Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Talks:

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

Medievalism in the Margins
Date: 21 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Grace Khuri (University of Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

“The desire to supply good tales to my school children”: Charlotte Yonge's lifelong involvement in parochial education
Date: 21 November 2024, 14:00 - 16:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Susan Walton (University of Hull)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Organisers: Professor Helen Small (University of Oxford), Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

“Desert wilds of India Africa”: Abergavenny Cymreigyddion Eisteddfod competitions and Empire, 1834–1853
Date: 21 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Marion Loeffler
Venue Details: CAWCS (online)
Organisers: Jenyth Evans (University of Oxford), Professor David Willis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

A panel to mark the 25th anniversary of J. M. Coetzee’s influential novel 'Disgrace', with Derek Attridge (York) and Urmila Seshagiri (Tennessee)
Date: 21 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Derek Attridge (University of York), Urmila Seshagiri (Tennessee)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers: Pablo Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Literature and Mental Health: Reading Group Session 2
Date: 26 November 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room A, Faculty of English
Organisers: Charlotte Wilson, Madhurima Sen
Hosts: TBA

What are Poetical Essays?
Date: 26 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Ted Tregear (University of Oxford)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: TS Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxford), Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

'Inspiration’s darling child': The Romantic Ode
Date: 26 November 2024, 17:30 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Paul Hamilton (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

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

Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
Date: 27 November 2024, 17:00 - 19:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Sara Lopes Borga (St John's College)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: Madeleine Rose (Corpus Christi College), Ronnie Pope (Linacre College)
Hosts: TBA

Allegory, Dystopia and Fiction in our Time
Date: 27 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Supriya Chaudhuri (Jadavpur)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (Wadham, Oxford), Prof. Elleke Boehmer (Wolfson)
Hosts: TBA

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

C.S. Lewis’s Influence on The Lord of the Rings
Date: 28 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Michael Ward
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Jonathan Edwards and the Spiders: Tracing the Ecological in Early American Environmental Thought
Date: 28 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Sheila Byers (University of Oxford), Ethan Plaue (University of Oxford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room
Organisers: Professor Nicholas Gaskill (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Breton dialect variation: An opportunity to reflect on the emergence and formation of a language
Date: 28 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Tanguy Solliec
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Oxford (Memorial Room, Jesus College and online)
Organisers: Jenyth Evans (University of Oxford), Professor David Willis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Beyond Cultural Difference: Australian Indigenous Literary and Creative Writing Practices as Sites of Knowledge Production
Date: 29 November 2024, 12:30 - 13:30 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Eugenia Flynn (RMIT, Melbourne)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Elleke Boehmer (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Speculative Biography: The Strange Case of Edith Cooper
Date: 2 December 2024, 12:15 - 14:15 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Carolyn Dever
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organisers: Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford), Professor Helen Small
Hosts: TBA

Roundtable - Cosmology, Ecology, Memory: New Comparative Perspectives on Ingeborg Bachmann
Date: 2 December 2024, 12:45 - 13:45 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Dr. Conor Brennan, Roberto Interdonato, Hannah Scheithauer
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

DPhil work in progress, followed by Xmas drinks
Date: 4 December 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Prof. Peter Boxall (New College), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

The ‘Key-spring’ of The Lord of the Rings?
Date: 5 December 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
Date: 5 December 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Ayelet Ben Yishai (Haifa)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (Wadham, Oxford), Prof. Elleke Boehmer (Wolfson)
Hosts: TBA