Monday 20 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - • A Guide to the Transfer of Status
  Various Speakers
  Teaching & Careers
• 20:00 - DANSOX presents: Making “The Cellist”
  TBA

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

• 12:30 - Curating (in) a Crisis: Looking at Contemporary Art in an Era of Ecological Breakdown
  Anna Souter (Art History)
  Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 13:15 - Flat, Round, Hidden: Character and Type in the Middle English Popular Romances AND Tomb Raiders: Christianising Ovid in the Middle Ages
  Please note the new day and time!
  Rebecca Menmuir, Lucy Brookes
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 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)
• 17:30 - DANSOX presents: Sir Richard Alston and Professor Stephanie Jordan
  Sir Richard Alston, Professor Stephanie Jordan (University of Roehampton)

Thursday 23 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 20:00 - Mozart's Don Giovanni
  TBA

Monday 27 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Enlightenment, Information, and the Copernican Delay: A Venture into the History of Knowledge
  Professor Cliff Siskin (University of Cambridge)
  Henry W & Albert A Berg Prof of English & American Literature Lecture
• 12:45 - Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Discussion Group
  Yeogeun Kim
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 14:00 - Humanities Research Fair for postgraduates
  N/A

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

• 12:30 - Latitudinal Landscapes: Art and Environment in the Circumpolar North
  Dr Isabelle Gapp (Art History)
  Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 13:15 - The Dynastic Drama of Beowulf
  Please note the new day and time!
  Dr Francis Leneghan (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 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
• 17:15 - Early Modern Graduate Forum
  Georgina Wilson, Caroline Taylor
  Early Modern Graduate Forum
• 17:30 - Pilgrims and Cold Earth Wanderers
  Professor Denise Gigante (Stanford University)
  Clarendon Lectures – The Mental Traveller: William Blake

Wednesday 29 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Maya Popa: On Wonder and Bewilderment in Poetry
  TBA
  Creative Writing Seminar Series

Thursday 30 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - The Lost Traveller's Dream: Angels, Spectres, Shadows
  Professor Denise Gigante (Stanford University)
  Clarendon Lectures – The Mental Traveller: William Blake

Tuesday 4 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - 'A thousand wild flowers shone there without order or symmetry - restoring Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s vision of Elysium
  Timothy Walker (Biology, Somerville)
  Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 13:15 - Water, Wetlands and Hagiographic Culture in Medieval East Anglia
  Please note the new day and time!
  Dr Rebecca Pinner (University of East Anglia)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - A Fearful Journey: Lions and Tygers
  Professor Denise Gigante (Stanford University)
  Clarendon Lectures – The Mental Traveller: William Blake

Wednesday 5 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - ‘The Poet’s Essay (Denise Levertov)’
  Adam Phillips
• 17:30 - "Trap doors in private houses": Drama and Theatricality in the Work of Maria Edgeworth
  Professor Clíona Ó Gallchoir
  Marilyn Butler Lecture 2020

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

• 17:30 - Spiraling through Eternity in Nets and Trees
  Professor Denise Gigante (Stanford University)
  Clarendon Lectures – The Mental Traveller: William Blake

Monday 10 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Discussion Group
  Julia Caterina Hartley (Warwick University), Xiaofan Amy Li (UCL)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:15 - Medieval English: Representation and Reality
  Please note the new day and time!
  Professor Tim William Machan (University of Notre Dame, Indiana)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Early Modern Graduate Forum
  Katie Mennis, Fraser Buchanan
  Early Modern Graduate Forum

Wednesday 12 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Discussion Group
  TBA
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

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)
• 17:30 - Woman much missed: Thomas Hardy, Emma Hardy and Poetry
  Professor Mark Ford (University College London)
  F W Bateson Memorial Lecture 2020

Friday 14 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - MSt Dissertation Workshop
  Various Speakers
  Teaching & Careers

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

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Bernhard Schirg (University of Erfurt, Freigeist Fellow, Bodleian Visiting Fellow)
  Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 13:15 - Inside and Outside The Battle of Maldon
  Please note the new day and time!
  Dr Mark Atherton (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 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

Thursday 20 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Discussion Group
  Jennifer Croft
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 17:30 - Reading Traces: On Book History’s Digital Future
  Prof Dirk van Hulle (Professor of Bibliography and Modern Book History)
  Inaugural Professor of Bibliography Lecture

Saturday 22 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Discussion Group
  André Naffis-Sahely
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Monday 24 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Discussion Group
  Discussion group
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 13:15 - Reading and Writing Early English Environments: Texts, Minds, and Material Matter
  Please note the new day and time!
  Dr Mike Bintley (Birkbeck, University of London)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:00 - "Two nations in their mother’s womb” – Hebrew-Latin manuscripts, their materiality and their purpose
  Professor Judith Schlanger (University of Oxford)
  E A Lowe Lectures in Palaeography
• 17:15 - Early Modern Graduate Forum
  Tom Roberts, Emily Stevenson
  Early Modern Graduate Forum

Thursday 27 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - “Take the garment of a Jew” – bilingual manuscripts, their glosses and their Jewish background
  Professor Judith Schlanger (University of Oxford)
  E A Lowe Lectures in Palaeography

Friday 28 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - A Guide to the Viva
  Various Speakers
  Teaching & Careers
• 17:30 - African Classics: Translating texts, translated contexts
  Antjie Krog, Nkosinathi Sithole, Chris Dunton
• 17:30 - Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Discussion Group
  Antjie Krog, Nkosinathi Sithole, Chris Dunton
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 13:15 - Pain, Emotion and Embodiment in Old Norse Literature
  Please note the new day and time!
  Professor Sif Ríkharðsdóttir (University of Iceland)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:00 - From “superscriptio Lincolniensis” to Prior Gregory – the difficult question of manuscripts’ provenance
  Professor Judith Schlanger (University of Oxford)
  E A Lowe Lectures in Palaeography

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - English Graduates Careers Day
  Various Speakers
  Teaching & Careers

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Discussion Group
  Margherita Laera (University of Kent)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 10 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Henry Weikel (English, University College)
  Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 13:15 - Deor on the Dark Side
  Please note the new day and time!
  Dr Eleni Ponirakis (University of Nottingham)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Early Modern Graduate Forum
  Jake Arthur, Felicity Brown
  Early Modern Graduate Forum

Thursday 12 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:30 - ‘Thinking Poetry: Alice Oswald and Denise Riley — A Reading and A Conversation’
  Alice Oswald (Poet), Denise Riley

Friday 20 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Writers Make Worlds
  Benjamin Zephaniah

Tuesday 20 October 2020 (40th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Weidenfeld Lecture
  TBA
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 27 October 2020 (41st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Juan Gabriel Vásquez
  TBA

Tuesday 3 November 2020 (42nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Weidenfeld Lecture
  TBA
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 10 November 2020 (43rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Weidenfeld Lecture
  TBA
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 17 November 2020 (44th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Weidenfeld Lecture
  TBA
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation