Past Events

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

LEARNING TO SWIM IN 1595
Lecture
Time: 18:00
Speakers: Professor Nicholas Orme

Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Speakers: Helen Carr (Goldsmith's)
Ur-Canto 2

Irish Studies Research Seminars
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Speakers: Lucy Mcdiarmid (Montclair State University)

London Nineteenth Century Research Seminar Series
Seminar
Time: 11:00 - 13:00
Speakers: Prof. Tim Cresswell (Royal Holloway), Prof. Josephine McDonagh (Kings College London), Dr David Lambert (Royal Holloway)

Modernism Research Seminar
Seminar
Time: 11:00 - 13:00
Speakers: Lucy McDiarmid (Montclair State University)
'The Peacock Dinner: Wilfrid Blunt, Yeats, Pound, and the Profession of Poetry'

EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination)
Seminar
Time: 14:00 - 16:00

Postgraduate Feminist Reading Group
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00

History of Libraries Research Seminar
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Speakers: Dr John Screen (University College, London)
'From Helsinki to Irkutsk: Finnish military libraries from 1812 to 1918'

Inter-University Postcolonial Studies Seminar
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
'Wilde in America'

Literary and Critical Theory Seminar
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Speakers: Nathan Widder (Department of Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway)
'Time and Discontinuity: Aristotle, Bergson, Deleuze'.
For details of optional preparatory reading, please contact [mailto: rowanboyson@gmail.com | Rowan Boyson]

Things Fall Apart, 1958-2008
Conference / Symposium
Time: 00:00
Speakers: To be confirmed
The publication of Chinua Achebe's first novel, "Things Fall Apart", in 1958 marked the beginning of a new era in African writing in English. It was an inspiration for writers and readers not only on the African continent but throughout the world. Fifty years later, this conference seeks to revisit that novel and assess its significance then and now. CLICK HERE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.

The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar
Seminar
Time: 18:00
We will continue reading "Proteus" at U 3.201.

John Coffin Memorial Literary Readings
University Trust Fund Event
Time: 18:15
Speakers: Elleke Boehmer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Abdulrazak Gurnah

Chair: Professor Alastair Niven (Chairman of the Commonwealth Writers Prize Advisory Committee and President of English PEN)
African writers respond to the work of Chinua Achebe: readings in conjunction with a conference marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of "Things Fall Apart".

Free and open to the public, but with limited space. If you would like to attend please contact [mailto: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk | Jon Millington], Institute of English Studies, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU; tel +44 (0)207 664 4859

London Shakespeare Seminar
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Speakers: Paul Yachnin (McGill University);
Eric Langley (UCL)
Respectively:
'Making Public Spaces in Shakespeare Theatre';
'"Unlike my Self, and like my Self I am: Self-fond, Self-furious'": The preposterous subjects of narcissism and suicide'

Psychoanalytic Thought, History and Political Life Post-Graduate Forum
Seminar
Time: 17:45 - 19:45
The theme of this year's postgraduate forum will be 'On violence'. We will begin with Sigmund Freud's 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle' (1920) and Walter Benjamin's 'Critique of Violence' (1921). Freud's work is available in the Standard Edition or in the Penguin Freud, or via Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing at Birkbeck, QM and various other libraries. Benjamin's essay is available in various collections including his 'One-Way Street'. It can also be found online here

WE REGRET THIS SESSION IS NOW FULL, BUT YOU ARE MOST WELCOME TO PUT YOUR NAME DOWN FOR THE NEXT MEETING BY EMAILING [mailto: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk | Jon Millington].

Wyndham Lewis Reading Group
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Speakers: Alan Munton

London Old and Middle English Research Seminar (LOMERS)
Seminar
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Speakers: Richard Marsden (University of Nottingham)
'Hapaxes and Hard Words in the Heptateuch'

THE SLOANE PRINTED BOOKS PROJECT LAUNCH
Conference / Symposium
Time: 17:30 - 20:00
Speakers: Kristian Jensen (Acting Head of British Collections, British Library), Professor Hal Cook (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL), Arthur MacGregor (Ashmolean Museum), Giles Mandelbrote (Early Printed Collections, British Library), Alison Walker (Lead Researcher, Sloane Printed Books Project)
The British Library in association with the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL announces the launch of the Sloane Printed Books Project, at the British Library Conference Centre 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB UK.

The Sloane Printed Books Project has created an online catalogue which lists books which belonged to Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), whose collections were one of the foundation collections of the British Museum. Bibliographical records are enhanced with Sloane's own numbers or other identifying marks, and with information about previous owners. The catalogue can be used in many different ways, including identifying individual books from his library, displaying a range of items in the order in which Sloane organised them, or searching for the previous owners of books in Sloane's library.

Presentations on the historical background to Sloane's book collection will be followed by a demonstration of the online catalogue and an opportunity to search its content.

Programme:
17.30 Welcome and opening remarks (Kristian Jensen)
17.40 Collecting information and advancing medicine in the time of Sir Hans Sloane (Hal Cook)
18.00 Sir Hans Sloane and the collection of knowledge (Arthur MacGregor)
18.20 Sir Hans Sloane, founder of
the British Museum Library (Giles Mandelbrote)
18.40 An Introduction to the Sloane Printed Books Catalogue (Alison Walker)
19.00 Questions and discussion
19.15 Drinks reception

Attendance is free but please register your name with [mailto: teresa.harrington@bl.uk | Teresa Harrington]
at the British Library. www.bl.uk

Senate House Library Friends Annual Charles Holden Lecture
Lecture
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Speakers: Dr Sarah Thomas (Bodley's Librarian and Director of Oxford University Library Services)

English Literature Training Day for Research Postgraduates: Late 19th Century to the present day
Workshop
Time: 09:30 - 17:00
National Research Training Scheme study day. CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS AND REGISTRATION.

Senate House Library Friends Museum of London in Docklands Tour
Other events
Time: 14:30

Open University Book History and Bibliography Research Seminar
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Speakers: Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen (University College London)

Medieval Manuscripts Seminar
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Speakers: Alixe Bovey (University of Kent)

London Theatre Seminar
Seminar
Time: 18:30 - 20:30
Speakers: Joanne Tompkins (University of Queensland)

EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination)
Seminar
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Speakers: Ian Hunter (University of Queensland, Australia)

English Literature Training Day for Research Postgraduates: Medieval to 18th Century
Workshop
Time: 09:30 - 17:00
National Research Training Scheme study day. CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS AND REGISTRATION.

Finnegans Wake Research Seminar
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00