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Wednesday 12 June 2013

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11:00 Narratives of Ageing in Contemporary Britain
Fiction and the Cultural Mediation of Ageing (FCMAP): New Narratives of Ageing in Contemporary Britain investigates (a) the relationship ...

Thursday 13 June 2013

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New Elizabethans 1953-2013: Nation, Culture, and Modern Identity
Papers are invited for a major international, interdisciplinary conference coinciding with the 60-year anniversary of the Coronation.&nbs...

Wednesday 19 June 2013

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17:30 Research Symposium on the Cowell Manuscript
A KEY DOCUMENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE SHAKESPEARE AUTHORSHIP CONTROVERSY: A Research Symposium upon the Cowell Manuscript in the Durning-L...

Friday 21 June 2013

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Sherlock Holmes: Past and Present
This conference offers a serious opportunity to bring together academics, enthusiasts, creative practitioners and popular writers in a sh...

Saturday 22 June 2013

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Rushdie in the 21st Century
Keynote speakers: Dr Nick Bentley (Keele), Dr Stephen Morton (Southampton) ‘[H]e will dream about this scene, understanding that...

Saturday 6 July 2013

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09:30 How To Get Published
In association with the Institute of English Studies, this all-day conference by Writers & Artists (Bloomsbury Publishing) will include p...

Wednesday 10 July 2013

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Victorian Popular Fiction Association: 5th Annual Conference
Theme: 'Bodies' and Victorian Popular Culture Keynote Speakers: Dr Elizabeth Hurren (University of Leicester) and Professor Pamela K. Gi...

Monday 15 July 2013

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Literature, Community and its Limits: Romanticism to Today
On the 30th anniversary of both La communauté désoeuvrée and Imagined Communities, this conference seeks to explore ...

Wednesday 17 July 2013

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Literary London 2013: Representations of London in Literature
The 2013 conference theme is 'London in Crisis and Disorder', and the conference will feature keynote talks by Vic Gattrell, Courttia New...

Monday 22 July 2013

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Language, Culture and Society in Russian/English Studies
Organised and sponsored by the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Linguistics...

Wednesday 7 August 2013

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17:00 Word and Music Studies: Ninth International Conference (2013)
It is our pleasure to invite you to London for this Ninth International Conference of the International Association for Word and Music St...

Wednesday 28 August 2013

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Anti-Communism: Culture, Literature, Propaganda
Organisers: Dr Benjamin Kohlmann (Columbia University/Freiburg University) and Dr Matthew Taunton (University of East Anglia) Some two d...

Thursday 12 September 2013

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The Marginalised Mainstream: Fading and Emerging: Tracing the Mainstream in Literature and Popular Culture
Keynote Speakers include: Dr Kate Macdonald (Ghent University, Brussels) and Dr Nicola Humble (University of Roehampton, London) ‘...
The Power of the Word: Poetry: Word Made Flesh: Flesh Made Word
Organised jointly by Heythrop College, University of London; the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of Lo...

Tuesday 1 October 2013

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14:35 AfroEurope@ns IV: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe. Continental Shifts, Shifts in Perception
Afroeurope@s/Afroeurope@ns is an international research and development group funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. T...

Saturday 12 October 2013

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09:30 Dickens Day 2013: Dickens and History
Dickens Day, now in its 27th year, is looking at how history, in all its manifold forms, features in Dickens’s life and work. Dicke...

Friday 1 November 2013

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09:30 Dante and Milton: National Visionaries and Visionary Nationalists
Dante Alighieri and John Milton, the two vernacular composers of epic poems, hold firm positions in the literary canons of Italy and Eng...

Friday 8 November 2013

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The Weird: Fugitive Fictions/Hybrid Genres
Until recently weird fiction, if acknowledged at all, was usually considered to be a marginal mode in the already lowly Gothic ...