Events

What's on in English Literature.

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Event listing

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Apr 21 2023 -

Typographical Antiquities

Join Scottish Writing in the Nineteeth Century (SWINC) for an in-person round-table discussion, followed by a lecture by Professor Deidre Lynch (Harvard University) on the material contexts that have shaped writing and reading of literature in the modern era.

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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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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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Feb 28 2023 -

Author Conversations: Joseph Fasano

Join us for an in-person performance and conversation with award-winning author and musician Joseph Fasano.

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Nov 18 2022 -

Author Conversations: Elle Nash and Mohamed Tonsy

Join us for an in-person reading and conversation with Elle Nash, a prolific writer and editor of Witch Craft Magazine, and Mohamed Tonsy, a recent PhD Creative Writing graduate who has just released his dystopian debut novel on freedom and revolt in 2030s Egypt.

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Nov 13 2022 -

Remediating Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific Fiction

Join us online on Zoom to celebrate Robert Louis Stevenson Day in an event organised by Museums & Galleries Edinburgh, and meet the team behind a new three-year research project aiming to engage contemporary readers in Samoa, Scotland and Hawai'i.

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Oct 05 2022 -

Author Conversations: Cynthia Miller and Tessa Berring

Join us for an in-person reading and conversation with poets Cynthia Miller and Tessa Berring.

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Sep 08 2022 -

In conversation with Kim Sherwood

Join us in person at the Edinburgh launch of 'Double or Nothing' by Kim Sherwood (University of Edinburgh), the start of a trilogy blowing the world of James Bond wide open.

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May 19 2022 -

Shaping the Self

A one-day conference that explored the changing perspectives on individual identities and the construction of the self in nineteenth-century fiction.

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