QUILTING POINTS:

The paper presented by our speaker, Dr Maebh Long, has been published by the journal World Picture in their issue entitled 'Sustainability'. The essay can be found here . We encourage you all to read it.

The reading group will be meeting at 17.15 on Tuesday the 5th of April to discuss Agusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed , to follow on from our reflections on spectator and spectacle at the Guy Debord meeting. The main text will be Frances Babbage's second chapter from Agusto Boal , 'Theatre of the Oppressed'. The discussion will be led by Katie Elphick, who will give a brief introduction to Boal and the chapter. The book is accessible online through the Leeds library, and through www.dawsonera.com. Venue: Seminar Room 5. Hope to see you there. The Link is here . The Press about Babbage's Agusto Boal : This useful study combines: a biographical and historical overview of Boal 's career as playwright and director in-depth analysis of Boal 's classic text on radical theatre, The Theatre of the Oppressed exploration of training and production techniques practical guidance to Boal 's workshop methods.

The next Quilting Points Reading Group Meeting will be on Tuesday the 15th of March at 5.15 pm in the Douglas Jefferson Room of the School of English. We will be reading Maurice Blanchot's three essays on Nietzsche from The Infinite Conversation . No familiarity with Nietzsche is required. If you would like copies of the text, please email quiltingpoints@gmail.com. Please also remember Dr Maebh Long will be presenting a paper entitled "The Hedgehog and Lord Browne: the "to come" of the Humanities" at a combined Critical and Cultural Theory Group and Quilting Points Seminar next week, Thursday 10th of March at 5.30 pm, also in the Douglas Jefferson Room of the School of English. All are welcome to both events.

We are happy to announce the inaugural seminar of the Quilting Points Seminar Series will take place at 5.30 pm on the 10th of March 2011 in the Douglas Jefferson Room of the School of English at the University of Leeds. Dr Maebh Long (Durham) will be presenting a paper entitled, The Hedgehog and Lord Browne: the "to come" of the Humanities. All are welcome. The Hedgehog and Lord Browne: the “to come” of the Humanities In Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities , Martha Nussbaum speaks of the current global education crisis, in which the humanities, “seen by policy-makers as useless frills, at a time when nations must cut away all useless things in order to stay competitive in the global market, … are rapidly losing their place”. This paper investigates the future of education proposed by the Browne Report, a future in which the humanities are unabashedly sidelined as low-priority frills. Claiming to present a “sustainable future for education”, the Bro...

There is to be a mini-exchange conference between MA and Phd students and academics of the University of Leeds and Humboldt-University of Berlin on the 15th and 16th of February in the School of English and the Leeds Humanities Research Institute at the University of Leeds. Papers will treat topics in the fields of African literary and cultural studies, theatre studies, politics and poetry. The programme may be found here.

We will be meeting on the 22nd of February in the Douglas Jefferson Room of the School of English at 5.15 pm to discuss Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle, and, if there is the time and desire,  responses by Agamben and Ranciere.

Quilting Points , or The reading group formerly known as the School of English Theory Reading Group, will be meeting at 5.15 on Wednesday the 2nd of February in the Douglas Jefferson Room of the School of English at the University of Leeds. The text under discussion is Deleuze and Guattari's Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature , with particular emphasis to the question posed by Chapter 3: What is a Minor Literature? All are welcome, and people are encouraged to bring something potable.