Past Events

Please note: For events from 1999 to September 2005 you will need to view our Events Archive.

Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Speakers: Professor Ron Bush
Canto 74.

MSS: Modern Manuscripts Studies Seminar
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Speakers: Sally Bushell (University of Lancaster)
"Place, Space and Wordsworth's Manuscripts"

Hilda Hulme Memorial Lecture
University Trust Fund Event
Time: 18:00
Speakers: Claire Tomalin, "Thomas Hardy: Poet and Novelist"
Claire Tomalin is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Vice-President of English PEN. She is the author of highly acclaimed biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft, Katherine Mansfield and Jane Austen. Her account of Charles Dickens' relationship with the actress Nelly Ternan, "The Invisible Woman: the Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens", was published in 1990 and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for biography), the NCR Book Award for Non-Fiction and the Hawthornden Prize. It was followed by "Mrs Jordan's Profession" (1994), a biography of the actress Dora Jordan, consort to William IV. Her play "The Winter Wife" (1991) is based on her own biography of Katherine Mansfield, and she edited the first edition of a previously undiscovered manuscript by Mary Shelley, "Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot", first published in 1998. A collection of book reviews and journalism, "Several Strangers: Writing from Three Decades", was published in 1999. Her biography of the seventeenth-century diarist Samuel Pepys (2002) won the the Samuel Pepys Award, and the 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year award. Her most recent book is "Thomas Hardy: the Time-Torn Man" (2006), shortlisted for the British Book Awards Biography of the Year.

This event is free and open to the public, followed by a wine reception. Venue: the Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies (adjacent to Senate House)

If you would like to attend please contact [mailto: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk | Jon Millington]; tel. +44 (0)207664 4859

Irish Studies Seminar
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Speakers: Dr Norman Vance (University of Sussex)
'Ireland and European Modernism: the Case of George Reavey'

London Modernism Seminar
Seminar
Time: 11:00 - 13:00
Speakers: Peter Brooker (University of Nottingham), Andrew Thacker (De Montfort University)
'Modernist Magazines and Cultural Formations: Rhythm and Coterie'

EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and Scientific Imagination Seminar)
Seminar
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Speakers: Felicity Henderson (King's College, London)
'Scattered remains: locating the books and papers of Robert Hooke'. Guest co-chair: Nadiya Midgley (Birkbeck)
Click here for the full programme.

Dr Stephen Clucas ( s.clucas@bbk.ac.uk ) and Dr Peter J. Forshaw (p.forshaw@bbk.ac.uk ).

Inter-University Postcolonial Studies Seminar
Seminar
Time: 17:30
Speakers: Mohsin Hamid, reading from his Man Booker Prize short-listed novel "The Reluctant Fundamentalist".
Mohsin Hamid grew up in Lahore, attended Princeton and Harvard Law School and worked for several years as a management consultant in New York. His first novel "Moth Smoke" was published in ten languages, won a Betty Trask Award, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His essays and journalism have appeared in Time, The New York Times and the Independent among others.

Psychoanalytic Thought, History and Political Life Forum
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
'Notes on the Phantom' in Abraham and Torok's "The Shell and the Kernel"; Mda Zakes, "The Heart of Redness".

London Old and Middle English Research Seminar (LOMERS)
Seminar
Time: 17:00
Speakers: Helen Phillips (University of Cardiff)
"Chaucer's Cleopatra"

CELM Seminars in Early Modern English Manuscript Studies
Seminar
Time: 17:30
Speakers: John Jowett (Shakespeare Institute)

London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Speakers: David Ganz
'Medieval Libraries in the Digital Age'
Abstract: In this talk I shall briefly survey our evidence for the contents and use of libraries in the Latin West from 800 to 1500, and then discuss various projects for making medieval manuscripts available online: including the Codices Electinici of Cologne and St Gall, the British Library Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts (with which I have been involved) and the Digital Scriptorium. In addition I shall speak about the UCLA St Gall library project, which seeks to combine the evidence of surviving manuscripts and of medieval library catalogues.

Senate House Library Friends Charles Holden Lecture
Lecture
Time: 18:00
Speakers: David Pearson (Director, University of London Research Library Services)
"Libraries as History: the Importance of Libraries Beyond their Texts". The inaugural Senate House Library Friends Charles Holden Liecture.

Interest in the history of libraries and collections, and in the attributes of books beyond their textual content, has been growing. As we enter an increasingly digital age, in which texts become available electronically, these values become all the more important. The lecture will explore these themes in the light of recent work and future directions in library history.

For further information please contact the Office Administrator, Library Office, Senate House Library, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU; Tel: 020 7862 8432

John Coffin Memorial Poetry Reading
University Trust Fund Event
Time: 18:00
Speakers: Les Murray
Les Murray, born in 1938, grew up on a dairy farm at Bunyah on the north coast of New South Wales. Since 1971 he has made poetry his full-time career, and he was the first Australian poet to achieve international acclaim without expatriation. Carcanet publish his "Collected Poems" as well as his individual collections, including "Subhuman Redneck Poems" (1966, awarded the T. S. Eliot prize) and his essays and prose writings in "The Paperback Tree" (1992). His verse novel "freddy Neptune" appeared in 1998 and in 2004 won the Mondello Prize and a major German award at the Leipzig Book Fair. Les Murray received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1999. His latest collection "The Biplane Houses" was published in 2006.

This event is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a wine reception. If you would like to attend please contact [mailto: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk | Jon Millington]; tel. +44 (0)207664 4859

The Charles Peake "Ulysses" Seminar
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00

London Theatre Seminar cancelled
Seminar
Time: 18:30 - 20:30
Speakers: To be confirmed
To be confirmed

The Culture of the Publisher's Series
Conference / Symposium
Time: 09:30 - 17:30
Speakers: Gordon B. Neavill, Robert Fraser, Frederick Nesta
This major two-day conference seeks to encourage International scholars from all disciplines to examine the culture of the publishers' series globally with a view to furthering understanding of its historical, ideological, generic and geographical reach. Click here for registration and further information.

Medieval Manuscripts Seminar
Seminar
Time: 17:30
Speakers: Elizabeth Solopova
'Medieval English Psalters: Sacred Songs, Profane World'

University of London Finnegans Wake Research Seminar
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Speakers: Reading Group

London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar
Seminar
Time: 15:00 - 17:30
Speakers: Professor Jon Mee (Warwick University), Dr Elizabeth Eger (King's College London),
Dr Lawrence Klein (Cambridge University, History), Professor John Stokes (King's College London), Professor Jenny Bourne Taylor (Sussex) and Professor Jim Secord (Cambridge, History of Science); Chair: Dr Josephine McDonagh (King's College London)

Inter-University Postcolonial Studies Seminar
Seminar
Time: 17:30
Speakers: Dr Peter Morey

CMPS Lunchtime Seminar
Seminar
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Speakers: Dr Katie Halsey
For the first CMPS lunchtime seminar will begin with RED. Dr Katie Halsey will talk about and demonstrate the new web-based Reading Experience which now contains c.10,000 records of people's reading in Britain 1450-1945.
The paper will last 20-25 minutes and there will be 15-20 minutes for questions and comments. Please bring your own sandwhiches, etc. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided.
Everyone welcome!

CELM Seminars in early Modern English Manuscript Studies
Seminar
Time: 17:30
Speakers: Loreen Giese (University of Ohio)

Book History Research Network Study Day
Conference / Symposium
Time: 09:00 - 17:30
Speakers: Keynote: Dr Rowan Watson (Victoria and Albert Museum)
CLICK HERE FOR FOR FURTHER DETAILS.

Enlightenment and Romanticism Reading Group
Seminar
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Speakers: Carolyn Steedman (University of Warwick)
Reading: W. H. Auden, Homage to Clio (1965): "Homage to Clio", "Objects", "Makers of History" and from The Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957: part two: "Schoolchildren"

Methods and Resources Seminar
Seminar
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Speakers: Wim Van Mierlo (Institute of English Studies)
Going to the Sources: Heuristic Methods and Bibliographical Resources

Publishing Science: Seminars in Book History and Bibliography
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Speakers: Katy Price (Anglia Ruskin University)
'Einstein for the tired business man: relativity exposition in magazines'
Katy Price teaches English and Writing at Anglia Ruskin University. She has published on William Empson's astronomy love poems and is completing a book on literary and popular appropriations of Einstein's relativity. She is Communications Officer for History of Science at the BA Festival of Science.

British Library English Literature Training Day for Research Postgraduates
Workshop
Time: 09:30 - 18:00
English research postgraduates from across the UK are invited to attend a specially tailored day of talks, workshops and networking opportunities at the British Library. The day will: introduce you to the range of research materials available in the British Library; enable you to attend special workshops; show you how to access online and electronic catalogues, and carry out bibliographic research on your topic; introduce you to specialist curators at the British Library; give you an opportunity to meet and network with postgraduate students from other universities across the UK
The days will contribute to national transferable skills training. CLICK HERE FOR PROGRAMME AND REGISTRATION.

London Theatre Seminar
Seminar
Time: 18:30 - 20:30
Speakers: Dr Helen Freshwater, Birkbeck College
Theatre and its audiences: anxiety, participation and empowerment.