Monday 5th December / 18:00 - 20:00 / UCL Student Centre, Gordon Square/ public event
The Waste Land: Roundtable discussion and readings
This public roundtable event brings the canon of TS Eliot's poetic modernism forward a hundred years, to read it not so much in retrospect, but to revisit it in the shadow of the Anthropocene. The conversation will generate renewed perspectives on interrogation of the changing relations between humanity and nature. Equally, it is a suitable moment to ask how its ecocritical speculations on the wonder and dread of the nonhuman world have held up, and to consider how its posthuman reflections can be carried forward to indigenise and decolonise the Anthropocene. This event is organised by Dr Pushpa Arabindoo, UCL Geography and Co-Director of UCL Urban Laboratory, and Nicola Baldwin, playwright and UCL Creative Fellow (2019-20). Participants will include Dr Julia Jordan, UCL English and Dr Pavan Manogaran, Research Fellow at Sarah Parker Remond Centre, IAS and Miranda Miller, novelist and RLF Fellow. No sign-up is necessary!
Miranda's book "When I Was" will be launched at the Owl Bookshop at 6:30pm on Tuesday 18th March.
On Thursday 26th June 2025, from 18:00 - 19:00, join Miranda at BarbicanFest. She will discuss her latest book When I Was with fellow author and publisher Martin Goodman, exploring her venture into autofiction, basing characters on real people and exploring her memories in this moving tale of childhood set in 1950s London. Miranda will read from her book and there will be an opportunity to ask questions.
This event is free and will take place via Zoom.
You can get further information and book online at Eventbrite.
