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Writing for the Media Seminar
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'Desire, Literature, Culture' | Postgraduate Symposium
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DESA presents its 4th Pop Culture event:
An evening with Jane Austen
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DESA presents: The Open Mic Event
DESA is giving you the chance to make your voice heard, literally, at ‘The Open Mic Event’.
We are inviting you to read your best-loved poem, or an extract from your favourite book, or sing / play that song that you just can’t get out of your head.
With KSU's help (as an activity taking place during KSU's Green Expo), a stage, microphone and sound system will be provided during ‘The Open Mic Event’. This will be located in the Green Expo Tent (Car Park 4) and it will take place on Thursday, 17th November (11am-1pm).
All you have to do is book your slot and show up.
read. sing. play. the stage is yours.
Please contact the DESA team on info@desa.org.mt for more information and to book your slot.
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Meet the Author: David Lodge
We are inviting you to read your best-loved poem, or an extract from your favourite book, or sing / play that song that you just can’t get out of your head.
With KSU's help (as an activity taking place during KSU's Green Expo), a stage, microphone and sound system will be provided during ‘The Open Mic Event’. This will be located in the Green Expo Tent (Car Park 4) and it will take place on Thursday, 17th November (11am-1pm).
All you have to do is book your slot and show up.
read. sing. play. the stage is yours.
Please contact the DESA team on info@desa.org.mt for more information and to book your slot.
Visit the Facebook event page and click ‘Attending’!
DESA's Green Policy
DESA has created its Green Policy to help ensure the safeguarding of the environment. Click here to view!
Click here to view a signed copy.
DESA Adopts a Panda
Past Events:
DESA's 'Creativity FTW' campaign!
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Pop Culture Event #3: The Beatles
Holiday Movie Marathon
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November 2010
Medieval Knight: Party like it's 1411!
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November 2010
The Department of English Students Association (DESA) shall be holding its Electoral Annual General Meeting (AGM) for academic year 2010/2011 on:
Tuesday 9th November at 15:00 in Gateway Hall B2
All students sitting for courses within the English Department (Honours students, General students, or students whose subsidiary subject is English) hold the right to vote.RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=125989144124540
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October 2010
Photos from our activities during the KSU Freshers Week (including the Film Screening) will be uploaded in the coming days.
September 10 2010
- Photos from the first DESA symposium, Publishing Perspectives, are now available for viewing at the Gallery section of this website.
- Visit the TEXT website to read Issue 3 - September 2010, which has just been released. Articles include an interview with Editor Jo Caruana, a thematic exploration of the 'Legacy of Kain' series of video games and landmark sci-fi movies such as 'The Matrix', engaging poetry and short prose pieces, and literary critique and theory on Virginia Woolf, medieval poetry and an overview of the philosophical aspects of language. .
August 18 2010
DESA is proud to announce its first Symposium, supported by Lions Club Sliema. 'Publishing Perspectives' is a unique event, bringing together local established journalists, novelists, poets, editors and new media experts for a morning of insightful talks and discussion on the industry.
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August 9 2010
As part of the 'Evenings on Campus' summer cultural festival, the DESA executive board met with acclaimed novelist Simon Mawer (author of the 'The Glass Room) during a reading and discussion event
May 23 2010
in collaboration with the US Embassy
On Wednesday 26 May at 19.00, the award-winning poet Peter Campion will be reading from a selection of his work at the KSU Melita Common Room on Campus.
Peter Campion has held a George Starbuck Lectureship at Boston University, as well as a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lecturership at Stanford University. He is the author of two collections of poetry, Other People (University of Chicago, 2005) and The Lions (University of Chicago, 2009). He is also Editor-in-Chief of Literary Imagination: the Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, which is published by Oxford University Press. His poetry and prose have appeared in The Boston Globe, Modern Painters, Parnassus, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Tikkun, The Yale Review and elsewhere. His monograph on the painter Joseph McNamara was published by The Seven Bridges Foundation, and his catalog essay on the painter Terry St. John was published by the Hackett-Freedman Gallery.
The visit of Peter Campion, who is currently resident at the American Academy in Rome, has been facilitated by the gracious sponsorship of the US Embassy in Malta.
We hope to see you there!
29 April 2010
Events
The DESA POP CULTURE SERIES are a number of informal academic events being planned for 2010
where elements from music, film, theatre, urban art, digital, anime/manga and much more will be
brought together with intelligent and current critical thought.
In order to better reflect the variety inherent to popular culture, we are letting you suggest what our
next event in the series should be about. Based on the suggestions we received on our email and
on our Facebook Page, we have compiled the most popular requests. Please use the poll below
to choose your favourite option.
(Note: if you choose 'Other', please email us your idea at info@desa.org.mt)
Check out the photos from the first event in the series here
Update (July 2010):
Voting has been closed, with Tim Burton emerging as the favourite. The next event will therefore feature an overview and screening of this director's films. More information will be published in September.