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Autumn 2024 Program

Events happening in the research group this fall.

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Join us this fall

 

Thur 29 Aug

  15:00-16:15     

Thais Meretrix: A Manuscript Compilation Case Study

Guest Lecture: Dr Alicia Smith

Place: HF 371

Thur 3 Oct

 14:00-16:00                      

How to Plan a Project: Brainstorming Session

place: HF 326

7-8 Oct     

 

Writing Workshop 

Joint hosted with the Scottish Network for Religion and Literature (SNRL) in Scotland

SNRL and UiB’s Literature and Religion research group is collaborating for a joint publication on the topic ‘stories of origin’. This writing workshop will help participants turn their drafts into publishable pieces ready for submission.

21-25 Oct   

Symposium: Shakespeare, Greece, Democracy and Art

Hosted by the Bergen-Hamar Shakespeare Network in Athens, Greece

With a special focus on their expression in the Renaissance arts, from painting and sculpture to poems and plays, we will present and discuss ideas about religion, drama, politics, myth and legend, and the way such concepts were understood or misunderstood, adopted or resisted, reshaped or discarded in and around the time of Shakespeare.

Fri 15 Nov      

12:00-15:00

Writing Workshop 

Drafts from Dr John-Wilhelm Flattun and Prof. Sissel Undheim

place: HF 371

Mon 18 Nov

15:00-16:30

Can Literature Change your Life? An Introduction to Transformative Reading

Guest Lecture: Dr. Olivia da Costa Fialho, Utrecht University

place: Sydneshaugen skole Aud. R

Thur 26 Nov

14:15-16:00

 

Grant Drafting Workshop

Prof. Laura Saetveit Miles and Prof. Huiwen (Helen) Zhang

place: HF 326

Thur 5 Dec

9:00-16:00

Theory Workshop: Reading, Self and Society 

A full-day workshop with discussion sessions on the most influential theory and criticism on the topic of READING. 

Place: Hotel Terminus

Wed 11 Dec, Thurs 12 Dec, Fri 13 Dec

9-16:30

Autumn Writing Retreat

Location TBA. Come one day or all three days!