Faculty of English What’s On: events and talks of interest
Talks:

Monday 26 January 2025

Childhood and Bookhood in the Nineteenth-Century Country House: Texts, Materiality, and Histories of Book Use
Date: 26 January 2026, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Amy Wells (Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 February 2025

“Fairies and Music, Gipsies and Flowers”: Music Pedagogy and Performance in the Nineteenth-Century Convent School
Date: 9 February 2026, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Emma Arthur (Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 23 February 2025

Setting the Children to Work in Early Modern London: Some Methodological Challenges
Date: 23 February 2026, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Ian Archer (Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 March 2025

Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries in Childhood Studies
Date: 9 March 2026, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker s: Kiera Vaclavik (QMUL), Sophie Ratcliffe (Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
American Literature Research Seminar
Ars Memoriae – Memory Studies Reading Group
Caribbean Studies Network
Celtic Research Seminar
Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
'Channels of Digital Scholarship' Seminar I: New tools and old questions in the analysis of textual corpora
Clarendon Lectures in English - English from Below: The Rise and Fall of a Discipline
Creative Writing Seminar Series
Early Medieval Britain and Ireland Events
Early Modern English Literature Seminar
Early Modern Graduate Forum
Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar
Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series
Fantasy Literature Seminar Series: The Weird and the Wonderful
Feminist Thinking Seminars
Fiction and Other Minds seminar
History of Gender Seminar
Imagining Belief
Inaugural Lecture from Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, Helen Small
Inaugural Lecture from Professor of Poetry, Alice Oswald
Interdisciplinary Early Modern Graduate Workshop
Interdisciplinary Reading Group on Authenticity
Interdisciplinary Visual Culture Studies Group
Kantian Aesthetics
Kellogg Centre for Creative Writing
Laura Marcus Workshop
Literature and History in Early Modern Britain Seminar
Literature and History in Early Modern Britain Seminar
Literature and History in Early Modern Britain Seminar (online)
Literature and Mental Health
Medieval English Research Seminar
Medieval English Research Seminar
Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum
Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar
Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
Old English Graduate Reading Group
Old English Reading Group
Older Scots Reading Group
Old Norse Research Seminar
Oxford Comics Network
Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
Oxford Medieval Commentary Network, Interdisciplinary Seminar Series, Hilary 2023
Oxford Medieval Commentary Network, Trinity Term Lecture Series
Oxford Study Skills Centre Michaelmas '19 Talk Series
Poetry and Christianity since 1918: reading group
Poetry at Keble
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
Reading Rorty
Romantic Research Seminar
Theory Reading Group
The Princeton University Press Lecture Series in European History and Culture
The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series
Tolkien seminars
TORCH Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminars
TORCH HUMOUR NETWORK: WRITING GROUP MEETINGS
TORCH Princeton University Press Lecture Series 2025
Writing Jewish Women’s Lives Seminar Series