FURTHER READING AND MATERIALS

Thank you for joining in with the Voices conference, we hope you enjoyed it! If any of our sessions caught your interest take a look below for some further reading and materials that our speakers have suggested.

Homer to Hip Hop: A People's History of Spoken Word:

Stage Invasion - Pete Bearder: http://www.outspokenldn.com/shop/stage-invasion

English, L., & McGowan, J. (Eds.). (2020). Spoken Word in the UK. Routledge.

How can we recover the lost voices of women?

Books:

Robin Briggs, The Witches of Lorraine (Oxford, 2007)

Natalie Zemon Davis, Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives (Cambridge, MA, 1997) and The Return of Martin Guerre (Cambridge, MA, 1983)

Marisa J. Fuentes, Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence and the Archive (Philadelphia, 2016)

Laura Gowing, Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London (Oxford, 1996)

Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (New York, 2019)

Sarah Knott, Mother: An Unconventional History (London, 2019)

Suzannah Lipscomb, The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc (Oxford, 2019)

Lyndal Roper, Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany (London, 2004)

Stephanie Smallwood, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora (Cambridge, MA: 2007)

Camilla Townsend, Malintzin’s Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico (Albuquerque, 2006)

Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (Boston, MA, 1995)

Articles and chapters:

Michel Foucault, ‘Lives of Infamous Men’, in Power ed. James D. Faubion, trans. Robert Hurley et al (New York, 1967), vol. 3, pp. 157-175

Catherine Gallagher and Stephen Greenblatt, ‘Counterhistory and the Anecdote’ in Practicing New Historicism (Chicago: 2000), pp. 49-74

Saidiya Hartman, ‘Venus in Two Acts’, Small Axe 26 (vol. 12 no. 2) (2008), 1-14

Seth Moglen, ‘Enslaved in the City on a Hill: The Archive of Moravian Slavery and the Practical Past’, History of the Present 6.2 (2016), 155-183

Mary Elizabeth Perry, ‘Finding Fatima: A Slave Woman of Early Modern Spain’, Journal of Women’s History 20.1 (2008), 151-167

Diana Paton, ‘Mary Williamson’s letter, or Seeing Women and Sisters in the Archives of Atlantic Slavery’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 29 (2019), 153-79

Stephanie E. Smallwood, ‘The Politics of the Archive and History’s Accountability to the Enslaved’, History of the Present 6.2 (2016), 117-132

Wendy Anne Warren, ‘“The Cause of Her Grief”: The Rape of a Slave in Early New England’, The Journal of American History 93.4 (2007), 1031-1049

'Who am I when I write? Recognising your academic voice'

Pinker, S. (2015) The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century. Penguin, London

Strunk, W. (Jr) & White, E.B. (1979) The Elements of Style. 3rd edition, Macmillan Publishing, New York

Sword, H. (2012) Stylish Academic Writing. Harvard University Press, Massachusetts

Sword, H. (2017) Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write. Harvard University Press, Massachusetts

Saunders, G. (2021) A Swim in a Pond in the Rain. Bloomsbury Publishing, London

'Common Creative Professional Dilemmas: The Imposter Syndrome':

https://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/content/features/how-imposter-syndrome-and-racism-overlap

https://online.maryville.edu/blog/impostor-syndrome-black-perspective/

https://www.ed.ac.uk/chaplaincy/blogs-podcasts-and-reflections/for-times-like-these/imposter-syndrome-is-back

‘AUDIO DESCRIPTION AND THE MINORITY VOICE: SOME EXAMPLES FROM THE IDEA PROJECT’

Free online course: Creating Audio Description: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion now live!

https://vocaleyes.co.uk/services/resources/self-description-for-inclusive-meetings/

Voices of non-human otherness: "Alternate worlds, futures, and perceptions - a journey through speculative fiction.

Discussed texts are below – I have chosen these as I think they are all brilliant reads as well, in case anyone shares my love of science and speculative fiction around non-human animals and merging with otherness! I am also building a website www.animalsinscifi.com where you can find out a bit more! The texts are only in the order I’ll be talking about them, with no hierarchy!

Philip K Dick - Beyond Lies the Wub

Sheri S Tepper - The Companions, The Family Tree

Olaf Stapledon - Sirius

Dean Kootz - Watchers

Adrian Tchaikovsky - Dogs of War, Children of Time, Children of Ruin

Jeff VanderMeer – Borne, Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance), The Strange Bird.

Carol Emshwiller - The Mount

Michael Faber - Under The Skin

Octavia E Butler- Xenogenesis Trilogy (Dawn, Imago, Adulthood Rights)

Daniel Keys - Flowers for Algernon

David Walton - The Genius Plague

Mira Grant – Parasitology Trilogy (Parasite, Symbiont, Chimera)

Karen Traviss, K – Wess’har Wars (City of Pearl, Crossing the Line, The World Before, Matriarch, Ally, Judge)

Jospeph D'Lacey - Meat

Aph & Syl Ko - Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters

Kay Peggs - Animals and Sociology

Thomas Nagel - What Is It Like to Be a Bat?. The Philosophical Review