The full programme for the Women in German Studies UK & Ireland Conference has now been published: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/academic/ks/womeningermanstudies.

Due to the online format, the conference will be free to attend for paid-up members. In support of our PG and precarious colleagues, we invite you to make a donation to the WIGS account (please use the word “donation” in the payment reference). This money will go towards supporting future conference attendance, travel grants and emergency hardship funds for PGRs, ECRs, and members on precarious contracts. To join WIGS or to find out the details of the bank account, please contact Sarah Pogoda.

The conference will take place via MS Teams. All paid-up members are invited to participate. Links for the meetings will be shared on WIGS-FORUM@JISCMAIL.AC.UK in the week before the conference. Please contact K.Stone@warwick.ac.uk if you have any questions.

Postcolonial (Eco-) Poetics in a Time of Global Pandemic: A Poetry Reading and Discussion

Poetry readings with John Kinsella and Vhani Capildeo.

Two short (15-20 minute) readings and a discussion, with two of our most energetic and accomplished writers of politically, environmentally, and linguistically engaged poetry. Bring your sandwich to the laptop and join us for some antipodal, thought-provoking, songful and critical exchange.

Vahni Capildeo is Writer in Residence at the University of York, with interests in silence, plurilingualism and place. Recent work includes Odyssey Calling (Sad Press), Light Site (Periplum Poetry), and Skin Can Hold (Carcanet).

John Kinsella’s most recent volumes of poetry are Drowning in Wheat: Selected Poems 1980-2015 (Picador, 2016), The Wound (Arc, 2018) Insomnia (Picador, 2019), and Brimstone: Villanelles (Arc, 2020). Along with short fiction, novels and a memoir, his other writings include the volumes of criticism Activist Poetics: Anarchy in the Avon Valley (Liverpool University Press, 2010) and Polysituatedness (Manchester University Press, 2017). He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and Professor of Literature and Environment at Curtin University. Kinsella wishes always to acknowledge the traditional and custodial owners of the land he comes from and so often writes about – the Ballardong Noongar people, the Whadjuk Noongar people, and the Yamaji people.