Past Events

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

Open University Book History and Bibliography Seminar: Landmarks in Book History
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:00

Karin Littau (Essex): 'Subsequent Steps towards a Media History of the Book'
Dr Karin Littau teaches in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of
Essex. Her research interests include book and film history, adaptation, reception and translation studies.
She is the author of Theories of Reading: Books, Bodies and Bibliomania (2006) and The Routledge Concise
History of Literature and Film (forthcoming).

Palaeography and Diplomatic for Historians cancelled
Short course
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Speakers:

Debby Banham, Caroline Barron, Paul Brand, Professor Michelle P. Brown, Elizabeth Danbury, Professor Judith Green, Julian Harrison, Dr. Beth Hartland, Aaron Hope, Nigel Ramsey, Carole Rawcliffe, Patrick Zutshiy

Term 2, Thursday afternoons, 2.00-4.00 for 10 weeks, commencing January 2012.

This course is designed to introduce historians to the palaeographical study of a range of source materials, mostly in Latin, English and French, such as accounts and rentals, wills, manorial records, official documents, chronicles and correspondence.

Categories of material will be introduced and contextualised by experts in each field and practice in transcription and interpretation will be undertaken in class. The period covered will range from the Anglo-Saxon age to the 16th century.

The course will be under the direction of Professor Brown and Dr Danbury, with participation by invited specialist lecturers and will include some supervised access to original materials within the Senate House Libraries special collections. There will be 20 hours of face-to-face teaching, including transcription exercises, and it will be assessed by a 5000 word essay.

Further details and application form.

Psychoanalysis, Literature and Practice
Seminar
Time: 17:00 - 19:00

Text:
Freud: ‘Typical Dreams’ Section D, Chapter V of The Interpretation of Dreams;
Jean Laplanche ‘Implantation, Intromission’, in Essays on Otherness.
Shakespeare, Hamlet; Sophocles Oedipus Rex.

Commentator: John Fletcher (University of Warwick)

Irish Studies Seminars
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00

Prof. Anna McMullan (University of Reading): 'Staging History in Brian Friel's The Home Place (2005)'

Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00

Tony Lopez (Plymouth University): Canto 9

London Nineteenth Century Studies Research Seminar
Seminar
Time: 11:00 - 13:00

'Orality and Literacy'

Herbert Tucker (Virginia): 'Unsettled Score: Structure and Play in Browning's "A Toccata of Galuppi's"'
William Abberley (Exeter): 'Voices of Nature: The Oral Past in Victorian Historical Fiction'

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

Karin Ekholm (HPS, University of Cambridge): 'Timon's spade and the Queen of Hearts: medicine and anatomy in Nathaniel Highmore's emblematic title page'

Open University Book History and Bibliography Research Seminar: Landmarks in Book History
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:00

David Finkelstein (Dundee): 'Assessing Don McKenzie's Legacy in the Digital Age: A Case
Study'.  Prof David Finkelstein is Dean of the School of Humanities at the University of Dundee, with research
interests in media history, print culture and book history studies. His authored and edited publications
include The House of Blackwood: Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era (2002), An Introduction
to Book History (2005), The Book History Reader (2001, rev. 2nd ed. 2006) and the Edinburgh History of the
Book in Scotland: vol. 4: Professionalism and Diversity, 1880-2000 (2007). He is also editor of Print
Culture and the Blackwood Tradition, 1805-1930 (2006), which was awarded the 2007 Robert Colby
Scholarly Book Prize for significantly advancing the understanding of the nineteenth-century periodical
press.

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

Film screening: 'Edward Said: The Last Interview' (Dir. Mike Dibb)

Senate House Library Friends
Lecture
Time: 18:00 - 20:00

Andrew Sanders, 'Dickens and the City'
Dickens was the first, and probably remains the greatest, writer to use the experience of living and working in a great city as an integral part of his invention. He will always be associated with London. The Victorian city is uniquely recalled in his work and modern readers, like their nineteenth-century predecessors, are vividly reminded of a physical pattern of streets, houses and public buildings transformed by a great writer's imagination. Andrew Sanders, whose study, Charles Dickens's London was published in 2010 will illustrate his talk with images drawn from a wealth of historic prints and photographs.

Attendance free, all welcome.  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.

Medieval Manuscripts Seminar
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:00

Julian Luxford (St Andrews): ‘The freedom of medieval drawing’

London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship cancelled
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:30

Robert V. McNamee: " '...of things which they were not in quest of': digital design and serendipity"

London Theatre Seminar
Seminar
Time: 18:30 - 20:30

Beth Hoffmann (George Mason University, Washington): ' "No longer true enough": Realism underneath and beyond in John Osborne and Forced Entertainment'

The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00

We will continue with the `Hades' episode (Chapter 6), p. 84, l. 640 (Gabler ed.): `The ree the ra the ree the ra......'.

Stephen Spender Research Seminar
Seminar
Time: 18:00 - 20:00

'Encounter, the CIA, the IRD and the relationship of British intellectuals with the Establishment'.

In 1967 it was revealed that the magazine Encounter had been secretly financed by the CIA since its foundation. Stephen Spender, its British co-editor, resigned. Its American editor Melvin Lasky stayed on. Whereas the CIA aspect has received much publicity and several academic studies, the involvement of the British co-sponsors, the Information Research Department of the Foreign Office, has largely been ignored. This symposium will discuss the extent to which editorial decisions were compromised by the magazine's secret sponsors, what were the differences in outlook and policy between the CIA and the IRD, and what damage was caused by the revelation of its secret agenda. Though the symposium will concentrate on Encounter, it will also discuss the larger question of Anglo-American cultural relationships.

Those taking part, in provisional order of speaking: Matthew Spender (son of Stephen Spender and a board member of the Stephen Spender Trust); Frances Stonor Saunders (author of Who Paid the Piper?: CIA and the Cultural Cold War); James Smith (New College; he is writing a book on British intellectuals and the Establishment); Maren Roth (writing a biography of Melvin Lasky and is supervisor of the Lasky papers in Munich); Jason Harding (Durham University, and TS Eliot Project, Institute of English Studies).

London Old and Middle English Research Seminar (LOMERS)
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:30

Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford): 'With musis for to strv strive: correcting English verse in the 1400s'

South Asian Fiction: Contemporary Transformations
Seminar
Time: 17:30 - 19:00

Florian Stadtler (Open University): 'An "Epico-Mythico-Tragico-Comico-Super-Sexy-High-Masala-Art": Hindi cinema and the contemporary Indian novel in English'

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

FW 516.12: and fex himself up, Miles

London Shakespeare Seminar
Seminar
Time: 17:00 - 19:00

Clare McManus (Roehampton University): ' "Sing it like poor Barbary": Othello and Renaissance Women’s Performance'

Emily Sherwood (City University of New York):  'Blessed with the Child, Burdened with the Husband in The Pleasant Comodie of Patient Grissill and The Winter’s Tale'