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

Monday 29 May 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Discussion Group - Language and Imagery in Contemporary Korean Cinema - Dr Haneul Lee (Oxford)
Date: 29 May 2023, 12:45 - 14:00 (Monday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Dr Haneul Lee (Oxford)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 30 May 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Medieval English Research Seminar: 'Life Records and The National Archives'
Date: 30 May 2023, 12:00 - 13:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Euan Roger (National Archives)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Mishtooni Bose (University of Oxford), Simon Horobin
Hosts: TBA

Old Norse Research Seminar: The Rhythm of Saga Prosimetrum
Date: 30 May 2023, 17:00 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker s: Prof Carolyne Larrington (University of Oxford), Professor Judy Quinn (Cambridge)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Early Modern Graduate Forum
Date: 30 May 2023, 17:15 - 18:15 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker s: Spencer Grayson (Trinity), Richard Phillips (Balliol)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture research seminar: ‘Child's play: staging 'The Woodcutter', Elizabeth Countess of Hardwicke's 1797 family theatrical’
Date: 30 May 2023, 17:30 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker s: Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Jemima Hubberstey (LMH, Oxford), Dr. Natasha Simonova, Eleanor Housden, Sylvie Knight
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organiser: Prof. Ros Ballaster
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 31 May 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani…: Decolonisation and the Study of Commercial Indian Cinema(s)
Date: 31 May 2023, 17:00 - 19:00 (Wednesday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Dr Sunny Singh (London Metropolitan University)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms 4 and 5
Organiser: India-Oxford Initiative (IndOx) (University of Oxford)
Host: India-Oxford Initiative (IndOx) (University of Oxford)

Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
Date: 31 May 2023, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker s: Zoe Rucker (Balliol College), Lucy Haenlein (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organiser: Julyan Oldham
Hosts: TBA

Online Launch of Kojo Laing, Robert Browning and Affiliative Literature: Relational Worlds
Date: 31 May 2023, 17:15 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker s: Professor Annmarie Drury (CUNY), Professor Jeanne-Marie Jackson (Johns Hopkins), Professor Galin Tihanov (QMUL), Dr Joseph Hankinson (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 1 June 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar: ‘Narrative and intervention: the case of the Herero-Nama genocide, Namibia’
Date: 1 June 2023, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Nelson Mlambo (University of Namibia)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
Date: 1 June 2023, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker s: Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Charles Forsdick (James Barrow Professor French and AHRC Theme Leadership Fellow for ‘Translating Cultures’, Liverpool), Sarah Jilani (City, University of London), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms 4/5
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 2 June 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop II: Making Things Up
Date: 2 June 2023, 10:30 - 12:30 (Friday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker s: Professor Hermione Lee, Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Poeta Necans: The Metalepsis of Killing a Character from Antiquity to the Present
Date: 2 June 2023, 14:00 - 15:00 (Friday, 6th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Dr Thomas Kuhn-Treichel (University of Heidelberg)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 5 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Nineteenth Century Research Seminar Folklore and Satire: A Short Biography of Old Father Thames / Writing Towards Italy: Vernon Lee, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence
Date: 5 June 2023, 12:15 - 14:00 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker s: Alice Huxley (Oxford DPhil student), Leonie Wareham Wanitzek (Oxford DPhil student)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Helen Small

Tuesday 6 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Hannah Arendt, Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy, lecture sessions 8-13 and ‘Imagination’ (pp. 46-85)
Date: 6 June 2023, 11:30 - 13:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Owen Walker Room at Oriel College
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Romantic Research Seminar: 'Why Magazines Matter: Reading Charles Lamb’s ‘A Complaint of the Decay of Beggars in the Metropolis’ (1822) in the London Magazine'
Date: 6 June 2023, 12:30 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Natasha Bharucha (University of Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: The Massey Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Early Modern English Literature Seminar: ‘Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race’
Date: 6 June 2023, 17:15 - 19:15 (Tuesday, 7th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Professor Noémie Ndiaye (University of Chicago)
Venue Details: online via Teams
Organisers: Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Emma Smith, Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxfordhttps://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-lorna-hutson)
Hosts: TBA

J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language Inaugural Lecture: Holidaying in the Middle Ages
Date: 6 June 2023, 17:30 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 7th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Professor Marion Turner (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Gulbenkian Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 7 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

American Literature Research Seminar: Work Requirements: Literary Labour and Social Welfare
Date: 7 June 2023, 17:00 - 19:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Dr Todd Carmody
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: New Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 8 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

American Literature Research Seminar: Edward Bancroft and the Forms of New World Narrative
Date: 8 June 2023, 17:00 - 19:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Prof. Cristobal Silva (UCLA)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Large seminar room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Poets at Keble
Date: 8 June 2023, 17:30 - 18:30 (Thursday, 7th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker s: Alice Oswald (Professor of Poetry, Oxford), Iryna Starovoyt (Poet)
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Venue Details: Pusey Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 9 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Professor of Poetry Lecture with Alice Oswald: Counterblast!
Date: 9 June 2023, 17:30 - 18:30 (Friday, 7th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Professor Alice Oswald (University of Oxford)
Venue: University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road OX1 3PW
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Readings from Linda M. G. Zerilli, A Democratic Theory of Judgment and D. N. Rodowick, An Education in Judgment: Hannah Arendt and the Humanities
Date: 13 June 2023, 11:30 - 13:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Owen Walker Room at Oriel College
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Early Modern Graduate Forum
Date: 13 June 2023, 17:15 - 18:15 (Tuesday, 8th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker s: Matilda Houston-Brown (Queens), Sophie Aldred (Worcester College, Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture research seminar: ‘Salon Diplomacy and State Bankruptcy: Women’s Informal Diplomatic Spaces in Denmark-Norway during the Napoleonic Wars’
Date: 13 June 2023, 17:30 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Dr Kristine Dyrmann (University of Oxford)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organiser: Professor Ros Ballaster
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 14 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

New Approaches to Modernist Studies', with Professor Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei (Johns Hopkins) and Dr Doug Battersby (Bristol and Stanford)
Date: 14 June 2023, 12:15 - 13:15 (Wednesday, 8th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker s: Professor Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei (Johns Hopkins), Dr Doug Battersby (Bristol and Stanford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organiser: Dr George Potts
Hosts: TBA

Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
Date: 14 June 2023, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 8th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker s: Ronnie Pope (Linacre College), Constance Everett-Pite (Corpus Christi College)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organiser: Julyan Oldham
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 15 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar: ‘Writing displacement, (re)writing the cosmopolis’
Date: 15 June 2023, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Yasmin Akther (RHU)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
American Literature Research Seminar
Caribbean Studies Network
Celtic Research Seminar
'Channels of Digital Scholarship' Seminar I: New tools and old questions in the analysis of textual corpora
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
Feminist Thinking Seminars
Imagining Belief
Inaugural Lecture from Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, Helen Small
Inaugural Lecture from Professor of Poetry, Alice Oswald
Interdisciplinary Reading Group on Authenticity
Kantian Aesthetics
Kellogg Centre for Creative Writing
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)
Medieval English Research Seminar
Medieval English Research Seminar
Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum
Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar
Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
Old English Reading Group
Old Norse Research Seminar
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
Poets at Keble
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
Romantic Research Seminar
The Princeton University Press Lecture Series in European History and Culture
The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
TORCH Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminars