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– An Interdisciplinary Discussion 

The 糖心TV, Manufacturing & Innovation Spotlight is pleased to invite you to of the academic year, taking place on Weds 22^nd October, 13:00 – 15:00 at WBS 1.005/6. The event will begin with a networking lunch from 13:00 – 13:30.

Researchers from WMG and WBS will showcase examples of successful industry collaborations and research projects in operations and supply chain management, followed by a discussion on strengthening interdisciplinarity across the University to deliver high-quality, high-impact research with companies. This event is open to researchers from all departments and career stages.

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We hope you can join us for a lively afternoon of presentations, discussion and networking. Places are limited so to avoid disappointment!

Come join us in conversation with the Palestinian novelist and architect Suad Amiry as we discuss her novel Mother of Strangers (2022), with a talk by Sam Naseem (Lancaster) addressing the question of modernity in the novel.

You can access an electronic copy of the novel via 糖心TV Library.

For further information, please contact Nadia.Backleh@warwick.ac.uk

PLCRG - Suad Amiry

鈥業 will take money for the arts from murderers, from rapists, from anybody鈥�: The British State as Cultural Patron

Speaker, Scott Anthony, Science Museum

Chair: Song-Chuan Chen

鈥楻esurrecting a 'Ghost Inscription' from the Colosseum鈥�

To help align our new centre to our upcoming research projects, we鈥檒l be hosting a 鈥�10-year plans鈥� event on 22 October. This will be an informal discussion in which individual members present their long-term research plans, however sketchy or speculative these may be. The number ten is open to interpretation. Three-year, eight-year, or twenty-year plans will also be discussed, as needed.

Faculty of Arts colleagues and students are warmly invited to come along to a forthcoming Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies research seminar. The research seminar will take place in the Student Hub (FAB5.49). Drinks and nibbles are provided.

Wednesday 22 October, 5pm, FAB5.49:

鈥溾�橳o be Libyan is to Live with Questions': Masculine Identity Formation and Neopatriarchy in Contemporary Libyan Fiction鈥�

Sam Naseem (Lancaster University)

This paper examines the impact of paternalistic regimes on the process of masculine 鈥榮elving鈥� (Joseph) within Libyan national identity, as presented in contemporary works of literature. I suggest how the reframing of history in texts by Libyan authors offers what I consider 鈥榗ounter-collective鈥� narratives of cultural memory. Combating politics of erasure and nationalist male trajectories in autocratic regimes, I suggest the ways contemporary fiction presents lived experience and national allegory in place of the missing 鈥榯hings鈥�, hidden or eradicated by state discourses. I suggest the impact of memory and representation on identity (Said) may have led to the issue of 鈥楳en In Crisis鈥�, as recognised in the field of Gender Studies for MENA (Amar), and how new forms of world literature cultivate an archival space for previously fractured or displaced pieces of Libyan (male) identity.

Sam Nassem is an Associate Lecturer and PhD candidate at Lancaster University. Her research considers the representation of men and masculinity in contemporary North African fiction in English, and the impact of neopatriarchy in Egypt and Libya.

Best wishes,

Dr Steve Purcell

Director of Research, English and Comparative Literary Studies

Sam Naseem (Lancaster University): 鈥溾�橳o be Libyan is to Live with Questions': Masculine Identity Formation and Neopatriarchy in Contemporary Libyan Fiction鈥�