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Upcoming Events
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
Read more: There and Back Again: Writing Spaces, Mapping Places in the Medieval World
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.
Read more: Spatial Perspectives: Literature and Architecture, 1850-Present
'A Stray Savage in Oxford': A Henry James Centenary Symposium
26 June 2012
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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
Edward Lear: The Bicentennial Conference
21 September 2012 - 22 September 2012

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.
Read more: Oxford Wells Lectures 2012: Professor Lorna Hutson
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
Read more: Clarendon Lectures 2012: Professor Brian Cummings
