Events

What's on in English Literature.

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Apr 06 2023 -

English Literature Research Events: John Plotz

Join us in person for a seminar by Professor John Plotz (Brandeis University) on how science fiction as a genre satirises humanity’s destructive power, focusing on N. K. Jemisin’s novel The Fifth Season.

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Apr 05 2023 -

English Literature Research Events: Alison Light

Join us in person for an event and conversation with author Alison Light entitled 'Life-Writing: Between History and Memory'.

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Apr 05 2023 -

Digestive Modernisms Spring 2023 Research Seminar 1

Join us online for this free seminar by Genevieve Smart (Birkbeck, University of London) and Peter Adkins (University of Edinburgh).

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Apr 04 2023 -

Author Conversations: Juana Adcock and JL Williams

Join us for a free, in-person reading and Q&A with inspiring poets Juana Adcock and JL Williams.

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Apr 04 2023 -

English Literature Research Events: Nadia Butt

Join us in person for a seminar by Dr Nadia Butt (University of Giessen) on the diverse representations of Islam in Anglophone Arab and African literature.

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Mar 29 2023 -

Inaugural Lecture: David Farrier

Join us for the Inaugural Lecture 'Nabokov’s Butterfly, Kafka’s Leopards: what nature can teach us about life on a human planet' by David Farrier, Professor of Literature and the Environment.

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Mar 29 2023 -

English Literature Research Events: Elaine Treharne

Join us for an in-person seminar by Professor Elaine Treharne (Stanford University) entitled 'Recovering Women’s Voices, 800-1500'.

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Mar 23 2023 -

English Literature Research Events: Trish Reid

Join us for an in-person seminar by Professor Trish Reid (University of Reading).

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Mar 08 2023 -

English Literature Research Events: Alex Renton

Join us for an in-person event and conversation with journalist, broadcaster and historian Alex Renton about his book 'Blood Legacy: Reckoning with a Family’s Story of Slavery’.

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Mar 06 2023 -

English Literature Research Events: Richard Barlow

Join us for a seminar by Dr Richard Barlow (Nanyang Technological University), organised by Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century (SWINC).

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