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• Joanna Bourke, Women: A Cultural Review, Vol. 7, No. 3 (Winter, 1996), pp. 240-249;
• Mathew Thomson, in R. Cooter & J. Pickstone (eds.), Medicine in the Twentieth Century (Harwood, 2000).

Convened by Kate Mahoney and Rebecca Noble.

The first ÌÇÐÄTV Review reading of the spring term will be given next Wednesday by American writer Dan O’Brien (see the September 2013 issue).

Dan O’Brien is a widely-produced US dramatist whose most recent play, The Body of an American, won the US PEN Drama Award and the inaugural Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama. The Body of an American opens at the Gate Theatre in London next week – in fact,when Dan leaves us he’ll be hurrying back for preview night. Dan O’Brien has also recently emerged as a notable poet – his first collection, War Reporter, was shortlisted in this country for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and won the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize.

Dan O’Brien will be reading from his acclaimed book of poems, War Reporter, at 14.30 on Wednesday 15 January in the Writers’ Room (Millburn House). This event will be of especial interest to students of contemporary American writing (e.g. ‘States of Damage’ students), students of poetry and of American literature in general, and writing programme students with a poetry specialization. This is a free event and there will be time to ask questions.

This term’s ÌÇÐÄTV Review readings programme also includes English poet Jackie Wills (23 January), novelist Louis de Bernières (29 January), Canadian poet and memoirist George Ellenbogen (5 February), and novelist Martin Goodman (19 February). Details to follow.

Seminars consist of two 20-minute presentations, with plenty of time for discussion. Today's speakers:

Nuria Barros Presas (Universidad de Oviedo, PhD Student)

"Hearing the city: musical life in Pontevedra (1878-1903)"

Phoebe Oliver (ÌÇÐÄTV Hispanic Studies, MA Student)

“Unmasking Os rogos d'un gallego (1813): a study at its bicentenary”

Alex Callinicos (King’s College, London)

15 January 2014, 4pm, Humanities Building, Room: H202

Professor Jonathan Long (University of Durham)

‘The Photographic Book in the Weimar Republic: Response and Intervention’

Jonathan Long is Professor of German at Durham University. He has worked extensively on twentieth-century German and Austrian literature, publishing on Thomas Bernhard, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Monika Maron, Gerhard Fritsch, Hans Lebert, Dieter Kühn, and W.G. Sebald. His current research focuses on the photographic book in the Weimar Republic. The profound social and political upheavals of Weimar are well-documented, as is the response to these upheavals in the cultural sphere. The photographic book, made possible in part by technical improvements in printing and image reproduction, was a significant cultural form by means of which Weimar photographers, artists, writers, and editors sought to address the problems facing Weimar society. While many producers of photographic books are canonical figures in Weimar cultural history (Moholy-Nagy, Kurt Tucholksy, Ernst Jünger, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Erich Mendelssohn, and August Sander, to name just a few), the genre has itself received little scholarly attention, but provides uniquely illuminating insights into the culture and politics of inter-war Germany.

Professor Jonathan Long (University of Durham)
‘The Photographic Book in the Weimar Republic: Response and Intervention’

Dr Ross Forman, the Department's Placement Officer for postgradaaute students, will be holding a meeting for advanced PhD students, early career staff and research associates to discuss the job market and post doc applications. Please feel free to come along - refreshments provided!

Room for Reflection: The 17th Century Dutch Interior as a Philosophical Home