Events in the Centre for Contemporary Literature and Cultures New events will appear here shortly Previous Events 2022 23rd November - Academic Buzzwords 2021 27th January - Work in Progress Workshop 2020 17th December - Testament – 'Black Men Walking'12th December - Planning and Leading a Seminar11th November - Negotiating the Job Market14th October - Academic Buzzwords24th February - People & Pages - Poetry Evening 2019 11th December - Infrastructure and Literature28th October - Bandung Generation: Decolonization, Cold War, and Global Literature26th February - People&pages: poetry evening30th January - CCLC Public Lecture: Sara Ahmed - Complaint as Diversity Work 2018 5th December - Contemporary Studies Network reading group: Women's Pain28th November - CCLC book launch27th November - Poetry evening21st November - Hijacking Human Rights: Neoliberalism, the New Historiography, and the End of the Third World19th November - Reading, Writing, and Racism: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and African American Literacy in Cold War America14th November - Queer and Now reading group29th October - Black Histories in The Barber Collection24th May - Young Adult Fiction Afternoon Symposium2nd May - Contemporary Confessionals Afternoon Symposium25th April - Work in Progress session21st March - Queer & Now: A Reading Group - Disturbing Attachments19th March - 'Spring People': an evening of poetry12th March - Where's My Igloo Gone?: strategies and stories of climate change24th January - The Contemporary Studies Network Reading Group - Environmental Studies 2017 6th December - The Contemporary Studies Network Reading Group - Stuplimity in the Age of Trump27th November - Burdens of Representation? Contemporary theatre by minority artists in Britain15th November - Queer & Now: A Reading Group6th November - Reading Communities: Connecting the Past and the Present18th October - People and Pages: a showcase of local and regional poets11th October - Work-in-progress (staff only)2nd October - Nikesh Shukla In Conversation