• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford) , Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford) , Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford)
• Timing: All talks in will take place in the Wharton Room in All Souls College from 12-2 pm, with the exception of John Guillory's lecture in Week 4, which will take place in the T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College, from 5:15.
• Organising department: Faculty of English Language and Literature

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)

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 11:00 - Scholarship, Activism, and the Autonomy of Social Spheres
  John Guillory (Emeritus Professor, New York University)

Wednesday 28 May 2025

• 12:00 - The Art of the Protest Novel
  Sarah Cole

Wednesday 4 June 2025

• 12:00 - “The Cold War Conscience of the Autobiographical Novel Series” / “Growing up Online: Tech Memoir and Digital Rights”
  Marina McKay, Adam Guy

Wednesday 18 June 2025

• 12:00 - , “On ‘Holy Hate’ in Black US Poetry, 1919”
  Julian Murphet