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01 October 2010 |
The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar
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02 October 2010 |
Writing Equipment Society Meeting
Speakers: Dr Irving Finkel (Assistant Keeper, Department of the Middle East, British Museum); Professor Michelle Brown (Professor of Medieval Manuscript Studies at the Institute of English Studies, University of London); Dr Geoffrey Roe (retired Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Manchester University) In recent years the Writing Equipment Society has established a pattern of holding a meeting in London on the day before the London Writing Equipment Show; this year is no exception. However, since this year is our 30th anniversary, the meeting will be exceptional and one not to be missed. As well as hearing outstanding speakers, there will be the opportunity to see an exhibition of items from the Museum of Writing. This is rare opportunity as the Museum does not yet have permanent exhibition space. Admission will be by ticket only. Non-members of WES are welcome to book for this event. The cost is £20 for the day which includes refreshments on arrival, a buffet lunch and afternoon tea. Please send a cheque for £20 per person made payable to “WES” to Bill Linskey, 32 Stockwell Green, London, SW9 9HZ and please do not forget to include your full address for the return of your ticket(s). CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.
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02 October 2010 |
Modernism Research Seminar Series
Modernism and Impressionism
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04 October 2010 |
Postgraduate Feminist Reading Group
READING: Joan W. Scott: ‘Fantasy Echo: History and the Construction of Identity’ (2001); Robyn Wiegman: ‘On Being in Time with Feminism’ (2004); Alison Bechdel: Excerpt from Fun Home (2007). CLICK HERE FOR EXTRACTS.
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06 October 2010 |
Open University Seminar: Biography
Sarah Bakewell: 'Biographizing Montaigne'. Sarah Bakewell was a curator of early printed books at the Wellcome Library before becoming a full-time biographer and writer. Her subjects have ranged from Caroline Rudd, eighteenth-century Irish-born seductress and forger (The Smart, 2001), to Jorgen Jorgenson, nineteenth-century marine adventurer, one-time ruler of Iceland and founder of Tasmania (The English Dane, 2005). Earlier this year she published How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer, a life study of an essayist - itself in essay form - that transports biography into experimental terrain. Sarah also teaches Creative Writing at the City University.
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07 October 2010 |
Celebration of the Walter de la Mare Library and the Thomas Sturge Moore Collection
Presented by University of London Research Library Services, and the Institute of English Studies. Giles de la Mare: 'A Literary Universe: Walter de la Mare's Library and the de la Mare Family Archive of his Complete Oeuvre'. These two collections are of equal importance in very different ways in illuminating the life and work of the poet, novelist and short story writer Walter de la Mare (1873-1956). The Working Library is probably unique and reveals much about Walter de la Mare that is both unfamiliar and unexpected. It consists of nearly 650 separate publications, of which over 100 date from the nineteenth century and earlier. The de la Mare Family Archive is a bibliophile's paradise, covering over fifty years of typographical design, with many limited editions by noted designers. Followed by a wine reception in the Great Lobby. All welcome. Attendance free. If you would like to attend please contact jon.millington@sas.ac.uk | tel. +44 (0)207 664 4859.
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08 October 2010 |
Irish Studies Seminars
Erika Hanna (Oxford), ‘Urban Modernisation and the Politics of Heritage in Mountjoy Square Dublin, 1960-1970’
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09 October 2010 |
Psychology/Aesthetics in the Nineteenth Century
Speakers include: Professor David Amigoni (Keele); Dr Neil Vickers (Kings College London). Respondents: Professor Isobel Armstrong (Birkbeck), Professor Jenny Bourne Taylor (Sussex) This interdisciplinary one-day conference reassesses the complex and intimate relationship between the emerging discipline of psychology and the field of aesthetics in the nineteenth century. CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION AND MORE INFORMATION.
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12 October 2010 |
History of Libraries Research Seminar
Nigel Ramsay (University College London): 'Libraries for schools, hospitals and the professions in medieval and Tudor England'.
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12 October 2010 |
London Forum for Authorship Studies
Joseph Rudman (Carnegie Mellon University): 'The Non-Traditional Case for the Authorship of THE FEDERALIST: a Monument Built on Sand?'. Drinks and questions to follow. Professor Rudman is the author of much influential work on the foundations of authorship studies and humanities computing, including: 'The State of Authorship Attribution Studies: Some Problems and Solutions' (Computers and the Humanities 1998); 'Unediting, De-Editing, and Editing in Non-Traditional Authorship Attribution Studies: With an Emphasis on the Canon of Daniel Defoe' (Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 2005). He has also given a number of important papers on the nature and application of modern authorship studies at recent conferences, including: 'Assumptions, statistical tests, and non-traditional attribution studies – Part II' (Digital Humanities Conference 2008), 'Non-Traditional Authorship Attribution Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature: Stylistics, Statistics, and the Computer' (South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference 2009), and 'The State of Non-Traditional Authorship Attribution Studies 2010: Some problems and Solutions' (Digital Humanities Conference 2010).
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12 October 2010 |
Textual Scholarship Seminar
Philip Schofield and Justin Tonra (UCL): 'Transcription Maximized; Expense Minimized: Crowdsourcing and Editing The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham'
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12 October 2010 |
2010 Wordsworth Lecture
Jenny Uglow, OBE: '"One Human Heart": Elizabeth Gaskell's Wordsworthian vein'. Jenny Uglow OBE is an author and historian. Her books include Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories; A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration, and Nature’s Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick. She is a Trustee of the Wordsworth Trust and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Elizabeth Gaskell was a keen admirer of Wordsworth and his influence is evident throughout her work. In 1836, when her husband was lecturing on "The Poetry of Humble Life" she quoted Wordsworth's "The Old Cumberland Beggar" as an example of the kindness of the poor to each other ("for this single cause,/That we have all of us one human heart"). This talk will mark the bicentenary of Elizabeth Gaskell’s birth by exploring Wordsworth's presence in Gaskell’s industrial novels and rural tales, and also Gaskell’s links with the Lake District, her friendship with the Arnold family and other local literary figures, and her eventual meeting with Wordsworth in 1849. Organised by the Wordsworth Trust and the Institute of English Studies, the lecture will be followed by a wine reception. All welcome. Free and open to the public. If you would like to attend please contact jon.millington@sas.ac.uk | tel. +44 (0)207 664 4859.
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13 October 2010 |
London Old and Middle English Research Seminar (LOMERS)
Catherine Nall (Royal Holloway): 'Sacralising warfare in Knyghthode and Bataile'
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13 October 2010 |
Literary and Critical Theory Seminar
Session 1: Disappointment with Politics:
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14 October 2010 |
T. S. Eliot Research Seminar
Kit Toda (University College London): ' "the change of Philomel": on the identity and movement of the nightingale in The Waste Land'
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14 October 2010 |
John Coffin Memorial Palaeography Lecture
Professor James Carley, ' "In private men’s hands": The library of Archbishop John Whitgift (d. 1604): sources, catalogue, and dispersal'. Chair: Professor Michelle Brown (Institute of English Studies). James P. Carley is a specialist in Old and Middle English; the history of manuscripts; bibliography and the early Tudor period. He has published The Chronicle of Glastonbury (1985), Glastonbury Abbey: History and Legends (1988; revised edn 1996), and has co-edited The Archeology and History of Glastonbury Abbey (1991). He has written extensively on Glastonbury, John Leland, sixteenth-century book culture, the Arthurian legend, and Lawrence Durrell. He is co-editor of Culture and the King: The Social Implications of the Arthurian Legend (1993), of Books and Collectors 1200-1700 (1997), and of 'Triumphs of English'. Henry Parker, Lord Morley, Translator to the Tudor Court (2000). He is one of the editors of Shorter Benedictine Catalogues, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues (1996) and editor of The Libraries of King Henry VIII in the same series (2000). His most recent book is The Books of King Henry VIII and his Wives (2004). The lecture will be followed by a wine reception. All welcome. If you would like to attend please contact jon.millington@sas.ac.uk | tel. +44 (0)207 664 4859.
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14 October 2010 |
London Theatre Seminar
Postgraduate panel: Ella Finer (Roehampton), ‘Airy Nowheres: The Voice in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’;
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15 October 2010 |
Finnegans Wake Research Seminar
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16 October 2010 |
"Mr Popular Sentiment": Dickens and Feeling
Speakers include: John Drew, Valerie Sanders, Catherine Waters, Tony Williams. CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION AND MORE INFORMATION.
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16 October 2010 |
EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination)
Renaissance Natural History: Fabian Kraemer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin): 'Ulisse Aldrovandi’s Twofold Pandechion: Collecting Words and Images in Late Sixteenth-Century Natural History';
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17 October 2010 |
London Shakespeare Seminar
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18 October 2010 |
London Shakespeare Seminar
Jeff Dolven (Princeton University, U.S.A.): 'Besides Good and Evil: Spenser and Compassion';
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20 October 2010 |
Open University Seminar: Biography
Maureen Duffy: 'Biographizing Aphra Behn' Maureen Duffy is among the most distinguished and versatile of living British writers. Her novels include That’s How It Was (1962), The Single Eye (1964), The Paradox Players (1967), Wounds (1969), Capital (1975), Londoners (1983), Illuminations (1991), Occam’s Razor (1998), and Alchemy (2004). Her Collected Poems, 1949-84 were issued in 1985. The Passionate Shepherdess, a life of Aphra Behn, appeared in 1977, and her biography of Henry Purcell in 1994. In 1985 Maureen was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, on whose council she served for many years.
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20 October 2010 |
Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar
Professor Robert Hampson (Royal Holloway): 'Innovation in Modernist poetry'
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21 October 2010 |
London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship
Stan Ruecker (University of Alberta) and the INKE group: 'In, Around, and Beyond the Electronic Book: INKE designs and prototypes to make working with digital text more enjoyable and rewarding'
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21 October 2010 |
2010 Charles Holden Lecture
The 2010 Holden Lecture. Professor Ian Christie (Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck College): 'Something Stirring in the Stack? Why filmmakers enter the library'. Libraries have often provided an incongruous setting for unacademic pursuits on screen, from manhunts to hauntings, and of course seductions. But they also represent knowledge, which is often dangerous as well as enlightening. And in a select group of films, culminating in Amenabar's recent Agora, the defence of the library becomes a powerful symbol of civilisation itself. Little wonder that filmmakers are heavy borrowers. Organised by the Senate House Library Friends. The lecture will be followed by a wine reception. All welcome. Free and open to the public. If you would like to attend please contact Library Office, Senate House Library, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU; tel. 020 7862 8411.
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22 October 2010 |
Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group
Kate Miller (Goldsmiths) Canto 90
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23 October 2010 |
London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar
SPACES OF THE CITY, SPACES OF MIGRATION Professor Andrew Thacker (De Montfort University): 'Locating Early Modernist Verse: Rhymers on Fleet Street' Professor Josephine McDonagh (King's College London): 'Provincialism: Affect and Mobility from Our Village to Elsewhere'
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27 October 2010 |
Literary and Critical Theory Seminar
Session 2: Speaker:
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28 October 2010 |
Medieval Manuscripts Seminar
Benet Salway (Uiversity College London): 'Fragmenta Londiniensia Anteiustiniana: Codex Gregorianus redivivus?'
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28 October 2010 |
Connections & Diversions: A Sideways Look at Walter de la Mare
Written and performed by Anne Harvey In her lecture, writer and actor Anne Harvey takes a sideways look at Walter de la Mare, who wrote 'The Listeners', just one of his many poems and stories taking a journey into the unknown and into the imagination. 6.15pm, Thursday 28 October 2010 £5, Drinks and refreshment will be provided For queries, further details and booking please visit:
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28 October 2010 |
London Theatre Seminar
Panel Discussion: ‘Performing the Peace Process in Northern Ireland’ - Zachary Lamdin (Birkbeck), Caoimhe McAvinchey (Queen Mary), Wallace McDowell (Warwick); Aoife Monks (Birkbeck)
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29 October 2010 |
The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar
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