Wednesday 7 December 2022 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Professor Marina Warner in conversation with Dr Karolina Watroba (All Souls).
  Professor Dame Marina Warner (Quondam Fellow, All Souls), Dr Karolina Watroba
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 8 December 2022 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - From Despair to Faith: Evelyn Waugh’s "A Handful of Dust" and "Edmund Campion"
  Professor Gerard Kilroy (Campion Hall), Prof. Henry Woudhuysen (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 18 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Money Matters in Parnassus: Satirising in Fiction the Poets’ Ways to Achieve (16th and 17th Centuries)
  Raphaëlle Errera (Sorbonne Université)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 14:00 - Rabelaisian Hierarchy and its Reception
  Neil Kenny (All Souls College, Oxford)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Monday 23 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Autobiography and literature’s demand (Autofiction And Maurice Blanchot: reading group)
  TBA

Wednesday 1 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - ‘“Great” or otherwise, we don't use those terms here’: Social Hierarchy in the Dialogue of the Dead?
  Jessica Goodman (St Catherine’s College)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 14:00 - Between Streets and Salons: The Social Status of Juggling and Conjuring in La Magie du Pont-Neuf (c. 1643–1651)
  Thibaut Maus de Rolley (UCL)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 16:30 - The Poet’s Essay with Adam Phillips
  Adam Phillips
  Poets at Keble

Monday 6 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - “Saving” the self from annihilation: diaries and/as autofiction (Autofiction And Maurice Blanchot: reading group)
  TBA

Wednesday 15 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Pierre de Bordeaux, Sieur de La Sablonnière: The Education of a Royal Bodyguard
  Marc Jaffré (University of Durham)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 14:00 - Beastly Habitués: Animals and Exiles at the Salon of Hortense Mancini
  Annalisa Nicholson (The Queen's College, Oxford)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Monday 20 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Kafka’s diaries and/as autofiction (Autofiction And Maurice Blanchot: reading group)
  TBA

Wednesday 1 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - "learning has brought disobedience": Marginal Literacies and Anti-Colonial Resistance in Early Modern England
  Adam Bridgen (University of St Andrews)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 14:00 - The Critique of Hierarchies and the Hierarchies of Critique (1500–1650)
  Goran Gaber (Maison Française d’Oxford)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Monday 6 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Blanchot as practitioner of autofiction (Autofiction And Maurice Blanchot: reading group)
  TBA

Wednesday 26 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Globe Theatre Workshop: Staging Race in Shakepeare's Theatres'
  TBA