Possible forms: dialogues on creative-critical practice
12th July 2023, 5.30pm Ireland/UK time
Possible forms: dialogues on creative-critical practice is a short series of online events, hosted by University College Cork and funded by the Irish Research Council. Possible forms seeks a collaborative way for readers and writers to explore the capacious category of the creative-critical. Each event hosts two speakers whose work challenges boundaries between academic criticism, creative non-fiction, memoir, art writing, practice-based research, and so on. We will not only showcase some of the most exciting work taking place within the broad sphere of creative-critical inquiry, but also make time for thoughts to be expanded upon, hesitations expressed, ideas tested out.
Our next speakers are Samantha Walton and Sasha Engelmann.
Samantha Walton is Professor of Literature at Bath Spa University and the director of the Research Centre for Environmental Humanities. Her publications include Everybody Needs Beauty: In Search of the Nature Cure (Bloomsbury, 2021), The Living World: Nan Shepherd and Environmental Thought (Bloomsbury, 2021), and the poetry collection Self Heal (Boiler House Press, 2018).
Sasha Engelmann is Senior Lecturer in GeoHumanities at Royal Holloway, University of London, and leader of the collective feminist radio project open-weather with Sophie Dyer. Her publications include When I image the earth, I imagine another (Library Stack, 2023) and Sensing Art in the Atmosphere: Elemental Lures and Aerosolar Practices (Routledge, 2020).
Register here to attend via Teams.
A new series organised by Sophie Corser (University College Cork) and Livia Franchini (Goldsmiths):
Possible forms: dialogues on creative-critical practice
14th June 2023, 5.30pm Ireland/UK time
Possible forms: dialogues on creative-critical practice is a short series of online events, hosted by University College Cork and funded by the Irish Research Council. Possible forms seeks a collaborative way for readers and writers to explore the capacious category of the creative-critical. Each event hosts two speakers whose work challenges boundaries between academic criticism, creative non-fiction, memoir, art writing, practice-based research, and so on. We will not only showcase some of the most exciting work taking place within the broad sphere of creative-critical inquiry, but also make time for thoughts to be expanded upon, hesitations expressed, ideas tested out.
Our first speakers are Daisy Lafarge and Mathelinda Nabugodi.
Daisy Lafarge is the author of Paul (Granta, 2021) and the poetry collection Life Without Air (Granta, 2020). Her new book Lovebug, based on her PhD completed at the University of Glasgow, will be published later this year.
Mathelinda Nabugodi is a Research Associate in the Literary and Artistic Archive at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. She is the author of Shelley with Benjamin: A critical mosaic (UCL, 2023), based on her PhD in Creative Critical Writing from UCL. Her new book The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive will be published next year.
Confirmed speakers for the second event, July date tbc: Samantha Walton and Sasha Engelmann