• i-witness

    Those of us who read the Sebald piece a few weeks ago may be interested in a show at the Rose Theatre on 9th December i-witness is a new show inspired by the writings of WG Sebald, a German novelist, poet and academic. …Sebald’s novels are both literal and metaphorical journeys, written as he travelled…

  • Blogging as a form of scholarly activity…

    Claire Woolhouse suggested this article for one of our reading sessions next term, and has kindly written the following synopsis. Luehmann, A. 2008, ‘Using Blogging in support of teacher professional identity development: a case study’ in the journal of the learning sciences, 17:287-337. This is a fascinating article that provides as case study of how…

  • Judith Butler’s ‘Gender Trouble’

     Today we discussed an excerpt from Gender Trouble by Judith Butler.  It began with a debate about the opacity of language in philosophical texts such as this. Most of us had struggled to make sense of at least some of the text. The difficulties presented to the reader by the use of obscure or invented…

  • Documentary, memory and trauma in Sebald’s Emigrants

        Chapter 3: Paul Bereyter, from Emigrants Our discussion began with a debate as to whether the chapter was fiction or documentary or a blend of both; we focussed our discussion on the ‘bogus’ status of the photographs for a while. The numerous images seem to direct our reading and the meanings that we…

  • This week’s text: Extract from W.G. Sebald’s ‘Emigrants’

    This week’s text is a tragic and disturbing tale of a teacher exiled by the Holocaust, who subsequently makes a return to his school in Germany after the War, with fatal consequences.  W.G. Sebald (2002) The Emigrants Translation Michael Hulse. London: Vintage. Chapter 2 Paul Bereyter (pp. 25-63). This has been digitised and is available via the library…