Co-hosted by Creative Interactions and Contemporary Cultures of Writing at The Open University, together with colleagues from Falmouth University and Northwestern University in Qatar, this event will be held at the Foundling Museum in London on the 20th and 21st of June, with online pre-sessions on the 10th and 19th of June. Registration is now open. Spaces are free, but limited in person.

A one-day symposium on the ways writers create worlds, real and imagined, featuring award winning novelists and non-fiction writers.

Tobias Smollett After 300 Years offers a collection of essays on one of the great literary figures of the eighteenth century: the Scottish writer, Tobias Smollett (1721–1771). Join the contributors to the book as they take this opportunity to reflect on Smollett’s life, writing and reputation.

This lecture recital will consider Ralph Vaughan Williams’ settings of 6 sonnets by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1904). The first of these to be composed was 'Silent Noon’; singer Julia Hollander and pianist Peter McMullin will focus on this song, its relationship to the rest of the cycle and especially the theme of silence. They analyse the ways Vaughan Williams’ music depicts silence, and consider the role of Rossetti as both painter and wordsmith: calling on both our listening and our (silent) visual powers.

Explore reading for escape as an instrumental practice, as well as reading and escape as a series of cultural or personal associations in this free online conference.

FASS: New Curriculum Showcase

Moving on and summer study