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INVITATION TO THE BRUNEL CENTRE FOR THE INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF GENDER & SEXUALITY ***FIRST INAUGURAL LECTURE*** 'At the Centre of Imagination' Thomas Glave, University of Cambridge and State University of New York at Binghamton Wednesday, 10 October 2012 The Council Chamber, Wilfred Brown Building, Brunel University 6.00 pm ABSTRACT This lecture, marking the inauguration of Brunel's Gender and Sexuality Research Centre, focuses on the possibilities of intellectual and artistic intersection and collaboration which the Centre's work will enable. It will take into account the speaker's own interdisciplinary experience as an activist, fiction and non-fiction writer, teacher, and scholar in Caribbean, queer, and African-American studies. BRIEF BIO Thomas Glave is a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge in 2012. He is also a Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Binghamton in the United States and an O. Henry award-winning author. His books include Whose Song? and Other Stories (2000); Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent (2005), which won the Lambda Literary Award; and The Torturer's Wife (2008). Professor Glave has edited a collection of essays Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles (2008), which is also a Lambda Literary Award winner. As a writer, he has won praise for his unique style and for his exploration of taboo and politically volatile topics. His most recent book, which will come out shortly, is a collection of his own essays, entitled Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh; all of the essays collected address Glave's passionate commitment to social justice and human truth. A wine reception will follow the lecture. Everyone is invited and the Lecture is free and open to the public.