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

Monday 1 December 2025

Enslaved Children, “Adultification,” and Resistance in the antebellum US South, 1812-1861
Date: 1 December 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Aisha Djelid (Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppart Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

“Borrowed Time: reflections on the history and philosophy of library use in nineteenth-century Birmingham and beyond.”
Date: 1 December 2025, 12:15 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Sophie Ratcliffe (University of Oxford)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Garden Room
Organisers: Professor Helen Small (University of Oxford), Dr Clare Broome Saunders (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

OCCT Discussion Group: Original Persian and (selective) Russian translations of Ahmad Dānish’s works: How Does the Process of Translation Become Political?
Date: 1 December 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organiser: OCCT
Host: OCCT

Early Career Researchers Forum
Date: 1 December 2025, 18:00 - 19:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Pub social
Organisers: Dr Luisa Ostacchini (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 2 December 2025

Early Modern Literature Graduate Forum
Date: 2 December 2025, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.302, Humanities Building
Organisers: Clemence Smith, Ceola Daly
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 3 December 2025

Ed Hillyer: The Wild West Days of Comic Narrative
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Ed Hillyer
Organiser: Peter Kessler (University of Oxford)
Host: Peter Kessler (University of Oxford)

Interdisciplinary Early Modern Graduate Workshop
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.302, Humanities Building
Organisers: Clemence Smith, Kathryn Hempstead (Merton)
Hosts: TBA

Dorothy Whitelock Lecture 2025: Guthlac: what the early medieval records tell us
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Professor Jane Roberts (University of London)
Venue: St Peter's College, New Inn Hall Street OX1 2DL
Venue Details: St Peter’s College chapel, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
Date: 3 December 2025, 18:00 - 20:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.402, Schwarzman Centre for Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 4 December 2025

Lexical prescription in Breton: what does it involve and who is taking notice?
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue Details: Oxford (hybrid) - Seminar Room 30.022 of the Schwarzman Centre, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road.
Organisers: Jenyth Evans (University of Oxford), Professor David Willis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

'Irony, Agency and African Global Imaginaries: Book Discussion'
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Dr Penny Cartwright (Oxford)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof Elleke Boehmer (English, Oxford), Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Finnegans Wake Reading Group: Upcoming English Graduates at Oxford (EGO) Christmas Event (FULLY BOOKED)
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:30 - 19:30
Speaker
Venue: Christ Church, St Aldates OX1 1DP
Venue Details: The Undercroft, Christ Church College
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