The Department of English welcomes applications for an hourly-paid teaching opportunity for the first semester of 2024/25. Continue reading Hourly-Paid Teaching Opportunity (Poetry)
Shakespeare Centre London and Shakespeare’s Globe 2024 Graduate Conference
The annual Shakespeare Centre London’s post-graduate conference, hosted by both King’s College London and The Globe, takes place 10th-11th May. With Dr Natalya Din-Kariuki, Professor Tiffany Stern and Rob Myles as plenaries, the event promises to be a fascinating meeting of scholarly interests and academic disciplines, exploring what the term ‘Innovation’ means to our understanding of the early modern today. Continue reading Shakespeare Centre London and Shakespeare’s Globe 2024 Graduate Conference
An Interview with Anthony Joseph: Afrofuturism, Black Surrealism, Sonic Revolution
By Samridhi Aggarwal, Esther de Bruijn and Anthony Joseph
The following interview with Anthony Joseph was conducted by Samridhi Aggarwal (Joint PhD Scholar with the National University of Singapore) on 5 December, 2022 in a seminar for the module Afrofuturism.[1]
The conversation covers several topics, which we’ve divided into sections for those who’d like to dip in and collect gems of insights on Afrofuturism, black surrealism, black stealth, the revolutionary force of music, and practicing writing into being. Anthony talks about his album The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running for Their Lives (2021) and his novel The African Origins of UFOs (2006), and we’ve reproduced the excerpts of the novel that he read on the day. Continue reading An Interview with Anthony Joseph: Afrofuturism, Black Surrealism, Sonic Revolution
FOUCAULT 40 YEARS AFTER: WORKSHOP ON THE CULTURE OF THE SELF (CALL FOR PARTICIPATION)
By Alexander Giesen
As part of the World Congress “Foucault: 40 Years After”, doctoral researcher Alex Giesen is organising a workshop on Michel Foucault’s late ethico-political thought to commemorate the 40th anniversary of his death. Below is the call for participation.
Opportunity for an hourly-paid teaching role on the Online MA in Global Cultures
7ABLGC07 Creative Leadership for Global Challenges (Online)
Putting your developing understanding of global cultures into practice, in this module you will learn how the study of leadership through arts and humanities can make a real, beneficial and transformative impact on some of the world’s most pressing problems. Continue reading Opportunity for an hourly-paid teaching role on the Online MA in Global Cultures