Friday 21 February 2025

• 17:00 - ‘Tolkien and old English prosody’
  Rafael Pascual (University of Granada)
  Tolkien seminars

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 17:30 - Tangible Pasts: Antiquarian Culture and the Novel in the Eighteenth Century
  Prof. Katharina Boehm (University of Passau, Germany)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 26 February 2025

• 17:15 - 'Biblical poetry and its place in medieval English culture
  Dr Cathy Hume (University of Bristol)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - "World Literature and the Work of Revolution: Towards a Radical History of the Bildungsroman" / ‘The Novel, the Epic and the Collective’
  Professor David Cunningham (University of Westminster), Professor Benjamin Kohlmann (University of Regensburg/Clare Hall, Cambridge)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar
• 17:15 - 'World Literature and the Work of Revolution: Towards a Radical History of the Bildungsroman' / 'The Novel, the Epic and the Collective’
  Professor Benjamin Kohlmann (University of Regensburg/Clare Hall, Cambridge), Professor David Cunningham (University of Westminster)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 13:00 - Publishing with Oxford University Press
  Eleanor Collins (Acquisitions Editor at OUP), Tom Stottor (History Commissioning Editor), Maria Zygogianni (Senior Audience Editor)
  English Faculty Early Career Forum

Friday 28 February 2025

• 17:00 - ‘Themes in The Lord of the Rings: A Defence and an Exploration'
  Patrick Curry (University of Wales Trinity St David)
  Tolkien seminars

Monday 3 March 2025

• 17:15 - Spectacle, Sensation, and Co-Creation: Delaroche and Dumas
  Patricia Smyth (University of Warwick)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 13:00 - Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
• 17:15 - ‘Dumb Action’
  Gill Woods (University of Oxford)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - Hester Thrale Piozzi’s Minced Meat for Pyes: Scrapbook Composition as Life Writing
  Prof. Julie Park (PPennsylvania State University)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Hester Thrale Piozzi’s Minced Meat for Pyes: Scrapbook Composition as Life Writing
  Julie Park (Pennsylvania State University)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 5 March 2025

• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum

Thursday 6 March 2025

• 13:00 - Deliberate Strangers: Transatlantic Homecomings in Henry James, James Baldwin and Stuart Hall
  Dr Christy Wensley (University of Oxford)
  American Literature Research Seminar
• 17:15 - In search of the nineteenth-century Gaelic Caribbean
  Dr Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh (University of Edinburgh)
  Celtic Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Fanon Questions
  Robert Young (New York University)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 7 March 2025

• 17:00 - ‘'Alight Here for Middle-earth!': Tolkien, Place, and the Past’
  Carl Phelpstead ((University of Cardiff)
  Tolkien seminars

Monday 10 March 2025

• 12:45 - Discussion Group: Thinking Translation and Resistance: Making and Refusing Meaning
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 12:30 - “The capital pen of a sister author”: Reading Frances Burney with Jane Austen
  Peter Sabor (McGill)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Early Modern Graduate Forum
  Jane Cooper (All Souls), Kathryn Hempstead (Merton)
  Early Modern Graduate Forum

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 12:00 - Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminars
  Professor Simon Gikandi (Princeton University)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Celtic Research Seminar
  Dr Kathryn Jones (Cardiff University)
  Celtic Research Seminar

Friday 14 March 2025

• 17:00 - ‘Languages on the Move: Tolkien's Invented Languages and Their Use in Adaptations’
  Mareike Huber (University of Freiburg)
  Tolkien seminars

Thursday 27 March 2025

• 17:00 - Language dynamics in society: A new analytical framework for ethnolinguistic vitality
  Prof. Conchúr Ó Giollagáin (University of the Highlands and Islands)
  Celtic Research Seminar