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01 February 2011 |
British Library National Postgraduate Training Day
ENGLISH (19TH-21ST CENTURIES). Organised to help new postgraduate researchers get the most out of British Library's resources. Sessions range from general introduction to the BL's collections and services, to presentationd and debates on particular topics specific to your subject. An excellent opportunity to meet research peers, academics and the BL's expert curators. Places are limited to new postgraduate researchers; attendance free, with a limited number of travel bursaries available to students living outside London. Details: www.bl.uk/HEtrainingdays.
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01 February 2011 |
History of Libraries Research Seminar
Rev. Gerard Moate (Dedham, Essex): 'The Milden mystery: the search for the lost library of William Burkitt (1650-1703)'. One of the largest parochial libraries established anywhere in early eighteenth-century England was left in the care of successive incumbents of Milden, a small parish in Suffolk. For two hundred years the library remained intact until, a century ago, it was abruptly sold without any record of the titles being kept. From a recently re-discovered Victorian manuscript catalogue of the library, and from other sources, it has been possible to gain an appreciation of that remarkable "lost library" and to trace some of the volumes to present-day libraries here and in the USA.
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03 February 2011 |
London Theatre Seminar
Professor Rachel Fensham (Surrey): 'Watching Beside Others: more thoughts on theatre spectatorship'
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04 February 2011 |
Irish Studies Seminars
Edna Longley (Belfast), 'Relations between Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry: Conclusions from a Research Project'
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04 February 2011 |
Finnegans Wake Research Seminar
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05 February 2011 |
Methods and Resources
Wim Van Mierlo Methods and Resources MA Study Day 2
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05 February 2011 |
Modernism Research Seminar Series
Modernism and Performance
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05 February 2011 |
EMPHASIS (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination)
Soul and Intellect in the Seventeenth Century: Michael Edwards (Jesus College, Cambridge): 'Time and the passions of the soul';
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07 February 2011 |
Postgraduate Feminist Reading Group
Reproductive Technologies and the New Politics of Motherhood: Dion Farquhar, '(M)other Discourses', in The Gendered Cyborg: A Reader (2000)
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08 February 2011 |
British Library National Postgraduate Training Day
ENGLISH (MEDIEVAL-18TH CENTURY). Organised to help new postgraduate researchers get the most out of British Library's resources. Sessions range from general introduction to the BL's collections and services, to presentationd and debates on particular topics specific to your subject. An excellent opportunity to meet research peers, academics and the BL's expert curators. Places are limited to new postgraduate researchers; attendance free, with a limited number of travel bursaries available to students living outside London. Details: www.bl.uk/HEtrainingdays.
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10 February 2011 |
London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship
Philip Schofield and Valerie Wallace: 'Transcribe Bentham: Taking the Bentham Edition into the Digital Age'
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10 February 2011 |
Medieval Manuscripts Seminar
Dr Debby Banham (University of Cambridge): 'An eleventh-century medical manuscript, at least partly from Bury: BL Sloane 1621'
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11 February 2011 |
Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group
Sarah Barnsley (Goldsmiths College): Canto 5
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12 February 2011 |
Open University Book History and Bibliography Research Seminar: Reading in the First World War
Edmund King (The Open University): 'A Captive Audience? The Reading Lives of Australian Prisoners of War, 1914-18'. Edmund King is RED (Reading Experience Database) Research Associate in the English Department at the Open University, where he works on transnational reading during World War I. He received his PhD in English from the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 2008. His areas of interest outside First World War Studies include the digital humanities, Shakespearean textual criticism, the literature of settlement in the 19th-century Pacific, and library and book history, particularly in a colonial context. Jonathan Black (Kingston University): 'Reading behind the Lines: Letters between British official war artists and writers of the First World War'. Jonathan Black studied History and History of Art at St. John's College, Cambridge and University College, London. His PhD in History of Art was awarded by UCL in 2003 for his thesis exploring constructions of masculinity and the image of the British foot soldier in First World War art. Publications include: The Sculpture of Eric Kennington (London, 2002); Blasting the Future: Vorticism in Britain (London, 2004); Form, Feeling and Calculation: The Paintings and Drawings of Edward Wadsworth (London, 2005) and Dora Gordine: Sculptor, Artist, Designer (London, 2008). His next book The Face of Courage: Eric Kennington and the Second World War (April 2011) will accompany the exhibition of the same name he is curating at the Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon.
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14 February 2011 |
Literary and Critical Theory Seminar
Professor Derek Attridge (University of York): 'What Does It Make You Feel?: Responding Affectively to Literature'
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16 February 2011 |
Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar
Professor Robert Sheppard (Edge Hill): 'Form’s Mordant Eye: Poetry as the investigation of complex contemporary realities through the means (meanings) of form'
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18 February 2011 |
The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar
Reading will continue from U6.389
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19 February 2011 |
Jane Austen and the cultural and literary currents of her time
A study day presented by the Jane Austen Society and the Institute of English Studies. Speakers include Professor E.J. Clery (University of Southampton), Danielle Grover, Alan Thwaite. CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION AND MORE INFORMATION.
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19 February 2011 |
London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar
Postgraduate Forum: 11.40-12.10: Susan Civale (Birkbeck): 'Mary Wollstonecraft's 19th-Century Reputation: Obsession, Repulsion, Fascination'; David Gillott (Birkbeck): 'Reading Samuel Butler through late-19th-Century Representations of Giordano Bruno'. Chair: Vicky Greenaway. Questions: 12.10-12.20 12.20-13.05: Alan McNee (Birkbeck): 'Cold Stone Reality: the Phenomenology of Mountain Climbing in Late Victorian Britain'; Alison Wood (KCL): '"The brazen tube and the miraculous lens": Wonder and Microscopical Imagery in Late 19th-Century Britain'; Brian H. Murray (KCL): 'Miniature Kingdoms: Henry Morton Stanley and his "African Dwarfs"'. Chair: Ana Vadillo. Questions: 13.05-13.15
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21 February 2011 |
Djuna Barnes Research Seminar
Nick Hocking (Birkbeck College): 'Like a priestess in a bear’s cave: Jung’s anima and Modernist sexuality in 'Nightwood'. The marginalisation of Carl Jung within the humanities, in contrast to the ongoing attraction of Freud, raises an obvious question of whether we have thereby overlooked an important intellectual source for Modernist writing. But additional to the issue of Modernism's debt to Jung, this paper tentatively suggests that Jungian and post-Jungian insights could have ongoing value to us as critical tools. My reading suggests that Djuna Barnes's Nightwood is a particularly apt text for a discussion of Jung and Modernism; as a novel concerned with marginalised and transgressive sexualities it functions to critique aspects of Jung’s thought which are rightly identified as reductive and heteronormative. But, by overlaying the figure of a Jungian (rather than Freudian) analyst on Nightwood's Dr O'Connor, I will also argue that Jung's work is particularly apt for understanding the strange symbolic movements of Barnes's novel: the gradual amplification of its themes, the chthonic associations of ‘Night’ consciousness with the 'transcendence downward’, the association of alchemy with psychic development, and the general emphasis of image and symbol. Suggested reading: Nightwood and extracts from Jung's autobiography Memories, Dreams, Relections (London: Flamingo, 1983), pp. 65 - 70 and Modern Man in Search of a Soul (London: Routledge, 2001), pp. 170-176. CLICK HERE FOR PDF EXTRACTS.
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23 February 2011 |
Institute of English Studies Director's Seminar
Martyn Ould (The Old School Press): 'Making books at the end of the seventeenth century - working life at the University Press, Oxford during its formative years' How the University Press at Oxford became a corporate reality and, except for paper, became self-sufficient as a maker of books, despite problems at home and wars abroad. Biographical Note: Martyn Ould is an independent researcher with a special interest in the history of printing at Oxford University Press.
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24 February 2011 |
Open University Seminar: Biography
William Radice: 'Biographizing Tagore' William Radice read English at Magdalene College, Oxford, taking a diploma in Bengali at SOAS followed by an Oxford D.Phil on Michael Madhusudan Dutt. His first volume of poetry Eight Sections appeared in 1974, and subsequent volumes include Strivings (1980), Before and After (1995), Gifts (2002) and Green, Red, Gold: A Novel in 1001 Sonnets (2002). His narration to rhymed couplets to Mozart’s Zaide was commissioned by the Trinity College of Music in 2007 and his translation of Puccini’s Turandot was performed by the English National Opera in 2009. In 2003 William’s collected columns for Calcutta’s Statesman were published under the title A Hundred Letters from England. A Senior Lecturer in Bengali at SOAS, he is among the most accomplished English translators of Tagore.
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24 February 2011 |
London Theatre Seminar
Panel: ‘Histories of Live Art’, Gavin Butt (Goldsmiths), Dominic Johnson (Queen Mary), Heike Roms (Aberystwyth)
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25 February 2011 |
Virginia Woolf in the 21st Century
Speakers: Gillian Beer, Ali Smith, Rachel Bowlby, Susan Sellers and Jane Goldman. Followed by a wine reception to launch Between the Acts and The Waves, edited by Michael Herbert, Susan Sellers and Mark Hussey: the first volumes in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf, edited by Jane Goldman and Susan Sellers. Space is limited. If you would like to attend please contact by Abigail MacDonald at amacdonald@cambridge.org or call 01223 325755 by 16 February 2011.
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26 February 2011 |
Open University Book History and Bibliography Research Seminar: Reading in the First World War
Jonathan Arnold (IES, University of London): 'Please send me Tess of the Dr Rbyvilles (Harding)”: Reading preferences of American Soldiers and Sailors during World War One'. Jonathan Arnold has a career in editing and publishing. He returned to academia in 2005 to complete the MA in Book History (University of London). He was awarded his Doctorate (University of London) in 2010 with his thesis “Publishing Theodore Roosevelt 1882-1919”. He has given papers at SHARP, the British Association of American Studies Conference and the lunchtime seminar series at the IES. He was awarded the 2008-09 Houghton Mifflin Fellowship in Publishing History at Harvard University. He divides his time between freelance editing and academic work and is currently working on a monograph based on his thesis. Jane Potter (Oxford Brookes University): 'Khaki and Kisses: Reading the Romance Novel in the Great War'. Jane Potter is Senior Lecturer in Publishing at Oxford Brookes University. Her book Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918 is published by Oxford University Press. She has also contributed to Publishing in the First World War, edited by Mary Hammond and Shafquat Towheed.
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28 February 2011 |
London Shakespeare Seminar
Florence March (University of Avignon): 'Richard III at the Avignon Festival';
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28 February 2011 |
Literary and Critical Theory Seminar
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