Inaugural Lectures 2023-24

To celebrate the success of staff, the School of Arts English and Languages is proud to launch a new series of Inaugural Lectures.

Videos of the lectures will appear here shortly after the event.

Professor Philip McGowan	Literature and the Right to Write	15 June 2023	Emeleus Lecture Theatre
Professor Paul Stapleton	Improvising Bodies: How We Adapt Together To Make Our Worlds Musical	1 March 2024	Sonic Arts Research Centre
Professor Andrew Pepper	Defective Fiction	5 October 2023	Council Chamber, Lanyon Building
Professor Sue Ann Harding	Translational Stories: it’s somewhere here	7 December 2023	Council Chamber, Lanyon Building
Professor Stefano Baschiera	Imitate, reuse, recycle What the Italian genre factory can teach us about cinema and sustainability	6 February 2024	Council Chamber, Lanyon Building
Professor Franziska Schroeder	Multiplicities - Roots and Horizontal Music Making Practices	29 September 2023	Sonic Arts Research Centre
Professor Simon Mawhinney	An Aeroplane Flies Through the Rose Garden of Heaven: Thoughts on Failure	17 April 2024	Sonic Arts Research Centre
Professor Aoife McGrath	*Dance with me?: on listening, leaning, and care-ful mess in interdisciplinary collaboration*	17 May 2024	Brian Friel Theatre, Drama and Film Centre, University Square

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