Monday 26 May 2025

• 17:15 - Trapped By Experience, Freed By Imagination: Post-Capitalist Literature
  Shimon Adaf (Ben Gurion University in the Negev)
  Massada Public Seminars

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 12:15 - Feeling Aliene, Now and Then: Work, Contemplation, and Alienation between Medieval Devotion and Modern Academia / The Speaking Dead: Conversing with the Living from Beyond the Grave in Early English Literature
  Rowan Wilson (University of Oxford), Anine Eglund (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - ‘“That Follows Not”: The Non Sequitur in Hamlet’
  Prof. Rachel Eisendrath (Barnard College)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:15 - Special Roundtable: To celebrate the publication of India’s First Radicals: Young Bengal and the British Empire (2025) by Rosinka Chaudhuri. Chaired by Prof Santanu Das
  Professors Rosinka Chaudhuri, Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Supriya Chaudhuri (Jadavpur), Robert Young, Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
• 17:30 - Byron and Consciousness
  Jane Stabler (St Andrews University)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 28 May 2025

• 13:00 - Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
  Lara Katz, Edward McLaren, Rocío Gómez
  Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
• 17:00 - The Art of the Protest Novel
  Sarah Cole
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum

Friday 30 May 2025

• 17:00 - Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation (Book launch)
  Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars

Monday 2 June 2025

• 12:30 - Week 6: English Faculty Early Career Forum Cover Letter Workshop
  Various Speakers
  English Faculty Early Career Forum

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 12:15 - Messy Chaucer
  Rita Copeland (Pennsylvania)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Phillis Wheatley's Meditations in the Seasons
  Tom Jones (St Andrews)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 4 June 2025

• 11:00 - Rethinking Methodologies: A Workshop in the Medical Humanities
  Dr Sloan Mahone (University of Oxford), Dr Paola Esposito (Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology ), Dr Marta Arnaldi (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 12:00 - “The Cold War Conscience of the Autobiographical Novel Series” / “Growing up Online: Tech Memoir and Digital Rights”
  Marina McKay, Adam Guy
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 5 June 2025

• 16:45 - The National Poetry Crisis
  Kamran Javadizadeh
  American Literature Research Seminar

Friday 6 June 2025

• 17:00 - Tolkien the post-Christian? A Proposition
  Tom Emanuel (University of Glasgow)
  Tolkien seminars

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 17:15 - Papers by Dr Felicity Brown, Dr Sean Geddes and Dr Leah Veronese
  Felicity Brown, Sean Geddes, Leah Veronese
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - "Shelley’s Philosophic Revel
  Dr Will Bowers (Queen Mary University of London)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 13:00 - Postgraduate Panel
  Sara L. Borga (University of Oxford), Maya Hollander (University of Oxford), Andrie Morris (University of Oxford)
  American Literature Research Seminar

Friday 13 June 2025

• 17:00 - Imitative Translations of Beowulf: Tolkien, Lehmann, and McCully
  Eliot Vale (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars

Saturday 14 June 2025

• 09:00 - Oxford Translation Day 2025
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Monday 16 June 2025

• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum
• 17:15 - Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
  TBA
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Tuesday 17 June 2025

• 17:15 - Early Modern Graduate Forum
  Matilda Houston-Brown, Akrivi Ventouras
  Early Modern Graduate Forum

Wednesday 18 June 2025

• 12:00 - , “On ‘Holy Hate’ in Black US Poetry, 1919”
  Julian Murphet
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 19 June 2025

• 12:30 - Rewriting the Land: Culture, the Early Marx, and the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
  Daniel Hartley (Durham)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 20 June 2025

• 17:00 - The Sub-Creation Theory of J.R.R. Tolkien: Literary Criticism or Theology?
  Christopher Snyder (Mississippi State University)
  Tolkien seminars