Events

See our upcoming events.

Adam Phillips Seminar, Semester 1, 2024/25

The first in a series of three seminars this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.

On Resistance

The first in a series of three lectures this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.

Rendered Bodies: Film Art and Expanded Organology

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Lucy Bollington (UCL).

Book Launch: 'Apennine Crossings: Travellers on the Edge of Tuscany'.

Join us for this event to celebrate the launch of Professor Nick Havely’s new book, 'Apennine Crossings: Travellers on the Edge of Tuscany'.

'Still City: Diary of an Invasion', Oksana Maksymchuk

This debut collection by Oksana Maksymchuk reflects life in the wake of extreme and unpredictable violence.

“We now prescribe, like doctors in despair”: The Satirist-as-Doctor Metaphor in Early Eighteenth-Century Print

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Dr Adam Smith (York St John).

Home Circuits: queer temporalities and Welsh landscapes

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Dr Elizabeth Edwards (Wales).

‘I am tired of earnestly placating him’: Women's folk songs about patriarchal oppression among the Guji of southern Ethiopia

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Ayele Kebede Roba (York).

Circling Translation

Writers at York event with Kimberly Campanello.

Wolfe Tone and the Hibernian Catch Club: Sociability in Revolutionary Ireland

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Dr Martyn Powell (Bristol).

“Things have crowded in so thick”: Laurence Sterne, Antiquarian Quixotism, and the Printed Book

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Prof. Katharina Boehm (Passau).

Are Mushrooms Goth? Genre and ‘Life in Capitalist Ruins’

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Natalia Cecire (Sussex).

Creative Writing Open Mic

Whether you’re brand new to writing or a seasoned pro, all staff and students are welcome to share their poetry, prose, song, and other work at this informal open mic. Come share your work or just listen!

Victorian Expansions 2025

A one-day Victorian Studies conference at the University of York.