Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Talks:

Wednesday 25 February 2026

Interdisciplinary Colloquium
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:15 - 19:00
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Venue Details: Room 10.302, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 26 February 2026

‘James Schuyler's Romanticism: “A little trick I picked up from Bill Coleridge”’
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Eric Lindstrom
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 27 February 2026

Mariusz Szczygieł and Antonia Lloyd-Jones with Linden Editions
Date: 27 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Mariusz Szczygieł, Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 March 2026

Shut Up and Write (or Translate)!
Date: 2 March 2026, 14:00 - 17:00
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Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 March 2026

Modes of Remembering in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Fictional World
Date: 3 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Mina Lukić Gunner (University of Belgrade)
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'"As if the dead the living should exceed": Unfeeling in Venus and Adonis'
Date: 3 March 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Dr Michal Zechariah (University of Oxford)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T.S. Eliot lecture theatre
Organisers: Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxfordhttps://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-lorna-hutson)
Hosts: TBA

Poetic Fascination and the Metaphysics of Metre
Date: 3 March 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Gregory Leadbetter (Birmingham City University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Prof. Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 March 2026

"A learner, rather": Did Joyce Really "Teach Us How to Read Ulysses?" and '"Gilding What’s Eyesore": Visual Poetics and Hallucinatory Worlds in Sylvia Plath’s Flower Poems'
Date: 4 March 2026, 17:15 - 18:30
Speaker s: Henry Barlow, Alice Sholto-Douglas
Venue Details: Room 10.424, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 March 2026

OCCT Discussion Group: Teaching the Coloniality of the Climate Crisis in Translation: Indonesian and Dutch Flood Narratives
Date: 9 March 2026, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Lucelle Pardoe (UCL)
Venue Details: Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 March 2026

Habitatio est omen - or: like land, like people
Date: 10 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Thomas Honegger (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena)
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

"The Universal Vibration of Life": William Bartram's Swarm Ecology
Date: 10 March 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Sheila Byers (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 00.079, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 March 2026

The Politics of Oracy and the Post-Literacy Panic
Date: 11 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Tom F. Wright (University of Sussex)
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre, Seminar Room 00.063
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'Moments of unselfing: Rachel Cusk, Amit Chaudhuri, and the new impersonal'
Date: 11 March 2026, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker : Agota Marton
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA