Past Events

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

Inter-University Seminar: Romanticism and Postcolonialism
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:30

Tim Fulford: 'Transatlantic Indians: 18^th Century Empire and the Representation of Native Americans'

Recommended Reading: Robert Southey, Madoc (1805), Tim Fulford and Kevin Hutchings (eds.) Native Americans and Anglo-American Culture (2009), and Alden T. Vaughan, Transatlantic Encounters: American Indians in Britain, 1500-1776 (2006).

Tim Fulford is Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University. His major publications include Romantic Indians: Native Americans and Transatlantic Literary Culture 1755-1830 (2006), the edited collections Romanticism and Millenarianism (2001) and Science and Romanticism (2002), and (edited with Peter Kitson) the multi-volume Travels, Explorations and Empires: Writings from the Era of Imperial Expansion 1770-1835 (2001).

OU Literature and Music Research Group Workshop
Workshop
Time: 10:30 - 16:00

This workshop follows the one held in July 2009, and is part of the Research Group’s programme to foster a UK Research Network in Literature and Music studies.  It is aimed at postgraduate students, their supervisors, and all other researchers in the field.

The day will consist of papers from established academics, roundtable discussion of topics relevant to researchers in the field, and short (15-minute) presentations of current research from postgraduate students.

Current students, or those who have recently received their doctorate, who would like to take this opportunity to present a short paper in a supportive environment of their research peers, should send a brief (150–200 word) proposal to either of the convenors of the day.

The event will include lunch for participants. If you wish to attend, please contact us by 10 September. Convenors: Robert Samuels (Music, The Open University): r.samuels@open.ac.uk;  Delia da Sousa Correa (English, The Open University): d.dasousa@open.ac.uk

Full details of the day will be published in due course on the Research Group’s website ( http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/literature-and-music).

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

Djuna Barnes Research Seminar
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00

Katie Lowe, 'She Tells Her Daughter: The Genealogy of Womanhood in Djuna Barnes's Early Plays'
Sarah Parker, ' ''Seen From the 'L' '': The Book of Repulsive Women, Decadence and Lesbian Literary History'