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01 June 2012 |
Psychoanalysis, Literature and Practice
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01 June 2012 |
Finnegans Wake Research Seminar
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02 June 2012 |
The Future of Poetry
Gillian Clarke’s poetry collection: A Recipe for Water: a consideration. Gillian Clarke (b. 1937) is one of the central figures in contemporary Welsh poetry, the third to take up the post of National Poet of Wales. Her poems have achieved widespread critical and popular acclaim (her Selected Poems has gone through seven printings and her work is studied by GCSE and A Level students throughout Britain). Although Clarke's poems are full of the here-and-now, they are also haunted by many different kinds of past. However, it's the fate of the women of living memory that is her most persistent theme. In her first collection since becoming the National Poet of Wales in 2008, Gillian Clarke explores water as memory and meaning, the bearer of stories that well up from a personal and collective past to return us to the language of the imagination in which we first named the world. In our examination of her latest collection, we will be exploring the personal and elemental dimensions that support her work, the nature of ‘regionalism’ and the question of female voice and identity. Why not join us for the last in this series of informal but enlightening discussions? All welcome.
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06 June 2012 |
Senate House Library Friends Book Talk
Two stories by Arthur Conan Doyle (‘The Adventure of the Empty House’ and ‘The Adventure of the Speckled Band’), led by Dr. Emelyne Godfrey, freelance writer, author of Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature (Palgrave, 2010). In these stories, Conan Doyle’s great detective grapples with some slippery enemies, not least because the criminals he faces have the outward appearance of being gentlemen. This reading group discussion will explore the role of the nemesis as a hook in bestselling fiction and will consider some of the fears that Conan Doyle’s genteel villains represent, such as the threat of foreign violence and the disintegration of the self. In the process, we will be investigating related themes, including the use of physiognomy to portray character and the ideal of manliness. One major topic will be physical culture at the turn of the century: indeed Holmes’s greatest weapon against his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, is arguably his knowledge of a martial art, ‘bar[t]itsu’, which is attracting growing academic interest. 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.
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06 June 2012 |
Medieval and Renaissance Close Reading Group
We will be discussing 'lyric'. The texts, alongside some wine, will be provided.
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07 June 2012 |
Medieval Manuscripts Seminar
Tadashi Kotake (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, IES Visiting Fellow): 'Old English Glosses to the Rushworth Gospels: Palaeographical, Textual and Linguistic Approaches'
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09 June 2012 |
London Nineteenth Century Studies Research Seminar
Victorian Maritime: a Symposium. The University of London Nineteenth-Century Studies Seminar with the Centre for Victorian Studies, Royal Holloway. 11.00: Welcome (Ruth Livesey) No need to book: there should be plenty of room.
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12 June 2012 |
History of Libraries Research Seminar
Dr. David Shaw (Canterbury): 'Interpreting the Benefactors’ Book: a documentary and bibliographical account of Canterbury Cathedral Library in the seventeenth century'. This meeting will be held in the Guard Room at Lambeth Palace. Intending visitors are asked to contact in advance mary.comer@churchofengland.org.
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12 June 2012 |
Book Collecting Research Seminar
Paul Goldman: 'Collecting Pre-Raphaelite Books and Illustration'
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12 June 2012 |
Senate House Library Friends Book Talk
cancelled
The Thirty Nine Steps, by John Buchan, led by Dr Kate Macdonald CANCELLED AT SHORT NOTICE DUE TO ILLNESS
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13 June 2012 |
London Old and Middle English Research Seminar (LOMERS)
Carl Kears (King's College London): 'Hostility and Poetic Hemorrhage in the Old English Exodus'
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15 June 2012 |
The UCL Festival of London and Literature: "One Day in the City"
“One Day in the City” is a celebration of London and Literature organised by the Department of English, at University College London. The day and evening is free to the general public and is a rare opportunity to listen to and share thoughts with authors, poets, and academics in all things London. At a time when student fees are rising and funding is being slashed in Arts and Humanities faculties across the UK, this day will demonstrate, on a practical and visceral level, the importance of creativity and its non-quantifiable value within the city. CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION AND MORE INFORMATION.
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16 June 2012 |
Irish Studies Symposium: Censored Ireland
Speakers include: Donal O'Drisceoil, Maurice Walsh, Peter Martin, Lauren Arrington, Ben Levitas, Steve Nicholson, Catherine O'Leary, Niall Carson, Frank Shovlin, Kevin Rockett, David Nash, Richard West. Registration £10 including lunch. CLICK HERE FOR PROGRAMME AND REGISTRATION.
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18 - 22 June 2012 |
London Palaeography Summer School
Dr Michelle Brown, Dr Marigold Norbye (UCL), Professor Charles Burnett (Warburg), Mr Peter Kidd, Prof. Anthony Edwards (De Montfort University), Dr Carol Farr, Dr Annaclara Cataldi Palau (Royal Holloway, University of London), Miss Elizabeth Danbury (UCL), Dr Nigel Ramsay (UCL), Dr Debby Banham (Birkbeck and Cambridge), Dr Jenny Stratford (IHR), Dr Rowan Watson (V&A), Ms Patricia Lovett (Calligraphy and Lettering Arts Society), Dr Wim van Mierlo (IES), Dr James Willoughby (New College, Oxford), Dr Anna Somfai (Central European University), Dr Dorothea McEwan (Warburg Institute) and Dr Claudia Wedepohl (Warburg Institute).
The London Palaeography Summer School is a series of intensive courses in Palaeography and Diplomatic. Courses range from a half to two days duration and are given by experts in their respective fields from a wide range of institutions. Subject areas include Latin palaeography, English, German and Greek palaeography, history of scripts, illuminated manuscripts, vernacular editing and liturgical and devotional manuscripts. The Summer School is hosted by the Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies with the co-operation of the British Library, the Calligraphy and Lettering Arts Society, the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House Library, the Warburg Institute, University College, King's College London and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Full course descriptions and application forms
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19 June 2012 |
Literary London Reading Group
'Theodore Hook and Silverfork London.' introduced by Matthew Ingleby (UCL)
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22 June 2012 |
Ezra Pound Cantos Reading Group
Richard Parker: Canto 35
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25 - 29 June 2012 |
London Rare Books School (week one)
Brian Alderson, Peter Barber Geoffrey Beare, Professor Michelle P. Brown, Alan Cole (Curator of the Museum of Writing), Dr Catherine Delano-Smith, Professor Anthony Edwards, Professor John Feather, Dr Irving Finkel, Jean Hedger, Dr Matthew Nicholls, Dr Marigold Norbye, Professor Nicholas Pickwoad, Dr. Kathryn E. Piquette, Jill Shefrin, Sarah Tyacke, Dr 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.
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29 - 30 June 2012 |
The Power of the Word: Poetry and Prayer: Continuities and Discontinuities
The second Power of the Word conference focuses on the theme of poetry and prayer. It seeks to promote further the dialogue, begun successfully at Heythrop College in last June's conference, between theologians, philosophers, literary scholars and creative writers about the following questions: What do poetry and prayer share? How do they differ? In what ways do they relate to each other? The conference, interdisciplinary and ecumenical in scope, encourages theoretical discussion as well as analysis of specific texts and reflection on the work of particular authors, poets and thinkers of different countries and religious traditions. CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION AND MORE INFORMATION.
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30 June 2012 |
Contemporary Fiction Research Seminar
A special seminar to launch the publication of the anthology Alan Moore and the Gothic Tradition (Manchester University Press, 2012), edited by Dr. Matthew J.A. Green (Nottingham). As usual, all welcome. Details of speakers and presentations below:
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