Early Modern English Literature Seminar

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Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Prof Lorna Hutson, Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford)
Timing: Weeks 1, 3, 5 and 7. Tuesdays, 5.15pm

Talks:

Tuesday 28 October 2025

‘Shakespeare's Dark Cosmologies’
Date: 28 October 2025, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker : Professor Jane Degenhardt (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T S Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Lorna Hutson (Merton, Oxford), Bart van Es (English, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 November 2025

‘Shakespeare’s Ballad Business’
Date: 11 November 2025, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker : Professor Tiffany Stern (Shakespeare Institute)
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), Professor Lorna Hutson (Merton, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 25 November 2025

‘True Fire: Saint Augustine, the Climate Crisis, and Creative Non-Fiction’ / ‘Affective Ecologies in Petrarch’s Lyric Poems’
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker s: Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Francesca Southerden (Italian)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.424, English Faculty, Humanities Building, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Lorna Hutson (Merton, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Editors: Katy Terry, Hope Lukonyomoi-Otunnu