{"id":175,"date":"2017-09-14T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/room-to-rhyme\/?p=175"},"modified":"2018-05-01T10:26:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T09:26:46","slug":"room-to-rhyme-workshop-1-29th-november-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/room-to-rhyme\/2017\/09\/14\/room-to-rhyme-workshop-1-29th-november-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Room to Rhyme Workshop 1: 29th November 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Afternoon Workshop, University of Reading, Edith Morley Room 127, 29th November 1:00pm – 6:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

There will be three presentations<\/p>\n

Professor Marie Breen-Smyth\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

1968-1978: The Context of the Decade: Hegemony, Silence and Spaces of Exception.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor Marie Breen-Smyth<\/strong> is a writer, victims’ advocate and Professor Emerita, University of Surrey, She founded the Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Contemporary Political Violence (CSRV) in the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University. Her publications include The Ashgate Research Companion on Political Violence<\/em> (2012); Terrorism: A Critical Introduction<\/em> (with Jackson,\u00a0 Jarvis and Gunning 2010: Routledge) and the first book on the topic, Critical Terrorism Studies<\/em>\u00a0(with Jackson and Gunning Routledge: 2009). Her other books include Truth and Justice after Violent Conflict: Managing Violent Pasts<\/em> (Routledge, 2007)<\/p>\n

Damian Gorman\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Devices of Detachment<\/em>: a Verse-Film<\/em> (35 mins BBC2, 1992) Screening and Discussion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Damian Gorman<\/strong> is a poet, activist, and writer\/director of many documentary programmes for the BBC and Channel Four. He has worked as a consultant and facilitator on City University London\u2019s Olive Tree Programme involving Israeli and Palestinian students. He has also worked on behalf of the WEA, An Crann, the Creative Writers Network (as a mentor), Ards Council, Derry City Council, Down District Council, Fermanagh District Council, Corrymeela reconciliation centre, the \u2018TELL\u2019 mental health group and many other bodies in Northern Ireland and elsewhere. He has been playwright-in-residence with the Centre for Excellence in the Creative and Performing Arts at Queen\u2019s University Belfast, and writer-in-residence at Belfast\u2019s new Metropolitan Arts Centre (The Mac).<\/p>\n

Conor Carville\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Arts Council Tours\u00a0and the Archive: Poems, Bombs, Hotels, Networks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Conor Carville<\/strong> is Associate Professor of English at Reading University. His book on Irish cultural theory The Ends of Ireland: Criticism, History, Subjectivity<\/em>, was published by Manchester University Press in 2012.\u00a0 Samuel<\/em>\u00a0Beckett and the Visual <\/em>is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in March 2018. He has recently been carrying out\u00a0research in the Northern Irish poetry archives at Emory University and the Arts Council Northern Ireland Archives, as part of his British Academy funded Room to Rhyme<\/em> project. His book of poems Harm’s Way<\/em> was published by Dedalus Press.<\/p>\n

Other invited participants to the workshop include:<\/strong><\/p>\n