{"id":109,"date":"2017-10-31T16:51:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T16:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/english\/?page_id=109"},"modified":"2017-10-31T16:51:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T16:51:59","slug":"speaker-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/english\/speaker-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker series"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Centre for Literature and Writing Visiting Speaker Series 2017-18<\/h2>\n<p>20 September 2017, 3:30 pm, Merchiston campus, room B2<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.research.manchester.ac.uk\/portal\/en\/researchers\/howard-booth(045eaede-023a-4524-89ca-2fe3effe06ea).html\">Dr Howard Boot<\/a>h (University of Manchester): &#8216;Rabindranath Tagore and Modernism: Translations of <em>The Home and the World<\/em>&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>31 October 2017, 5:00 pm, Merchiston campus, room B2<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/staff\/profiles\/english\/sykes-rachel.aspx\">Dr Rachel Sykes <\/a>(University of Birmingham): \u2018TMI: Acts of Oversharing in Contemporary American Women\u2019s Writing\u2019<\/p>\n<p>8 November 2017, 8:00 pm, Lighthouse Books (free but ticketed event &#8211; 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