WELCOME BACK! Please see below for currently scheduled sessions for the Narrative Research Group for the Autumn term (location tbc). We meet regularly on the second Wednesday of every month at 4pm (though please note that visiting speaker Craig Batty’s session will take place on a Monday due to availability). All sessions are followed by… Read more » about NRG Autumn Term Sessions
News & Events
CsJCC Academics Join EU CyberPark Project
The EU COST funded CyberPark project brings together participants from 21 countries to explore how ICT can help attract more users to engage with public spaces more efficiently, enhancing their health and wellbeing. With the emergence of social media, wearable technologies and devices such as Google Glass, a future where technology is embedded in… Read more » about CsJCC Academics Join EU CyberPark Project
Next NRG talk: ‘Literary Tourism’ – Dr Philip Long (Weds 7 May)
Our next NRG session will take place on Wednesday 7 May (4pm, PG141) where Dr Philip Long (School of Tourism) will deliver a talk entitled: Literary Tourism: ‘The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page’ (St. Augustine) Weds 7 May, 4pm, PG141 This presentation covers a range of… Read more » about Next NRG talk: ‘Literary Tourism’ – Dr Philip Long (Weds 7 May)
Digital Reading Symposium at BU: 19 June 2014
The AHRC-funded Digital Reading Network will be hosting its first symposium on 19 June. The event will take place in the Executive Business Centre at Bournemouth University. All are welcome to attend this free event but please note that places are limited. Bob Stein, a pioneer of electronic publishing and founder of the Institute for… Read more » about Digital Reading Symposium at BU: 19 June 2014
Launch of BU’s first publishing press: Fresher
Bournemouth University’s first publishing press, Fresher, is being launched this week! Fresher will offer students the opportunity to work on professional publishing projects (print and digital) and to provide a platform for new writing talent. The idea is to encourage and support creative writing in Dorset and further afield, so Fresher will be taking workshops… Read more » about Launch of BU’s first publishing press: Fresher
Launch Event: MA Adaptation and MA Literary Media
NRG talk: Colonial Medicine and Imperial Authority in JG Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur (4pm, Weds 19 March, Casterbridge)
NRG are delighted to announce the next in our series of talks, which will take place this Wednesday 19 March (4pm, Casterbridge), when Dr Sam Goodman will discuss colonial and imperial themes in the work of JG Farrell. A Great Beneficial Disease: Colonial Medicine & Imperial Authority in J. G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur…. Read more » about NRG talk: Colonial Medicine and Imperial Authority in JG Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur (4pm, Weds 19 March, Casterbridge)
NRG talk on the Novelization of Comics in the 1970s
The next in the series of Narrative Research Group talks will take place on Wednesday 26 February at 4 p.m in CAG06. Paul Williams, Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Exeter, will examine the ways in which ‘the novel’ was used in the 1970s to conceptualise ambitious comic projects. Although Will Eisner’s A Contract… Read more » about NRG talk on the Novelization of Comics in the 1970s
NRG talk on Narratives of Motherhood
NRG are delighted to announce that Professor Emma Griffin from the University of East Anglia will present her paper on ‘Victorian Mothers: perspectives from working-class autobiography’ on Wednesday 5 February at 4p.m in the Casterbridge Suite. Historians like to imagine that emotions such as maternal love are largely constant across time and space. They argue… Read more » about NRG talk on Narratives of Motherhood
Real Lives, Celebrity Stories Launch
On Wednesday 29 February, the Narrative Research Group hosted an event to mark the launch of Real Lives, Celebrity Stories, edited by Julia Round and Bronwen Thomas. The book features contributions from several colleagues in the Media School, and considers how ordinary and extraordinary people are represented across a wide range of contemporary media…. Read more » about Real Lives, Celebrity Stories Launch