22 May 2013 |
British Academy Literature Week
BRITISH ACADEMY LECTURE IN MODERN LANGUAGES Venue: The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH The lecture will look at four interpretations of the imitation of Christ in the French 17th century, and at certain of the difficulties with which they confront both writers and readers: first, Pierre Corneille's translation of the devotional classic by Thomas a Kempis, and the illustrations he provided for it; second, the same writer's martyr tragedy, Théodore, with respect to aspects of propriety and dramaturgy; third, the autobiography of Jean-Joseph Surin, the priest at the centre of the Loudun possessions, in his role as exorcist; and finally the words of Eucharistic institution, as a topic of polemical writing by Bossuet. Richard Parish is Professor of French at the University of Oxford. He has worked on classical theatre, memoirs and Christian writing in the 17th century. His most recent book, Catholic Particularity in the French Seventeenth-Century: Christianity is strange, was published by OUP in 2011.
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22 May 2013 |
British Academy Literature Week
BRITISH ACADEMY WARTON LECTURE Join Professor Hugh Haughton (University of York) as he looks at how poets from Spencer to Heaney, Hughes to Alice Oswald use rivers in their work in the 2013 Warton Lecture on English Poetry. This lecture will be preceded by the poet Alice Oswald giving a selection of readings from her own work, and followed by a wine reception. This evening has been oraganised in conjunction with the two-day conference Shifting Territories: Modern and Contemporary poetics of Place (22-23 May)
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23 May 2013 |
Senate House Library Friends: Book Talk
Professor Laurel Brake (Birkbeck, Emerita) on Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford. We will be referring to the Carcanet 4 volume edition, which is the only scholarly annotated edition available. However, the Bodley Head one volume edition will be fine. If you would like to attend, please contact Senate House Library office: shl.officeadmin@london.ac.uk
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23 May 2013 |
British Academy Literature Week
'Anne Stevenson at 80 / Where is British poetry today?' Venue: The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH A discussion of the state of contemporary British poetry by a panel of distinguished poets and critics, including Anne Stevenson and Professor Stephen Regan. This event will be chaired by the poet Fiona Sampson, and preceded by Anne Stevenson giving a rare reading from her own work to mark her 80th birthday this year.
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13 June 2013 |
New Elizabethans Public Lecture
Edward Bond: "The Third Crisis: Drama and Civilisation". Chaired by writer and film maker Tessa Mayes. "Oddly the first Elizabethan age ended with the discovery of brave new worlds (and incidentally the joining up of the United Kingdom). We are certainly on the edge of vast new unprecedented worlds, cosmic changes in culture, economy and society (and ironically the possible dissolution of the United Kingdom). But are our new worlds brave, cowardly, explorative or degenerative? It could be said the old Elizabethans plundered the new worlds. Perhaps now we can only plunder ourselves and call it trade." £5 per person, which includes a wine reception. Otherwise offered as part of the conference programme for New Elizabethans: 1953-2013: Nation, Culture and Modern Identity (13-15 June 2013). Click here for details and registration.
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02 July 2013 |
Hilda Hulme Memorial Lecture
' "Shakespeare His Contemporaries": Exploring Early Modern Drama in a Digital Environment' by Professor Martin Mueller (Professor emeritus of English and Classics, Northwestern University, Illinois) Martin Mueller was educated at the Universities of Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Trinity College, Dublin, and Indiana University, where he got a PhD in Classics (1966). He taught at Brandeis University (1965-67) and the University of Toronto (1967-76) before moving to Northwestern University, where he has taught since 1976. At Northwestern he has held various administrative positions, including Director of Comparative Literature (1976-81), Director of the Humanities Program (1979-81), Chair of the English Department (1983-90), and Acting Chair of Hispanic Studies (1997-99). His primary research field has been the uses of ancient epic and tragedy by European writers since the Renaissance. He has also written on Homer and Shakespeare. More recently he has become interested in the uses of information technology for traditional philological inquiries. Together with Ahuvia Kahane, he is the editor of The Chicago Homer, a multilingual web site that uses the search and display capabilities of digital media to make distinctive features of Early Greek epic accessible to readers with and without Greek. He is the general editor of WordHoard, an application for the close reading and scholarly analysis of deeply tagged texts, and one of the editors of the MONK Project, a digital environment designed to help humanities scholars discover and analyze patterns in the texts they study. Free and open to the public, and followed by a wine reception. If you would like to attend please email: IESEvents@sas.ac.uk
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