Name: Professor Seamus Perry
University of Oxford

Events this person is speaking at:

Friday 16 October 2015

Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life
Date: 16 October 2015, 18:00 - 19:00
Speaker s: Professor Jonathan Bate (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford), Professor Oliver Taplin (University of Oxford), Anne Farrar Donovan
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organiser: Hannah Penny (University of Oxford, Humanities Division)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 15 November 2021

The TS Eliot Lecture 2021: 'TS Eliot's Liberalism'
Date: 15 November 2021, 17:30 - 19:45
Speaker : Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Venue: T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 October 2023

“Elizabeth Bishop and Wordsworth”
Date: 10 October 2023, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: TBA
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)

Tuesday 9 March 2021

A Celebration of the Work of Claire Lamont
Date: 9 March 2021, 13:30 - 15:30
Speaker s: John Goodridge (Nottingham Trent), David Hewitt (Aberdeen), Alison Lumsden (Newcastle), Meiko O’Halloran (Newcastle), Seamus Perry (Oxford), Michael Rossington (Newcastle), Fiona Stafford, Kathryn Sutherland
Venue Details: Online: Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: Prof Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)

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 13 October 2020

Dating Jane Austen: The Romance of Chronology
Date: 13 October 2020, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Freya Johnston (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online: Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 October 2020

“It looks like a thing you have dreamt of”: Leigh Hunt’s Italian Experience
Date: 27 October 2020, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Serena Baiesi (University of Bologna)
Organiser: Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 November 2020

Constantin Volney's Ruins and his project for a Universal History
Date: 10 November 2020, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Audrey Borowski (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online: Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 24 November 2020

“A Kind of Knack at Rhyme”: Byron and Swift & "This song which like a lark I have protracted": Remembering at length in Wordsworth and Tennyson
Date: 24 November 2020, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker s: Edwina Watson (University of Oxford), Ben Norbury (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online: Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 19 January 2021

“Beyond the present good or ill”: Georgic Complaint in the Romantic Period
Date: 19 January 2021, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Tess Somervell
Venue Details: Online: Teams
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

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 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 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 16 January 2024

Wordsworthian Resemblances
Date: 16 January 2024, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Oliver Clarkson
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: The Massey Room
Organisers: Prof Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 30 January 2024

Coleridge's Political Poetics
Date: 30 January 2024, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Jacob Lloyd (Cardiff University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: The Massey Room
Organisers: Prof Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 February 2024

"Byron as Others"
Date: 13 February 2024, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Madeleine Callaghan (University of Sheffield)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: The Massey Room
Organisers: Prof Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 February 2024

Hints and Hives: An Unanswered Question in Jane Austen's Letters?
Date: 27 February 2024, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Thomas Robertson
Venue Details: The Massey Room
Organisers: Prof Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 23 April 2024

Late Style: Wordsworth and Some Others
Date: 23 April 2024, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Tim Fulford (De Montford University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Chair: Professor Fiona Stafford (English Faculty, Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 7 May 2024

Los and Enitharmon: Gender, Prophecy, and Division in Blake’s Fall
Date: 7 May 2024, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Jude Mahmoud (Kellogg College)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Chair: Professor Fiona Stafford (English Faculty, Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 21 May 2024

Fugitive Histories and Gothic Pursuits: The Manhunt Narrative in Romantic-Era Fiction
Date: 21 May 2024, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Michael Greaney (Lancaster University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room,
Organisers: Chair: Professor Fiona Stafford (English Faculty, Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 June 2024

Three on the Arun: William Collins, George Smith, Charlotte Smith
Date: 4 June 2024, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Alexandra Harris (University of Birmingham)
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

Tuesday 15 October 2024

Dorothy Wordsworth's Poetic Refreshments
Date: 15 October 2024, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Jessica Fay (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 29 October 2024

Johnson’s Vision of Indolence
Date: 29 October 2024, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Joseph Turner (Christ Church)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford), Professor Fiona Gribble (University of Cambridge)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 12 November 2024

Exploring Positive and Negative Sublime Affect in the Alps: Combining Traditional and Digital Scholarship
Date: 12 November 2024, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Sally Bushell and Simon Bainbridge (Lancaster University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gilles Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 26 November 2024

'Inspiration’s darling child': The Romantic Ode
Date: 26 November 2024, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Paul Hamilton (Queen Mary, University of London)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 21 January 2025

Pictures Seen and Unseen: The Art of Memory in the Age of Keats”
Date: 21 January 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Matthew Scott (Reading University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 February 2025

Gothic Democracy
Date: 4 February 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Robert Miles (University of Victoria)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 February 2025

William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination
Date: 18 February 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker s: Caroline Ritchie (Exeter College), Luisa Cale (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 March 2025

Hester Thrale Piozzi’s Minced Meat for Pyes: Scrapbook Composition as Life Writing
Date: 4 March 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Julie Park (Pennsylvania State University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 29 April 2025

The Press of the Royal Institution
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : David Duff (Queen Mary, University of London)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 May 2025

'These primeval mountains': Shelley, Buffon, and Deep Time / 'Nor be the parsonage by the muse forgot': The Poetic Legacy of Gilbert White
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker s: Elspeth Askew (St Johns), Toby Stinson (Oriel)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 May 2025

Byron and Consciousness
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Jane Stabler (St Andrews University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 June 2025

"Shelley’s Philosophic Revel
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Will Bowers (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
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

Tuesday 28 October 2025

CANCELLED: The Songs of Robert Burns - Then and Now
Date: 28 October 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Kirsteen McCue (University of Glasgow)
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

Tuesday 11 November 2025

Sardinia: On the Margins of Romantic travel
Date: 11 November 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Thomas Leonard-Roy (Università degli Studi di Sassari)
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

Tuesday 25 November 2025

Wordsworth's Infinitive
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Oliver Clarkson (LMH)
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