Speaker confirmed for Orwell Society AGM

The first Orwell Society AGM, open to members of the society, will take place on Saturday 28th April at 11.30am, followed by lunch – the speaker for this will be Dr Michael Sayeau who replaced Peter Davison on the Board of trustees for the Orwell Archive. 

The venue has now been confirmed: The Chancellor’s Hall at Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU.  Members will be emailed these details together with information about how they can go about confirming attendance.

Michael Sayeau received his BA from Amherst College, and an MA and PhD from Princeton University. His doctoral research dealt with the everyday in modern and proto-modernist literature, examining in particular the relationship between narration and temporality in the works of Flaubert, H.G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, and James Joyce. Before coming to UCL in 2008, he taught at SUNY Buffalo. Michael is at work on two major projects. The first is a revision and expansion into book form of his PhD thesis on the everyday, examining the relationship between the narrative rendering of the temporality of lived experience and life stories and wider developments in the social conception of time. He is also starting another book project which will examine the deployment of simplicity as an aesthetic category in the modernist novel and poetry, as well as in the period’s theoretical work on literature, art, and culture. It will likely include chapters on William Morris, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, Basic English, Otto Neurath, Roland Barthes, and others.