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Monday 20 May 2013

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British Academy Literature Week
'Turning the Page' Venue: The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH Sculptor Justin Rowe explores his love of b...

Tuesday 21 May 2013

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17:30 Roman Jakobson: Poetry of Self, City, Sign and Form
Gareth Farmer (University of Bedfordshire): 'Veronica Forrest-Thomson: Poetry, a Form of Self' Veronica Forrest-Thomson's poetry was alw...
18:00 British Academy Literature Week
'What can those who teach and study Shakespeare learn from those who perform his plays - and vice-versa?' Venue: The UnderGlobe, Shakesp...

Wednesday 22 May 2013

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09:30 Shifting Territories: Modern and Contemporary Poetics of Place
‘Shifting Territories’ will consider the recent wave of new nature writing and poetry which goes beyond traditional represent...
18:00 British Academy Literature Week
BRITISH ACADEMY LECTURE IN MODERN LANGUAGES'Imitations of Christ in 17th-century France: Some attendant difficulties' by Professor Richar...
18:00 British Academy Literature Week
BRITISH ACADEMY WARTON LECTURE'Poetry and Rivers' by Professor Hugh Haughton Join Professor Hugh Haughton (University of York) as he loo...

Thursday 23 May 2013

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17:30 Medieval Manuscripts Seminar
Nicholas Sparks (IES) ‘Cuthbert come lately: reconsidering the date of BL Add 89000’
17:30 London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship
Faith Lawrence (King’s College London): 'Reframing Popular Culture: Media Fannish Response From Slideshows to 'Mashups' The mash-u...
18:00 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 disc...
18:00 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...

Friday 24 May 2013

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Ronnie Knox: A Man For All Seasons
Monsignor Ronald Knox (1888-1957) was one of the most important Christian writers in 20th century England. After a glittering ministry as...
18:00 Finnegans Wake Research Seminar

Saturday 25 May 2013

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11:00 London Nineteenth Century Studies Research Seminar
Dino Felluga (Purdue University): 'BRANCHing Out: Victorian Studies and the Digital Humanities' Jason Camlot (Concordia): 'Digitalling A...
14:00 Contemporary Fiction Research Seminar
From Text to Book: Reworking the (Non) Literary Object   CFS presents a pair of talks on reworking textual material in the digital...

Tuesday 4 June 2013

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17:30 IES Director's Seminar
Emily Coit (Worcester College, Oxford): '"His Larger Brain": Mrs. Humphry Ward and the Gender of Economics' This paper reads Mary Ward's...
17:30 History of Libraries Research Seminar
Dunstan Roberts (Trinity Hall, Cambridge): '"Spirituall Garrisons"?: Catholic Books in Protestant Libraries' Whilst it is widely known t...

Friday 7 June 2013

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18:00 The Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar
We will be starting up again at 6.966 ("Remind you of the voice like the photograph reminds you of the face")

Saturday 8 June 2013

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14:00 Contemporary Fiction Research Seminar
Louis Armand (Charles University, Prague): 'Realism's Last Word' This presentation centres around the status of the novel in contem...

Monday 10 June 2013

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18:00 Postgraduate Feminist Reading Group

Tuesday 11 June 2013

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18:00 Book Collecting Research Seminar
How the Modern World was Made: The Literature of Engineering: Julia Elton (Elton Engineering Books) Elton Engineering Books is the only ...