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No ‘Insoreckshan’ in the Global City? Representations of London Rioting, 1981 and 2011
Read more: No ‘Insoreckshan’ in the Global City? Representations of London Rioting, 1981 and 2011a chapter on London post-2011 and the representations (and poetics) of riots in Oliver v. Knebel Doebritz & Ralf Schneider (eds.) London post-2010 in British Literature and Culture, Brill / Rodopi 2017, pp.19-38. chapter link
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Coming up in Freiburg: Annual Conference of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
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Program of the Conference “Heroism as a Phenomenon in Global Popular Culture”, 28-30 September 2017, Freiburg
Read more: Program of the Conference “Heroism as a Phenomenon in Global Popular Culture”, 28-30 September 2017, FreiburgConference Program Heroism as a Global Phenomenon in Popular Culture Organised by Barbara Korte, Simon Wendt, Michael Butter, Wolfgang Hochbruck and Nicole Falkenhayner for the SFB 948 “Heroes, Heroisms and Heroisations”, University of Freiburg, Germany Thursday, September 28, 2017 From 14.00 Coffee, Registration at FRIAS Freiburg 15.00 Introduction 15.00 Barbara Korte (Freiburg) & Simon Wendt
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New Research on the Role of Media Representations
Read more: New Research on the Role of Media RepresentationsNew research by scholars from Cambridge Universty shows the important role that sloppy and stereotyped reporting has in the growing of hostility towards Muslims in Britain, and the also show strategies to counter this development: Media fuelling rising hostility towards Muslims in Britain I am going to draw on this research for a presentation I
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New Publication: Heroes in/against the machine
Read more: New Publication: Heroes in/against the machineperforming the friction of database and narrative in movies, novels, and art read the whole special issue of the journal helden.heroes.héros on heroes and things!
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Heroes and Heroism in British Fiction since 1800
Read more: Heroes and Heroism in British Fiction since 1800http://www.springer.com/978-3-319-33556-8?wt_mc=so Just published my chapter for “Heroes and Heroism in British Fiction Since 1800” with #Springercialmedia.twitter.1.SEM.ChapterAuthorCongrat via @AuthorZone