Name: Professor Helen Small
Events this person is speaking at:
Wednesday 23 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)
'The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time' - Inaugural Lecture from Merton Professor of English Language and Literature
Date: 23 October 2019, 17:30 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker
:
Professor Helen Small
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
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Events this person is hosting:
Monday 5 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)
Nineteenth Century Research Seminar Folklore and Satire: A Short Biography of Old Father Thames / Writing Towards Italy: Vernon Lee, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence
Date: 5 June 2023, 12:15 - 14:00 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker
s:
Alice Huxley (Oxford DPhil student),
Leonie Wareham Wanitzek (Oxford DPhil student)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organisers:
TBA
Host:
Professor Helen Small
Events this person is organising:
Monday 17 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)
Introducing Dion Boucicault's Andy Blake; or, The Irish Diamond
Date: 17 October 2022, 12:00 - 13:30 (Monday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker
:
Sarah Meer (University of Cambridge)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organiser:
Professor Helen Small
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 31 October 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)
'Dickens Reenvisioned for our Times: Furnace Creek, A Novel’ A reading and discussion
Date: 31 October 2022, 17:00 - 19:00 (Monday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker
:
Joseph A Boone (University of Southern California)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organiser:
Professor Helen Small
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 7 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)
Exophony at the Fin de Siècle: Stuart Merrill, Renée Vivien, and Decadent Translation
Date: 7 November 2022, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker
:
Kostas Boyiopoulos (University of Durham)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organiser:
Professor Helen Small
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 28 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)
Rejected and Uncollected: Legal Deposit and Cultural Value in the Nineteenth Century
Date: 28 November 2022, 17:00 - 19:00 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker
:
Hannah Field (University of Sussex)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organiser:
Professor Helen Small
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 30 January 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)
Nineteenth Century Research Seminar: “A Shadow of a Magnitude” - Black Lives in the English Lake District, 1660–1871
Date: 30 January 2023, 12:15 - 13:15 (Monday, 3rd week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker
:
Christopher Donaldson (University of Lancaster)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organisers:
Dr Sos Eltis,
Professor Helen Small
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 13 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)
Nineteenth Century Research Seminar: ‘I am the Dog’
Date: 13 February 2023, 12:15 - 13:15 (Monday, 5th week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker
:
Ana Parejo-Vadillo (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organisers:
Dr Sos Eltis,
Professor Helen Small
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 27 February 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)
Nineteenth Century Research Seminar: ‘John Ruskin and Environmental Justice Today’
Date: 27 February 2023, 12:15 - 13:15 (Monday, 7th week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker
:
John Holmes (University of Birmingham)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organisers:
Sos Eltis (University of Oxford),
Professor Helen Small
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 24 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)
Prof Josephine McDonagh (University of Chicago) Heathcliff and Other Child Refugees
Date: 24 April 2023, 12:15 - 14:00 (Monday, 1st week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker
:
Prof Josephine McDonagh (University of Chicago)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organiser:
Professor Helen Small
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 15 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)
Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf A Book Talk, with response from Prof Stefano-Maria Evangelista (please note change of time)
Date: 15 May 2023, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 4th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker
:
Alexander Bubb (Roehampton University)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organiser:
Professor Helen Small
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 22 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
CANCELLED: Nineteenth Century Research Seminar: Jan-Melissa Schramm (University of Cambridge) The Constitutional Imagination in the Age of Reform: Bentham, Dickens, and the Rights of Man
Date: 22 May 2023, 12:15 - 13:15 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker
:
Jan-Melissa Schramm (University of Cambridge)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organiser:
Professor Helen Small
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 16 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)
‘Beggarland Unmasked’: Victorian Investigative Journalism and Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘The Man with the Twisted Lip’
Date: 16 October 2023, 17:15 - 18:15 (Monday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker
:
Matthew Rubery (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue Details: Faculty of English, Seminar Room L
Organiser:
Professor Helen Small
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 30 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)
Colton Valentine (Yale University) Of Genres and Journals: Michael Field and the Frères Goncourt
Date: 30 October 2023, 12:15 - 13:15 (Monday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker
:
Colton Valentine (Yale University)
Venue Details: Faculty of English, Graduate Common Room
Organiser:
Professor Helen Small
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 13 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)
Tour of the exhibition 'Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion & Design' with curators’ talk by Charlotte Ribeyrol and Stefano-Maria Evangelista
Date: 13 November 2023, 9:00 - 10:00 (Monday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker
s:
Charlotte Ribeyrol (Sorbonne Université),
Stefano-Maria Evangelista (Associate Professor, Faculty of English)
Venue: Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street OX1 2PH
Organiser:
Professor Helen Small
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 27 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)
The Constitutional Imagination in the Age of Reform: Bentham, Dickens, and the Rights of Man
Date: 27 November 2023, 12:15 - 13:15 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker
Venue Details: Faculty of English, Seminar Room L
Organiser:
Professor Helen Small
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 29 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)
Provincial Fiction: Writing England and its others, c. 1830-1960
Date: 29 January 2024, 12:15 - 13:15 (Monday, 3rd week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
:
Ruth Livesey (University of London)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organiser:
Professor Helen Small
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 12 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)
Affect, Realism, and the Victorian Novel: Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy
Date: 12 February 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Monday, 5th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
:
Doug Battersby (University of Bristol)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers:
Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford),
Professor Helen Small
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 26 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)
Deathly Spectatorship and the Return of the Dead
Date: 26 February 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Monday, 7th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
s:
Hayley Bradley (University of Manchester),
Janice Norwood (University of Hertfordshire)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers:
Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford),
Professor Helen Small
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 4 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)
Genres of Deep Time
Date: 4 November 2024, 17:15 - 19:15 (Monday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
:
Aaron Rosenberg
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers:
Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford),
Professor Helen Small
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