Monday 28 April 2025

• 14:00 - The Oxford Ministry for the Future presents: 'Art, nature and science: Imagining other worlds'
  Brian Eno, Kim Stanley Robinson, Laline Paull, J. M. Ledgard

Tuesday 29 April 2025

• 12:15 - Salvation and the Land in the Old English Andreas
  Helen Appleton (Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - The Press of the Royal Institution
  David Duff (Queen Mary, University of London)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Thursday 1 May 2025

• 17:15 - World Literature from the Viewpoint of Atrocity
  Bruce Robbins (Columbia)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 6 May 2025

• 12:15 - Nothing Matters: The Contemplative Poetics of Nought in Julian of Norwich and Beyond
  Raphaela Rohrhofer (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Prolific Ground: Landscape and British Women’s Writing, 1690-1790
  Nicolle Jordan (University of Southern Mississipi)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Thursday 8 May 2025

• 17:15 - Journal editing in the changing marketplace: Postcolonial writing or world literature?
  Janet Wilson (Northampton and editor-in-chief, Journal of Postcolonial Literature)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 12:15 - Greek Mystical Theology in Old English Texts
  Eleni Ponirakis (University of Nottingham)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - 'These primeval mountains': Shelley, Buffon, and Deep Time / 'Nor be the parsonage by the muse forgot': The Poetic Legacy of Gilbert White
  Elspeth Askew (St Johns), Toby Stinson (Oriel)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 12:15 - "Everything is broken": Mid Fourteenth-Century Alliterative Verse.
  Eric Weiskott (Boston College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Thomas Moore and Anacreon: a Reconsideration
  Jane Moore (University of Cardiff)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 21 May 2025

• 17:15 - On the Effects of Fiction on Social Cognition. Evidence from Human Experimentation, Natural Language Processing, and Artificial Intelligence
  TBA
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 17:15 - Emergency as Genre
  Ayelet Ben-Yishai (Haifa)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

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
• 17:30 - Byron and Consciousness
  Jane Stabler (St Andrews University)
  Romantic Research Seminar

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

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 17:30 - "Shelley’s Philosophic Revel
  Dr Will Bowers (Queen Mary University of London)
  Romantic 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