The Salon Presents: A Cock and Bull Story

Hello, Saloneers, Leicester postgraduates, and those who have merely wandered in from the internet having exhausted the amusement value of LOLcats. Welcome! Some of you may be a little dispirited by Autumn's encroachments, the demands of the postgraduate workload, or the failure of memers to use the appropriate font on their funny cat pictures. The Salon will be countering these woes with a showing of the comedy, A Cock and Bull Story, three short interdisciplinary presentations, and tea and biscuits. I know, I know; we're so good to you!

Taking inspiration from the upcoming Literary Leicester festival (http://www2.le.ac.uk/institution/literary-leicester), at next week's Salon we will be showing A Cock and Bull Story, the 2006 adaptation of Sterne's Tristram Shandy starring Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan. The film will be introduced with three short interdisciplinary presentations from within the department: Miriam Cady will look at the use and representation of the country house within the film, Emma James will consider its status as a literary adaptation, and Victoria Byard will look at the film in terms of genre and form. Tea, coffee and biscuits, and possibly cake depending on how everyone's research is going, will be provided. 

The Salon will take place from 13:00-15:00 in Seminar Room ATT 202, Attenborough Second Floor on Wednesday 2nd November. You can also keep up to date with what's going on at The Salon with Twitter @thesalon_haf, or join the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/155452421216246/. If you would like to contribute to this blog with posts about ongoing research, issues that you've come across as a postgraduate student or even just interesting links, then we would be more than happy to have you! Just talk to either myself or Julie at the Salon meeting. I will be the one doing a convincing impression of the Cookie Monster.

Hope to see you next week, and, as ever, the Salon is open to everyone so please feel free to forward this information on to anyone you think might be interested.