Past Events

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

London Rare Books School: Week 2
Summer School
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Speakers:

John Barnard, Michelle Brown, Alan Cole, Simion Eliot, David Ganz, Paul Goldman, Jane Roberts, Nigel Roche, Iain Stevenson, Wim Van Mierlo, Rowan Watson, Laurence Worms

A series of five-day, intensive courses on a variety of book-related subjects to be taught in and around Senate House, which is the centre of the University of London's federal system. The courses will be taught by internationally renowned scholars associated with the Institute's Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies, using the unrivalled library and museum resources of London, including the British Library, the British Museum , the Victoria and Albert Museum, the University of London Research Library Services, and many more. All courses will stress the materiality of the book so you can expect to have close encounters with remarkable books and other artefacts from some of the world's greatest collections. Each class will be restricted to a maximum of twelve students in order to ensure that everyone has plenty of opportunity to talk to the teachers and to get very close to the books. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND APPLICATION.

24th International Ezra Pound Conference: Ezra Pound and London
Conference / Symposium
Time: 00:00

The 24th Ezra Pound International Conference will be held in the city where Pound spent the pivotal years of 1908 to 1920 and a place that figures prominently in his work. In addition to four days of papers and panels on Pound and others' work, special events planned include walking tours of Pound’s Kensington and Pound’s Bloomsbury, as well visits to the Courtauld Gallery and the Tate. Additional plans include a reception in Fleet Street, a reading of contemporary poetry related to Pound, the conference banquet, and a two-day excursion after the meeting (10-11 July) to sites in Sussex and Kent, including visits to Stone Cottage, Henry James’s Lamb House, and other modernist locales. CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION AND MORE INFORMATION.

History of Libraries Research Seminar
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:30

James Carley (York University, Ontario): ' "All casualties unto which all things in this mortall life are subject": the libraries of archbishops John Whitgift and Richard Bancroft'.
By the terms of his will Archbishop Richard Bancroft (d. 1610) left his personal collection of books, a goodly portion deriving from his predecessor John Whitgift, to form the basis of an archiepiscopal library at Lambeth. He was deeply concerned about the preservation of the library and set strict conditions for its maintenance. This paper will look briefly at the unpublished catalogues of the collections both of Whitgift and of Bancroft and compare these with the modern-day library at Lambeth Palace. To what degree has Bancroft's collection passed, as he desired, "unto my successor and to the archbishops of Canterbury for ever"?'

NB: THIS LECTURE AND VISIT WILL TAKE PLACE AT LAMBETH PALACE LIBRARY. A drinks reception will be held afterwards. Anyone wishing to attend should notify the convenors at giles.mandelbrote@churchofengland.org.

Dickens, Journalism, Forms of Publishing: Postgraduate Workshop
Workshop
Time: 10:15 - 17:30

This event is centred on the Dickens Journalism Online (DJO) project, which is in the midst of creating a complete online edition of the weekly journals that Dickens edited from 1850-1870, Household Words and All the Year Round =. Participants, guided by leaders of the DJO project, John Drew and Tony Williams, will work together to edit a complete issue. This activity will be contextualised through a day of papers and roundtables that explore some of the issues it raises: Dickens's work as journalist and editor, Victorian journalism and publishing, periodical studies, digitisation projects, online forms of publication, and the opportunities for researchers in Digital Humanities. Laurel Brake, Professor Emerita of Literature and Print Culture at Birkbeck, University of London, will give a keynote paper reflecting her wealth of experience in these areas.  CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.

The T. S. Eliot International Summer School
Summer School
Time: 00:00
Speakers:

The T.S. Eliot International Summer School will bring together some of the most distinguished scholars of T.S. Eliot and Modern Literature, including Daniel Albright (Harvard), Jewel Spears Brooker (Eckerd College), Michael Coyle (Colgate University), Robert Crawford (University of St. Andrews), Lyndall Gordon (Oxford), Jason Harding (University of Durham), John Kelly (Oxford), William Marx (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense),Timothy Materer (University of Missouri), Craig Raine (Oxford), Sir Christopher Ricks (Boston University), Ronald Schuchard (Emory University), Anne Stillman (Cambridge) and Wim Van Mierlo (Institute of English Studies).  The School will be formally opened by Simon Armitage on 9 July, and will incorporate trips to Litte Gidding, Burnt Norton and East Coker, and readings by Simon Armitage, Robert Crawford and Craig Raine.

The T.S. Eliot International Summer School welcomes to Bloomsbury all with an interest in the life and work of this Bloomsbury-based poet, dramatist, and man of letters. It is hosted by the Institute of English Studies of the University of London, which has a national research promotion and facilitation mission for advanced study and research across the field of English Studies. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND APPLICATION.

Caine Prize for African Writing Symposium
Conference / Symposium
Time: 12:45 - 16:30

A critical panel in response to the Caine Prize 2011 shortlist, and the shortlisted writers in conversation with Dr Mpalive Msiska (Birkbeck). Followed by a drinks reception.  Panel: (Chair: Lizzy Attree, Research Associate, University of the Western Cape), Brian Chikwava (Writer, Harare North & Caine Prize winner 2004), Kai Easton (SOAS, Dept. of the Languages and Cultures of Africa), Stephanie Jones (Lecturer, English, University of Southampton).

This event is Free, booking is advised. Venue: The BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum. To book please contact the Box Office phone +44 (0)20 7323 8181 Ticket Desk in Great Court. FOR DETAILS ABOUT THE CAINE PRIZE SHORTLIST SEE: www.caineprize.com.

This event was organised in collaboration with the Royal Africa Society, the Centre of African Studies, the Institute of English Studies and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Victorian Popular Fiction Association 3rd Annual Conference
Conference / Symposium
Time: 00:00

Keynote speakers: Andrew King (Canterbury Christ Church University), Jennifer Phegley (University of Missouri-Kansas City).  After our very successful conferences of 2009 and 2010 the Victorian Popular Fiction Association announces its third annual conference to be held 18 – 19 July 2011. The themes we would like to develop are ideas of sex, courtship and marriage, and the ways in which they are explored and represented in Victorian popular culture. This theme enables us to develop our interdisciplinary interests in nineteenth-century culture, and our understanding of the many and varied attitudes towards relationships throughout the Victorian period. CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION AND MORE INFORMATION.

Literary London 2011: Representations of London in Literature
Conference / Symposium
Time: 00:00

Each year, the Literary London conference invites scholars working in a broad range of literary and related areas to consider any period or genre of literature about, set in, inspired by, or alluding to central and suburban London and its environs, from the city’s roots in pre-classical times to its imagined futures. CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION AND MORE INFORMATION.

The Politics of Marketing and Publishing Writers of Muslim Heritage in the UK
Conference / Symposium
Time: 14:00 - 18:00

Discussion of issues relating to diversity, religion, and the publishing industry, specifically the experiences of writers of Muslim heritage in the industry.  Programme to be confirmed.

Speakers include Shelina Zahra Janmohamed (author of Love in a Headscarf: Autrum Press, 2009), Wendy Meddour (children's author and illustrator), and Aamer Hussein (author and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies).

Chaired by Dr. Claire Chambers, Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literatures and Course Leader, MA Contemporary Literatures at Leeds Metropolitan University. A full-time lecturer in Cultural Studies since 2004, Claire is an expert in contemporary South Asian literature written in English and in literary representations of British Muslims. She is currently completing two books for Palgrave Macmillan, the first entitled British Muslim Fictions: Interviews with Contemporary Writers, and the second a monograph tracing the development of artistic depictions of Muslims in Britain, 1966-present, which are supported by grants from HEFCE, the AHRC and British Academy. She has published widely in such journals as Postcolonial Text, Journal of Commonwealth Literature and Journal of Postcolonial Writing.

Organised by the Muslim Writers Awards and the Institute of English Studies.  If you would like to attend please CLICK HERE TO REGISTER or tel. 0203 246 0015.

English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700
Conference / Symposium
Time: 09:30 - 19:00

A one-day conference to celebrate the launch online of Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700 (CELM) at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, compiled by Peter Beal in collaboration with John Lavagnino and Henry Woudhuysen.  Speakers include: Carlo Bajetta, Peter Beal, Joshua Eckhardt, Germaine Greer (keynote speaker), Elizabeth Hageman, Grace Ioppolo, Gerard Kilroy, Tom Lockwood, Arthur Marotti, Steven May, Richard Serjeantson, and Ray Siemens. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.

This conference, sponsored by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, is FREE and, besides coffee breaks, will include lunch and a drinks reception in the evening. Please note, prior registration is required. For registration and further details please contact: Jon Millington, Events Officer, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU; tel +44 (0) 207 664 4859; Email jon.millington@sas.ac.uk.