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By Charlotte Stevenson
Current student Charlotte Stevenson reflects on the recent screening of Night and Fog for Holocaust Memorial Day and on her reading of Rena’s Promise for the module Conflicting Words, commenting on the tension between the necessity of commemoration and impossibility of writing about the unimaginable. Continue reading “‘beyond all imagination’. holocaust memorial day and writing the incomprehensible”
Mosa & Georgina, two Volunteer Coordinators from Leeds Young Film Festival 2018 have been in touch to announce that they are currently recruiting volunteers to help with the UK’s largest family film event. The festival will be running from Friday 30th March – Monday 2nd April.
Continue reading “student opportunity: leeds young film festival 2018 needs your help!”
by Charlotte Stevenson
Current student Charlotte Stevenson reflects on the weekend’s 2018 World Cancer Day and what this means to her. She speaks of the importance of raising awareness.
By Nicoletta Peddis
Current student Nicoletta Peddis reflects on the recent screening of Night and Fog, shown as part of Holocaust Memorial Day, and the subsequent discussions surrounding questions of how to teach and critique culture representations of the Holocaust.
The following post is an abridged script for Dr Adam Stock’s Address at the Holocaust Memorial Day City of York Council Civic Event.
Many thanks to Mollie Field for getting in touch to let all of our students know about the following opportunity to write for Neutral Magazine.
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By Harriet Bartle
Current Literature and History student Harriet Bartle joins us for a ‘Monday Matters’ reflection on what it is like to study literature when you’re obsessed with Terry Pratchett’s Discworld.
Continue reading ““i can’t forget discworld”: my life as a pratchett fanataic”
In this week’s instalment of Dissertation Corner, Nicoletta Peddis speaks to current dissertation Elliott Walker.
Want to know a bit more about what your Literature lecturers are researching and publishing on? Come along to our very first Research Showcase to find out!
Book your ticket here.
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By Harriet Bartle
Our Harriet Bartle was offered exclusive behind the scenes access to a new dramatic production making its debut in York this week: ‘The Yorkshire Scandals.’ Below, Harriet reflects on her one-to-one conversation with the director of this exciting endeavour, Ben Pruiser.
By Adam Cummins
Ursula Le Guin was an author who wrote novels and poetry. Most would call her a science fiction and a fantasy author. She was born in 1929 in California, where she was raised in a house with three brothers. She submitted her first story to a magazine when she was just eleven years old: it was rejected. This did not deter her. Continue reading “in memory of ursula k. le guin”
Inspired by our second-year Literature at Work module, Charlotte Stevenson undertook a work placement at Manchester Central Library. In this exclusive post, Charlotte shares tips, tales, trials and tribulations from her time in the library.
Continue reading “life at the library: tales of work experience at manchester central library”
Current student Charlotte Stevenson reflects on her autumnal encounter with celebrated author Ali Smith at a recent event hosted by York Explore Library.
Gemma Holsgrave from York Mediale has been in touch to share an exciting, free creative training opportunity for young artists in the city with York Mediale.
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Gemma Linfoot-King, Project Manager of the Building Healthy Relationships Project has been in touch to share information on the latest training sessions for students this semester.
Continue reading “student training opportunity: building healthy relationships project”