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There and Back Again: Writing Spaces, Mapping Places in the Medieval World

22 June 2012

 

A one-day interdisciplinary colloquium investigating the role of geography in medieval literature and the wider cultural milieu

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Spatial Perspectives: Literature and Architecture, 1850-Present

22 June 2012

 

The conference will be held at the University of Oxford, Faculty of English Language and Literature, on Friday 22nd June 2012.

This interdisciplinary conference seeks to foster a dialogue between literature and architecture by bringing together papers that encompass the diversity of thinking about these two disciplines and the ways in which they engage and interact.

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Poetry and Psychoanalysis Conference

30 June 2012 - 1 July 2012

Poetry & Psychoanalysis
30 June – 1 July 2012, Oxford University, UK
Keynote speaker: Adam Phillips

Conference Website: http://www.poetryandpsychoanalysis.org/

Call for papers: deadline extended to 20 January 2012

 

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Edward Lear: The Bicentennial Conference

21 September 2012 - 22 September 2012

 

Olw and the Pussycat

Jesus College, Oxford
21-22 September 2012

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Oxford Wells Lectures 2012: Professor Lorna Hutson

16 October 2012 - 25 October 2012

 

Professor Lorna Hutson (St Andrew's) will be giving the Oxford Wells Lectures 2012 at 5.15 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays of Weeks 2 and 3 of Michaelmas Term (16, 18, 23, 25 October), in Lecture Theatre 2 of the St Cross Building, on "Circumstantial Shakespeare".

The first lecture will be followed by a drinks reception in the SCR of the St Cross Building, and the final lecture will be followed by a drinks reception in the OUP Bookshop, High Street.

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Clarendon Lectures 2012: Professor Brian Cummings

30 October 2012 - 8 November 2012

 

Professor Brian Cummings (Sussex) will be giving the Clarendon Lectures 2012 at 5.15 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays of Weeks 4 and 5 of Michaelmas Term (30 October, 1, 6, 8 November), in Lecture Theatre 2 of the St Cross Building, on "Bibliophobia".

 

Lecture I: Book Burnings

Lecture II: The Cult of Books

Lecture III: The Body and the Book

Lecture IV: Trials of the Mind

 

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