Time, Memory and Forgetting in the Western

POETRY READING AND GUEST TICKETS FOR THE SYMPOSIUM ARE NOW AVAILABLE! Howdy one and all! We are now pleased to announce that symposium guest tickets are now available! Tickets entitle you to attend all panels in the symposium on one or both days; to refreshments throughout (not including the symposium dinner – please let us know if you would like to join us for this!); and entrance to the poetry reading on Friday, 11 th September – 6pm – at The Lakeside Theatre Bar on our Colchester campus. Two day tickets cost £15. Day tickets cost £10. You can book by making a payment here: https://paypal.me/timememorywest If you are booking for one day only, please specify which day you would like to attend! Guest tickets will also be available on the door, for both days and for the poetry reading. The poetry reading line-up is set to include Jonathan Skinner, Montenegrofisher, Philip Terry and other special guests – including emergent Dorn scholars from the Essex MA in Creative W...

   REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!   Howdy one and all! REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN FOR OUR TWO-DAY, TWO_STREAM SYMPOSIUM! Thanks to Tim Atkins for the poster design! You can register by making a payment of £50.30 here: https://paypal.me/timememorywest The symposium will take place at the University of Essex, in Colchester, UK, on 10 and 11 September 2026. Registration costs £50.30GBP, and includes lunch and refreshments on both days. We’ve kept the fees as low as possible; we know what the funding landscape is like at the moment. If it’s really not accessible to you, please do get in touch, and we’ll find a solution. Please make sure you enter your name clearly, and we will write to you to confirm receipt! The symposium includes key-note addresses from Neil Campbell, Erin Murrah-Mandril and Jonathan Skinner. The two-day event culminates with a poetry reading, featuring Tim Atkins, Montenegro Fisher and many more! We will have a book table: please do bring books to ...

  Time, Memory and Forgetting in the Western A Two-Day Symposium at the University of Essex 10-11 September 2026 Dr Richard Parker ( Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)   and Dr Jordan Savage (University of Essex) are excited to invite you to "Time, Memory and Forgetting in the Western". This symposium considers the role of the hegemonic American artform - the literary and cinematic western - on the global stage at a time when understanding narratives of power in the U.S.A. is more necessary than ever.  This symposium engages with time, memory and forgetting as means of approaching and disputing hegemonic nationalisms; as reaching out to the speculative turn in contemporary art and literature; and as aesthetic and philosophical constructions in and of themselves. We are also celebrating and exploring connections between our host site, the University of Essex, and the Western (and the Western United States) through our special event track "Dorn in Essex", look...