• 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

Tuesday 21 October 2025

• 17:30 - ‘The Maritime Closet: Queer Lives at Sea’
  Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)

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)

Thursday 23 October 2025

• 17:15 - ‘Itineraries of Literary Decolonization: Ghana, Africa and the African Diaspora, 1953-1964’
  Jarad Zimbler (Kings College London)

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)

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)

Tuesday 4 November 2025

• 12:15 - ‘The Darker Side of the Middle Ages’
  Kathy Lavezzo (U of Iowa)

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)

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)