Past Events

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

London Rare Books School (week 1)
Summer School
Time: 00:00
The London Rare Books School is a series of five-day, intensive courses on a variety of book-related subjects. For further information, please visit the London Rare Books School pages .

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The Dublin Library of Edward Worth (1678-1733); What Can It Offer the Researcher?
Lecture
Time: 18:00
Speakers: Professor William McCormack
An introduction to the Worth Library collections. Followed by a wine reception.

If you would like to attend please contact [mailto: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk | Jon Millington], Institute of English Studies; tel. +44 (0)207 664 4859

9th International Milton Symposium
Conference / Symposium
Time: 00:00
Speakers: Ian Archer, Stanley Fish, Achsah Guibbory, Geoffrey Hill, Ann Hughes, Laura Knoppers, Nicholas von Maltzahn, John Rumrich, Regina Schwartz, and Quentin Skinner.

The Caine Prize for African Writing Symposium
Conference / Symposium
Time: 13:30
Speakers: to include Dennis Walder (Open University), Audrey Brown (BBC World Service "Focus on Africa"). Chair: Mpalive Msiska (Birkbeck College)
The winner of this year's Caine Prize for African Writing will be announced on Monday 7 July, and will be followed on Wednesday 9 July by a Sympsium organised by the Institute of English Studies, University of London. CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION AND FURTHER INFORMATION

Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Speakers: Catherine Paul, associate professor, Clemson University, South Carolina
Introducing the 83rd Canto

Hilda Hulme Memorial Lecture
University Trust Fund Event
Time: 18:30
Speakers: Annabel Patterson (Sterling Professor English Emeritus, Yale University)
"MILTON AND THE D-WORD"
Committed to the remarriage of history and literary studies, most of Professor Patterson's twelve books were engaged in this enterprise, particularly "Marvell and the Civic Crown" (1978), "Censorship and Interpretation" (1984), "Shakespeare and the Popular Voice" (1989), "Reading Holinshed's Chronicles" (1994), and "Early Modern Liberalism" (1997), in which Milton played a major role. She also edited the Longman collection of Milton criticism, and was editor-in-chief of the "Prose Works of Andrew Marvell" (2003), her proudest achievement so far. Shortly to appear is "The Long Parliament of Charles II", which considerably extends our knowledge of Restoration politics. Oddly, though, when it comes to Milton, Patterson is most often seduced by the allure of close reading, with surprising results.

This lecture is free and open to the public. If you would like to attend please contact Jon Millington, Events Officer, Institute of English Studies, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU; tel. +44 (0)20 7664 4859; fax +44 (0)20 7862 8720

Hilda Hulme Memorial Lecture
Lecture
Time: 18:30
Speakers: Annabel Patterson
FOR DETAILS OF ALL LECTURE AND READINGS PLEASE CLICK THE "UNIVERSITY EVENTS" LINK.

London Rare Books School (week 2)
Summer School
Time: 00:00
The London Rare Books School is a series of five-day, intensive courses on a variety of book-related subjects. For further information, please visit the London Rare Books School pages .

John Coffin Memorial Lecture in the History of the Book
University Trust Fund Event
Time: 18:00
Speakers: Professor Dr Hans Walter Gabler (University of Munich)
"ARGUMENT INTO DESIGN: EDITIONS AS A SUB-SPECIES OF THE PRINTED BOOK". Among our everyday wares, an edition is a publisher's and bookseller's commodity, the marketing of a straight-printed text between the covers of a book. In the realm of scholarship, the term 'edition' designates a product of greater complexity. A scholarly edition comprises a multiplex of correlated texts organised around and towards the text or work edited, and held together by the editor's argument in support of the validity of the edition's substance and organisation. That argument, only partly verbalised in the editor's own discourse, is in important respects expressed through the design of the edition; and the scholarly edition, too, appears before us as printed pages between covers. It is in the design of the printing that the marketplace edition and the scholarly edition differ. Printers and book publishers have over the centuries resorted to typographical layout to solve the problems of mediating the structured arguments underlying scholarly editions. The lecture aims at illustrating and reflecting upon this aspect of the history of the book.

Venue: the Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS.

This lecture is free and open to the public. If you would like to attend please contact Jon Millington, Events Officer, Institute of English Studies, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU; tel. +44 (0)20 7664 4859; fax +44 (0)20 7862 8720

The John Coffin Memorial Lecture in the History of the Book
Lecture
Time: 18:00
Speakers: Hans Walter Gabler
FOR DETAILS OF ALL LECTURE AND READINGS PLEASE CLICK THE "UNIVERSITY EVENTS" LINK.

Museum of Writing Workshop
Workshop
Time: 10:30 - 17:00

Evidence of Reading, Reading the Evidence
Conference / Symposium
Time: 00:00
Speakers: Keynote speakers: Kate Flint, Jonathan Rose, David Vincent
A major international conference to be held at the Institute of English Studies, University of London. Organised by the Open University and the Institute of English Studies. CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION AND FURTHER INFORMATION.