• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford) , Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford) , Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford)
• Timing: Wednesdays at 5.15pm

Thursday 24 October 2019

• 17:15 - Belonging Differently: Home and Gender in James Joyce's Ulysses
  Sanja Bahun (University of Essex)

Thursday 7 November 2019

• 17:15 - The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature
  Peter Kalliney (University of Kentucky)

Thursday 21 November 2019

• 17:30 - Literary Activism: PEN, Internationalism, and Free Expression since the 1920s
  Prof Peter McDonald, Rachel Potter (University of East Anglia)

Thursday 5 December 2019

• 17:30 - Writers Make Worlds - Patience Agbabi Reading
  Patience Agbabi

Thursday 30 January 2020

• 12:30 - 'Representing Climate Change on Stage' and 'Touristic Social Spaces in E. M. Forster'
  Professor Kirsten E Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford), Leonie Wanitzek (University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 February 2020

• 12:30 - 'Through the Love of an Unknown Soldier: Elizabeth Bowen’s A World of Love (1955) and Coningsby Dawson’s The Love of an Unknown Soldier: Love Letters Found in a Trench (1918)' and 'Impersonality in Wallace Stevens'
  Dr Rachel Bryan (University of Oxford), Jack Hart (University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 February 2020

• 12:30 - 'A Figure of Speech in Elizabeth Bishop' and 'Charlie Chaplin Among the Poets'
  Andrew Dickinson, Dr George Potts

Thursday 12 March 2020

• 12:30 - CANCELLED - 'What is the relation of the American one-line poem (or monostich) to lyric?' and 'Contemporary Women Writers Figuring the Visual Arts'
  This event has been cancelled.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Diana Leca, Sofie Behluli

Thursday 14 May 2020

• 17:00 - Group reading of George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
  Various Speakers

Thursday 21 May 2020

• 17:00 - Introduction to Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature
  Professor Elizabeth Outka (University of Richmond)

Thursday 4 June 2020

• 17:00 - Roundtable on Life, Literature and Covid-19
  Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford), Melissa Alexander (University of Oxford), Sean Ketteringham (University of Oxford), Professor Kate McLoughlin (University of Oxford), Chloe Nahum (University of Oxford), Sarah Waltcher (University of Oxford)

Thursday 18 June 2020

• 17:00 - Professor Megan M. Quigley (Villanova University), 'T. S. Eliot's Fictional Afterlives'
  Professor Megan M. Quigley (Villanova University)

Wednesday 21 October 2020

• 17:15 - Reading (and Building) Machines: Modernist Women Poets and Emancipatory Technicities
  Dr Eric White (Oxford Brookes University)

Wednesday 4 November 2020

• 17:15 - Ecological Grief / Inhuman Faciality?
  Professor Paul Saint-Amour (University of Pennsylvania)

Wednesday 2 December 2020

• 17:15 - Roundtable on Race, Politics and Modernity
  Dr Leah Rosenberg (University of Florida), Dr Hugh Stevens (University College London), Dr Mandisa Haarhoff (University of Cape Town)

Wednesday 27 January 2021

• 17:30 - Reading the Poetry of a Global Age
  Professor Jahan Ramazani (University of Virginia)

Wednesday 17 February 2021

• 17:30 - Professor Benjamin Kahan (Louisiana State University) on ‘Major Perverts’
  Professor Benjamin Kahan (Louisiana State University), Professor Jana Funke (University of Exeter)

Wednesday 10 March 2021

• 17:30 - Character, Connection and Cruising: E.M. Forster in the 21st Century
  Professor Laura Marcus (New College, Oxford), Professor David Trotter (Cambridge), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 5 May 2021

• 17:30 - Literature and Philosophy
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 26 May 2021

• 17:30 - Literature and Late-Stage Capitalism
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 16 June 2021

• 17:00 - Roundtable on The New Modernist Studies
  Douglas Mao (Johns Hopkins University), Sarah Cole (Columbia University), Gayle Rogers (University of Pittsburgh), Miriam Thaggert (University of Buffalo)

Wednesday 20 October 2021

• 17:30 - Laura Marcus and Twentieth-Century Literary Studies
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 10 November 2021

• 17:30 - ‘The Prosthetic Imagination’
  Professor Peter Boxall (University of Sussex)

Wednesday 17 November 2021

• 17:30 - Virginia Woolf, A Roundtable
  Dr Emily Kopley (McGill University), Dr Merve Emre (Faculty of English, University of Oxford), Professor Gillian Beer (University of Cambridge)

Monday 29 November 2021

• 17:30 - ‘The Question of the New: Thinking about Emergence of Modernism with Wittgenstein, Kuhn, and Cavell’
  Professor Toril Moi (Duke University)

Wednesday 26 January 2022

• 17:30 - ‘Henry James and What They Didn’t Say’
  Professor Kate McLoughlin

Monday 21 February 2022

• 17:30 - ‘H.D. & Bryher: An Untold Love Story of Modernism’
  Professor Susan McCabe (University of Southern California)

Wednesday 9 March 2022

• 17:30 - ‘Radical Domesticity’
  Mary McLeod (Columbia University), Victoria Rosner (Columbia University)

Tuesday 3 May 2022

• 17:15 - ‘Nguyen, Hagedorn, Coppola, Conrad: Global Residues of the Anglo-American Genre System’
  Professor Jed Esty (University of Pennsylvania)

Wednesday 11 May 2022

• 17:15 - DPhil Research-In-Progress Forum
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 25 May 2022

• 17:15 - ‘Queer Kinship after Wilde: Transnational Decadence and the Family’
  Professor Kristin Mahoney (Michigan State University)

Wednesday 1 June 2022

• 17:15 - DPhil Research-In-Progress Forum
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 8 June 2022

• 16:00 - The Waste Land After One Hundred Years: A Roundtable
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 19 October 2022

• 17:30 - 'Sancho’s Britain'
  Paterson Joseph

Wednesday 26 October 2022

• 17:00 - A roundtable on 'Life-writing in the twentieth century'
  Dr Patrick Hayes (St Johns), Professor Margaretta Jolly (Sussex), Professor Max Saunders (Birmingham), Dr Nicole King (Exeter)

Wednesday 16 November 2022

• 17:00 - 'Modernism on the Circuit'
  Professor Peter Howarth (Queen Mary University of London), Dr Robert Volpicelli (Randolph-Macon College)

Wednesday 7 December 2022

• 17:00 - Professor Marina Warner in conversation with Dr Karolina Watroba (All Souls).
  Please note that discussion between Marina Warner and Karolina Watroba will no longer be taking place this evening. However, we are still planning to hold a drinks reception to celebrate the end of term and conclude our year's events: so, please do still join us for a drink in the Wharton Room at All Souls College from 5-6:30pm!
  Professor Dame Marina Warner (Quondam Fellow, All Souls), Dr Karolina Watroba

Wednesday 1 February 2023

• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar: Alice Oswald and Angela Leighton will be in conversation
  Alice Oswald (Professor of Poetry, Oxford), Angela Leighton

Wednesday 15 February 2023

• 17:15 - CANCELLED: Marina Warner discussing her memoir Inventory of A Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir (2021) with Karolina Watroba
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Marina Warner, Karolina Watroba

Wednesday 1 March 2023

• 17:15 - CANCELLED: Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  TBA

Tuesday 25 April 2023

• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar: 'Mourning in Translation: An Elegy’s Six-Hundred-Year Journey'
  Professor Jahan Ramazani (University of Virginia)

Wednesday 17 May 2023

• 12:00 - Modern and Contemproary Literature Research Seminar: A roundtable on 'Literature and the Future'
  Julyan Oldham, Iris Pearson, Charles Pidgeon (University of Oxford), Dr Joshua Phillips (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 14 June 2023

• 12:15 - New Approaches to Modernist Studies', with Professor Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei (Johns Hopkins) and Dr Doug Battersby (Bristol and Stanford)
  Professor Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei (Johns Hopkins), Dr Doug Battersby (Bristol and Stanford)
• 12:15 - Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar: New Approaches to Modernist Studies
  Professor Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei (Johns Hopkins), Dr Doug Battersby (University of Bristol)

Wednesday 18 October 2023

• 17:15 - ‘A Revolution of the Screw: Peripheralising Europe’
  Prof. Peter Boxall (New College), Dr Rachel Bryan (University of Oxford), Damian Maher

Wednesday 8 November 2023

• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Literature Research seminars: Prof Marina Warner in conversation with Dr Karolina Watroba (All Souls) about her book Inventory of A Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir (2021) and on life-writing more generally
  Dr Karolina Watroba, Professor Dame Marina Warner

Wednesday 22 November 2023

• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Literature Research seminars: ‘The Vacuum Cleaner: Myths and Metamorphoses’
  Prof Maud Ellmann (University of Chicago)

Wednesday 24 January 2024

• 17:15 - What was an Emotion? T. S. Eliot and Bertrand Russell
  Prof. David Dwan (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 7 February 2024

• 17:15 - The emergence of 'cognition' in the critical conversation
  Prof Terence Cave

Wednesday 21 February 2024

• 17:15 - Literature, Conflict and Mourning
  Roundtable discussion

Wednesday 22 May 2024

• 12:00 - 'The Gamification of the Ghetto: Reading Between the Levels in Percival Everett's Erasure,' and 'Necropolitical Ecologies: Representing Nature’s Death-work in the Borderzone'
  Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Dr Lucinda Newns (Bishop Grosseteste University)

Wednesday 29 May 2024

• 12:00 - 'The Desire for Marriage'
  Dr Devorah Baum (University of Southampton)

Wednesday 5 June 2024

• 18:00 - '“The Freedom to be Wrong”: Reading Teju Cole with Chris Kraus'
  Please note that the lecture by Prof Tim Bewes on 5 June, 6-7.30 pm, will be in New College
  Professor Tim Bewes (Brown University)

Thursday 6 June 2024

• 12:00 - 'Chronotopic Forms in Recent Fiction by Women'
  Professor Tim Bewes (Brown University)

Monday 7 October 2024

• 17:15 - Waifs, Strays, and the Charitable Gaze
  Prof. Daniela Caselli (University of Manchester)

Wednesday 16 October 2024

• 17:15 - Dear AI Reader: Nonhuman Perspective and Evolutionary Thinking in the Human-Machine Relation
  Prof Chris Danta (Australian National University, Canberra)

Wednesday 30 October 2024

• 17:15 - ""Drafts": A Comparative History of the Literary Draft in Europe’. A Roundtable with Bryony Randall, Hannah Sullivan, Olga Beloborodova, and Scott McCracken
  Prof. Dirk van Hulle (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 20 November 2024

• 17:15 - Waifs, Strays, and the Charitable Gaze
  Prof. Daniela Caselli (University of Manchester)

Wednesday 4 December 2024

• 17:15 - DPhil work in progress, followed by Xmas drinks
  TBA

Wednesday 22 January 2025

• 17:00 - ‘Decolonising the Curriculum’
  Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford)

Friday 24 January 2025

• 15:00 - ‘Ethnography of the Oikos: Space-Making Trauma and Healing in Toni Morrison’
  Professor Ato Quayson (Stanford University)

Wednesday 5 February 2025

• 17:15 - Roundtable on The British Novel of Ideas: George Eliot to Zadie Smith (Cambridge University Press, December 2024
  Professor Rachel Potter (University of East Anglia), Professor Matthew Taunton (University of East Anglia)

Wednesday 26 February 2025

• 17:15 - "World Literature and the Work of Revolution: Towards a Radical History of the Bildungsroman" / ‘The Novel, the Epic and the Collective’
  Professor David Cunningham (University of Westminster), Professor Benjamin Kohlmann (University of Regensburg/Clare Hall, Cambridge)

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 17:00 - Atlantic Slavery and Its Aftermaths Lecture: ‘Between Civilization and Barbarism: The Antinomies of Atlantic Slavery’
  Professor Simon Gikandi (Princeton University)

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 14:00 - The Absent Cause: Postcolonial Thought and the Atlantic Archive
  Professor Simon Gikandi (Princeton University)