*With apologies for cross-posting*
Dear colleagues,
should you happen to be in the area, come and celebrate with us!
You are cordially invited to celebrate the launch of Prof Rebecca Braun’s new book Authors and the World.
Date: December 1st, 2022
Time: 5-6pm
Venue: THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway
Refreshments will be provided
“Rebecca Braun's amazingly varied study of authorship shifts the view from the lives of writers to the practice of authorship – the crafted persona of a whole social environment. Along the way, Braun shakes up our understanding of the contemporary German literary scene. Moving quickly past the familiar male gatekeepers of Grass, Enzensberger and Walser, she brings us face-to-face with neglected literary mavericks from the East and new voices of women immigrants from Russia, Romania, and Serbia. A very original study in which 'place' becomes a fleeting ideological Heimat.” (Prof Timothy Brennan, University of Minnesota, USA)
The event will feature an introduction by Dr Tina Karen Pusse (School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of Galway) and an open-ended conversation between Prof Braun and Prof Caitríona Ní Dhúill (University College Cork) on working with living authors in your research.
About the Speakers:
Prof Rebecca Braun joined NUI Galway in 2021 to take up the position of Executive Dean of the College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies. Before then, she was Professor of Modern Languages & Creative Futures at Lancaster University in the UK, where she was also Co-Director of the Institute for Social Futures from 2017-2020. Her current work explores how literary texts can drive new ways of thinking about the future, both as objects of analysis (traditional literary criticism) and as a co-creative process (practice-focused workshops using creative writing techniques).
Prof Caitríona Ní Dhúill is Professor in German at University College Cork. She is the author of Metabiography: Reflecting on Biography (2020) and co-editor (with Julia Novak) of the forthcoming volume Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction (2022), both with the Palgrave Studies in Life Writing series. She has taught in Dublin, St Andrews, Durham and Vienna. Her current work explores the potential of literature to provide orientation and provoke much-needed reflection in the context of ecological crisis.
How to attend:
To help us with the numbers for catering, please register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-authors-and-the-world-rebecca-braun-tickets-460107312357
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