Book Collecting Seminar, Collecting Middle Eastern Books and Manucripts. With Nick McBurney, Alex Day (Quaritch), Roxana Kashani (Bloomsbury Auctions)

Book Collecting Seminar, Collecting Middle Eastern Books and Manucripts. With Nick McBurney, Alex Day (Quaritch), Roxana Kashani (Bloomsbury Auctions). June 9.

Dr Steven Connor

Book Collecting Seminar - Magic: from John Dee to Aleister Crowley. With Katie Birkwood (Royal College of Physicians) and Christina Oakley Harrington (Treadwell’s Books) The focus of these lectures and seminars is on bibliophilia and the book trade. Book-collectors, dealers and auctioneers are invited to give a lecture on a subject of their choosing which relates to the practice of bibliophilia. Lectures may be anecdotal, academic or purely for entertainment. With this in mind, the programme...

Book Collecting Seminar - Elisabeth Grass

Queer books - an academic, an artist, a collector and a librarian discuss the field

Professor Steven Matthews, University of Reading.

T.S. Eliot International Summer School

The 2017 London Lecture with Professor Sir Drummond Bone Wordsworth and Byron fell out in a not very dignified way over politics, and there was heavy co-lateral damage in their opinion of each other’s poetry. But there was a fundamental intellectual difference too. Despite his flirtation with Wordsworthean pantheism at Shelley’s behest in 1816, Byron came to believe that moral and existential value could only be human constructs, whereas Wordsworth of course saw these very constructs as the...

J.M. Coetzee - a reading

Institute of English Studies 2017 John Coffin Memorial Annual Irish Studies Lecture Shifting Ground: Irish Poetry in a Time of Change Professor Eavan Boland In the last hundred years Ireland has seen seismic changes in its social and political worlds. How did these changes come to be reflected or resisted in Irish poetry? Did the identity of the Irish poet shift with the society? Or did Irish poetry remain merely at the edge of change? The Melvin and Bill Land Professor at Stanford...

Institute of English Studies 2017 John Coffin Memorial Annual Irish Studies Lecture Shifting Ground: Irish Poetry in a Time of Change Professor Eavan Boland In the last hundred years Ireland has seen seismic changes in its social and political worlds. How did these changes come to be reflected or resisted in Irish poetry? Did the identity of the Irish poet shift with the society? Or did Irish poetry remain merely at the edge of change? The Melvin and Bill Land Professor at Stanford...

Institute of English Studies Wordsworth Trust Annual Lecture 2016 Romantic Poetry and the Existing State of Things Professor Michael Rossington (Newcastle University) In November 2015, the only surviving copy of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things (1811) became the Bodleian Libraries’ 12 millionth book and was published for the first time in over 200 years. It was known to have been published in 1811 but it had been feared lost for ever until this copy...

Institute of English Studies Wordsworth Trust Annual Lecture 2016 Romantic Poetry and the Existing State of Things Professor Michael Rossington (Newcastle University) In November 2015, the only surviving copy of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things (1811) became the Bodleian Libraries’ 12 millionth book and was published for the first time in over 200 years. It was known to have been published in 1811 but it had been feared lost for ever until this copy...

Institute of English Studies The John Coffin Memorial Readin The influence of Joyce's writing on Iain Sinclair's own style of urban narrative Iain Sinclair In association with the conference Anniversary Joyce: XXV International James Joyce Symposium

Institute of English Studies Alice in Cableland Anne Chapman (PhD Candidate, KCL) Caroline Arscott (Professor of Art History, The Courtauld Institute of Art) Clare Pettitt (Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, KCL) Natalie Hume (PhD Candidate, The Courtauld Institute of Art) Cassie Newland (Postdoctoral Researcher, KCL) The Media History seminar & Nineteenth Century Studies seminar are pleased to be holding a special joint session titled “Alice in Cableland.” 2016...

Institute of English Studies Alice in Cableland Anne Chapman (PhD Candidate, KCL) Caroline Arscott (Professor of Art History, The Courtauld Institute of Art) Clare Pettitt (Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, KCL) Natalie Hume (PhD Candidate, The Courtauld Institute of Art) Cassie Newland (Postdoctoral Researcher, KCL) The Media History seminar & Nineteenth Century Studies seminar are pleased to be holding a special joint session titled “Alice in Cableland.” 2016...

Institute of English Studies Reading the World: Challenging the Dynamics of Canon Formations Keynote Address Co-chairs: Professor Rose Levinson (PhD) Professor Francesca Orsini (PhD) Finding words: The Shelter of Stories in Time of War Marina Warner Novelist, short story writer, cultural historian, critic, mythographer and chair of the judges for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize will keynote the conference. Known for her many non-fiction works relating to feminism and to myth,...

Institute of English Studies Reading the World: Challenging the Dynamics of Canon Formations Keynote Address Co-chairs: Professor Rose Levinson (PhD) Professor Francesca Orsini (PhD) Finding words: The Shelter of Stories in Time of War Marina Warner Novelist, short story writer, cultural historian, critic, mythographer and chair of the judges for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize will keynote the conference. Known for her many non-fiction works relating to feminism and to myth,...

Institute of English Studies Recasting Book History Professor Simon Eliot (IES)

Institute of English Studies Recasting Book History Professor Simon Eliot (IES)

Institute of English Studies The John Coffin Memorial Annual Palaeography Lecture: ‘Who wrote Magna Carta?’ Professor Nicholas Vincent FBA (University of East Anglia and Magna Carta Project) Professor Nicholas Vincent, FBA, will be delivering the Annual Palaeography Lecture on the subject: ‘Who wrote Magna Carta?’ at Senate House, London on 13 May 2015 at 6pm. The lecture will be followed by a wine reception. Professor Vincent is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East...

Institute of English Studies The John Coffin Memorial Annual Palaeography Lecture: ‘Who wrote Magna Carta?’ Professor Nicholas Vincent FBA (University of East Anglia and Magna Carta Project) Professor Nicholas Vincent, FBA, will be delivering the Annual Palaeography Lecture on the subject: ‘Who wrote Magna Carta?’ at Senate House, London on 13 May 2015 at 6pm. The lecture will be followed by a wine reception. Professor Vincent is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East...

Institute of English Studies The Annual Wordsworth Lecture 'Wordsworth and the Meaning of Trees' Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford) From the 'Sylvan Wye' by Tintern Abbey to the 'leafy glen' in 'Airey Force Valley', Wordsworth's poetry abounds in trees. Are these bosky backgrounds any more than picturesque scene-painting? Does it matter whether Wordsworth refers to an ash, an oak, a holly or a yew-tree? The lecture explores the literary, cultural and local associations of...