Upcoming Events

Professor of Poetry lecture

6 March 2012

Professor of Poetry, Geoffrey Hill will give the his second lecture of the 2011-12 academic year on Tuesday 6 March 2012 (Week 8), at 5.30 p.m., in the South School of the Examination Schools.

His title is ‘Poetry, Policing and Public Order (2)’.

Everyone is welcome.

Moving Modernisms Conference

21 March 2012 - 24 March 2012

Moving Modernisms is a four day agenda-setting conference taking place in Oxford, 21st-24th March 2012.

More details available at: http://www.movingmodernisms.org/

Alumni Dinner and Conference

13 April 2012 - 14 April 2012

The Faculty will be holding two events for its alumni in April 2012: a dinner on the evening of Friday 13 April, and a conference on Saturday 14 April. Find more details on the main event page here.

O'Donnell Lectures 2012: Ian Wood

10 May 2012 - 11 May 2012

Professor Ian Wood (University of Leeds) will deliver the 2012 O'Donnell Lectures on Thursday 10 and Friday 11 May, in Lecture Theatre 2 of the St Cross Building. Professor Wood will speak on "The Irish in England and on the Continent in the Seventh Century". His second lecture will be followed by a drinks reception.

The Early Modern Lucretius

16 May 2012 - 17 May 2012

Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began vividly narrates the rediscovery of Lucretius’ great philosophical epic, the De rerum natura. Professor Greenblatt will open an interdisciplinary conference to be held by the Centre for Early Modern Studies on ‘The Early Modern Lucretius’ (May 16-17 2012). Specialists in classical, English and European literature, history and philosophy will explore the contradictory reception of this fascinating and challenging poem.

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

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.

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

Edward Lear: The Bicentennial Conference

21 September 2012 - 22 September 2012

Olw and the Pussycat

Jesus College, Oxford
21-22 September 2012

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.