Friday 30 May 2025

• 17:00 - Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation (Book launch)
  Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars

Monday 2 June 2025

• 12:30 - Week 6: English Faculty Early Career Forum Cover Letter Workshop
  Various Speakers
  English Faculty Early Career Forum

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 12:15 - Messy Chaucer
  Rita Copeland (Pennsylvania)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Phillis Wheatley's Meditations in the Seasons
  Tom Jones (St Andrews)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 4 June 2025

• 12:00 - “The Cold War Conscience of the Autobiographical Novel Series” / “Growing up Online: Tech Memoir and Digital Rights”
  Marina McKay, Adam Guy
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 5 June 2025

• 16:45 - The National Poetry Crisis
  Kamran Javadizadeh
  American Literature Research Seminar

Friday 6 June 2025

• 17:00 - Tolkien the post-Christian? A Proposition
  Tom Emanuel (University of Glasgow)
  Tolkien seminars

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 17:15 - Papers by Dr Felicity Brown, Dr Sean Geddes and Dr Leah Veronese
  Felicity Brown, Sean Geddes, Leah Veronese
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - "Shelley’s Philosophic Revel
  Dr Will Bowers (Queen Mary University of London)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 13:00 - Postgraduate Panel
  Sara L. Borga (University of Oxford), Maya Hollander (University of Oxford), Andrie Morris (University of Oxford)
  American Literature Research Seminar

Friday 13 June 2025

• 17:00 - Imitative Translations of Beowulf: Tolkien, Lehmann, and McCully
  Eliot Vale (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars

Saturday 14 June 2025

• 09:00 - Oxford Translation Day 2025
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Monday 16 June 2025

• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum
• 17:15 - Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
  TBA
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Wednesday 18 June 2025

• 12:00 - , “On ‘Holy Hate’ in Black US Poetry, 1919”
  Julian Murphet
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 19 June 2025

• 12:30 - Rewriting the Land: Culture, the Early Marx, and the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
  Daniel Hartley (Durham)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 20 June 2025

• 17:00 - The Sub-Creation Theory of J.R.R. Tolkien: Literary Criticism or Theology?
  Christopher Snyder (Mississippi State University)
  Tolkien seminars

Tuesday 24 June 2025

• 09:00 - One-Day Symposium: Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture, 1550-1968
  Registration closes 31 May
  Keynote speaker: Professor Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale)