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

Monday 28 April 2025

The Oxford Ministry for the Future presents: 'Art, nature and science: Imagining other worlds'
Date: 28 April 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Brian Eno, Kim Stanley Robinson, Laline Paull, J. M. Ledgard
Venue: Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street OX1 3AZ
Venue Details: Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Oxford Ministry for the Future

Tuesday 29 April 2025

Salvation and the Land in the Old English Andreas
Date: 29 April 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Helen Appleton (Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Press of the Royal Institution
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : David Duff (Queen Mary, University of London)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 1 May 2025

World Literature from the Viewpoint of Atrocity
Date: 1 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Bruce Robbins (Columbia)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 6 May 2025

Nothing Matters: The Contemplative Poetics of Nought in Julian of Norwich and Beyond
Date: 6 May 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Raphaela Rohrhofer (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Prolific Ground: Landscape and British Women’s Writing, 1690-1790
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Nicolle Jordan (University of Southern Mississipi)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford), Dr Tess Somervell (University of Oxford), Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 8 May 2025

Journal editing in the changing marketplace: Postcolonial writing or world literature?
Date: 8 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Janet Wilson (Northampton and editor-in-chief, Journal of Postcolonial Literature)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Greek Mystical Theology in Old English Texts
Date: 13 May 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Eleni Ponirakis (University of Nottingham)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

'These primeval mountains': Shelley, Buffon, and Deep Time / 'Nor be the parsonage by the muse forgot': The Poetic Legacy of Gilbert White
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker s: Elspeth Askew (St Johns), Toby Stinson (Oriel)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 20 May 2025

"Everything is broken": Mid Fourteenth-Century Alliterative Verse.
Date: 20 May 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Eric Weiskott (Boston College)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thomas Moore and Anacreon: a Reconsideration
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Jane Moore (University of Cardiff)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Dr Tess Somervell (University of Oxford), Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford), Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 21 May 2025

On the Effects of Fiction on Social Cognition. Evidence from Human Experimentation, Natural Language Processing, and Artificial Intelligence
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10, St Anne's College
Organisers: Dr Naomi Rokotnitz (University of Oxford), Professor Ben Morgan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 22 May 2025

Emergency as Genre
Date: 22 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Ayelet Ben-Yishai (Haifa)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 26 May 2025

Trapped By Experience, Freed By Imagination: Post-Capitalist Literature
Date: 26 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Shimon Adaf (Ben Gurion University in the Negev)
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre
Organiser: Dr Naomi Rokotnitz (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 May 2025

Feeling Aliene, Now and Then: Work, Contemplation, and Alienation between Medieval Devotion and Modern Academia / The Speaking Dead: Conversing with the Living from Beyond the Grave in Early English Literature
Date: 27 May 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker s: Rowan Wilson (University of Oxford), Anine Eglund (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Byron and Consciousness
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Jane Stabler (St Andrews University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 June 2025

Messy Chaucer
Date: 3 June 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Rita Copeland (Pennsylvania)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Phillis Wheatley's Meditations in the Seasons
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Tom Jones (St Andrews)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Dr Tess Somervell (University of Oxford), Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford), Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 June 2025

"Shelley’s Philosophic Revel
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Will Bowers (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 June 2025

Rewriting the Land: Culture, the Early Marx, and the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
Date: 19 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Daniel Hartley (Durham)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
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
'Channels of Digital Scholarship' Seminar I: New tools and old questions in the analysis of textual corpora
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
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 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 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
Writing Jewish Women’s Lives Seminar Series