Past Events

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

London Theatre Seminar
Seminar
Time: 18:30 - 20:30
Speakers: Heike Roms (University of Aberystwyth), Matthew Reason (University of York St John), Bonnie Hewson (UCL), Kate Dorney (Curator of Contemporary Theatre Collections, V&A)
Panel on archives and archiving.

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

Inter-University Postcolonial Studies Seminar
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Speakers: Alex Tickell, '‘“Horrorism” in the Heart of Empire: Theorising Violence and History at India House, 1905–1909’
Alex Tickell is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Portsmouth. He has published widely on early Indian fiction in English, contemporary authors such as Arundhati Roy, and Indian literature and Hindu nationalism. He has also researched aspects of literature and terror, and is currently working on an AHRC-funded monograph project titled ‘The Massacre at Night: Violence, Terrorism and Insurgency in Indian Writing, 1830–1947’.

Literary and Critical Theory Seminar cancelled
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00

The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar
Seminar
Time: 18:00

Irish Studies Research Seminars
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Speakers: Joep Leerssen, 'Cultural Transfer and philology: Appropriating the Gaelic past in the nineteenth century'

London Shakespeare Seminar
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Speakers: Steven Mullaney (Michigan), 'Affective Irony or Ciceronian Mimesis? The Emotional Logic of Elizabethan Revenge';
Ann Thompson (KCL), 'Looking before and after: prequels and sequels of Hamlet'

Senate House Library Friends
Lecture
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Speakers: Sue Donnelly (Archivist, LSE Library) and Richard Temple (Archivist, Senate House Library): The Charles Booth Archive
A presentation on the Booth Family papers and the Charles Booth Online Archive, a searchable resource giving access to archive material from the Booth collections of the Archives Division of the Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE Archives) and Senate House Library. The Booth collection at LSE Archives contains the original records from Charles Booth's famous survey, "Life and Labour of the People in London", dating from 1886 to 1903, notably containing the poverty maps indicating social deprivation in London during this period. The archives of the Senate House Library contain Booth family papers from 1799 to 1967, notably correspondence of Charles Booth, ship-owner and social commentator and his wife, the writer Mary Catherine Booth, nee Macaulay.

All welcome. Attendance Free.
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.

Psychoanalytic Thought, History and Political Life Post-Graduate Forum cancelled
Seminar
Time: 17:45 - 19:45

London Old and Middle English Research Seminar (LOMERS)
Seminar
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Speakers: Amanda Holton, "‘I, me, me, mine’: rhymes of the loving lyrical self"

London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Speakers: Anouk Lang (University of Birmingham), "Mediated reading across the nation"
This paper explores ways in which analytical techniques from corpus linguistics can be used in conjunction with other methods to gain insight into the social significance of nationwide community-reading projects that have arisen over the past decade. Using three corpora of news texts which address Canada Reads, Richard and Judy?s Book Club in the UK and The Big Read programme sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts in the US, the analysis focusses on two features: 1) the kinds of topics that media commentators discuss alongside reading, and 2) the use of evaluative language to frame reading in overwhelmingly positive terms. These findings are then set against participants? textual responses to an online survey and verbal responses in the context of a focus group. This multi-disciplinary approach helps to identify the social ?work? such reading programmes are seen to be performing, and to give a sense of the discourses circulating around these events which may have less to do with reading and more to do with the construction of national imaginaries, the replication of discourses of community-building issuing from elsewhere, and the covert articulation of taste-hierarchies.

Anouk Lang is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Birmingham, where she works on the AHRC project ?Beyond the Book: Contemporary Cultures of Reading in the UK, the US and Canada?. She is currently editing a volume on reading practices in the 21st century and the impact of technology on individuals' relationships with books, and is also preparing a manuscript on Canadian and Australian literary modernism.

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

Inter-University Postcolonial Studies Seminar
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Speakers: Anne Kershen, ‘The Alien in the Aliens Act: Defining the Outsider’
Anne Kershen has been Director of the Centre for the Study of Migration at Queen Mary, University of London, since its foundation in 1995. Based in the Department of Politics, she is currently Director of the Masters in Migration and Masters in Migration and Law programmes. She has published widely, her most recent book being "Strangers, Aliens and Asians: Huguenots, Jews and Bangladeshis in Spitalfields 1660–2000" (Routledge, 2005). She is currently researching the impact of post-accession migrants on communities with no history of previous immigrant settlement, her spatial focus being Shropshire.

Open University Book History and Bibliography Research Seminar
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Speakers: Kate Macdonald (University of Ghent), 'The American editions of John Buchan, 1875-1940'
Kate Macdonald is a lecturer at the Department of English, University of Ghent, in Belgium. She is the author of "John Buchan: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction" (McFarland & Co, 2008), and teaches British popular culture and Anglophone poetry to Flemish students.

Literary and Critical Theory Seminar
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Speakers: Jonathan Hackett, 'On the Correct Handling of Jouissance Among the People'.
Optional preparatory reading for this seminar is 'Analyticon' in Jacques Lacan, "The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Book XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis", trans. by Russell Gigg (New York: Norton, 2007), pp. 197-208; please email rowanboyson@gmail.com for a PDF

Medieval Manuscripts Seminar
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Speakers: Roger Wieck (Morgan Library and Museum, NY)

Methods and Resources
Research Training
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Speakers: Wim Van Mierlo (Institute of English Studies), "Mastering the Dissertation"
These study days are designed to introduce students to a range of topics relevant to postgraduate research - from discovering resources and choosing a dissertation topic to considering doing a PhD and more. In addition to being a forum for discussing research issues, the study days will help to put postgraduates in touch with others throughout the University who may have similar interests and concerns. In other words, it is a very good place to meet people.

Enquiries: Dr Wim Van Mierlo, Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, Senate House, Malet Street; London WC1E 7HU, Tel: 020 7862 8679

London Nineteenth Century Studies Research Seminar Series
Seminar
Time: 11:00 - 13:00
Speakers: Hilary Fraser (Birkbeck College), 'Women Writing Art History: The Art of Fiction' ;
Colin Cruise(Aberystwyth), 'Illuminated Dreaming: Burne-Jones, Image and Text'