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Name: Prof Lorna Hutson
Events this person is organising:
Tuesday 15 October 2019
Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England
Date: 15 October 2019, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
s:
Prof Nandini Das (University of Oxford),
Dr Joao Melo (University of Oxford),
Dr Haig Smith (University of Oxford),
Dr Lauren Working (University of Oxford)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T S Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 29 October 2019
Matters of metre c. 1550-1650: the sixteenth-century transformation of Latin verse and its impact on English poetics
Date: 29 October 2019, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Dr Victoria Moul (University College, London)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T S Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 12 November 2019
Apostrophe and Vitality in Baroque Poetry
Date: 12 November 2019, 17:30 - 20:00
Speaker
:
Dr Guilio Pertile (University of St Andrews)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T S Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 21 January 2020
‘Kings of the Road? Royal and vagrant mobility in Jonson, statutes and stories
Date: 21 January 2020, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Sue Wiseman (University of London)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 4 February 2020
George Chapman, Edward Coke and 'mitior sensus'
Date: 4 February 2020, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Professor Jessica Wolfe (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T S Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 18 February 2020
The Physics of Poetic Form in Arthur Golding's Translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses
Date: 18 February 2020, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Dr Liza Blake (University of Toronto)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 3 March 2020
'Pericles, scattered'
Date: 3 March 2020, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Prof Adam Smyth (University of Oxford)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 26 May 2020
Renaissance Imitatio: Colin Burrow, Kathy Eden and Brian Cummings in conversation
Date: 26 May 2020, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker
s:
Professor Colin Burrow (University of Oxford),
Professor Kathy Eden (Columbia University),
Professor Brian Cummings (University of York)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 9 June 2020
Hot off the Press: Discussion Group on Recent Renaissance Criticism
Date: 9 June 2020, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker
s:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxfordhttps://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-lorna-hutson)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 13 October 2020
Meet the Faculty
Date: 13 October 2020, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 27 October 2020
Scattered Texts: The Cases of Pericles and Venus and Adonis
Date: 27 October 2020, 17:30 - 19:30
Speaker
s:
Prof Adam Smyth (University of Oxford),
Professor Joshua Eckhardt (VCU)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 10 November 2020
Theories and Things in Early Modern Studies
Date: 10 November 2020, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker
s:
Rachel Eisendrath (Barnard College),
Dr Joe Moshenska (University College)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 24 November 2020
Reading Group: Spenser and Race
Date: 24 November 2020, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker
Venue Details: Online
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 27 April 2021
‘ “Not as a poet, but a pioneer”: Fancy and the Colonial Gaze in William Davenant’s Madagascar (1638)’
Date: 27 April 2021, 15:15 - 17:15
Speaker
:
Dr Lauren Working (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 11 May 2021
Teaching Early Modern Literature and Race: A Roundtable
Date: 11 May 2021, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker
s:
Kimberley Coles (Maryland),
Dennis Britton (University of New Hampshire),
Hannah Crawforth (King's College, London),
Jyotsna Singh (Michigan State University)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 25 May 2021
Distracted Globes, Attentive Spirits, Thronged Doors: The Playhouse as a Form of Thought
Date: 25 May 2021, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker
:
Will West (Northwestern University)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 8 June 2021
'On Being Attached’ from Rita Felski, Hooked: Reflections on Art and Attachment (2020)
Date: 8 June 2021, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 12 October 2021
‘The Sex of Style: Women, Poetry and Criticism in the Seventeenth Century’
Date: 12 October 2021, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker
:
Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (Kings, London)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 26 October 2021
‘Forging Women’s Networks in Lanyer’s Salve Deus’
Date: 26 October 2021, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker
:
Ramie Targoff (Brandeis University)
Venue Details: T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 4 November 2021
Special lecture by Stephen Greenblatt: ‘The Master’s Books’
Date: 4 November 2021, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker
:
Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard)
Venue Details: T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College, Oxford
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 9 November 2021
Wells Shakespeare Lectures by Bill Sherman: ‘Decoding Shakespeare’, Lecture I: ‘How to Make Anything Signify Anything’
Date: 9 November 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Bill Sherman
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 23 November 2021
Reading & Discussion Group: Extracts from Melissa Sanchez Queer Faith (NYU Press, 2019)
Date: 23 November 2021, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue Details: T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 18 January 2022
'Play the whole thing backwards: Radio Nashe’
Date: 18 January 2022, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Esther Osorio Whewell (Corpus, Oxford)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 1 February 2022
‘Seneca, rhetoric, and the writing of character in early modern English drama’
Date: 1 February 2022, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker
s:
Curtis Perry (Ohio),
Professor Lorna Hutson (Merton, Oxford)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 15 February 2022
Race and Drama, East and West : Interdisciplinary Roundtable
Date: 15 February 2022, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker
s:
Simon Park (St Anne's College, Oxford),
Prof Nandini Das (University of Oxford),
Ewan McDonald (Oxford)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 1 March 2022
‘Erasmus on Trust’
Date: 1 March 2022, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker
:
Brian Cummings
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 26 April 2022
'Lifelikeness and Deathlikeness in Shakespeare'
Date: 26 April 2022, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Professor Katharine Craik (Oxford Brookes),
Dr Jennifer Edwards (The Queen’s College, Oxford)
Venue: T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre,
Venue Details: Merton College
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 10 May 2022
‘Admonitory Laughter, Prosopopoeia, and the Promise of Tudor Evangelical Literature.’
Date: 10 May 2022, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Professor Adrian Streete (Glasgow)
Venue: T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre,
Venue Details: Merton College
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 24 May 2022
'Fearing the Body of the Witch: Gerontophobia and Transphobia in Early Modern Drama'
Date: 24 May 2022, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Dr Ezra Horbury (University of York)
Venue: T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre,
Venue Details: Merton College
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 27 May 2022
'Turn, Verse, Trope'
Date: 27 May 2022, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Professor Jeff Dolven (Princeton)
Venue: University College, High Street OX1 4BH
Venue Details: 10 Merton Street Lecture Room, University College (access from Logic Lane)
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 7 June 2022
Reading Group, details tbc.
Date: 7 June 2022, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre,
Venue Details: Merton College
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 8 November 2022
Marina, Perdita, Eunuchus and The Rope: Slavery, Race and Genre in Shakespeare’s Mediterranean
Date: 8 November 2022, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Professor Susanne Wofford (New York University)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: TS Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Dr Katie Murphy,
Prof Lorna Hutson,
Professor Lorna Hutson (Merton, Oxford),
Professor Emma Smith
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 17 January 2023
Early Modern English Literature Seminar: Bart Van Es and Lorna Hutson in conversation on England’s Insular Imagining
Date: 17 January 2023, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
s:
Bart van Es (Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford),
Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxfordhttps://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-lorna-hutson)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Prof Lorna Hutson,
Bart van Es (English, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 31 January 2023
Early Modern English Literature Seminar: Women Walking in Shakespeare
Date: 31 January 2023, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Dr Eleanor Rycroft (University of Bristol)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Prof Lorna Hutson,
Bart van Es (Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 14 February 2023
CANCELLED: Early Modern English Literature Seminar: Ghost Kings
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 14 February 2023, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Professor Sarah Knight (University of Leicester)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Prof Lorna Hutson,
Bart van Es (Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 28 February 2023
Early Modern English Literature Seminar: The First Folio at 400: What Are We Celebrating?
Date: 28 February 2023, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
s:
Emma Smith,
Ben Higgins,
Amy Lidster
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Prof Lorna Hutson,
Bart van Es (Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 10 October 2023
‘Meet the Faculty’
Date: 10 October 2023, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker
s:
Professor Helen Moore,
Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford),
Professor Diane Purkiss,
Dr Philip West
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 23 October 2023
‘Do Shakespeare’s Characters Mean What They Say?’
Date: 23 October 2023, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker
:
Professor Jeffrey Knapp
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: Mure Room
Organiser:
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 7 November 2023
The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition and Argument, 1479-1630: A conversation
Date: 7 November 2023, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker
:
Dr Katrin Ettenhuber (Pembroke College, Cambridge)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 21 November 2023
'Milton's Faulty Media: Allegory and Accommodation in Paradise Lost'
Date: 21 November 2023, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker
:
Dr Namratha Rao (University of York)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: Mure Room
Organiser:
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 16 January 2024
David Hillman (Cambridge), ‘Shaking Spears: Salutation and its Undoing in Troilus and Cressida’
Date: 16 January 2024, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford),
Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford),
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 30 January 2024
Unfinished Conversations on Early Modern Women’s Writing: ‘Still Kissing the Rod?’ #3
Date: 30 January 2024, 16:00 - 18:45
Speaker
s:
Professor Rosalind Smith (Australian National University),
Danielle Clarke (University College Dublin),
Professor Sarah Ross (Victoria University of Wellington),
Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (Kings, London)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford),
Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford),
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 13 February 2024
Reading and Discussion: "Adhad Noor Desai, Blotted Lines: Early Modern English Literature & the Poetics of Decomposition" (Cornell, 2015)
Date: 13 February 2024, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: Mure Room
Organisers:
Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford),
Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford),
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 27 February 2024
Su Fang Ng (Virginia Tech), ‘Milton and Imperial Cartography’
Date: 27 February 2024, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Mure Room
Organisers:
Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford),
Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford),
Prof Lorna Hutson
Hosts:
TBA