Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Talks:

Monday 26 January 2025

OCCT Discussion Group: Laurence Sterne and Early Soviet Translators: Drafts, Notes, and Digressions
Date: 26 January 2026, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Peter Budrin (QMUL)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 January 2025

‘Chivalry is a code for men willing to fight’: medievalism, masculinity and the modern far-right
Date: 27 January 2026, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Rachel Moss (Northampton)
Venue Details: Room 00.079, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford), Dr Laura Varnam (University College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Poetic Language and the Making of Myth: Reading J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings through Owen Barfield
Date: 27 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Cecilia Tamburini (University of Milan)
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Novel’s Lost Causes
Date: 27 January 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Lynn Festa (Rutgers University)
Venue Details: Room 00.079, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford), Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 28 January 2025

Early career researcher roundtable
Date: 28 January 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker s: Damien Maher (University of Oxford), Dr Conrad Steel (University of Oxford), Rob Harris, Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Peter Boxall (University of Sussex), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Discussion Group
Date: 28 January 2026, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Room 10.302, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: Clémence Smith, Kathryn Hempstead (Merton)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 January 2025

Professor of Poetry Lecture by A.E. Stallings – People Poems: Portraits in Verse
Date: 29 January 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : A.E. Stallings
Venue Details: The Theatre, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 February 2025

Shut Up and Write (or Translate)!
Date: 2 February 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 February 2025

How to Disagree: Books, Authors, and Early Modern Debates
Date: 3 February 2026, 12:15 - 13:45
Speaker s: Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Emma Smith (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre, Room 10.019
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

Bad books in medieval Bristol: alchemy, liturgy and Thomas Norton’s ordinals
Date: 3 February 2026, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Joe Stadolnik (U of Chicago)
Venue Details: Room 00.079, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford), Dr Laura Varnam (University College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Event with Taiwanese Poet Yen Ai-Lin
Date: 3 February 2026, 12:30 - 13:45
Speaker s: Yen Ai-Lin 顏艾琳, Dr Aoife Cantrill (University of Oxford), Dr Bingbing Shi (University of Oxford), Samir Ng Sum Leung
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 8
Organiser: Dr Aoife Cantrill (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Galadriel: an empty vessel?
Date: 3 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Ryan Syler (Marquette University)
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Austen in Volumes
Date: 3 February 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Freya Johnston (University of Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Prof. Seamus Perry (University of Oxford), Prof Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 February 2025

Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
Date: 4 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:30
Speaker
Venue Details: Room 10.424, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Lily Middleton-Mansell, Lucie Richter-Mahr
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 February 2025

OCCT Discussion Group: Hallucination, Contemplation, and ‘Ideal Realism’: British Romanticism in Dialogue with Daoism
Date: 9 February 2026, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Serena Qihui Pei (UCL)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Shut Up and Write (or Translate)!
Date: 9 February 2026, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 February 2025

Power and conversion in middle English romance
Date: 10 February 2026, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Kirsty Bolton (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 00.079, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford), Dr Laura Varnam (University College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tolkien's Animism
Date: 10 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Erik Jampa Andersson
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 February 2025

Methodology Workshop
Date: 11 February 2026, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Room 10.302, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 February 2025

‘The Wolves of Toleration in Early Modern Religious Controversy’
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Karen Edwards (University of Exeter)
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

Trans studies and medieval literatures
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker s: François.e Charmaille (University of Cambridge), Prof. Gareth Evans (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: THE MAISON FRANÇAISE
Organisers: Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford), Dr Laura Varnam (University College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

‘... this brilliant assemblage ... ’: The Sociability of Pierce Egan’s Life in London (1821)
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Simon Kevosi (University of Glasgow)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Prof. Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Prof. Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 18 February 2025

Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
Date: 18 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:30
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Venue Details: Room 10.424, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 23 February 2025

OCCT Discussion Group: On the Trail of the Detective: Testing a New Comparative Methodology in World Literature
Date: 23 February 2026, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Oliver Eccles (UCL)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 24 February 2025

‘Motes of gold’: early English poetry and its modern recollection
Date: 24 February 2026, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Elaine Treharne (Stanford)
Venue Details: Room 00.079, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford), Dr Laura Varnam (University College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Writerly Hate
Date: 24 February 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Thomas Leonard-Roy (Università degli Studi di Sassari)
Venue Details: Room 00.056, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Beauty and Peril and Sorrow: A Web in Tolkien's Thinking
Date: 24 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Anders Stenström
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Venue Details: Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 25 February 2025

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

Friday 27 February 2025

Mariusz Szczgieł 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 2025

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

Tuesday 3 March 2025

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 2025

Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
Date: 4 March 2026, 17:15 - 18:30
Speaker
Venue Details: Room 10.424, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 March 2025

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 2025

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