Faculty of English What’s On: events and talks of interest
Talks:

Wednesday 13 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
Date: 13 November 2024, 13:00 - 15:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organisers: Maria Gomez Ruiz, Leonor-Jo Barnard
Hosts: TBA

Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
Date: 13 November 2024, 17:00 - 19:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Oisin Meenan (Wolfson College), Hannah Fagan (Mansfield College)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: Madeleine Rose (Corpus Christi College), Ronnie Pope (Linacre College)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 14 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

A Harmless Vice: Tolkien’s Invented Languages
Date: 14 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Mark Williams (University of Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

What was New Sincerity?
Date: 14 November 2024, 16:45 - 17:45 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Adam Kelley (University College Dublin)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room
Organisers: Professor Nicholas Gaskill (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

From Dánta Grá to Dante: Irish–Italian genealogies, 1350–1850
Date: 14 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Elisa Cozzi (University of Oxford)
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Online and in person at Memorial Room, Jesus College
Organisers: Jenyth Evans (University of Oxford), Professor David Willis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The T J Clark Seminar at Keble: Just a Smack at Auden
Date: 14 November 2024, 17:30 - 18:30 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Timothy Clark
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Venue Details: The Pusey Room at Keble
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 15 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

A Liberal Utopia II
Date: 15 November 2024, 10:00 - 12:00 (Friday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Venue Details: Rothermere American Institute, Seminar Room 2
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 18 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Dialect in Translation
Date: 18 November 2024, 12:45 - 13:45 (Monday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Kotryna Garanasvili (University of East Anglia)
Venue Details: Online, Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 19 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Vernacular Theology in Thirteenth-Century Oxford: Robert Grosseteste and his Circle
Date: 19 November 2024, 12:15 - 13:15 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Nicholas Watson (Harvard University)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Mark Williams (University of Oxford), Professor Marion Turner (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

In-house talk on digital eighteenth century in Oxford with NICOLE POHL and JACK ORCHARD (Electronic Enlightenment)
Date: 19 November 2024, 12:30 - 13:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford), Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (English Faculty), Prof. Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 20 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Dr Benjamin Bateman @ Oxford - Literary Realism in the Early Years of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Date: 20 November 2024, 12:00 - 13:45 (Wednesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Benjamin Bateman (The University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: Billie Mitsikakos (University of Oxford), Shivani Arulalan Pillai (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Queer Intersections Oxford, Ars Memoriae - Memory Studies Reading Group

Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Medievalism in the Margins
Date: 21 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Grace Khuri (University of Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

“The desire to supply good tales to my school children”: Charlotte Yonge's lifelong involvement in parochial education
Date: 21 November 2024, 14:00 - 16:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Susan Walton (University of Hull)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Organisers: Professor Helen Small (University of Oxford), Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

“Desert wilds of India Africa”: Abergavenny Cymreigyddion Eisteddfod competitions and Empire, 1834–1853
Date: 21 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Marion Loeffler
Venue Details: CAWCS (online)
Organisers: Jenyth Evans (University of Oxford), Professor David Willis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

A panel to mark the 25th anniversary of J. M. Coetzee’s influential novel 'Disgrace', with Derek Attridge (York) and Urmila Seshagiri (Tennessee)
Date: 21 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Derek Attridge (University of York), Urmila Seshagiri (Tennessee)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers: Pablo Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 26 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Literature and Mental Health: Reading Group Session 2
Date: 26 November 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room A, Faculty of English
Organisers: Charlotte Wilson, Madhurima Sen
Hosts: TBA

What are Poetical Essays?
Date: 26 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Ted Tregear (University of Oxford)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: TS Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxford), Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

'Inspiration’s darling child': The Romantic Ode
Date: 26 November 2024, 17:30 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Paul Hamilton (Queen Mary, University of London)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 27 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
Date: 27 November 2024, 17:00 - 19:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Sara Lopes Borga (St John's College)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: Madeleine Rose (Corpus Christi College), Ronnie Pope (Linacre College)
Hosts: TBA

Allegory, Dystopia and Fiction in our Time
Date: 27 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Supriya Chaudhuri (Jadavpur)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (Wadham, Oxford), Prof. Elleke Boehmer (Wolfson)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 28 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Jonathan Edwards and the Spiders: Tracing the Ecological in Early American Environmental Thought
Date: 28 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Sheila Byers (University of Oxford), Ethan Plaue (University of Oxford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room
Organisers: Professor Nicholas Gaskill (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

C.S. Lewis’s Influence on The Lord of the Rings
Date: 28 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Michael Ward
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Breton dialect variation: An opportunity to reflect on the emergence and formation of a language
Date: 28 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Tanguy Solliec
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Oxford (Memorial Room, Jesus College and online)
Organisers: Jenyth Evans (University of Oxford), Professor David Willis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Creative Writing Seminar
Date: 28 November 2024, 17:30 - 18:30 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Venue Details: Mawby Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 29 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

A Liberal Utopia III
Date: 29 November 2024, 11:00 - 13:00 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Venue Details: Rothermere American Institute, Seminar Room 2
Organiser: Ming Kit Wong (Magdalen College)
Hosts: TBA

Beyond Cultural Difference: Australian Indigenous Literary and Creative Writing Practices as Sites of Knowledge Production
Date: 29 November 2024, 12:30 - 13:30 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Eugenia Flynn (RMIT, Melbourne)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Elleke Boehmer (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Speculative Biography: The Strange Case of Edith Cooper
Date: 2 December 2024, 12:15 - 14:15 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Carolyn Dever
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organisers: Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford), Professor Helen Small
Hosts: TBA

Roundtable - Cosmology, Ecology, Memory: New Comparative Perspectives on Ingeborg Bachmann
Date: 2 December 2024, 12:45 - 13:45 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Dr. Conor Brennan, Roberto Interdonato, Hannah Scheithauer
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Early Modern Graduate Forum
Date: 3 December 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Tuesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Venue Details: English Faculty, Seminar Room B
Organisers: Joseph Turner, Paul Norris (Brasenose)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

DPhil work in progress, followed by Xmas drinks
Date: 4 December 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Prof. Peter Boxall (New College), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Underworlds / Underwater
Date: 5 December 2024, 12:00 - 13:30 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Dimitris Karampas (Classics), Elly Walters (Modern Languages), Jen DeNike (Ruskin School of Art), Charlotte Marris (Oxford Climate Research Network)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Environmental Humanities Research Hub (University of Oxford)
Host: Martha Swift

The ‘Key-spring’ of The Lord of the Rings?
Date: 5 December 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
Date: 5 December 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Ayelet Ben Yishai (Haifa)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (Wadham, Oxford), Prof. Elleke Boehmer (Wolfson)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 6 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Criticism and Conclusion
Date: 6 December 2024, 10:00 - 12:00 (Friday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Venue Details: Rothermere American Institute, Seminar Room 2
Organiser: Ming Kit Wong (Magdalen College)
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
American Literature Research Seminar
Ars Memoriae – Memory Studies Reading Group
Caribbean Studies Network
Celtic Research Seminar
'Channels of Digital Scholarship' Seminar I: New tools and old questions in the analysis of textual corpora
Creative Writing Seminar Series
Early Medieval Britain and Ireland Events
Early Modern English Literature Seminar
Early Modern Graduate Forum
Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar
Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series
Feminist Thinking Seminars
Fiction and Other Minds seminar
History of Gender Seminar
Imagining Belief
Inaugural Lecture from Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, Helen Small
Inaugural Lecture from Professor of Poetry, Alice Oswald
Interdisciplinary Reading Group on Authenticity
Interdisciplinary Visual Culture Studies Group
Kantian Aesthetics
Kellogg Centre for Creative Writing
Laura Marcus Workshop
Literature and History in Early Modern Britain Seminar
Literature and History in Early Modern Britain Seminar
Literature and History in Early Modern Britain Seminar (online)
Literature and Mental Health
Medieval English Research Seminar
Medieval English Research Seminar
Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum
Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar
Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
Old English Reading Group
Old Norse Research Seminar
Oxford Comics Network
Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
Oxford Medieval Commentary Network, Interdisciplinary Seminar Series, Hilary 2023
Oxford Medieval Commentary Network, Trinity Term Lecture Series
Oxford Study Skills Centre Michaelmas '19 Talk Series
Poetry and Christianity since 1918: reading group
Poetry at Keble
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
Reading Rorty
Romantic Research Seminar
Theory Reading Group
The Princeton University Press Lecture Series in European History and Culture
The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series
Tolkien seminars
TORCH Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminars
Writing Jewish Women’s Lives Seminar Series