicological and ethnographic texts.

These may relate to:

experimental academic writing and affect
phenomenological evocations of sensory experiences, vulnerabilities, violence, human and non-human points of view
dialogue, collaboration and polyvocality
autoethnographies and memoirs that narrate personal stories with a critical positionality and political, conceptual or other perspective that goes beyond the personal
speculative fiction, Afrofuturism and science fiction
authorial and narrative points of view; storytelling and care

Where might we place creative writing in our ethnographic and musicological toolboxes? How might experimental creative writing reproduce or decentre oppressive power dynamics?

For example, by explicating violence, or by reinforcing or moving away from acritical, reflexive, ‘me-search’ of the privileged in ethnographic creative writing?

How do notions of academic credibility, evidence, and creative writing intersect? What relationships might there be between experimental creative writing and more conventional academic analysis and academic publishing spaces? Is there space for experimental creative writing in academic contexts without critical commentary?

What can we learn from methodological strategies, such as Saidiya Hartman’s ‘critical fabulation’ which attempts ‘to represent what we cannot’ (Hartman 2008, 11)? What ethical issues does experimental academic writing present?

For this online, one-day conference, we welcome contributions from any discipline. We invite both experimental and conventional interventions. We aim to spark discussions about the possibilities afforded by creative writing in ethnographic and musicological texts. We encourage you to bring examples, where appropriate.

These may be short or longer experimental or conventional interventions. We'll use distinct formats such as:

interventions of up to 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes of questions)
panels of 3 related interventions (90 mins in total including questions)
roundtable discussions of 4–5 shorter interventions (10 mins each + 20 mins questions)

Get in touch if you would like to discuss possible ideas, creative forms of participation. We also welcome other potential interventions on the conference theme before submission of proposals. Email Hettie Malcomson – h.malcomson@soton.ac.uk

Abstracts for individual interventions should be no more than 300 words. For panels and roundtables, please send paper abstracts of no more than 300 words each. You'll also need to send an accompanying panel/roundtable description of no more than 100 words.

You'll need to submit your abstract by 16 September 2024. You can find the form for submitting proposal abstracts at BFE Autumn 2024 Abstract Submission Form. Please note that all presenters must be 2024 members of the BFE (i.e., members at the time of the conference).

Abstracts will be peer reviewed and selected on the basis of how well and how closely they engage with the conference theme. We will send notifications of acceptance out by 15 October 2024.

Conference Code of Conduct

BFE conferences are run in accordance with the BFE Conference Code of Conduct. By taking part in a BFE conference, you agree to be bound by this code.

Conference Curator

Hettie Malcomson (University of Southampton) [she/her/they/them]

Conference Organisers

Hettie Malcomson (University of Southampton) [she/her/they/them]

Cassandre Balosso-Bardin (KU Leuven) [she/her]

Programming Committee

Hettie Malcomson (University of Southampton) [she/her/they/them]

Cassandre Balosso-Bardin (KU Leuven) [she/her]

Erin Johnson-Williams (University of Southampton) [she/her]

Liz Gre (University of Southampton) [she/her/they/them]

Stina Homer (Open University, TBC) [she/her]

Lea Hagmann (University of Bern) [sie/ihr/ihre/ihres/ihrer/ihren/ihrem]

Indicative Bibliography

Aduonum, Ama Oforiwaa (2022) Walking with Asafo in Ghana: An Ethnographic Account of Kormantse Bentsir Warrior Music. (Rochester: University of Rochester Press)

Barz, Gregory F. & Timothy J. Cooley (eds) (2008 [1997]) Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology (2nd Edition) (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Fassin, Didier (2014) 'True Life, Real Lives: Revisiting the Boundaries between Ethnography and Fiction', American Ethnologist, 41(1); 40-55.

Green, Emily H. (2020) 'How to Read a Rondeau: On Pleasure, Analysis, and the Desultory in Amateur Performance Practice of the Eighteenth Century', Journal of the American Musicological Society, 73(2); 267-325.

Hahn, Tomie (2007) Sensational Knowledge: Embodying Culture through Japanese Dance. (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press).

Hartman, Saidiya (2007) Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route. Farrar, Straus & Giroux).

Hartman, Saidiya (2008) 'Venus in Two Acts', Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 12(2); 1-14.

Hurston, Zora Neale (1935) Mules and Men. (New York: Harper Perennial).

Isbell, Billie Jean (2010) Finding Cholita. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press).

Le Guin, Elisabeth (2013) The Tonadilla in Performance: Lyric Comedy in Enlightenment Spain. (Berkeley: University of California Press).

Lortat-Jacob, Bernard (1995) Sardinian Chronicles. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

Mackinlay, Elizabeth (2019) Critical Writing for Embodied Approaches: Autoethnography, Feminism and Decoloniality. (Cham: Springer ).

Malcomson, Hettie (2023) Danzón Days: Age, Race, and Romance in Mexico. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press).

Narayan, Kirin (2019) Everyday Creativity: Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

Orloff, Carolina (ed.) (2024) Explorers Dreamers and Thieves: Latin American Writers in the British Museum (Edinburgh: Charco Press).

Pandian, Anand & Stuart Mclean (2017) Crumpled Paper Boat: Experiments in Ethnographic Writing. (Durham: Duke University Press).

Taylor, Julie (1998) Paper Tangos. (Durham: Duke University Press).

Toliver, S.R. (2021) Recovering Black Storytelling in Qualitative Research: Endarkened Storywork. (London: Routledge).

Wolf, Richard K (2014) The Voice in the Drum: Music, Language, and Emotion in Islamicate South Asia. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press).

Inaugural Lecture: Prof James Minney | Humanities | University of Southampton

About the speaker

Prof James Minney is Deputy Head of School for Education in the School of Humanities and has previously served as Head of Department for both Languages, Cultures and Linguistics and the Academic Centre for International Students and as Associate Dean (Education and Student Experience) in the Faculty of Humanities.

James is a practising translator, working across a variety of fields and provides training and advice for translators and interpreters working in voluntary and community settings.

James is also an experienced language assessor for the aviation industry and has advised on the design of training programmes and language proficiency assessment design in aviation contexts.

From his wide-ranging experience as an educator, James has developed a particular interest in curriculum design and assessment practices.

About the lecture

This talk will explore the complex and occasionally tense relationship between research and education in the context of higher education in the UK. It will then consider how higher education can inform professional practice, drawing specifically on James’s extensive experience as both a translator and as a linguist working with professionals in the aviation industry. James will then aim to “close the loop” by illustrating how insights from professional practice can stimulate further research which, in turn, can inform teaching and learning in higher education.

Event Information

Guests can join this event in person at Avenue Campus in Lecture Theatre B (65/1201), University of Southampton, or online. Please select your ticket choice when booking.

We encourage guests who wish to join in person to register at your earliest opportunity as spaces are strictly limited.

If you have any questions about this event please contact fahevent@soton.ac.uk.

START...Visualising Data with R | Digital Humanities

Data visualisation is an active process. It involves decisions and choices that amount to a form of storytelling. Creating data visualisations is also a good way into learning a new programming language. In this START session, you'll learn how to use R (a programming language widely used in research) to explore, visualise, and tell stories with data.

START... 3D Scanning and Printing | Digital Humanities

3d scanners and printers have a range of applications: replicating objects for tactile study, making scale models of buildings or working models of machines, visualising data and change. In this START session, you will learn how to use our 3d scanners and printers. You will see examples of ongoing working that uses the technology. And you will have a chance to talk to our experts about your ideas and how they might be realised.

Meet in the Digital Humanities Hub (Building 65, Room 2155).

START... GIS for Geospatial Analysis and Storytelling | Digital Humanities

GIS (Geographical Information Systems) is a technology that allows users to layer different types of geographical data to understand spatial patterns. In this two-part workshop, we will introduce you to the two main software platforms for GIS projects: ArcGIS and QGIS. Throughout these two sessions, we will work through two case studies where you will learn about the multifaceted applications of GIS technologies--namely, the depiction of historical data through interactive story mapping, and the computation of predictive models that can help us understand the spaces we inhabit.

This workshop is designed to be accessible to individuals from various fields including, but not limited to literary studies, history, and archaeology, who are interested in incorporating spatial analysis into their research. By the end of these sessions, you will be able to articulate the workflows to spatialize historical and literary data, you will understand where to source relevant datasets for your projects, and you will become familiar with a wealth of tools to display your results in a manner accessible for an audience.

What will I need?

You may wish to download the QGIS open-source software https://qgis.org/download/ and to create a free ArcGIS Online account https://www.arcgis.com/index.html. These are the tools we will be using during the sessions. If you would prefer, we will also have four computers available in the room with the required software downloaded.

History Professor serves as historical consultant for new stage-play, ’The Commotion Time’

Professor Mark Stoyle, Department of History, has been acting as the historical consultant to a new stage-play, The Commotion Time. The play, which was partly inspired by Mark’s recent book on the Western Rising of 1549, had its world premiere at Exeter’s Northcott Theatre in October. It has attracted some great notices, including a review in the industry-journal The Stage, the first paragraph of which runs as follows:

This stunning world premiere, written by Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare’s Globe dramaturg Sarah Dickenson, beautifully portrays the provocative events that led to the Western Rising of 1549. Set in Poundstock on the Cornwall/Devon border, the play showcases a West Country community as they fight for what they believe in, rallying against drastic changes imposed following the death of King Henry VIII. Created in association with Poundstock Gildhouse to coincide with the 475th anniversary of the Prayer Book Rebellion, and working with historical consultant Mark Stoyle, Martin Berry’s production is authentic and gripping. It’s also both historical and current, local and global, and evokes hearty laughter as well as being deeply moving.

Congratulations to Mark and all involved.

Documenting Gaza’s deteriorating heritage

Join Dr Georgia Andreou, Lecturer in Archaeology & Sustainability at the University of Southampton, for a talk that explores the interdisciplinary approaches employed in Archaeology to document and monitor heritage sites, especially those that are either inaccessible to archaeologists or deteriorating rapidly.

The event will focus on the Gaza Strip, where the University of Southampton has been conducting research since 2021.

Georgia will illustrate The University's collaboration with local archaeologists to create a baseline of archaeological information, which is now being used to evaluate damage and destruction at archaeological sites.

Additionally, she will demonstrate the methods currently used to monitor Gaza's ongoing and unprecedented destruction.

The event will finish with a Q&A session.

Suitability: Ages 16+

Check-in: from 18:00, just outside the Avenue Cafe' in front of the side entrance from the car park to Building 65.

PLEASE NOTE: a few additional tickets will be available on the day at the ticket desk, on a first-come-first-served basis.

Accessibility: Venue has full wheelchair access and hearing loop is available. Priority seating for deaf, hard of hearing and visually impaired in the first front row. If you require additional support, please ask a member of the Festival team on site. For more information on accessibility in Building 65, please refer to the University of Southampton's Accessible website

This event is taking place as part of the Southampton Arts and Humanities Festival, 7th-16th November 2024.

Please contact the event organiser through festival@soton.ac.uk if you have any questions regarding the event you are booking.

Visit the Southampton Arts and Humanities Festival's official website at www.southamptonartshumfest.co.uk to find out the full programme of live events and activities.

You can also follow #UoSArtsHumFest on social media to stay up to date with upcoming events and resources.

SUSO Winter Concert 2024 | Humanities | University of Southampton

Samuel Coleridge Taylor Hiawatha Overture
Leonard Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Tchaikovsky Symphony 6, Pathetique

The Southampton University Symphony Orchestra invites you to join us for our annual Winter Concert. The concert opens with Hiawatha Overture by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, followed by Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. We will be ending the concert with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony 6, Pathetique.

Mini-Hartley - Gavin Williams - Arts of Extraction: Oil, Digital Audio and Geo-Histories of Sound | Humanities | University of Southampton

This colloquium will explore the convergence, since the Second World War, between seismic survey and oil industries in which dynamite and air gun explosions have become standard ways of sounding the earth’s strata. It will peer into the history of mathematics, computing, and spectrographic analysis, it will consider the effects of underwater blasts on marine life, and it will track the implications for early digital audio.

In particular it will focus on efforts to clean up shellac discs using digital techniques borrowed from the analysis of seismic recordings in search of oil. Ultimately, my goal will be to evaluate the extent to which sonic practices of oil extraction have bled into auditory and musical cultures more broadly, and vice versa, as well as the extent to which both oil and music register capitalism’s framing of the earth in extractible terms.

Mini-roundtable of Univeristy of Southampton respondents

Erin Johnson-Williams

Max Syedtollan

Nyle Bevan-Clark

Tom Irvine

About the speaker

Gavin Williams is a Lecturer in Music at King’s College London, having previously worked in UC Berkeley and Cardiff University. His book Format Friction: Perspectives on the Shellac Disc was published by University of Chicago Press in June, and, together with co-editors Laudan Nooshin and Annette Davison, is currently putting together an edited collection called Critical Perspectives on Petrosonics.

You are welcome to join us in person at our Highfield Campus, or you can use our Teams link to join us online.

Archaeology of the Submerged Solent Shores - Drowned Settlements from the Mesolithic to the Medieval

We're delighted to be welcoming Garry Momber (Maritime Archaeology Trust) to Southampton to deliver a talk on 'Archaeology of the Submerged Solent Shores - Drowned Settlements from the Mesolithic to the Medieval'.

This is a hybrid event, meaning that you can attend in-person or online via Teams. No registration is required and all are welcome. Please visit the Teams joining link from 3:55pm on the date of the event to join online.

UOS Music Presents: Mayflower Ensemble | Humanities | University of Southampton

The Mayflower Ensemble is committed to the performance of high-quality chamber music from various genres. As well as programming core works for clarinet, cello and piano the group strives to introduce audiences to lesser-known works and diverse composers. The Southampton-based group has received support from the John Ireland, GEMMA Classical Music and Francis Routh Trusts. Performances include concert series at Music at Beaulieu, Romsey Festival and Chichester Cathedral.

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Samantha Carrasco piano
Alison Hughes clarinet
Nicola Heinrich cello

Samantha Carrasco studied at the Royal College of Music. She performs as a recitalist, chamber musician, and orchestral pianist with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Samantha is Head of Keyboard at Peter Symonds College, Winchester and works as an examiner, trainer and moderator for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.

Alison Hughes studied clarinet performance at the University of Leeds and RNCM. With chamber ensembles she has won awards from Tunnell Trust and Live Music Now. Orchestral positions include State of Mexico Symphony and Malta Philharmonic. Alison is Principal Clarinet with the Orchestra of Sound & Light and works regularly with the BSO.

The cellist Nicola Heinrich attended Munich’s Richard Strauss Conservatoire and Indiana University School of Music. She performs in the UK and internationally as a soloist, orchestral and chamber musician – including with Bielefelder Philharmoniker and Playlist Collective. Nicola teaches at Winchester College and the University of Southampton.

Entrance is FREE and all are welcome. All audience members must book a ticket.

UOS Music Presents: A Christmas Concert | Humanities | University of Southampton

Join us for ‘A Christmas Concert’, our annual Christmas event organised collaboratively between Music department staff and students. Audiences can expect an array of Christmas carols and festive music merrily performed by staff and students at the University of Southampton!

Entrance is FREE and all are welcome. All audience members must book a ticket.

UOS Music Presents: Camila Cortina Bello | Humanities | University of Southampton

Camila Cortina Bello is a jazz pianist, educator, musicologist and composer. Born in Havana, Cuba, she has taken the stage in her home country and has performed for audiences around the world. Her music intends to re-imagine the sounds and rhythms of her original Cuban roots through the lens of jazz, classical and world music.

Camila studied classical piano and ethnomusicology in Havana. In 2010, after finishing her studies, she moved to Singapore, where she performed as a pianist and music director for different international bands across South Asia, including Indonesia and Malaysia. She relocated to Boston in 2018, as a recipient of the Berklee World Tour Full Tuition Scholarship, to further her studies in Jazz Composition and Global Jazz Performance.

In 2023, Camila was an awardee of New Music USA’s ‘Next Jazz Legacy Program,’ which supports emerging women in jazz. Since then, she has shared the stage with Paquito D’Rivera, Miguel Zenon, Terri Lyne Carrington, and Dianne Reeves, among many others, and performed at jazz festivals around the US and South America. Her first EP, Sonera, was released in 2023 and it is currently available in all streaming platforms.

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Entrance is FREE and all are welcome. All audience members must book a ticket.

Call for Proposals – Royal Musical Association 61st Annual Conference | Humanities | University of Southampton

The conference will highlight and promote all aspects of music research, whether expressed in words, notation or sounds. Scholars with expertise from across the spectrum of music and sound studies will join us for this event. The programme will explore approaches to the discipline that are historical, practice-based, analytical, theoretical, ethnographic and empirical. These presentations will examine a wide range of genres, styles, periods, geographies and media.

For over 60 years, the University of Southampton Department of Music has been a home for disciplinary innovation. We welcome abstract proposals that intersect with our current research strengths, which include: community music, cultural economics, opera studies, gender, queer musicology and theory, performance, composition, creative music production, sound art, GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums), ethnomusicology, imperial and global music history, music education and social justice, and music, AI and sustainability. We plan to create sessions based on broad topics (e.g. music and maternity, music and activism, humour in music) that allow exchange between creative practice (such as performance and composition) and musicological research. We welcome provocative, speculative and big picture ‘think-pieces’.*

The Department of Music at the University of Southampton is home to the Centre for Music Education and Social Justice and the AHRC Hub for Public Engagement with Music Research. Both of these prioritise collaborative research with stakeholders outside of academia. We warmly invite proposals that include and engage with those who benefit from music research broadly defined, including composers and performers outside of the academy and members of our communities. We also welcome work that engages with, and intervenes in, questions of public policy.

The Dent Medal Lecture will be given by the recipient for 2023, Professor Sarah Collins (The University of Queensland). The Peter le Huray keynote speaker will be Dr Marianna Ritchey (University of Massachusetts, Amherst). We anticipate that most of the conference will take place in person, but there will also be certain hybrid elements for those unable to travel.

We invite abstract proposals for the following:

20-minute individual paper presentations (250 words)
Themed sessions (up to 4 speakers, with chair, for 90-, or 120-minute sessions)
Creative practice / compositional ‘think-pieces’* (250 words)
Electronic music submissions (250 words)
Lecture-recitals (250 words)
Poster presentations (250 words)

* By ‘think pieces’ we mean presentations that engage with creative practice in broad aesthetic, technological or social contexts, or research interventions that involve sharing creative processes. We welcome presentations that utilise sounding musical examples where appropriate.

Please submit your abstract of no more than 250 words, or up to 1,000 words for themed sessions, by 10 January 2025 via this MS Form.

Conference Committee

Erin Johnson-Williams (chair)
Tom Irvine
Chiying Lam
Valeria De Lucca
Matthew Shlomowitz
Amy Williamson
Louise Johnson (Events support)
Michelle Assay (RMA)
Max Syedtollan (Southampton Student Rep)
Ian Mayes (Southampton Student Rep)
Maya Morris (RMA Student Rep)

For enquiries, please contact rmac2025@soton.ac.uk.

The Lower-Middle Palaeolithic of the Hrazdan Valley, Central Armenia: Geological and Chronological Context

We're delighted to be welcoming Professor Keith Wilkinson (University of Winchester) to Southampton to deliver a talk on 'The Lower-Middle Palaeolithic of the Hrazdan Valley, Central Armenia: Geological and Chronological Context'.

Aesthetics Workshop | Humanities | University of Southampton

Speakers and titles:

Rachel Cristy (KCL), “Can Beautiful Wine Express Kantian Aesthetic Ideas?
Keren Gorodeisky (Auburn), “'Insightful Energy': on a Blind Spot in the Cognitivism-Non-Cognitivism Debate in Aesthetics and Ethics"
Arata Hamakawi (Auburn), “Sources of the Acquaintance Principle and the Nature of Art”
Irene Marín Martínez (Uppsala), "The Normativity of Aesthetic Coherence"
Jeremy Page (Uppsala), "What is it to Be Responsive to Aesthetic Value?"
Aaron Ridley (Southampton), "Sketchbooks of Genius"
Lee Walters (Southampton), TBC
Daniel Whiting (Southampton), "Margaret Cavendish on Musical Expression and Harmony"

The workshop is free to attend, but space is limited. To request registration, send an email with your details to d.whiting@soton.ac.uk by 5 December.

AHRC Networking Grant - The nature of the objects of thought and assertion | Humanities | University of Southampton

Speaker: Peter van Elswyk (Northwestern University)

This talk is about what propositions teach us about the nature of questions and vice versa. The standard story is that the meaning of a declarative (in a context) is a proposition, and the meaning of an interrogative (in a context) is a question. Since propositions answer questions, questions are widely regarded as sets of propositions. I will push back against this story. Questions aren't sets of propositions; they're incomplete representations. This view, in turn, constrains what propositions are. Propositions must be representational in a manner that allows for incompleteness. After motivating this view, I will explore some of its consequences.

If you would like to participate, please let Giulia Felappi know (g.felappi@soton.ac.uk) and she will send you the Microsoft Teams link.

Margaret Cavendish on Literature | Humanities | University of Southampton

Invited speakers:

Julia Borcherding (Cambridge)
David Cunning (Iowa)
Lara Dodds (Mississippi State)
Jessie Hock (Vanderbilt)
Susan James (Birkbeck, Emeritus)
Anne Thell (National University of Singapore)

Details of how to register will be circulated in due course.

Call for abstracts

The University of Southampton is hosting an interdisciplinary conference exploring Margaret Cavendish’s theory of literature and asking how it informs her own literary practice. (See below for a more detailed outline of its themes.) The conference will involve sessions for submitted papers.

We invite submissions of abstracts for consideration for inclusion in the open sessions:

The abstract must be no longer than 500 words.
It must be submitted as a separate attachment and suitable for blind review. Your name and affiliation should appear in your email only.
Abstracts are to be submitted to Lisa White (l.m.white@soton.ac.uk), not the organisers.
The deadline for submission is January 31 2025.

Early career researchers and members of underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to submit.

We will provide up to 3 nights’ accommodation and additional funds of up to £150 towards UK-based travel for open session presenters.

Accepted papers will be also be considered for publication in an edited collection of essays on the theme of the conference.

Both the conference and volume are in association with the AHRC-funded project, Sympathy in Harmony: Margaret Cavendish’s Philosophy of Value (AH/Y003160/1).

Conference theme

Scholars to date have examined in detail the scientific, philosophical, and ethico-political views expressed in Cavendish’s literature. But there has so far been little sustained or detailed study of her views about literature—about what it is and what it should be. This interdisciplinary conference will explore such questions as:

How do Cavendish's various remarks on literature hang together? Do they add up to a consistent or considered theory of what literature is or ought to be? If so, how does that theory relate to Cavendish's broader theoretical commitments, for example, her metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and natural philosophy?
How do Cavendish's reflections on what poets and playwrights are to do inform her own writings? In what ways do the alien creatures and immaterial spirits in her fiction, for example, satisfy the demand to imitate nature? How are the stock characters identified by character traits (Lord Fatherly, Lady Bashful, etc.) supposed to do justice to the "natural humours of mankind"?
How does Cavendish's self-assessment as a writer relate to her views on literature and its roles. Might her claims to be ignorant of the "art" and "rules" of poetry be something other than expressions of humility?
How do those views inform her critical assessments of other writers? Do they, for example, underpin her defence of Shakespeare as a "natural poet"?
How do Cavendish's claims about literature relate to those of her contemporaries, such as Philip Sidney, Ben Johnson or William Davenant, or to ancient views in circulation in the early modern era following their revival by the Renaissance Humanists? What is the context for Cavendish's pronouncements on poetry?
How does Cavendish’s theory of literature shape her use of literary genre and form? Does she understand different genres such as poetry, for example, as having a different function than plays, prose fiction, or autobiography?
To what extent does gender and/or sexuality relate to or inform her theories of literature?
In what ways might Cavendish’s theory of literature help us understand her depictions of authorship and/or selfhood?
Scholars have charted some of the ways in which Cavendish’s metaphysics and philosophy of nature developed from her early to later writings. How does Cavendish’s theory of literature change over time?

Accessibility information

The room for the conference will be on the ground floor and accessible to wheelchair users.
There are disabled toilets a short distance from the room.
There will be a short break between each session and the Q&A.
We are happy for personal assistants to attend.
We can request sign-language interpretation, though we will need to know ASAP if it is required.
We cannot provide a hearing loop, but can provide a Roger Pen. We will need notice if it is required.
We can permit service animals to attend.
A nearby quiet room can be made available if required.
The room will have available seating.
We will ask all speakers to aim to make presentation materials available in advance.
The venue for conference dinners is TBC, but all dinners are optional. Venues for lunches will be in the same building as the talks and wheelchair accessible.

SMMI Ocean Justice SIG Blue Extinction Hybrid Book Launch Lunch | Humanities | University of Southampton

We will be celebrating the launch of Blue Extinction in Literature, Art, and Culture edited by Drs Vera Fibisan and Rachel Murray.

We will have 3 brilliant PhD researchers acting as respondents:

Renée Hoogland (English, FAH)
Hannah Witt (Law, FSS)
Lucy Harris (Ocean and Earth Science, FELS)

If you have any questions, please contact g.champion@soton.ac.uk

Researching Belarusian-Jewish history in impossible circumstances: the Open Lab for a Belarusian Jewish museum

The study, preservation and valorisation of the history and culture of the Jews of Belarus is an urgent matter. This heritage, fragmented across the world and largely destroyed in the Holocaust, remains largely invisible and neglected. How to stimulate research, community initiatives and artistic creation on this rich but still under-studied culture, when the creation of a physical museum, an academic institute or a cultural centre is unfeasible?

This is the challenge that the Open Lab for a Belarusian Jewish museum is aiming to tackle. Join the team of the Belarusian-Jewish Cultural Heritage Center and Claire Le Foll for a presentation of the prototype of the Open Lab for a Belarusian Jewish museum. We will also show the first completed object for the digital exhibition - a virtual reconstruction of the Wolpa synagogue, one of the most stunning, but lost wooden synagogues of the region and share preliminary ideas on the next stage of the Open Lab that will involve using virtual reality, AI, and other technologies for researching and educating about Belarusian Jewish history.

Speakers

Claire Le Foll, Professor of East European Jewish History and Culture

Claire Le Foll is Professor of East European Jewish History and Culture at the University of Southampton. She specialises in the history and culture of Jews in Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. She is iterested in the inter-ethnic relations in the Western borderlands of the tsarist and Soviet empires, and more specifically in Belarus. In her first book she explored the development of the Vitebsk Art School in the context of the Russian avant-garde of the quest for a Jewish art. In her second book, she looked at the he relation of Jews of the Belorussian provinces to the administrative, political and cultural idea of Belorussia. She has published many articles on the political and cultural interactions of Jews and Belarusians in literature, art, cinema and scholarship in pre-revolutionary and Soviet Belarus.

Maya Katznelson, Founder and Curator of Belarusian-Jewish Cultural Heritage Center

Cultural producer and curator with over a decade of experience in developing multidisciplinary international projects. She holds an MA in Museum Cultures with Curating from Birkbeck, University of London, and a degree in Journalism, with expertise in audiovisual media and PR. Currently leads the Virtual Jewish Museum of Belarus project. Since 2011, she has organized 13 major international exhibitions, including collaborations with national museums. Initiated and supervised cultural, educational, and creative projects, such as UNOVIS100, Belarusian-Jewish Festival, and Laboratory of Jewish heritage in Belarus with the Goethe-Institute.

Grigoriy Kheifets, Project Curator

Product manager and digital curator specializing in cultural and educational projects across XR, web, and mobile platforms. He leads the digital product development for the Virtual Jewish Museum of Belarus initiative, crafting immersive experiences that blend technology, 3D modeling, restoration, historical research, and storytelling. Active in informal Jewish education since 2013 and cultural project curation since 2018, Grigoriy has 9 years of expertise in product and brand community building, influence marketing, and social media, bridging creativity with technical execution to deliver engaging digital solutions.

Confucius Institute brings Chinese Chess to the board game showcase | University of Southampton | Confucius Institute

F. T. Prince Memorial Lecture 2024: Anthony Joseph - ’Frequencies of Magic’ | Humanities | University of Southampton

Watch a recording of the F.T.Prince Memorial Lecture 2024

In this lecture Anthony Joseph tracks the influence of 100 years of surrealism on his own development as a poet, novelist and musician. Starting with the Caribbean and moving towards the UK, where he moved to the late 1980s, Joseph shows how aspects of surrealism and surrealist practice are embedded within the Trinidad carnival, calypso arts and jazz, and how his own writing found allegiances with black surrealist writers such as Ted Joans, Sun Ra and Bob Kauffman while crafting a distinctly Caribbean surrealism. Joseph will share work from his newly published Precious and Impossible: Selected Poems (Bloomsbury, 2024)

About the speaker

Dr Anthony Joseph F.R.S.L. is a poet, novelist, academic and musician. His 2022 collection Sonnets for Albert won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2022 and the OCM BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Poetry. He is the author of five poetry collections and three novels. His 2018 novel Kitch: A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Icon was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Fiction. His most recent fiction publication is the novel The Frequency of Magic. In 2019, he was awarded a Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship. As a musician, he has released eight critically acclaimed albums, and in 2020 received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Composers Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Kings College, London. Precious and Impossible: Selected Poems, which collects 30 years of his work is out now from Bloomsbury Poetry.

Photo credit: Naomi Woddis

About the F. T. Prince Lecture

This annual lecture series takes place in honour of the poet and scholar F. T. Prince, who was one of Southampton's first English professors. Invited speakers explore new directions in literary studies, drawing on the English department's wide range of intellectual interests.

This event is co-organised with the Winchester Poetry Festival.

The Global Jane Austen Celebrating and Commemorating 250 years of Jane Austen | English | University of Southampton

The conference is co-organised by the Universities of Southampton and Stirling.

We are grateful for the support of:

The British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS)

The Society of the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP)

Austen scholars and enthusiasts are invited to the University of Southampton, Hampshire, for a conference commemorating Austen’s birth in the year 1775.

In 1976, Juliet McMaster introduced an edited collection of essays resulting from a bicentenary birthday celebration for Austen in the following terms:

To celebrate the two-hundredth anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth in October, in Western Canada, is no doubt to be guilty of a comic incongruity. But as though to compensate for the misdemeanor, the papers delivered at the conference have a common and exact focus on period and locale.

50 years after the bicentenary conference at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, the scholarly landscape of Austen studies has changed. Where many monographs and edited collections of essays still maintain an ‘exact focus on period and locale’, research informed by book history, the material, archival and linguistic turns in literary criticism, postcolonial studies and adaptation theory (among others) has flourished in the intervening decades. The ever-expanding corpus of adaptations, sequels and prequels has proven fruitful territory for a consideration of Austen’s reception, in its broadest sense. Austen’s transformations into other languages and into other cultures make her a Global author.

We invite the international community to the port city that was Jane Austen’s home from 1806-1809 for a consideration of the Global Jane Austen. We encourage the broadest possible interpretation of the conference theme , and welcome papers on all aspects of Austen’s writing and life, her posthumous reception, her influences, and her writing alongside that of her contemporaries. We particularly welcome papers on adaptations, translations and creative responses to Austen’s work (written and/or performed in all languages), material and textual transmission of her works, and her reception and reputation in countries outside the Anglophone world. Discussion of the Global within her works (and those of her contemporaries) is equally acceptable.

We have a small amount of funding available to support postgraduate, Early Career Scholars, scholars with no institutional support, and scholars from outside the Anglophone world. Please note on your abstract if you fall into one of these categories, and would like to be considered for such funding.

Submission

Please submit abstracts for individual papers of 250 words, or proposals for 3-person panels of 1000 words, to the conference organisers, Gillian Dow and Katie Halsey. Please submit as Word or PDF documents by email to both G.Dow@soton.ac.uk and katherine.halsey@stir.ac.uk by 1 October 2024 .

Confirmed Speakers Include:

Susan Allen Ford; Serena Baiesi, Janine Barchas; Jennie Batchelor; Annika Bautz; Isabelle Bour; Joe Bray; Linda Bree; Inger Brodey; Valérie Cossy; Richard Cronin; Carlotta Farese; Susannah Fullerton; Sayre Greenfield; Isobel Grundy; Christine Kenyon Jones; Freya Johnston; Michael Kramp; Devoney Looser; Deidre Lynch; Anthony Mandal; Juliet McMaster; Marie Nedregotten Sørbø; Peter Sabor; Diego Saglia; Rebecca Smith; Jane Stabler; Kathryn Sutherland; Bharat Tandon; Janet Todd; Anne Toner; Linda Troost; Juliette Wells

Accommodation

Links provided by colleagues at GO! Southampton.

Premier Inn

There are 3 Premier Inns in the city and one at Southampon Airport. They do not use online booking agencies so book directly on their site.

Accor Hotels

There are three brands from the Accor group located in Southampton at the bottom of the town area. These are Ibis, Ibis Budget and Novotel. All have plenty of parking, and are very close to Southampton Central Railway station

To book go to the Accor site and search for Southampton

Leonardo Group Hotels

There are two hotels in the city from the group.

Leonardo Jurys Inn is located in Charlotte Place and the nearest to the conference venue on Highfield Campus. The Leonardo Royal Grand Hotel is located at the bottom of the city near to the Westquay Shopping Centre.

To book go to the Leonardo site and search for Southampton.

Holiday Inn Southampton

This hotel is located on the waterfront and popular with cruise passengers. To book go to Holiday Inn Southampton.

Moxy Hotel Southampton (a Mariott hotel)

Located at the bottom of the city on West Quay Road and next door to Carnival HQ. To book go to Moxy Hotel Southampton.

Independent Hotels

The Star Hotel in the Old Town, High Street

The White Star Hotel in Oxford Street

Elizabeth House Hotel on The Avenue

Homtel option

Room 2 next to Queensway Park and near to Oxford Street

Self-catering options

Charles Hope Apartments in the city

Air BnB - A search for Southampton search brings up lots of options, including yachts in Ocean village

Other booking sites that can refine searches depending on requirements include:
Booking.com
Expedia.co.uk
Hotels.com

Transport

Links provided by colleagues at GO! Southampton.

By air

By taxi

You can find taxi ranks across the city, including at the railway station and the airport. You can also book a car via Uber.

Southampton taxi rank locations

Find out about Uber taxis in Southampton.

Useful Downloads

The Global Jane Austen

Image: A 1765 de l'Isle globe, showing top view. Collection of the Minnesota Historical Society, with silhouette of 'L'Aimable Jane' (NPG 3181) superimposed. Both images reproduced under the Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Karten Lecture | Multiple Paths to Modernity? Jewish Networks in the Age of Empire

What social issues united the global Jewish sphere in the nineteenth and early twentieth century? And what social issues divided Jewish communities? This talk explores trans-imperial Jewish collaboration through the work of organisations s like the Alliance Israelite Universelle and the Anglo-Jewish Association to better understand the similarities and differences between European and Middle Eastern Jewry within a context of colonialism, emancipation, and nationalist movements.

About the speaker

Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah is an assistant professor in the department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Groningen, and 24-25 Parkes Institute Visiting Fellow. Her current research project entitled ‘Optimizing Orientalism: Rethinking the Global Jewish Elite’ explores how Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Jewry build transnational philanthropic, commercial, and diplomatic networks in the period between 1860-1948.

The Karten Lecture | Multiple Paths to Modernity? Jewish Networks in the Age of Empire

About the speaker

The Karten Lecture | Multiple Paths to Modernity? Jewish Networks in the Age of Empire

About the speaker

Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah is an assistant professor in the department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Groningen, and 24-25 Parkes Institute Visiting Fellow . Her current research project entitled ‘Optimizing Orientalism: Rethinking the Global Jewish Elite’ explores how Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Jewry build transnational philanthropic, commercial, and diplomatic networks in the period between 1860-1948.

Margaret Cavendish on Literature | Humanities | University of Southampton

Invited speakers:

Julia Borcherding (Cambridge)
David Cunning (Iowa)
Lara Dodds (Mississippi State)
Jessie Hock (Vanderbilt)
Susan James (Birkbeck, King's College London)
Anne Thell (National University of Singapore)

Details of how to register will be circulated in due course.

Call for abstracts

We invite submissions of abstracts for consideration for inclusion in the open sessions:

The abstract must be no longer than 500 words.
It must be submitted as a separate attachment and suitable for blind review. Your name and affiliation should appear in your email only.
Abstracts are to be submitted to Lisa White (l.m.white@soton.ac.uk), not the organisers.
The deadline for submission is January 31 2025.

Early career researchers and members of underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to submit.

We will provide up to 3 nights’ accommodation and additional funds of up to £150 towards UK-based travel for open session presenters.

Accepted papers will be also be considered for publication in an edited collection of essays on the theme of the conference.

Both the conference and volume are in association with the AHRC-funded project, Sympathy in Harmony: Margaret Cavendish’s Philosophy of Value (AH/Y003160/1).

Conference theme

How do Cavendish's various remarks on literature hang together? Do they add up to a consistent or considered theory of what literature is or ought to be? If so, how does that theory relate to Cavendish's broader theoretical commitments, for example, her metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and natural philosophy?
How do Cavendish's reflections on what poets and playwrights are to do inform her own writings? In what ways do the alien creatures and immaterial spirits in her fiction, for example, satisfy the demand to imitate nature? How are the stock characters identified by character traits (Lord Fatherly, Lady Bashful, etc.) supposed to do justice to the "natural humours of mankind"?
How does Cavendish's self-assessment as a writer relate to her views on literature and its roles. Might her claims to be ignorant of the "art" and "rules" of poetry be something other than expressions of humility?
How do those views inform her critical assessments of other writers? Do they, for example, underpin her defence of Shakespeare as a "natural poet"?
How do Cavendish's claims about literature relate to those of her contemporaries, such as Philip Sidney, Ben Johnson or William Davenant, or to ancient views in circulation in the early modern era following their revival by the Renaissance Humanists? What is the context for Cavendish's pronouncements on poetry?
How does Cavendish’s theory of literature shape her use of literary genre and form? Does she understand different genres such as poetry, for example, as having a different function than plays, prose fiction, or autobiography?
To what extent does gender and/or sexuality relate to or inform her theories of literature?
In what ways might Cavendish’s theory of literature help us understand her depictions of authorship and/or selfhood?
Scholars have charted some of the ways in which Cavendish’s metaphysics and philosophy of nature developed from her early to later writings. How does Cavendish’s theory of literature change over time?

Accessibility information

The room for the conference will be on the ground floor and accessible to wheelchair users.
There are disabled toilets a short distance from the room.
There will be a short break between each session and the Q&A.
We are happy for personal assistants to attend.
We can request sign-language interpretation, though we will need to know ASAP if it is required.
We cannot provide a hearing loop, but can provide a Roger Pen. We will need notice if it is required.
We can permit service animals to attend.
A nearby quiet room can be made available if required.
The room will have available seating.
We will ask all speakers to aim to make presentation materials available in advance.
The venue for conference dinners is TBC, but all dinners are optional. Venues for lunches will be in the same building as the talks and wheelchair accessible.

Creative Writing Taster Session with Toby Litt

This taster session will give you a glimpse into the world of creative writing and help you unleash your imagination. Don't miss out on this chance to learn from a master storyteller at Avenue Campus.

The taster session is for anyone with an interest in Creative Writing, but most of all for those thinking of taking an MA. Toby will give prompts, tips and exercises.

Programme

18:30: Doors

19:00-19:45: Taster creative writing workshop

19:45-20:00 Q&A

Useful links

Visit Toby Litt's profile
Find out more about MA Creative Writing and the Department of English

Humanities events

Activating Queer Archives

Album Launch Party: Too Many Sweets

Preserving our Digital Pasts: Stories, Methods, Futures

Saints and Heretics Conference

Woodfalls Band & Southampton University Brass Band Joint Concert

MA Holocaust Webinar | The Parkes Institute | University of Southampton

John Collins: Is there a linguistic signature of ontological commitment? | Humanities | University of Southampton

Arts and Humanities Day | ’A Place of Refuge’ Exhibition

Anti-Judaism&comma; Antisemitism&comma; and the Holocaust: The Weight and Consequences | The Parkes Institute

About the event

Event programme

Event Recording

Speaker Biographies

BFE Autumn Conference - Creative writing&comma; music and ethnography | Humanities | University of Southampton

Conference Code of Conduct

Conference Curator

Conference Organisers

Programming Committee

Indicative Bibliography

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History Professor serves as historical consultant for new stage-play&comma; ’The Commotion Time’

Documenting Gaza’s deteriorating heritage

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Mini-Hartley - Gavin Williams - Arts of Extraction: Oil&comma; Digital Audio and Geo-Histories of Sound | Humanities | University of Southampton

Mini-roundtable of Univeristy of Southampton respondents

About the speaker

Archaeology of the Submerged Solent Shores - Drowned Settlements from the Mesolithic to the Medieval

UOS Music Presents: Mayflower Ensemble | Humanities | University of Southampton

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UOS Music Presents: Camila Cortina Bello | Humanities | University of Southampton

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Conference Committee

The Lower-Middle Palaeolithic of the Hrazdan Valley&comma; Central Armenia: Geological and Chronological Context

Aesthetics Workshop | Humanities | University of Southampton

AHRC Networking Grant - The nature of the objects of thought and assertion | Humanities | University of Southampton

Margaret Cavendish on Literature | Humanities | University of Southampton

Call for abstracts

Conference theme

Accessibility information

SMMI Ocean Justice SIG Blue Extinction Hybrid Book Launch Lunch | Humanities | University of Southampton

Researching Belarusian-Jewish history in impossible circumstances: the Open Lab for a Belarusian Jewish museum

Speakers

Claire Le Foll, Professor of East European Jewish History and Culture

Maya Katznelson, Founder and Curator of Belarusian-Jewish Cultural Heritage Center

Grigoriy Kheifets, Project Curator

Confucius Institute brings Chinese Chess to the board game showcase | University of Southampton | Confucius Institute

F. T. Prince Memorial Lecture 2024: Anthony Joseph - ’Frequencies of Magic’ | Humanities | University of Southampton

About the speaker

About the F. T. Prince Lecture

The Global Jane Austen Celebrating and Commemorating 250 years of Jane Austen | English | University of Southampton

Submission

Confirmed Speakers Include:

Accommodation

Premier Inn

Accor Hotels

Leonardo Group Hotels

Holiday Inn Southampton

Moxy Hotel Southampton (a Mariott hotel)

Independent Hotels

Homtel option

Self-catering options

Transport

By air

Heathrow Airport

Gatwick Airport

By train

By coach and bus

By taxi

Useful Downloads

The Karten Lecture | Multiple Paths to Modernity? Jewish Networks in the Age of Empire

About the speaker

The Karten Lecture | Multiple Paths to Modernity? Jewish Networks in the Age of Empire

About the speaker

The Karten Lecture | Multiple Paths to Modernity? Jewish Networks in the Age of Empire

About the speaker

Margaret Cavendish on Literature | Humanities | University of Southampton

Anti-Judaism, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust: The Weight and Consequences | The Parkes Institute

BFE Autumn Conference - Creative writing, music and ethnography | Humanities | University of Southampton

History Professor serves as historical consultant for new stage-play, ’The Commotion Time’

Mini-Hartley - Gavin Williams - Arts of Extraction: Oil, Digital Audio and Geo-Histories of Sound | Humanities | University of Southampton

The Lower-Middle Palaeolithic of the Hrazdan Valley, Central Armenia: Geological and Chronological Context