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Name: Professor Fiona Stafford
Events this person is speaking at:
Friday 8 February 2019
Public Lecture: Ruskin's Trees
Date: 8 February 2019, 18:00 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Professor Fiona Stafford
Venue Details: Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Organisers:
Peter Brooke,
James Belich
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 26 October 2021
“Cowper’s Hares and Heirs”
Date: 26 October 2021, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Professor Fiona Stafford
Venue Details: Massey Room, Balliol College
Organisers:
Professor Fiona Stafford,
Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Events this person is hosting:
Tuesday 2 February 2021
Romanticism and Self-Reflexive Revolutions
Date: 2 February 2021, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Professor Nicholas Halmi (University College)
Venue Details: Online: Teams
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
Professor Fiona Stafford,
Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Saturday 8 November 2025
Jane Austen and Somerville
Date: 8 November 2025, 10:00 - 16:15
Speaker
s:
Prof. Kathryn Sutherland (University of Oxford),
Prof Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford),
Salley Vickers,
Edward Whitley,
Dr Jane Darcy
Venue: Somerville College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HD
Venue Details: Flora Anderson Hall (accessible venue)
Organiser:
Dr Jackie Watson (Somerville College)
Host:
Professor Fiona Stafford
Events this person is organising:
Tuesday 15 October 2019
“The Place was all Eye”: Dorothy Wordsworth and the Scottish Tour Revisited
Date: 15 October 2019, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Prof Nigel Leask (University of Glasgow)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers:
Professor Fiona Stafford,
Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 16 February 2021
Cowper at Olney: reexamining the early years & Seeds, Polyps, Eggs: Blake and Preformation
Date: 16 February 2021, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker
s:
Andrew Newell,
Tara Lee
Venue Details: Online: Teams
Organisers:
Professor Fiona Stafford,
Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 12 October 2021
“Hazlitt and Prejudice”
Date: 12 October 2021, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr Freya Johnston (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Massey Room, Balliol College
Organisers:
Professor Fiona Stafford,
Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 26 October 2021
“Cowper’s Hares and Heirs”
Date: 26 October 2021, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Professor Fiona Stafford
Venue Details: Massey Room, Balliol College
Organisers:
Professor Fiona Stafford,
Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 9 November 2021
“Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley as Collaborators”
Date: 9 November 2021, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr Anna Mercer (Cardiff University)
Venue Details: Massey Room, Balliol College
Organisers:
Professor Fiona Stafford,
Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 23 November 2021
“Tyranny, Liberty, Resistance, and Regicide: Political Assassination in John Galt's The Spaewife”
Date: 23 November 2021, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Zachary Garber (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Massey Room, Balliol College
Organisers:
Professor Fiona Stafford,
Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 26 April 2022
“Keats's Planetary Eyes”
Date: 26 April 2022, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Meiko O'Halloran (University of Newcastle)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room, Balliol College
Organisers:
Professor Fiona Stafford,
Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 10 May 2022
“Keats's Melodious Chuckle”
Date: 10 May 2022, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Matthew Ward (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room, Balliol College
Organisers:
Professor Fiona Stafford,
Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 12 May 2022
‘Speculation in the Anthropocene: Contemporary Turkey’
Date: 12 May 2022, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Emrah Atasoy (English Faculty, Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers:
Elisa Cozzi (University of Oxford),
Professor Fiona Stafford
Host:
TORCH (University of Oxford)
Thursday 19 May 2022
‘Campaigning for the city: Emergent ideas of urbanity, political participation, and the political campaign in Delhi’
Date: 19 May 2022, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Sumedha Chakravarthy (Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers:
Elisa Cozzi (University of Oxford),
Professor Fiona Stafford
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 24 May 2022
"Loud and Soft in Poetry: Coleridge's Volume"
Date: 24 May 2022, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Mina Gorji (Pembroke College, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room, Balliol College
Organisers:
Professor Fiona Stafford,
Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 31 May 2022
CANCELLED: ‘John Clare’s “haunts and homes”’
Date: 31 May 2022, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Erin Lafford (English Faculty, Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers:
Elisa Cozzi (University of Oxford),
Professor Fiona Stafford
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 7 June 2022
“P.B. Shelley, George William Tighe, and the Irish Roots of “The Sensitive-Plant”
Date: 7 June 2022, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
:
Elisa Cozzi (University of Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room, Balliol College
Organisers:
Professor Fiona Stafford,
Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 11 October 2022
Hazlitt's Philosophical Criticism: Disinterestedness, Identity, and the Freedom of Speech
Date: 11 October 2022, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr. Timothy Michael (University of Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Organisers:
Professor Fiona Stafford,
Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 18 October 2022
The climate and migration nexus: what role for the humanities?
Date: 18 October 2022, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
:
Dr Fabrice Langrognet (University of Oxford & University of Paris1/CNRS)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road, Oxford. OX2 6GG
Organisers:
Elisa Cozzi (University of Oxford),
Professor Fiona Stafford
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 25 October 2022
Sesta Rima as a Mode of Imitation: Hybrid Verse Forms in Anglo-Italian Verse
Date: 25 October 2022, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr Michael Sullivan (St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers:
Professor Fiona Stafford,
Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 1 November 2022
Peter Davidson reading from his new collection, Arctic Elegies
Date: 1 November 2022, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
:
Professor Peter Davidson (Campion Hall)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road, Oxford. OX2 6GG
Organisers:
Elisa Cozzi (University of Oxford),
Professor Fiona Stafford
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 15 November 2022
War, Words, and Wonder in Wytham Woods
Date: 15 November 2022, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
:
Georgina Montgomery (Michigan State University)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road, Oxford. OX2 6GG
Organisers:
Elisa Cozzi (University of Oxford),
Professor Fiona Stafford
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 29 November 2022
Peter Davidson reading from his new poetry collection, Arctic Elegies.
Date: 29 November 2022, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
:
Professor Peter Davidson (Campion Hall)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: The Colin Matthew Room
Organisers:
Elisa Cozzi (University of Oxford),
Professor Fiona Stafford
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 24 January 2023
John Clare and the Natural History of Fear
Date: 24 January 2023, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
:
Dr Erin Lafford (English Faculty, Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road, Oxford. OX2 6GG
Organisers:
Elisa Cozzi (University of Oxford),
Professor Fiona Stafford
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 7 February 2023
In light of papyri: ancient sources for a new analysis on climate variability
Date: 7 February 2023, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
:
Sara Baldin (University of Basel)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road, Oxford. OX2 6GG
Organisers:
Elisa Cozzi (University of Oxford),
Professor Fiona Stafford
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 14 October 2025
Ethics and the Urban Essay
Date: 14 October 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr Uttara Natarjan (Oriel/Goldsmiths College, University of London)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers:
Professor Fiona Stafford,
Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
