Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Medievalism in the Margins
  Grace Khuri (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars
• 14:00 - “The desire to supply good tales to my school children”: Charlotte Yonge's lifelong involvement in parochial education
  Dr Susan Walton (University of Hull)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
• 17:00 - “Desert wilds of India Africa”: Abergavenny Cymreigyddion Eisteddfod competitions and Empire, 1834–1853
  Marion Loeffler
  Celtic Research Seminar
• 17:15 - A panel to mark the 25th anniversary of J. M. Coetzee’s influential novel 'Disgrace', with Derek Attridge (York) and Urmila Seshagiri (Tennessee)
  Derek Attridge (University of York), Urmila Seshagiri (Tennessee)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 26 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Literature and Mental Health: Reading Group Session 2
  TBA
  Literature and Mental Health
• 17:15 - What are Poetical Essays?
  Dr Ted Tregear (University of Oxford)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - 'Inspiration’s darling child': The Romantic Ode
  Paul Hamilton (Queen Mary, University of London)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 27 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
  Sara Lopes Borga (St John's College)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum
• 17:15 - Allegory, Dystopia and Fiction in our Time
  Supriya Chaudhuri (Jadavpur)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 28 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - C.S. Lewis’s Influence on The Lord of the Rings
  Michael Ward
  Tolkien seminars
• 13:00 - Jonathan Edwards and the Spiders: Tracing the Ecological in Early American Environmental Thought
  Sheila Byers (University of Oxford), Ethan Plaue (University of Oxford)
  American Literature Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Breton dialect variation: An opportunity to reflect on the emergence and formation of a language
  Tanguy Solliec
  Celtic Research Seminar

Friday 29 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Beyond Cultural Difference: Australian Indigenous Literary and Creative Writing Practices as Sites of Knowledge Production
  Eugenia Flynn (RMIT, Melbourne)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Monday 2 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Speculative Biography: The Strange Case of Edith Cooper
  Carolyn Dever
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
• 12:45 - Roundtable - Cosmology, Ecology, Memory: New Comparative Perspectives on Ingeborg Bachmann
  Dr. Conor Brennan, Roberto Interdonato, Hannah Scheithauer
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 4 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - DPhil work in progress, followed by Xmas drinks
  TBA
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 5 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The ‘Key-spring’ of The Lord of the Rings?
  Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars
• 17:15 - Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
  Please note that this seminar has been postponed
  Ayelet Ben Yishai (Haifa)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar