Registration for Mini-Symposium and Berthoud Public Lecture with Prof Kasia Boddy

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Wednesday 8 May, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, University of York

Mini-symposium (4.15pm-6.15pm): Plants, Poetry, and Punchy Prose
The Modern School of York's Department of English and Related literature is holding a mini-symposium in honour of the wide-ranging work of Prof Kasia Boddy, whose books include: Blooming Flowers: A Seasonal History of Plants and People (Yale University Press, 2020); Geranium (Reaktion Books, 2013); The American Short Story Since 1950 (Edinburgh University Press, 2010); and Boxing: A Cultural History (Reaktion Books, 2008). Contributions include:

Janine Bradbury - What Women Wrestle With: Notes on Joanie Laurer

Sam Reese - Only Anecdotal? The Story of the Short Story

Becca Drake - Tree Poetry

Bryony Aitchison - Orchids and Fritillaries: Queer Desire in the English Gardens of Vita Sackville-West

Lucy Foster - Mexican Mangroves

Tom Houlton - Petals/Queer: Cruising in the Garden

Anthony V Capildeo - BECOMING CREATURE

Berthoud Lecture (6.30pm, followed by a drinks reception): Ripe for Dictatorship: Fearing the Worst in American Fiction and Film of the 1930s

Speaker: Prof Kasia Boddy

During the 1930s, Americans began to imagine what a homegrown fascism might look like. Drawing widely on the fiction and film of the period, this lecture will concentrate on Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel It Can’t Happen Here, in which a mild-mannered journalist comes to realise that there has never been ‘a people so ripe for dictatorship as ours’. Little read for many years, Lewis’s novel has recently come to seem relevant again, as the book that predicted Trump.

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