Official home of Doris Lessing centenary celebrations, including international conference & exhibition. Finalist for Outstanding Social & Cultural Impact Award
University of East Anglia, UEA
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#DorisLessing's authorised biographer @PatrickFrench explores Lessing's space fiction for Nature magazine. 'Doris Lessing at 100: roving time and space.' A section of the #DorisLessing100 exhibition @sainsburycentre focuses on the #CanopusInArgos series. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
In ‘Colonialism and Beyond’ Elizabeth Jackson (University of the West Indies), Pat Louw (University of Zululand) and Josna Rege (Worcester State University) discuss colonialism, cosmopolitanism, and migration in Lessing’s work, chaired by Duncan Large @uealdc
Plenary panel bringing our #lessing100 conference to a close, featuring prominent #dorislessing scholars @corneliuscoll, Susan Watkins, @alice_ridout, @Contempislesfic, @aajjyotsna and Robin Visel, chaired by organiser @matthewtaunton.
Professor Susan Watkins @leedsbeckett on ‘The Chthulucene, the Posthuman & Apocalyptic Time in #DorisLessing’s “Ifrik” novels’. Lessing uses sequel to proliferate multiple times spaces that exist to rework & challenge conventional sequencing & narration of apocalyptic narrative.
Next up @alice_ridout #TheSummerBeforeDark: Eco-anxiety, Solastalgia & Wellness in the End Times. Draws on a letter to #IngmarBergman @UEAArchives #DorisLessing100 exhibition in which Lessing says she always saw the novel as a film more so than any other novel.
The Lessing and Posthumanism panel is a wealth of Lessing scholars, Professor Claire Hanson @UniOfSoton kicks off looking at Lessing, AN Whitehead & the posthuman in Lessing’s Canopus in Argos sequence.
Sandra Singer compares #TheGoldenNotebook with Sarah Henstra’s #TheRedWord. Fascinating look at second & third wave feminism in relation to the texts & their consistencies & differences.
Next up Tamara Sampey-Jawad gives a Marxist feminist analysis of #TheGoldenNotebook. ‘How does the unique form of TGN help to highlight the myriad ways in which oppression functions.’
We open our panel on #TheGoldenNotebook with Arwa Al-Mubaddel (Cardiff) examining metamodern oscillation in Lessing’s text.
Roberta Rubenstein delivers the second keynote of #lessing100, appraising #DorisLessing’s documentation of our times.
