School of Advanced StudyThe Humanities Now - Literature and the Public GoodProfessor Rick Rylance(Director of the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study)Chair: Professor Sir Adrian SmithDinah Birch (Pro-Vice Chancell..

The London Beckett Seminar - Remediating Beckett and the Graven Image

Nov 6th, 2015

Institute of English StudiesThe London Beckett Seminar Remediating Beckett and the Graven ImageProfessor David Houston Jones(University of Exeter)

The London Beckett Seminar - Beckett and Music

Oct 23rd, 2015

Institute of English StudiesThe London Beckett SeminarBeckett and MusicDr Catherine Laws(University of York)

Researching Contemporary Culture - Professor Matt Hills

Jul 15th, 2014 1h 11m

Institute of English StudiesResearching Contemporary CultureInterpretive CommunitiesProfessor Matt Hills(Aberystwyth University)Researching Contemporary Culture is a series of summer workshops for postgraduate and early career researc.

Researching Contemporary Culture - Dr Kieran Connell

Jul 14th, 2014 43m 9s

Institute of English StudiesResearching Contemporary CultureArchiving NowDr Kieran Connell(University of Birmingham)Researching Contemporary Culture is a series of summer workshops for postgraduate and early career researchers. It is or

Researching Contemporary Culture - Professor Roger Luckhurst

Jul 14th, 2014 43m 9s

Institute of English StudiesResearching Contemporary CultureArchiving NowProfessor Roger Luckhurst(Birkbeck, University of London)Researching Contemporary Culture is a series of summer workshops for postgraduate and early career researc

Modernist Magazines Seminar - Dr Gerri Kimber

Jun 11th, 2014 1h 23m

Institute of English StudiesModernist Magazines Seminar: "'The artists sail in stately golden ships over this familiar and adventurous ocean": Katherine Mansfield, Rhythm and Foreignness' Dr Gerri Kimber (University of Northampton)Rhythm,

The Irish Studies Lecture - 'Desire and Dishonour: Heterosexuality in Nineteenth-Century Ireland'

Jun 4th, 2014

Institute of English Studies The Irish Studies Lecture - 'Desire and Dishonour: Heterosexuality in Nineteenth-Century Ireland'Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck College)It was the day after St. Valentine’s Day in 1865 and love was in the air. But al

Rethinking the Colonial Tale of Two Cities; Power, Resistance and the myth of the pied-noir

Apr 4th, 2014

Institute of Modern Languages ResearchDavid Cummings, QUBPanel B: Algeria: Writing and ResistancePower and Resistance in the Arts: SFS Postgraduate Conference 2014

New Algerian literatures in French: power, resistance and publication

Apr 4th, 2014

Institute of Modern Languages ResearchJoseph Ford, University of LeedsPanel B: Algeria: Writing and ResistancePower and Resistance in the Arts: SFS Postgraduate Conference 2014

La critique sociale de François-Antoine Chevrie

Apr 4th, 2014

Institute of Modern Languages ResearchLuisa Messina, Université de Palerme Panel A: Writings from the CentrePower and Resistance in the Arts: SFS Postgraduate Conference 2014

Algeria: Writing and Resistance

Apr 4th, 2014

Institute of Modern Languages ResearchKit Yee Wong, Birkbeck, University of LondonPanel B: Algeria: Writing and ResistancePower and Resistance in the Arts: SFS Postgraduate Conference 2014

How to Get Published

Apr 4th, 2014

Institute of Modern Languages ResearchPostgraduate Training: Dr Ruth Bush, University of Westminster,Power and Resistance in the Arts: SFS Postgraduate Conference 2014

Colonizing the Canon: Metonymy and Opposition in the Realist Novel

Apr 4th, 2014 1h 3m

Institute of Modern Languages ResearchKeynote: Dr Jennifer Yee, University of OxfordPower and Resistance in the Arts: SFS Postgraduate Conference 2014

La performance artistique comme force de combat féministe

Apr 4th, 2014

Institute of Modern Languages ResearchAnne-Julie Ausina, Bordeaux IIIPanel D: Challenging Gender NormsPower and Resistance in the Arts: SFS Postgraduate Conference 2014

Written by the Animationbot: Trials and Tribulations in the Animation Screenplay

Mar 19th, 2014

Institute of English StudiesLondon Screenwriting Seminar - Written by the Animationbot: Trials and Tribulations in the Animation ScreenplaySpeaker: Professor Paul Wells (Loughborough University)Inspired by a particularly damning review of

Art work in The New Age

Jan 16th, 2014

Institute of English StudiesSpeaker: Dr Bernard VereModernist Magazines Seminar

London Theatre Seminar: 'Performing Proximity'

Jan 16th, 2014

School of Advanced StudyLondon Theatre Seminar: 'Performing Proximity': a dialogue with Leslie Hill and Helen Paris (Stanford University / Curious)How does proximity between audiences and performers change the nature of live performance? Ho

Virginia Woolf and Good Housekeeping

Dec 12th, 2013 1h 27m

Institute of English StudiesModernist Magazines Seminar - Virginia Woolf and Good HousekeepingSpeaker: Alice Wood (author of Virginia Woolf’s Late Cultural Criticism)

Transatlantic Influence and the "Problem" of Seriality in writing Contemporary "High-End" TV Drama

Oct 24th, 2013 1h 53m

Institute of English StudiesLondon Screenwriting Seminar - Unfolding Texts: Form, Transatlantic Influence and the "Problem" of Seriality in writing Contemporary "High-End" TV DramaProfessor John Cook (Glasgow Caledonian University)

Literature and Pop Music

Oct 23rd, 2013 1h 52m

Institute of English StudiesContemporary Fiction Research Seminar - Literature and Pop MusicLiterature and Pop Music. Author and music journalist Cathi Unsworth (Weirdo, Bad Penny Blues) talks to Mark Blacklock about fiction, pop, and the

The Madness of Hercules: Shakespeare and Classical Psychology

Oct 17th, 2013 57m 39s

Warburg Institute Professor Jonathan Bate CBE FBA, Provost, Worcester College, University of OxfordE H Gombrich Lecture Series on the Classical Tradition - Ancient Strength by Jonathan Bate

Tragical Comical Historical Pastoral: Shakespeare and Classical Genre

Oct 10th, 2013 1h

Warburg Institute E H Gombrich Lecture Series on the Classical Tradition - Ancient Strength by Jonathan BateProfessor Jonathan Bate CBE FBA, Provost, Worcester College, University of Oxford

Modernist Magazines Seminar - Rhythm

Oct 10th, 2013 2h 3m

Institute of English StudiesAndrew Thacker (editor of The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines)

The Annual Wordsworth Lecture - 'A Sea Rolling High': Wordsworth in 1804

Oct 8th, 2013 54m 46s

Institute of English StudiesProfessor Stephen Gill (Lincoln College, Oxford)'A Sea Rolling High': Wordsworth in 1804.The lecture will focus on the emergence of one of Wordsworth’s greatest poems, the ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality fr..