Name: Professor Abigail Williams
Faculty of English

Events this person is speaking at:

Thursday 14 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

AI Storytelling & Shakespeare: Humanities meets the Creative Industries
Date: 14 November 2019, 12:30 - 13:30 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2019)
Speaker s: Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Rachael Hodge, Felicity Brown
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 2 June 2020 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Reading it Wrong and Being Virtual/Virtual Being
Date: 2 June 2020, 17:30 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker s: Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Prof. Ros Ballaster
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 25 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

IDEA Book Club: 'Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men’ led by Professor Abigail Williams
Date: 25 May 2023, 17:30 - 19:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker : Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English)
Organiser: Crystal Magrotra (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 20 September 2023 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

What has innovation ever done for us? An arts and humanities perspective
Date: 20 September 2023, 10:00 - 11:30 (Wednesday, -2nd week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker s: Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Charlotte Medland (Humanities Division)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Events this person is organising:

Tuesday 23 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Blake’s Plow
Date: 23 January 2024, 17:30 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Dr James Wood (University of East Anglia)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (English Faculty), Dr David Taylor (University of Oxford), Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Dr. Carly Watson (English Faculty), Prof. Ros Ballaster
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 6 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

'The Haunted Closet: Closet(ed) Plays and the Drama of the Body's Absence,' and ‘Moving Parts: Circum-national emotions in Dublin Shakespeare’
Date: 6 February 2024, 17:30 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 4th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker s: Helen Dallas (University of Oxford), Madeleine Saidenberg (University of Oxford)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (English Faculty), Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Dr David Taylor (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford), Dr. Carly Watson (English Faculty)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 20 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

'Crowded elegies: Phillis Wheatley Peters' critique of identity'
Date: 20 February 2024, 17:30 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Dr Katarina Stenke (Greenwich University)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (English Faculty), Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Dr David Taylor (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford), Dr. Carly Watson (English Faculty)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 30 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

From Corpus to Canon. Editing and Translating Arabic, Persian, and Indic Literatures in the British Long Eighteenth Century
Date: 30 April 2024, 12:30 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Claire Gallien (Associate Professor English Department University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (English Faculty), Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Dr David Taylor (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford), Dr. Carly Watson (English Faculty)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 14 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Happy Pills and Horoscopes: Collecting and Using Early Modern Almanacs 1600-1800
Date: 14 May 2024, 17:30 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Prof Paul Salzman (La Trobe)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (English Faculty), Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Dr David Taylor (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford), Dr. Carly Watson (English Faculty)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 28 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Lent to Copy”: Art Rentals in the Age of Jane Austen
Date: 28 May 2024, 12:30 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Prof Janine Barchas (University of Texas)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (English Faculty), Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Dr David Taylor (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford), Dr. Carly Watson (English Faculty)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 22 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Talkee Amy and Robert Wedderburn: Verbal Abuse, Smuggling, Obeah and Enslaved Grandmothers in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
Date: 22 October 2024, 17:30 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Ryan Hanley (University of Exeter)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford), Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (English Faculty), Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 5 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Atomic and Agential Airs: Finch, Smollett, Barbauld
Date: 5 November 2024, 17:30 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Rowan Boyson (Kings College London University)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford), Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford), Professor David Francis Taylor (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (English Faculty), Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 19 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

In-house talk on digital eighteenth century in Oxford with NICOLE POHL and JACK ORCHARD (Electronic Enlightenment)
Date: 19 November 2024, 12:30 - 13:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford), Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (English Faculty), Prof. Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA