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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Kingston University
Penrhyn Road
Kingston upon Thames
Surrey KT1 2EE

Tel: +44 (0)20 8417 9000

Public seminars

The Centre for Suburban Studies seminar series is an interdisciplinary forum for current research on suburb-related matters.

The seminars are free to attend, and are open to Kingston University staff, students and the public.

Seminars take place on Wednesdays from 4-6pm in room JG2002, John Galsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road Campus. Please contact Dr Martin Dines for more information.

Autumn 2010

Date Title
27 October 2010 Tim Foster (University of Nottingham), 'Escaping the Split-Level Trap: Postsuburban Narratives in Contemporary American Fiction'
24 November 2010 Cathy Gale (Kingston), 'Designing a manifesto for suburbia: how to visualise polite fury'

Past events

Previous seminars include:

  • Katrina Barnicoat (Kingston), 'Slightly Soiled and Not Nice to Know: Late Victorian and Edwardian Suburbanites'
  • Will Brooker (Kingston), 'Everywhere and Nowhere: Vancouver, Fan Pilgrimage and the Suburban Imaginary'
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