IDEAS IN PROGRESS

SPRING

19 January – Craig Owens – The Culture of the Post-Modern

2 February – Sarat Maharaj

16 February – Bill Schwarz – Cultural Effects of the End of Empire

1 March – Maureen McNeil – Gender Politics of Thatcherism

15 March – Joyce Canaan – The Making of American Middle-class Femininity: The Contribution of Teenage Peer Groups

SUMMER

26 April – Terry Lovell – Consuming Fiction

10 May – Griselda Pollock – Bestiality and Work: Bourgeois Images of the Peasantry

24 May – Kate Flint – Rethinking the Woman Reader in the 19th Cenury: Problems of Approach

7 June – Sarat Maharaj – Questions in Modernism and Eurocentricity

AUTUMN

11 October – Alison Light – A Morbid Growth: Family and Class Pathologies in Ivy Compton-Burnett

25 October – Kobena Mercer – Imaging the Black Man’s Sex: Mapplethorpe and Genet

8 November – Jacqueline Rose – Sylvia Plath

22 November – Griselda Pollock – Bestiality and Work: Bourgeois Images of the Peasantry

6 December – Francis Mulhern – Gramsci and Intellectuals