Category: Reading Group
Event information and reports on monthly reading group
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We are really excited to be hosting an event for the launch of a new short story collection from renowned SF author M John Harrison. The event will be taking […]
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For our July text we read Frankenstein in Baghdad, a 2013 novel by Ahmed Saadawi, translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright in 2018. We met online on Zoom on […]
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On the evening of Monday 1st of June, we met for a reading group session focussing on Walking the Clouds (2012), an anthology of Indigenous science fiction, edited by Grace […]
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Our May reading group book was The Fifth Season (2015) by N. K. Jemisin, which we discussed over Zoom on Monday 4th May from around 7 until 8.30 pm. As with […]
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The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic across the world has been of grave concern for all. The tragic loss of life, the strain to the health-service, the anxiety caused by […]
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Due to the ongoing industrial action in higher education, our March meet up took a slightly unusual form. We meet every month at Birkbeck, University of London. Currently, staff at […]
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On Monday 6th of January we met at Birkbeck, Gordon Square, to watch and discuss Space is the Place (1974) by Sun Ra. Due to unforeseen technical difficulties we moved from […]
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On Tuesday the 2nd of December we met at Birkbeck, Gordon Square, to discuss Brown Girl in the Ring (1998) by Nalo Hopkinson. The novel is set in a post-apocalyptic […]
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We are pleased to announce our monthly reading group schedule for this year’s theme of Beyond Borders. The texts and films below received the highest votes from past and prospective […]
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We met on Monday 4th of November, at Birkbeck’s Gordon Square building, to discuss Exit West (2017) by Mohsin Hamid. The meeting was the second of our new cycle of […]