Dr Elena Violaris - Oxford Talks

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Dr Elena Violaris

University of Oxford

Events this person is organising:

Wednesday 22 January 2025

17:00 - ‘Decolonising the Curriculum’
Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford)
Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Friday 24 January 2025

15:00 - ‘Ethnography of the Oikos: Space-Making Trauma and Healing in Toni Morrison’
Professor Ato Quayson (Stanford University)
Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 7 May 2025

12:00 - “Migrant Hospitalities: Scenes of Arrival in the Windrush era and after”
Jo McDonagh, Julia Hori
Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 21 May 2025

17:15 - "'It's not what you know, it's who you know': Social Capital, Cultural Capital, and the Greatness of The Great Gatsby"
John Guillory (Emeritus Professor, New York University)
Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 22 May 2025

11:00 - Scholarship, Activism, and the Autonomy of Social Spheres
John Guillory (Emeritus Professor, New York University)
Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 28 May 2025

17:00 - The Art of the Protest Novel
Sarah Cole
Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Tuesday 21 October 2025

17:30 - ‘The Maritime Closet: Queer Lives at Sea’
Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 22 October 2025

16:30 - 'Billy Budd' roundtable discussion
Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford), Dr Katie McGettigan (Royal Holloway, University of London), Hester Blum (Pennsylvania State University), Antoine Traisnel (University of Oxford), Michael Jonik (University of Sussex), Edouard Marosin (Université Paris Cité)
Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 29 October 2025

16:00 - "Utopia across Disciplines”: A conversation between Douglas Mao and Duncan Bell
Douglas Mao (Johns Hopkins University and 2025 Astor Visiting Lecturer, Oxford), Duncan Bell (University of Cambridge)
Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 30 October 2025

17:00 - “Utopia and the End of the World”: a lecture (Hosted by the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages)
Doug Mao (Johns Hopkins University)
Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Monday 17 November 2025

13:30 - Early Career Researchers Forum
TBA
English Early Career Researchers Forum

Wednesday 19 November 2025

17:15 - Leverhulme Early Career Researcher roundtable discussion
Dr Mae Losasso (University of Warwick), Dr Christy Wensley (University of Oxford), Dr Joshua Phillips (University of Oxford)
Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Friday 28 November 2025

14:00 - A symposium on current journals, to mark the birthday of 'The Review of English Studies'
professor Daniel Waklein (University of Oxford), Colin Burrows (University of Oxford), Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge), Juliette Atkinson (UCL), Dr Freya Johnston (University of Oxford), Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge)
Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Monday 1 December 2025

18:00 - Early Career Researchers Forum
TBA
English Early Career Researchers Forum