‘Islamic Communities in Victorian Britain’, with Yahya Birt, Hamid Mahmood, and Clare Stainthorp2-3pm, Monday 30 October, Room 0.14, iQ East/Scape.
Join us to hear Yahya Birt and Hamid Mahmood in conversation about some of the earliest Muslim communities in Britain. Birt and Mahmood have both written extensively on this topic, their most recent book being Our Fatima of Liverpool: The Story of Fatima Cates, the Victorian woman who helped found British Islam.
No registration required. This event is for all QMUL staff and students, but it has been planned with undergraduate students particularly in mind, so please do share the details with those that you teach.
Hamid Mahmood is the founder of Fatima Elizabeth Phrontistery in London, an Islamic supplementary school, and a teacher by profession with an interest in history of Islam and the West. Yahya Birt is a community historian who has published widely on Britain’s early Muslim history, including Islam in Victorian Liverpool (2021) and The Collected Poems of Abdullah Quilliam (2021).
Assembling the Past: Digital Studies and Literary History
We are pleased to welcome Prof. Dino Felluga (Purdue University) to give a talk and lead a discussion on Wednesday 6 December, 4:30-6:00pm, Room 201, Graduate Centre.
Daniel Deronda puts it well when he considers the unalterable course of events in time: ‘“It can never be altered—it remains unaltered, to alter other things.”’ The novel as genre in fact helped to popularize this way of thinking about time, a way of thinking about past events that now seems so familiar to us as to seem to be the very nature of reality, what my co-author Emily Allen and I term the ‘novel-verse’ in our forthcoming Oxford University Press book, Novel-Poetry: The Shape of the Real and the Problem of Form. Now, what happens if we rethink this approach by changing the medium itself? Does the accompanying message about temporality change? I will discuss two digital ventures that make use of digital tools to rethink our approach to temporality and, thus, our understanding of the past: BRANCH at branchcollective.org and COVE at covecollective.org.
The discussion will be followed by an opportunity to continue conversations over refreshments.
All welcome. Please register for free tickets here: https://buytickets.at/qmul19c/1070523
Accessibility information for Graduate Centre: https://www.accessable.co.uk/queen-mary-university-of-london/mile-end/access-guides/graduate-centre
Victorian Carols in Context
Monday 4 December, 6-8pm
After the delightful time had by all at our carol concert last year, we’re delighted to be hosting another ‘Carols in Context’. Join us in QMUL’s beautiful Octagon Room for mulled wine and mince pies from 6pm. A programme of secular and sacred carols will begin around 6:20pm, led by a choir and contextualised with short critical commentaries from QMUL colleagues. All welcome!
Please register for free tickets here: https://buytickets.at/qmul19c/1070437
Accessibility information: https://www.accessable.co.uk/queen-mary-university-of-london/mile-end/access-guides/queens-building
Edward Carpenter and the Future: Symposium
Friday 28 June 2024 QMUL Mile End Campus, Graduate Centre: Peston Lecture Theatre
You are warmly invited to join us at a symposium, held 95 years since the day of Edward Carpenter’s death on Friday 28 June 2024 at QMUL, and featuring such contributors as the esteemed socialist feminist historian Sheila Rowbotham. In addition, we also welcome you to a string of run-up trips and gatherings that will engage with Carpenter’s strikingly varied commitments, spanning anti-imperial politics, prison reform, and eco advocacy.
This Symposium is part of a series of events, held throughout the first half of 2023, encouraging us to look afresh at the life and work of this pioneering late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writer, utopian, and queer activist. The series is organised by Charlie Pullen and Matt Ingleby.
For more details and photographs of the event series, please see our website: https://edwardcarpenterfuture.org/
Symposium Programme:
09:30 – 10:00 Arrival with coffee
10:00 – 10:30 Welcome and opening remarks – Charlie Pullen and Matthew Ingleby
10:30 – 11:30 Keynote – Kirsten Harris
11:30 – 12:45 Session 1 – Michael Robertson, Owen Holland, Nadine Willems
12:45 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:45 Session 2 – Daniel Breeze, Ethan Evans, Jonathan Green
14:45 – 16:00 Session 3 – Joey Cain, Wendy Parkins, Jennifer Harper
16:00 – 16:15 A video message from Damien Rowse and the Edward Carpenter Retreat in New Zealand
16:15 – 17:00 Concluding Roundtable – feat. Matthew Ingleby, Kirsten Harris, Ruth Livesey, Scott McCracken
17:00 – 19:00 Reception