Author: scooke2
As part of the celebrations of this year’s James Tait Black Memorial Prizes, we will be joined by JTB Visiting Writer Ian Penman, one of last year’s winners with Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors, following the publication of Erik Satie: Three Piece Suite, in conversation with Simon Cooke. Reception from 5.30pm-6pm.
Friday 30 May, 4:00-6:00pm. Project Room (1.06), 50 George Square We will announce this year’s James Tait Black Memorial Prize winners, hear from the judges and postgraduate panel on this year’s shortlists, and be joined in conversation by Ian Penman, one of last year’s winners with Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors, as part of the James Tait Black Visiting Writers Programme. Reception […]
Thursday 27 November, 15:00-17:00, the Project Room, 50 George Square As the semester and year come to a close, what have we gleaned…? Screen Lives will today show Agnès Varda’s The Gleaners and I (Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse): a ‘social documentary and study of those living on the margins of French society, Agnès Varda […]
Saturday 31 May, 3:30-6:00pm, Screening Room, 50 George Square On what would have been Fassbinder‘s 80th birthday, a special screening of Veronika Voss, his haunting film drawing on the life of the actor Sybille Schmitz, introduced by JTB Visiting Writer Ian Penman, author of Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors. Ian Penman will be in conversation with LLC Film Studies programme […]
Friday May 17th, 5PM, Project Room, 50 George Square, 1.06. A reception will follow. The inaugural LLC-based annual JTB Awards event. We will celebrate this year’s James Tait Black Prizes in Fiction and Biography, discussing the year’s shortlisted writers and winners, and hearing from some of our brilliant student readers. We will be joined by […]
Thursday 16 May, 2024, 10:00-12:00 noon, 50 George Square, Room 3.39.
This Is Not Fusion: A Performance by Amit Chaudhuri, with Adam Moore, Matt Hodges, and Oliver Jarvis
7.00-8.15pm, Tuesday 17 October, 2023, Edinburgh College of Art, West Court. Hosted by the UNESCO Week of Sound in collaboration with the James Tait Black Visiting Writers Programme and the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures Amit Chaudhuri will be performing compositions from a celebrated musical-conceptual project he started as a composer, vocalist, and improviser […]
Monday 9 October, 2.10-4pm, 2023, Teaching Room, Centre for Research Collections, 6th Floor of the University Main Library. As part of the James Tait Black Visiting Writer Programme, we are delighted that Amit Chaudhuri will speak to today’s Reading Group in person. Readings: Amit Chaudhuri, “I Am Ramu” (pdf can be provided), and Annie Ernaux, trans. Alison L. Strayer, The Young […]
5.00-6.00pm, Friday 6 October, 2023, 50 George Square, Lecture Theatre G.03. Followed by Reception from 7.00pm (sponsored by NYRB) – A James Tait Black Prize Visiting Writer Event. A conversation with Amit Chaudhuri, winner of the 2022 James Tait Black Prize in Biography for Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music (NYRB/Faber), celebrating the […]
2.10-4.00pm, Weds 4 October, 2023, 24 Buccleuch Place, 1.04. Amit Chaudhuri Masterclass: ‘Give Nothing Centrality’ – A James Tait Black Visiting Writers Event. Limited to 15 students, postgraduates, and/or doctoral researchers. Participants will be asked to read a number of short extracts, circulated in advance, from Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis’, Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers, and Woolf’s ‘Mr […]
