Dear all,
With spring comes an end to strikes (for now) and the final writing of essays. Thank you for your patience and support during the ragged conclusion to our Term 2.
We will be holding a revision/catchup session (not a rescheduling as such) for the module next Tuesday, April 24th, at 4-5pm in Oculus 1.08. Please bring any questions you have about the essays you're writing.
A few items of potential interest:
- A film, Patience (After Sebald), will be screening at the London Review Bookshop on Monday April 23rd at 7pm - it gives some background to Sebald's novel-cum-travelogue The Rings of Saturn
- Arundhati Roy (!) will be giving the annual W G Sebald lecture on literary translation at the British Library on June 5th at 7mp - the event is sold out already, but there may be a chance to see it via livescreening (or it will be made available afterwards)
- An interview with Patrick Keiller, Sebald enthusiast and filmmaker, is available here: http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/interviews/patrick-keiller-london-robinson-trilogy. Note that the library has DVDs of Keiller's film trilogy London (1994), Robinson in Space (1998) and Robinson in Ruins (2010), as well as his collection of writings The View from the Train.
- A notice of a lecture in Denmark given last month by Anna Tsing, author of The Mushroom at the End of the World: https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/veranstaltung/p_138550.php. And an excerpt from a talk she gave last year on Fordlandia, the rubber plantation run by Henry Ford early in the C20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIiXGXlfTw4
- Forthcoming notice on poet Stephen Collis's visit on May 10th, watch this space
- The Warwick Allotment Society is easing into the new season and welcomes volunteers and participants: https://www.facebook.com/groups/333878950018763/