The Susan Manning Memorial Lecture In briefDate - 14 March 2025Speaker - Professor Paul Saint Amour (University of Pennsylvania)Chair - Professor Penny Fielding (University of Edinburgh)Title - Techniques of the Interwar Land Observer: Crawford, Watkins, Maltwood, WoolfVenue - Lecture Theatre G.03, 50 George SquareBook your free ticket on EventbriteThe 2025 lectureTechniques of the Interwar Land Observer: Crawford, Watkins, Maltwood, Woolf2025's Susan Manning Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Paul Saint Amour (University of Pennsylvania), and titled 'Techniques of the Interwar Land Observer: Crawford, Watkins, Maltwood, Woolf'.The Lecture is sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities (IASH).About the speakerPaul Saint-Amour works on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature and has special interests in the novel, law, trauma, visual culture, sound studies, and the environmental humanities.He received his BA from Yale and his PhD from Stanford University and has been a fellow of the Stanford Humanities Center, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center, and the Guggenheim Foundation. His most recent book, 'Tense Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form', won the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize and the MLA's first annual Matei Calinescu Prize.Professor Saint-Amour has served as President of the Modernist Studies Association and as a trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation. With Jessica Berman, Saint-Amour co-edits the Modernist Latitudes book series at Columbia University Press. He edited the volume Modernism and Copyright (2011) for Oxford UP's Modernist Literature and Culture series.How to attendThis event is free to attend and open to all. Spaces are limited, so you can reserve your spot on Eventbrite.Book your free ticket on EventbriteThe Susan Manning Memorial LectureProfessor Susan Manning was Grierson Professor of English Literature and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh until her unexpected death in 2013.This annual lecture commemorates Susan as an internationally renowned academic with wide interests, particularly in Transatlanticism, and as an inspiring influence for an international coterie of scholars in the humanities.Occasionally, the Lecture has been held as part of a wider event, such as Edinburgh Spy Week in 2019 and Muriel Spark 100 in 2018.Previous lectures in the seriesSpeakerDateVenueThemeProfessor Yoon Sun Lee (Wellesley College, Massachusetts)22 March 202450 George SquareRace, Labor, and Gratitude: Austen, Edgeworth, and the West IndiesProfessor Anahid Nersessian (University of California)24 March 202350 George SquareHouse on Fire: On the Unfinished Business of RomanticismProfessor Caroline Levine (Cornell University)6 May 202250 George SquarePlots of Precarity and Sustainable EndingsProfessor Laura Marcus (New College, University of Oxford)21 May 2021Online (Zoom)'The Noise of Time': Autobiography and History in the 1930sProfessor Adam Piette (University of Sheffield)5 April 201950 George SquareThe Revolutionary Double Agent and Cold War CitizenshipJanice Galloway6 April 201850 George Square'There’s something a bit harsh about you, Fleur’: Muriel Spark and her voicesProfessor Caryl Phillips (Yale University)24 March 201750 George SquareA Sense of HomeProfessor David Bromwich (Yale University)18 March 201650 George Square‘The Single State of Man’ and Killing Caesar and DuncanProfessor Hermione Lee (University of Oxford)20 February 201550 George SquareCharacter in Biography: “The Most Really Interesting Problem”Professor Maureen McLane (New York University)21 February 2014St. Cecilia's HallToward a Compositionist Poetics: From Ballad Rhizomatics to the MeshAre you interested in studying English Literature at LLC?Based in the first UNESCO City of Literature, we are home to the oldest department of English Literature in the UK, one of the longest established in the world. Study with us and you'll explore the varying and vital roles that literary writing plays in our lives and societies. We offer a range of single and joint honours undergraduate degrees, taught postgraduate degrees, and research-led pathways, including MSc by Research degrees and PhDs.Find out more about English Literature at LLC Tags English and Scottish Literature Mar 14 2025 17.00 - 18.30 The Susan Manning Memorial Lecture Join us in person for the Susan Manning Memorial Lecture 2025 by Professor Paul Saint Amour (University of Pennsylvania), followed by a Q&A and reception. Lecture Theatre G.03 50 George Square Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue: 50 George Square Book your free ticket on Eventbrite
The Susan Manning Memorial Lecture In briefDate - 14 March 2025Speaker - Professor Paul Saint Amour (University of Pennsylvania)Chair - Professor Penny Fielding (University of Edinburgh)Title - Techniques of the Interwar Land Observer: Crawford, Watkins, Maltwood, WoolfVenue - Lecture Theatre G.03, 50 George SquareBook your free ticket on EventbriteThe 2025 lectureTechniques of the Interwar Land Observer: Crawford, Watkins, Maltwood, Woolf2025's Susan Manning Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Paul Saint Amour (University of Pennsylvania), and titled 'Techniques of the Interwar Land Observer: Crawford, Watkins, Maltwood, Woolf'.The Lecture is sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities (IASH).About the speakerPaul Saint-Amour works on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature and has special interests in the novel, law, trauma, visual culture, sound studies, and the environmental humanities.He received his BA from Yale and his PhD from Stanford University and has been a fellow of the Stanford Humanities Center, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center, and the Guggenheim Foundation. His most recent book, 'Tense Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form', won the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize and the MLA's first annual Matei Calinescu Prize.Professor Saint-Amour has served as President of the Modernist Studies Association and as a trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation. With Jessica Berman, Saint-Amour co-edits the Modernist Latitudes book series at Columbia University Press. He edited the volume Modernism and Copyright (2011) for Oxford UP's Modernist Literature and Culture series.How to attendThis event is free to attend and open to all. Spaces are limited, so you can reserve your spot on Eventbrite.Book your free ticket on EventbriteThe Susan Manning Memorial LectureProfessor Susan Manning was Grierson Professor of English Literature and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh until her unexpected death in 2013.This annual lecture commemorates Susan as an internationally renowned academic with wide interests, particularly in Transatlanticism, and as an inspiring influence for an international coterie of scholars in the humanities.Occasionally, the Lecture has been held as part of a wider event, such as Edinburgh Spy Week in 2019 and Muriel Spark 100 in 2018.Previous lectures in the seriesSpeakerDateVenueThemeProfessor Yoon Sun Lee (Wellesley College, Massachusetts)22 March 202450 George SquareRace, Labor, and Gratitude: Austen, Edgeworth, and the West IndiesProfessor Anahid Nersessian (University of California)24 March 202350 George SquareHouse on Fire: On the Unfinished Business of RomanticismProfessor Caroline Levine (Cornell University)6 May 202250 George SquarePlots of Precarity and Sustainable EndingsProfessor Laura Marcus (New College, University of Oxford)21 May 2021Online (Zoom)'The Noise of Time': Autobiography and History in the 1930sProfessor Adam Piette (University of Sheffield)5 April 201950 George SquareThe Revolutionary Double Agent and Cold War CitizenshipJanice Galloway6 April 201850 George Square'There’s something a bit harsh about you, Fleur’: Muriel Spark and her voicesProfessor Caryl Phillips (Yale University)24 March 201750 George SquareA Sense of HomeProfessor David Bromwich (Yale University)18 March 201650 George Square‘The Single State of Man’ and Killing Caesar and DuncanProfessor Hermione Lee (University of Oxford)20 February 201550 George SquareCharacter in Biography: “The Most Really Interesting Problem”Professor Maureen McLane (New York University)21 February 2014St. Cecilia's HallToward a Compositionist Poetics: From Ballad Rhizomatics to the MeshAre you interested in studying English Literature at LLC?Based in the first UNESCO City of Literature, we are home to the oldest department of English Literature in the UK, one of the longest established in the world. Study with us and you'll explore the varying and vital roles that literary writing plays in our lives and societies. We offer a range of single and joint honours undergraduate degrees, taught postgraduate degrees, and research-led pathways, including MSc by Research degrees and PhDs.Find out more about English Literature at LLC Tags English and Scottish Literature Mar 14 2025 17.00 - 18.30 The Susan Manning Memorial Lecture Join us in person for the Susan Manning Memorial Lecture 2025 by Professor Paul Saint Amour (University of Pennsylvania), followed by a Q&A and reception. Lecture Theatre G.03 50 George Square Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue: 50 George Square Book your free ticket on Eventbrite
Mar 14 2025 17.00 - 18.30 The Susan Manning Memorial Lecture Join us in person for the Susan Manning Memorial Lecture 2025 by Professor Paul Saint Amour (University of Pennsylvania), followed by a Q&A and reception.
