Wednesday 20 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:15 - Referencing: RefWorks for Humanities
  TBA
• 11:00 - Letter 6: Peter Abelard and Héloïse – The Letters
  Nik Nicheperovich
  Peter Abelard and Héloïse – The Letters
• 16:30 - The Albi map [after 1312]: an early example of the French local map tradition
  Juliette Dumasy (Université d’Orléans)
  The Oxford Seminars in Cartography
• 17:00 - Analysing Text and Image in Early-Modern Architectural Treatises using Machine Learning
  Dr Benoit Seguin (Visiting Scholar, Merton College)
  Merton History of the Book Group
• 17:15 - Drawing and Winckelmann’s taste for elegant simplicity
  Prof. Amy Smith (University of Reading)
• 18:15 - 'What is the Point? Punctuating Performance in the Cleopatra Ancrene Wisse' and ‘”Eternity crossing the current of time”: reading anchoritic literature with T. S. Eliot’
  Samira Lindstedt (University of Oxford), Alicia Smith (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 19:00 - 'As Colours Steal' - an illumination of Alice Oswald's Inaugural Lecture
  Alice Oswald (Poet)
• 20:00 - Tolkien and Opera: Epic Scenes from the Silmarillion
  Paul Corfield Godfrey, Members of the cast (Volante Productions)

Thursday 21 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Bodleian iSkills: Discovering archives at the Bodleian
  TBA
• 11:00 - Trans-Inter-Queer: On Three Eras of the Seeable and Sayable in Visual Cultures
  TBA
• 14:30 - Trans Structures of Feeling: From Cinema to Portraiture
  TBA
• 17:30 - Literary Activism: PEN, Internationalism, and Free Expression since the 1920s
  Prof Peter McDonald, Rachel Potter (University of East Anglia)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar
• 18:30 - Poets at Keble: A Reading by Richard Scott
  Richard Scott
  Poets at Keble

Friday 22 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - 'Getting Your Writing Out There' Afternoon
  Various Speakers
• 15:00 - Troilus and Criseyde reading group
  Rebecca Menmuir
  Middle English Reading Group (MERG)
• 15:30 - RSC: Student Ticket and Travel Offer - A Museum in Baghdad
  Royal Shakespeare Company
• 17:30 - Henry Aldrich's Sacred Choral Music: live performance and reception
  James Morley Porter, David Bannister, Dr Dean Jobin-Bevans

Tuesday 26 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - What's in a Village? - Tracing Landscape and Settlement Change across the Elgeyo Escarpment of Northwest Kenya
  Samuel Lunn-Rokliffe (Archaeology, St Hugh’s), David Kay (Archaeology, Cambridge)
  Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 12:30 - What's in a Village? - Tracing Landscape and Settlement Change across the Elgeyo Escarpment of Northwest Kenya
  Samuel Lunn-Rokliffe (St Hugh's College), David Kay (University of Cambridge)
  Environmental Humanities Seminar
• 12:30 - 'What's in a Village? - Tracing Landscape and Settlement Change across the Elgeyo Escarpment of Northwest Kenya’
  TBA
  Environmental Humanities Seminar
• 14:00 - The Postmodernism Debate and the Critique of Identity Politics
  Dr Pelagia Goulimari
  Feminist Theory lectures
• 17:00 - 'Shakespeare and the Psalms' and 'Shakespeare and the Parables'
  Beatrice Groves, Prof Michael Collins (Georgetown)
  Christian Shakespeare: Question Mark
• 17:30 - Erasmus on Imitation
  Prof Brian Cummings (University of York)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - Tennyson, Burke, and the Sublimity of Song
  Dr Michael Sullivan (Christ Church, University of Oxford)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 27 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Letter 7 §§ 1–25: Peter Abelard and Héloïse – The Letters
  TBA
  Peter Abelard and Héloïse – The Letters
• 17:00 - Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi
  Discussion group
  International Book Club
• 17:15 - Vernacular Knowledge in Thirteenth-Century England: Aesthetics and Power (chaired by Laura Ashe)
  Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 28 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Creative Industries Pathway: Multidisciplinary Arts Organisations in the 21st Century
  Jelica Obician (Exchange Manager, Somerset House), Melissa Murdock (Project Manager, Roundhouse)
  TORCH Creative Industries Programme
• 15:00 - Creative Industries Pathway: Multidisciplinary Arts Organisations in the 21st Century
  TBA
• 17:00 - The Whale, or Moby Dick, International Copyright and the Transatlantic Fashioning of American Authorship
  Dr Katie McGettigan (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  American Literature Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Writing in the Present
  TBA
  Creative Writing Seminar Series
• 17:15 - Placeless People
  Lyndsey Stonebridge
  Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar
• 17:30 - Apollonius of Tyre (week 7)
  Tom Revell
  Old English Reading Group
• 17:30 - The TS Eliot Lecture 2019: TS Eliot and the Art of Abandonment
  Dr Hannah Sullivan (University of Oxford)

Friday 29 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Curriculum Diversity - sharing experiences and exploring next steps
  TBA
• 15:00 - Troilus and Criseyde reading group
  Rebecca Menmuir
  Middle English Reading Group (MERG)
• 15:00 - Humanities Research Fair
  TBA
• 16:30 - Methods of Research in Literature and the Visual Arts
  To book a space email: rebecca.bowen@some.ox.ac.uk ; vittoria.fallanca@pmb.ox.ac.uk
  Various Speakers

Monday 2 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Conversation on two Transcript Monographs
  TBA

Tuesday 3 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - The "Story" in Henry James' "The Art of Fiction"
  Prof Philip Horne (University College London)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
• 12:30 - Lunchtime walk
  N/A
  Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 12:30 - Lunchtime Walk
  TBA
  Environmental Humanities Seminar
• 14:00 - Sexualities
  Emily Cousens
  Feminist Theory lectures
• 15:00 - State Papers Online Training
  Isabel Holowaty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
• 15:30 - Comedy in the Margins - a manuscript session TBC
  TBA
  The Medieval Book Club
• 17:15 - 'Milton’s transient eschaton: rupturing time and space in the Nativity Ode' and 'Marlowe’s Faustus: An Accidental Atheist'
  Emily Birchenough, Fraser Buchanan
  Early Modern Graduate Forum

Wednesday 4 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Writing Medieval Lives
  Dr Marion Turner (Univeristy of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Good grammar and the law
  Ben Staveley
  Oxford Study Skills Centre Michaelmas '19 Talk Series

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Interdisciplinary Graduate Networking Event
  TBA
  Early Medieval Britain and Ireland Events
• 17:00 - Network Social
  N/A
  Early Medieval Britain and Ireland Events
• 17:00 - Transformation of Shakespeare’s Tyrants and Anti-Tyrants in Soviet and Post-Soviet Georgia and Around the World
  Dr David Maziashvili (University of Oxford), Prof. Mark Burnett (Queen's University, Belfast)
• 17:15 - Writers Make Worlds - Patience Agbabi Reading
  Patience Agbabi
  Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar
• 17:15 - Printer in Residence Lecture: 'Accumulating Narrative'
  David Armes (Printer in Residence)
• 17:30 - Writers Make Worlds - Patience Agbabi Reading
  Patience Agbabi
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Friday 6 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Troilus and Criseyde reading group
  Rebecca Menmuir
  Middle English Reading Group (MERG)

Tuesday 21 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Shakespeare in Georgia Exhibition, Seminar, Screening
  Dr David Maziashvili (University of Oxford), Dr Gillian Evison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Prof Dan Healey (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - 'Nuns and Friars in Shakespeare' and 'Shakespeare, Religion and Toleration'
  Dr Yvette Khoury (Blackfriars, Oxford), Clare Asquith (Literary Historian and Critic)
  Christian Shakespeare: Question Mark

Thursday 6 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Spiraling in Trees and Nets
  Professor Denise Gigante (Stanford University)
  Clarendon Lectures – The Mental Traveller: William Blake

Thursday 13 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - The D. F. McKenzie Lecture 2020: ‘McKenzie 25 years on: anniversaries, legacies, reflections’
  Prof. Kathryn Sutherland (University of Oxford), Prof. Dirk van Hulle (University of Oxford), Prof. Peter McDonald (University of Oxford), Richard Ovenden (Chair)

Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - 'Hamlet' and 'Measure for Measure, #Me Too and Performing Christianity Today'
  Paulina Kewes (Jesus College, Oxford), Prof Elizabeth Schafer (Royal Holloway University)
  Christian Shakespeare: Question Mark