Past Events

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

Study Day: The Manuscripts of James Joyce
Seminar
Time: 13:30 - 18:00
Speakers: Hans Walter Gabler, "Modernist Texts Under Construction: Case studies from manuscripts of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf"
Geert Lernout, "The Finnegans Wake Notebooks and Beyond"
Scarlett Baron, "'We adopt others' phrases': Joyce, Flaubert, and intertextuality"
Study Day devoted to the manuscripts of James Joyce

Wyndham Lewis Reading Group
Seminar
Time: 18:30 - 20:30
Speakers: Reading group
The Wild Body (1927)

Literary and Critical Theory Seminar
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Reading Group

Walter Benjamin 'On Ships, Mine Shafts, and Cruxifixes in Bottles', in Benjamin, Walter (1999) Selected Writings: Volume 2:2, 1931－1934, trans. Rodney Livingstone and others, Cambridge, MA.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, p.554. and 'The Rigorous Study of Art', in the same volume, pp. 666-672.
These will be available shortly at http://littheory.wordpress.com/

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

EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and Scientific Imagination Seminar)
Seminar
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Speakers: Stephen Johnston (Museum of the History of Science, Oxford)
'Mathematics, causes and magnetism: Thomas Digges on the variation of the compass'
Click here for the full programme.

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

London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar
Seminar
Time: 15:00 - 18:00

London Shakespeare
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Speakers: Lucy Munro (Keele) and Subha Mukherji (Cambridge)
'Archaic Shakespeare', and 'The epistemic plot and the poetics of doubt in early modern drama'

Inter-University Postcolonial Studies
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Speakers: Professor Alison Blunt
"Home and Diaspora: Geographies of Dwelling and Mobility"
Alison Blunt is Professor of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London, where her research interests include feminist and postcolonial geographies, geographies of imperial domesticity, and gender, travel and imperialism. She is co-editor of Writing Women and Space: Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies (Guilford, 1994), author of Travel, Gender and Imperialism: Mary Kingsley and West Africa (Guilford, 1994), co-author of Dissident Geographies: An Introduction to Radical Ideas and Practice (Prentice-Hall, 2000), and co-editor of Postcolonial Geographies (Continuum, 2002). Her Domicile and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home was published in 2007 (Oxford: Blackwell).

Psychoanalytic Thought, History and Political Life
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
We will be discussing Sophocles' play, Oedipus together with Christopher Bollas' `Why Oedipus?' in his Being a Character and Ron Britton's 'The Missing Link: Parental Sexuality in the Oedipus Complex' in Britton et al, The Oedipus Complex Today. If time permits, please also look at Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonnus and Rachel Bowlby's Freudian Mythologies.

13th Annual D. F. McKenzie Lecture
Lecture
Time: 17:00
Speakers: Professor Isabel Hofmeyr (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa)
'Gandhi's Printing Press: Print Cultures of the Indian Ocean'

The Lecture will take place in: Lecture Theatre 2, St Cross Building, English Faculty, Oxford University.

Please see http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/ for directions.

13th Annual D. F. McKenzie Seminar
Seminar
Time: 12:00
Speakers: Professor Isabel Hofmeyr (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa)
The seminar will be taking place in the History of the Book Room, St Cross Building, Oxford University.

Please see http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/ for directions.

London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Speakers: James E. Tierney
'British Periodicals, 1660-1800: An Electronic Index'
Abstract: After noting the confusion among scholars of the past century regarding the term 'periodical' and then offering some parameters for defining the term, this paper will point up the importance of the periodical to modern scholars who would attempt to write a history of the age's culture. The first major concern of this paper, however, will involve a review of existing research resources for the study of the periodical: the dispora of original copies and the limited coverage of titles found in the principal microfilms collections; the incomplete and unreliable evidence offered by printed and on-line catalogues and finding lists; and the lack of a comprehensive bibliography of secondary studies. The second movement of the paper will take up those projects --primarily electronic--either planned or currently in progress that will attempt to address some of the deficiencies of existing resources. These include the production of digitized texts of the periodicals complete with the search capability, the creation of a new census of eighteenth-century periodicals, and this writer's own electronic index to the contents of the periodicals. The final section of the paper will summarize the expected state of research resources once all of these new products are in place, and then go on to identify continuing areas of weakness and to reflect on the prospects of ever supplying these needs in the light of the obstacles that must be faced.

Irish Studies Seminar cancelled
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Speakers: Dr Marie Coleman (Queen's University Belfast)
'Irish Sweepstakes'. TO BE RESCHEDULED.

London Theatre Seminar
Seminar
Time: 18:30 - 20:30
Speakers: Jen Harvie (Queen Mary College),
Fiona Wilkie (Roehampton University), Carl Lavery (Lancaster University), Michael McKinnie (Queen Mary College),
Patrice Pavis (University of Paris VIII and visiting professor at the University of Kent)
Panel discussion on London and performance. This panel will involve short presentations from each speaker on London as a specific (rather than generic or taken-for-granted) space of performance.

Dean's Seminar
Other events
Time: 12:30
Speakers: Professor Michelle Brown (Institute of English Studies)

for more information, please click here
'Peopling Paternoster Row: resurrecting the maker of the Holkham Bible and preparing for the Prosopography of Medieval Manuscript Production'. All welcome. Participants may bring their lunch. Wine will be offered.

Literary and Critical Theory Seminar
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Speakers: Esther Leslie, Professor of Political Aesthetics at the School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London: 'On Touching and Not Touching Things Under Glass'
Esther Leslie's research focuses on Marxist theories of aesthetics and culture, especially on Benjamin and Adorno. She is the author of Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism (Pluto 2000), and Hollywood Flatlands, Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant Garde (Verso 2002), Synthetic Worlds: Nature, Art and the Chemical Industry (Reaktion, 2005) and Walter Benjamin (Reaktion 2007). For more information see http://www.bbk.ac.uk/eh/staff/LeslieEsther

Medieval Manuscripts Seminar
Seminar
Time: 17:30
Speakers: Mary Carruthers (New York University)

SHL Friends Book Club
Seminar
Time: 19:00
Speakers: Jim Mussell (Birkbeck College)
BOOK CLUB: H. G. Wells's "The Invisible Man" Tea and coffee available at no charge but donations welcome.

For further information please contact Marcella Mends, Library Office, Senate House Library, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU; Tel: 020 7862 8432. Click here for other SHL Friends events.

Enlightenment and Romanticism Reading Group cancelled
Seminar
Time: 17:00 - 19:00

Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
We will begin reading the 'Proteus' episode. For further information please contact: [mailto: C.Lees@rhul.ac.uk | Christine Lees] and [mailto: A.Gibson@rhul.ac.uk | Andrew Gibson]. click here for a pdf.poster of the series.

Methods and Resourcees Seminar cancelled
Seminar
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Speakers: Wim Van Mierlo (Institute of English Studies)
Mastering the Dissertation

Publishing Science: Seminars in Book History and Bibliography
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Speakers: Jonathan Topham (University of Leeds)
'Scientific Publication and the Readership for Science in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain'
Jonathan Topham is co-author of 'Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature' (2004) and 'Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: An Electronic Index' (2005), and co-editor of 'Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media' (2004).

Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies Lunchtime Seminars
Seminar
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Speakers: Professor Simon Eliot (General Editor of the History of Oxford University Press)
"How on earth do you write the history of the OUP?"

Tea and coffee will be offered. Participants are welcome to bring their lunch. If you would like to attend please contact [mailto: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk | Jon Millington] in advance.

London Old and Middle English Research Seminar (LOMERS)
Seminar
Time: 17:00
Speakers: Robert Mills (King's College London)
"Gender, Sodomy, Friendship and the Medieval Anchorhold"