Name: Professor Helen Small
University of Oxford

Events this person is organising:

Monday 13 May 2024

"Little Friend of All the World": Kipling’s Kim and International Adoption in Victorian British Culture
Date: 13 May 2024, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Holly Furneaux (Cardiff University)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organisers: Professor Helen Small (University of Oxford), Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 20 May 2024

Transoceanic Trauma, Haunted Waters: Enslavement, Impressment and Whaling in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Sylvia’s Lovers
Date: 20 May 2024, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Deborah Denenholz Morse (William & Mary)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organisers: Professor Helen Small (University of Oxford), Sos Eltis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 June 2024

Vernon Lee’s Critical Irrealism [on Hauntings]
Date: 3 June 2024, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Matthew Potolsky (University of Utah)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organisers: Professor Helen Small (University of Oxford), Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 21 October 2024

C course: British Literature and Culture at Mid-Century
Date: 21 October 2024, 12:15 - 14:15
Speaker s: Professor Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford), Tzen Sam (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Graduate Common Room
Organisers: Professor Helen Small (University of Oxford), Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 21 November 2024

“The desire to supply good tales to my school children”: Charlotte Yonge's lifelong involvement in parochial education
Date: 21 November 2024, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Susan Walton (University of Hull)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Organisers: Professor Helen Small (University of Oxford), Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 21 January 2025

The General, the Particular, and the Art of the Everyday
Date: 21 January 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Nancy Yousef (Rutgers University)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organisers: Professor Helen Small (University of Oxford), Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 February 2025

“A life spent training for the sight!” Event and Experience between Carlyle and Pater
Date: 3 February 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : : Jonah Siegel (Rutgers University)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organisers: Professor Helen Small (University of Oxford), Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 26 February 2025

'World Literature and the Work of Revolution: Towards a Radical History of the Bildungsroman' / 'The Novel, the Epic and the Collective’
Date: 26 February 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker s: Professor Benjamin Kohlmann (University of Regensburg/Clare Hall, Cambridge), Professor David Cunningham (University of Westminster)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: The Old Library
Organisers: Professor Helen Small (University of Oxford), Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 March 2025

Spectacle, Sensation, and Co-Creation: Delaroche and Dumas
Date: 3 March 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Patricia Smyth (University of Warwick)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organisers: Professor Helen Small (University of Oxford), Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 19 May 2025

Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
Date: 19 May 2025, 12:15 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organisers: Professor Helen Small (University of Oxford), Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 June 2025

Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
Date: 16 June 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organisers: Professor Helen Small (University of Oxford), Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 20 October 2025

“Powered by the Sun: Energising Empire in the Age of Solar.”
Date: 20 October 2025, 12:15 - 14:00
Speaker : Sebastian Lund
Venue Details: Seminar Room 00.079, Humanities Building
Organisers: Professor Helen Small (University of Oxford), Dr Clare Broome Saunders (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 30 October 2025

“Crimea, The First Logistical Nightmare.”
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Susan Zieger
Venue Details: Seminar Room 00.056, Humanities Building
Organisers: Professor Helen Small (University of Oxford), Dr Clare Broome Saunders (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 24 November 2025

“The Grounds of Empire: Relay and Resistance”
Date: 24 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Clare Pettitt
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.424, Humanities Building
Organisers: Professor Helen Small (University of Oxford), Dr Clare Broome Saunders (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