{"id":950,"date":"2012-02-18T10:55:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T10:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/?page_id=950"},"modified":"2012-02-18T21:41:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T21:41:30","slug":"previous-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/programs\/previous-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<div class=\"three_fifth\">\n<h2>Talks and Readings<\/h2>\n<p><em>Trans-Scriptions<\/em> is a seminar series established to bring together creative writers and academics to explore issues of <strong>writing, culture<\/strong> and <strong>location<\/strong>. \u00a0So far, the series has included a range of readings, talks and conferences:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_half\">\n<ul class=\"actions\">\n<li><strong><a title=\"Retrospection\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/?page_id=1012\">Retrospection<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>07-12-05:<\/em>\u00a0talks by critics and readings by writers at the Storey Institute.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Anticipation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/?page_id=1014\">Anticipation<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>15-03-06:<\/em>\u00a0writers, academics &amp; publishers in dialogue at the Storey Institute.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Creative-critical Synergies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/?page_id=948\">Creative-critical Synergies<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>27-02-09:<\/em>\u00a0cross-disciplinary exchanges<br \/>\nbetween members of the Centre.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"one_half last_col\">\n<ul class=\"actions\">\n<li><strong><a title=\"Two March Events\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/?p=258\">Gary Younge<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n08-03-11:\u00a0distinguished international journalist\u00a0spoke about his new book.<\/li>\n<li><strong><strong><a title=\"Two March Events\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/?p=258\">Points of Departure<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><em>16-03-11:<\/em>\u00a0Angela Barry, Bermudan writer, read from her novel.<\/li>\n<li><strong><strong><a title=\"Travel Writing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/?page_id=1122\">Travel Writing and the Ethics of Observation<\/a><\/strong><\/strong>\u00a0<em>16-06-12:<\/em>\u00a0workshop, photography exhibition and talks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line-hor\"><\/div>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #888888;\">writing . culture . location<\/span><\/h2>\n<h4><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/TransAuthors.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-972 alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px;\" title=\"TransAuthors\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/TransAuthors.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"79\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/h4>\n<p><span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/quotes_left.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-994 alignleft\" title=\"quotes_left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/quotes_left.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" \/><\/a>Once we accept the actual configuration of literary experiences overlapping with one another and interdependent, despite national boundaries and coercively legislated national autonomies, history and geography are transfigured in new maps, in new and far less stable entities, in new types of locations. Exile, far from being the fate of nearly forgotten unfortunates who are dispossessed and expatriated, becomes something closer to a norm, an experience of crossing boundaries and charting new territories in defiance of the classic canonical enclosures&#8230;<\/span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/quotes_left.png\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Quotes_right.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-995\" title=\"Quotes_right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Quotes_right.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Edward Said<\/span><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_fifth last_col\">\n<h2>Conferences<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"actions alt\">\n<li><strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/?p=1061\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-976\" title=\"Dabydeen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Dabydeen.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a>Open Day Featuring David Dabydeen <\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em>31-05-07: <\/em>author\u00a0David Dabydeen was the main speaker at this all-day event inaugurating the Centre<a title=\"Open Day\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/?p=1061\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/?page_id=1023\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-901\" title=\"Grassroutes_square\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Faqir.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a> <strong>Migration, Memory &amp; Mood<\/strong>\u00a0<em>01-05-08:\u00a0<\/em>a\u00a0writer, a sociologist and an artist\/filmmaker discussed migration, memory and mood in &#8216;multicultural&#8217; Britain<a title=\"Migration, Memory &amp; Mood\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/?page_id=1023\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/?page_id=1016\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-902\" title=\"Regarding_War\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Regarding_War_small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a> <strong>Regarding War<strong>: Image\/Text <\/strong><\/strong><em>18-06-09: <\/em>a\u00a0photographer, a filmmaker and a writer and a critic discussed conflict, displacement and alienation<a title=\"Regarding War: image\/text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/?page_id=1016\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/?page_id=694\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-902\" title=\"African_Studies\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/African_Conference.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<strong>Africa: Cultural Translations<\/strong><strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><em>21\/22-05-10:<\/em>\u00a0two-day conference organised by Lancaster University African Studies Group<a title=\"Conference 2010\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/transculturalwriting-archive\/?page_id=694\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"line-hor\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alumni.lancs.ac.uk\/page.aspx?pid=360\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-890 alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 12px; 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