Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Talks:

Tuesday 25 November 2025

Old English Graduate Reading Group
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue Details: Location is tbc so please email: Hattie (harriet.carter@lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Organisers: James Titterington, Hattie Carter
Hosts: TBA

Oxford CEMS in the Schwarzman: Early Modern Conversations in Ecology: ‘True Fire: Saint Augustine, the Climate Crisis, and Creative Non-Fiction’ / ‘Affective Ecologies in Petrarch’s Lyric Poems’
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker s: Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Francesca Southerden (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre L1, (with reception in 10.302), Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for Humanities
Organisers: Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Lorna Hutson (Merton, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wordsworth's Infinitive
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Oliver Clarkson (LMH)
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

Creative Poetry Translation with AI
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker s: Professor Matthew Reynolds (University of Oxford), Dr Joseph Hankinson (University of Oxford), Dr Deepshikha Behera (University of Oxford), Dr Mary Katherine Newman (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: Dr Joseph Hankinson (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Reynolds (University of Oxford)
Host: OCCT

Wednesday 26 November 2025

Professor of Poetry lecture: Rhyme as Experiment/ Rhyme as Alchemy
Date: 26 November 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : A.E. Stallings
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 27 November 2025

‘Prequels and the Mother-Ship: House of the Dragon and Game of Thrones’
Date: 27 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Carolyne Larrington (University of Oxford)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: The Fitzhugh Lecture Theatre, Cohen Quad, Walton Street, Oxford (Exeter College’s annex)
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

On Not Wanting To Burn with a Hard Gem-Like Flame: Intensity in Contemporary U.S. Fiction
Date: 27 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Nicholas Gaskill (University of Oxford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room
Organisers: Antoine Traisnel (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

‘Dros Gymru’n Gwlad’: hanes sefydlu’r Blaid Genedlaethol
Date: 27 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Gwen Angharad Gruffudd, Arwel Vittle
Venue Details: CAWCS (hybrid at CAWCS) - The National Library of Wales or at CAWCS. Please contact a.elias@wales.ac.uk for the link.
Organiser: Professor David Willis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 28 November 2025

A symposium on current journals, to mark the birthday of 'The Review of English Studies'
Date: 28 November 2025, 14:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: professor Daniel Waklein (University of Oxford), Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge), Juliette Atkinson (UCL), Dr Freya Johnston (University of Oxford), Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge), Professor Colin Burrow (University of Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: The Old Library
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 1 December 2025

“Borrowed Time: reflections on the history and philosophy of library use in nineteenth-century Birmingham and beyond.”
Date: 1 December 2025, 12:15 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Sophie Ratcliffe (University of Oxford)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Garden Room
Organisers: Professor Helen Small (University of Oxford), Dr Clare Broome Saunders (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

OCCT Discussion Group: Original Persian and (selective) Russian translations of Ahmad Dānish’s works: How Does the Process of Translation Become Political?
Date: 1 December 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organiser: OCCT
Host: OCCT

Early Career Researchers Forum
Date: 1 December 2025, 18:00 - 19:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Pub social
Organisers: Dr Luisa Ostacchini (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 2 December 2025

Early Modern Literature Graduate Forum
Date: 2 December 2025, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.302, Humanities Building
Organisers: Clemence Smith, Ceola Daly
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 3 December 2025

Interdisciplinary Early Modern Graduate Workshop
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.302, Humanities Building
Organisers: Clemence Smith, Kathryn Hempstead (Merton)
Hosts: TBA

Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
Date: 3 December 2025, 18:00 - 20:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.402, Schwarzman Centre for Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 4 December 2025

Beowulf Reading Group
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.304, Humanities Building
Organiser: Prof. Francis Leneghan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Lexical prescription in Breton: what does it involve and who is taking notice?
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue Details: Oxford (hybrid) - Seminar Room 30.022 of the Schwarzman Centre, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road.
Organisers: Jenyth Evans (University of Oxford), Professor David Willis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

'Irony, Agency and African Global Imaginaries: Book Discussion'
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Dr Penny Cartwright (Oxford)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof Elleke Boehmer (English, Oxford), Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA