Activities
Conferences, Symposia and Schools hosted at Warwick
Women in World(-)Literature
University of Warwick, 17-18 June 2022
Vacation School on World-Literature 2018Link opens in a new window
University of Warwick, 12-14 September 2018
Cultures of Uneven and Combined Development, organised by James Christie and Nesrin Degirmencioglu
University of Warwick, 13-14 June 2014
Roberto Bolaño and World Literature, symposium organised by Nick Lawrence
University of Warwick, 16-17 May 2013
“How to Think About OilLink opens in a new window” by Imre Szeman (Alberta), Chair: Graeme Macdonald
Neil Lazarus and Nick Lawrence, Roundtable with Prof Imre Szeman (Alberta), “After Globalization: Or, the Problem with Liberalism”
An Introduction to English through World Literary Systems: Partnership Project with Park View, Smith’s Wood, Barr Beacon and The Brilliant Club (Sorcha Gunne, Neil Lazarus, Malachi McIntosh and Pablo Mukherjee)
Jan-Sept 2012
Vanderbilt-Warwick Strategic Partnership: Keywords in World Literature
University of Warwick, June 2011
Programme
WReC Colloquium: “Uneven and Combined Modernisms”
Talks by WReC members
“From Uneven and Combined to Combined and Uneven,” Nick Lawrence
The Old is Dying and the New Cannot be Born, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, November 2015
“Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature,” Neil Lazarus and Sorcha Gunne
Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, April 2013
“Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature,” Neil Lazarus
Queen's University, Belfast, December 2012
“Working Through it: A Materialist Critique of Irish Popular Fiction,” Sorcha Gunne
Narratives of Difference in the Global Marketplace, Northampton University, October 2012
“Turbulence: World Riots and World Literature,” Pablo Mukherjee
Gumley House Convent School, Hounslow, London, A-Level Conference, September 2012
“Three Questions for World-Systems Literary Analysis,” Sharae Deckard, Sorcha Gunne, Nick Lawrence, Neil Lazarus, and Malachi McIntosh; discussants: David Attwell and Derek Attridge (York)
World-Systems Research Day, University of York, June 2012
“Bolaño and American Studies,” Nick Lawrence
Post-45 Conference, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, November 2011
“Spectres Haunting: Postcommunism and Postcolonialism,” Neil Lazarus (keynote)
“Postmodern Marxism: The Seductions of Globalization Theory,” Benita Parry (keynote)
Roundtable on the WReC Project, Sharae Deckard, Nick Lawrence, Neil Lazarus, Graeme Macdonald and Pablo Mukherjee
Spectres of World Literature, Institute of English Studies, University of London, September 2011
“World Literature: Combined and Uneven Development,” Nick Lawrence
Crisis and Critique, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, November 2010
“World Literature and Combined and Uneven Development,” Neil Lazarus
University of Stirling, November 2010 and Stockholm University, May 2009
“Re-Imagining Identity: New Directions in Postcolonial Studies,” Neil Lazarus
Keynote, Inaugural Postcolonial Studies Association Conference, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland, May 2009 University College Dublin, February 2009 University of Edinburgh, January 2009
“Lit-System, Deathworld: Globalisation’s Other Face,” Nick Lawrence
World-Systems and Life-Worlds: Globalisation in Plural, Tallinn University, July 2010
“What Postcolonial Theory Doesn't Say: (Post-)Colonialism and Capitalist Modernity,” Neil Lazarus
Keynote, What Postcolonialism Doesn't Say: York University, July 2010
“GAN (Great American Novel) vs. World Novel: C. L. R. James on Moby-Dick,” Nick Lawrence
Institute of Advanced Study Vacation School, University of Warwick, June 2010
“The Global Novel and Peripheral Modernism,” Nick Lawrence, Graeme Macdonald and Stephen Shapiro
University of Brighton, May 2008
“What is a Global Novel?” Nick Lawrence and Graeme Macdonald
University of Sussex, April 2007
