We invite you to the Burgess Foundation for a peek into our extensive author archive. We will tell the story of Anthony Burgess’s life and work through a series of especially selected objects from the Burgess archive. Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester and became an internationally renowned author, best known for his 1962 novel […]
To launch a new series of events themed around utopia and dystopia, we are pleased to announce the first of our ‘Dystopian Dialogues’. The award-winning writer Adam Roberts will join Andrew Biswell for a conversation about Anthony Burgess and Dystopia. Burgess writes in The Novel Now that many of the famous twentieth-century literary dystopias were […]
The Burgess Foundation has a rolling programme of public exhibitions highlighting the life and work of Anthony Burgess. Because visiting exhibitions has been a little difficult of late, we have expanded our exhibition programme to become fully browsable online. Delve into a world of Anthony Burgess below. Please note: this event page has a date […]
Join Blackwell’s bookshop at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation on Thursday 5th March for an evening with legendary rock photographer Kevin Cummins. He’ll be talking to award winning journalist John Robb about his new book Sex Pistols: The End is Near 25.12.77. About the book: Christmas Day 1977, a day to be spent with family […]
On International Women’s Day, Manchester SWP will be celebrating women past and present who have played leading roles in standing up to sexism, racism and exploitation. Among those joining the event will be Emma Davis, author of A Rebels Guide to Alexandra Kollontai, and Nahella Ashraf, one of Manchester’s best known anti-racist organisers who will […]
Christian Fuchs, professor of media and communication studies and Director of the Communication and Media Research Institute, University of Westminster, will deliver a public lecture entitled Capitalism and Communication: Critical Theory in the Age of the Internet and Communicative/Digital Capitalism. This talk outlines foundations of how to think critically about capitalism and communication in the […]
Global Emergency Care Collaborative (GECCo) NW invite you to shape a global health network for emergency care. Open to all healthcare professionals of all grades (students included) who are interested in emergency care and global health. We welcome those outside the North West region, especially our Yorkshire & Humber colleagues whose GECCo regional team have […]
We are delighted to welcome the prize-winning translator and critic Enrico Terrinoni to give a talk at the Burgess Foundation on James Joyce and Anthony Burgess. James Joyce was Anthony Burgess’s greatest influence as a writer. Joyce’s work inspired Burgess’s novels, music, films and critical writing, including the book Joysprick. Enrico Terrinoni (pictured), a world-famous […]
Freedom of expression is in decline worldwide as authoritarian leaders devise novel methods of distortion, distraction and suppression. Today, free countries face problems that were once specific to dictatorships. Could western journalists one day have to counter the same challenges their colleagues in other parts of the world have had to face? What can we […]
The keynote event for the HIV/AIDS in the 21st Century: Memorialisation, Representation & Temporality academic conference will be a reading from poet Danez Smith, who will read from their work before being joined on stage by Keisha Thompson for a Q&A session. Danez Smith is a Black, Queer, Poz writer, and one of the foremost […]