The Department for Inclusion and Access to Learning, within the Faculty of Education, would like to invite you to a public lecture by Prof Len Platt:
“Cultural Geographics: Inclusion/Exclusion — London and the Thames Estuary”
Wednesday, 11 May 2016
18:00-19:00
GW156
Abstract
One of the marked shifts in intellectual life over the last thirty years has been a generalised displacement of the historical imagination and the parallel rise in caché of cultural geography and a language that imagines the operation of power and inequality in spatial terms.
Relatively little work however has been done on the detail of cultural representation at the local level. Drawing on literary, historical and sociological cultures, in this session Len Platt will be talking about his new work which focuses on the cultural geographics which defines the imagined boundaries separating metropolitan London from its ‘margins’ at the Thames estuary.
Len Platt is Professor of Modern Literatures at Goldsmiths. His publications include Musical Comedy on the West End Stage, 1890-1939 (2004), Joyce, Race and ‘Finnegans Wake (2009); Popular Musical Theatre in London and Berlin 1890-1939 (2014), edited with Tobias Becker and David Linton; Postmodern Literature and Race, edited with Sara Upstone (2015) and the Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature, edited with Brian McHale (2016).