The 2023 Clarendon Lecture series will be given by Professor Susan Stewart (Princeton University) on the following dates:

17 May 2023: “The Bird in Glee”: On the Non-semantic

18 May 2023: The Seasons: Paradigm of Lyric Time – for this lecture, attendees are encouraged to read/re-read William Cowper’s “Yardley Oak” beforehand.

23 May 2023: Motion and Turn: Ways of Water – for this lecture, attendees are encouraged to read/re-read Percy Shelley’s “Mont Blanc” beforehand.

24 May 2023: The Imperceptible, or Wilderness