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wish<br><br>
no need to reply <br>
Cheers<br>
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- Chris<br><br>
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<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4><b>Centre for Life History and Life
Writing Research (CLHLWR) <br>
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<div align="center"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4><b>Events for
Spring/Summer 2012<br>
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<div align="center"><font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4><b>Happy New
Year<br>
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<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4><b>We are delighted to announce CLHLWR's
forthcoming seminars and workshops at the University of Sussex. These are
all free open events and wheelchair accessible, although some must be
booked in advance.<br>
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<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4>25 January 12.30 to 2pm
Seminar/Workshop, Special Collections Reading Room.<br>
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<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=5><b>Ruth Charnock and Fiona Murrell:
Working with diaries: Nin, intimacy and the
everyday</font><font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4><br>
</b></font><br>
<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4>Dr. Ruth Charnock will be talking about
Anais Nin, published diarist and novelist who famously wrote in her diary
for over 60 years. As Ruth will discuss, Nin’s diary poses both
difficulties and intriguing questions concerning authorship, authenticity
and intimacy for the life-writing and literary scholar. Fiona Murrell
will discuss her research into two unknown diarists whose documents are
located in the Mass Observation Archive. She will focus on issues of
reading 'ordinary' manuscript diaries and discuss the relationship
between writing a diary, temporality and the experience of ageing.<br>
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<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4><b>To book a place contact Sam
Carroll</b>
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s.j.carroll@sussex.ac.uk</a><br>
</u></font><font size=4><br><br>
</font><font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4>Wed 15 February 2012 1pm - 5.00pm
Silverstone Building Room 309. University of Sussex.<br>
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<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=5><b>Gender, blogging, Iran: a special
event with Feminist Review</font><font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4><br>
</b></font><br>
<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4>Special Launch event for Feminist Review
issue 99: ‘Media Transformations’ edited by Lizzie Thynne (Sussex) and
Nadje Al-Ali (SOAS): ‘Gender and neo-liberal entrepreneurship in blogs
from the Iranian diaspora’. A discussion between Sima Shakhsari
(University of Houston, Texas) and Gholam Khiabany (Sussex). Discussion
begins at 2.45 pm, preceded by lunch at 1pm and a screening of Blogger’s
War Dir. Farid Haerinejad, CBC, (2005) at 1.45pm. Chairs: Lizzie Thynne
and Nadje Al-Ali.<br>
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<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4>Supported by Feminist Review and the
Sussex Centres for Material Digital Culture and the Centre for Life
History and Life Writing Research.<br>
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<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4><b>To book a place contact</b> <b>Sarah
Maddox</b>
</font><a href="mailto:S.Maddox@sussex.ac.uk">
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S.Maddox@sussex.ac.uk</a><br>
</u></font><font size=4><br><br>
</font><font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4>6 March 2012 12:30 to 2pm,
Workshop/Seminar, Special Collections Reading Room.<br>
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<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=5><b>Patricia Malcomson and Sindi Gordon:
Hair Stories</font><font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4><br>
</b></font><br>
<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4>Patricia Malcolmson presents on hair and
personal identity from Mass Observation resources. She will discuss how
women have felt about their hair, and their responses to those feelings.
Sindi Gordon introduces her life history research project based on a
Brighton based hair salon/barbershop, a microcosm of a 'multicultural'
Britain; serving people from African, Caribbean, Asian and European
heritage<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4><b>To book a place contact Sam Carroll
</b></font><a href="mailto:s.j.carroll@sussex.ac.uk">
<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4 color="#000080"><u>
s.j.carroll@sussex.ac.uk</a><br>
</u></font><font size=4><br><br>
</font><font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4>16 May 12:30 to 14:00, Seminar,
Fulton Building 212,University of Sussex.<br>
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<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=5><b>Professor Robert Fraser (Open
University): Biography and the morality of
style.</font><font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4><br>
</b></font><br>
<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4 color="#141413">This seminar will
examine the craft of biography from the historical, ethical and stylistic
points of view. Does biography possess a justification, and wherein lies
its wide appeal? Is it motivated by curiosity,or something more? What are
the particular challenges involved in writing the lives of poets,
especially of recently dead ones? Does it make any difference if one knew
the person whose life one is striving to evoke? Has the biographical form
changed over time, and does it continue to mutate? What exactly are the
pressures bearing down on the biographer, and how does one cope? In
grappling with these questions, a few glimpses will be offered into the
biographer’s study, even into his or her storm-tossed mind.<br>
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</font><font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4><b>Open event. No need to book,
just turn up.<br>
</b></font><br><br>
<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4><b>Further forthcoming events <br>
</b></font><br><br>
<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4>19 June 2012, 12:30 to 3pm,
Workshop/Seminar, Special Collections Reading Room.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4><b>Theatre Jukebox: Lucy and Barney
Heywood<br>
</b></font><br>
<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4>Theatre Jukebox is a new digital
platform that uses RFID technology to let pictures and physical objects
tell their stories. See:<br>
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<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4 color="#000080"><u>
<a href="http://www.standandstare.com/projects/theatre-jukebox">
http://www.standandstare.com/projects/theatre-jukebox</a><br>
</u></font><font size=4><br>
</font><font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4><b>Event to be confirmed<br>
</b></font><br><br>
<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4>28 June 2012, 10am to 5pm, <b>Visual
Research Methodologies and Methods Workshop</b> co-sponsored with the
Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research, CHEER. <br>
</font><br>
<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4><b>Open to postgraduate students and
faculty only, venue to be confirmed.<br>
</b></font><br><br>
<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4><b>Paul Farrington. Floating
Memories</b>: A seminar by on the oral history and local history of
Brighton Swimming Club.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4 color="#000080"><u>
<a href="http://www.floatingmemories.co.uk/">
http://www.floatingmemories.co.uk</a><br>
</u></font><font size=4><br>
</font><font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4><b>Open event, time and date to
be confirmed.<br>
</b></font><br><br>
<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4><b>Postgraduate and graduate
conference</b> co-organised with the Centre for Research in Narrative,
Memory and Histories, University of Brighton: date and theme to be
confirmed.<br>
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<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4><b>Open to postgraduate students and MA,
Dphil Graduates.<br>
</b></font><br><br>
<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4><b>The Future of the University: An Oral
History Perspective. <br>
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<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4>A mini-conference on the oral histories
of universities in the UK.<br>
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<font face="Trebuchet MS" size=4><b>Open event, time and date to be
confirmed.<br>
</b></font><br><br>
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http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clhlwr/</a><br>
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