Past Events

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

London Forum for Authorship Studies
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Speakers: Brian Vickers (Institute of English Studies)
'Identitfying the Co-Authors of "Edward III"'

London Forum for Authorship Studies
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Speakers: Professor Sir Brian Vickers (Institute of English Studies): 'Identifying the Co-Authors of "Edward III"'

Postgraduate Feminist Reading Group
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
READING:
Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock: 'Critical stereotypes: the "essential feminine" or how essential is femininity?' in "Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology" (1981);
Camille Paglia: 'Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art', in "Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson" (1990);
Judy Chicago: "The Dinner Party" (1979);
Tracy Moffat: images from "Laudanum" (1998);
Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger: images from "Eurydice Series" (2001);
The Guerilla Girls: images from "Interventions/Actions" (2008)

London Old and Middle English Research Seminar (LOMERS)
Seminar
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Speakers: Elisabeth Dutton (Worcester College, Oxford), 'Aspects of Medieval Dramaturgy'

Open University Book History and Bibliography Research Seminar
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Speakers: Eric White (IASH, University of Edinburgh), 'Modernist Journals, Transatlantic Print Culture, and the Rise of the American Avant-Garde'
Dr. Eric White is the Newby Trust Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. He has published articles on the American poet William Carlos Williams and his involvement modernist journals, and a monograph entitled Locating the Avant-Garde: Place, Poetics, and Print Culture in Modernist Journals is forthcoming. Currently, he is working on an edition of Williams's early prose and a new monograph project exploring the relationship between experimental writing, identity, and technology in transatlantic print culture.

Literary and Critical Theory Seminar
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Speakers: Stella Sandford (Middlesex University), 'The Origin of Sex'

Senate House Library Friends
Lecture
Time: 19:00
Speakers: Book Club, with Michael Slater: "The Christmas Books", Charles Dickens
If you would like to attend please contact 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.

Medieval Manuscripts Seminar
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Speakers: Deirdre Jackson (British Library), 'Image and Response in Alfonso x's "Cantigas de Santa Maria"'

London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Speakers: Joseph Raben (Queens, New York), '"Native Noon": The Quest for Hyperlinks in Poetry'
As the number of text databases multiplies, exponentially it seems, the question is rising more frequently, "What can we do with all this digitized text that could not be done with print sources?" Many of the responses offered to date imply a narrowing of focus, a restricted view that may perhaps reveal aspects of literature previously unrecognized. I propose adding to this approach an additional, broader perspective that treats all literature as an integrated ecosystem. Viewed this way, our body of world literature can be recognized as embodying almost limitless links among the poems, plays, novels and other texts that constitute our cultural heritage. These links may be established through images, themes, figures of speech or even distinctive diction; the latter is the most readily discerned by non-human viewers. Computer programs that seek out such links have begun to reveal a much more complex cosmogony than is otherwise visible. Specific details of how such a program operates and what results have been obtained can illustrate the potential of this approach to widen the boundaries of literary scholarship and criticism.
Joseph Raben is professor emeritus of English, Queens College of the City University of New York, where he taught for 30 years. He took his Ph.D. at Indiana University, where he minored in folklore under Stith Thompson, with a dissertation on folk speech in Scott's novels. Before taking up a position at Queens, he worked as an engineering aide, then served in the U.S. Army in Tokyo as an editor of translations of documents used in the war crimes trials. At Queens he developed an interest in using computers in humanities research and in 1966 founded the journal Computers and the Humanities, which he edited for 20 years. There he pioneered a semiannual Directory of Scholars Active. From that activity came the print volume, Computer-Assisted Research in the Humanities (New York: Pergamon Press, 1977). In 1978 he founded the Association for Computers and the Humanities and served as its president for two years. He helped to organize several international conferences at the University of Southern California, Grinnell College, Dartmouth College, Rutgers University, North Carolina State University, Auburn University, Osaka Ethnological Museum and the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. He also presented papers at many other international conferences and represented the field at conferences organized by groups within the computer industry. He organized special interest groups at several MLA conventions and within the ACM. He was an invited lecturer at academic institutions all over the United States, Canada, and Western Europe, and in India, China, and Japan. After retiring, he established Paradigm Press to publish Computers and the Humanities, a newsletter on humanities computing and the proceedings of several conferences on databases in the humanities and social sciences.

Irish Studies Research Seminars
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Speakers: Frances Flanagan (Balliol College, Oxford), 'The Memory of the Irish Revolution, 1922-1932'

Modernism Research Seminar
Seminar
Time: 11:00 - 13:00
Speakers: Geoff Gilbert (American University of Paris), 'The Meaning of Contemporary Realism';
David Ayers (University of Kent), 'Trotsky's Literature and Revolution: Marxism and Literature before "Theory"'

EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination)
Seminar
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Speakers: Stephen Pumfrey (University of Lancaster), 'Galileo, Liar: Theory Ladenness, Lunar Theory and the Lunatic History of "Galileo's Last Great Discovery"'

Inter-University Postcolonial Studies Seminar
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Speakers: Conor McCarthy (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), 'Irish Criticism and the Political'
Conor McCarthy is lecturer in the Department of English at NUI Maynooth. He has published essays and reviews in the "Yearbook of English Studies", "Interventions", "Textual Practice", "The Field Day Review", and others, and is the author of "Modernisation: Crisis and Culture in Ireland, 1969-1992" (2000).

Psychoanalytic Thought, History and Political Life Post-Graduate Forum
Seminar
Time: 17:45 - 19:45
The reading for the next seminar is as follows:

Sigmund Freud, 'A Child is Being Beaten' [1919]. This is available in various versions, including in the Standard Edition, vol. 17.

John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace [1919]. This is available in most good libraries (there are several copies at the BL). You can also buy it second hand online through Abe books.

Wyndham Lewis Reading Group
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Speakers: Rod Rosenquist (Newbold College): "Blasting and Bombardiering"

MSS: Modern Manuscript Studies Seminar
Seminar
Time: 17:30
Speakers: Professor Kathryn Sutherland and Dr Jenny McAuley (University of Oxford), 'Editing Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts: Representing what we think we see'

Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Speakers: Mary Ellis Gibson (University of North Carolina): Canto 51

London Theatre Seminar
Seminar
Time: 18:30 - 20:30
Speakers: Helen Nicholson (Royal Holloway), Caoimhe McAvinchey (Goldsmiths College), 'Dialogue on Applied Theatre'

John Coffin Memorial Poetry Reading
University Trust Fund Event
Time: 19:00
Speakers: Elaine Feinstein. The influences alive within her work, and the literary movements and networks she participates in, connect her to a wealth of literary traditions in Britain, Europe (notably Russia, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic) and America. Lyrically and deftly her work acknowledges her desire to "add [her] own definitions to poetry's many existing definitions" (Wallace Stevens) by giving voice to her identity as a Jewish woman. According to Peter Conradi, "Hers is a talent not easily grouped or categorized, [she] is an original".
The Rylands Library has recently acquired Dr Feinstein's archive. The reading will be preceded by a masterclass at the Centre for Creative Writing, 5.00-6.00pm

Venue: Historic Reading Room, Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 3EH

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. If you would like to attend please contact Stella Halkyard, Rylands University Library; tel. 0161 306 6535.

John Coffin Memorial Poetry Reading
Lecture
Time: 19:00
Speakers: Elaine Feinstein
at the Rylands University Library, Manchester. Click here for details.

The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar
Seminar
Time: 18:00