English and Related Literature
Events 2009
| Friday 9 - Saturday 10 October | SHAKESPEARE CONFIGURED INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM An invited group of international scholars takes a fresh look at configurations - and reconfigurations - of Shakespeare, from the earliest editions to the latest adaptations (including early anthologies, Restoration rewritings, modern performances, marginalia, buildings, illustrations, sculptures, paintings and silent films). Speakers from York include Bill Sherman, Judith Buchanan, Erica Sheen and Varsha Panjwani. All attendees must register ahead of time. Contact: Sally Kingsley |
| Tuesday 20 October | CECS RESEARCH SEMINAR 8.00pm, K/G07, King's Manor. Professor Michael Rosenthal (University of Warwick), 'George Evans in New Holland: The Extent of Empire'. Contact: cecs@york.ac.uk |
| Wednesday 21 October | CENTRE FOR MODERN STUDIES INAUGUAL LECTURE AND RECEPTION 6.00pm, Bowland Lecture Theatre, Berrick Saul Building. Professor Kate Flint (Rutgers University), 'Flashes of Violence: Photography, Shock, and Modernity'. Contact: Jane Elliott |
| Tuesday 27 October | MODERN SCHOOL RESEARCH EVENT British Academy Chatterton Lecture 5.30pm, Bowland Lecture Theatre, Berrick Saul Building. Professor Seamus Perry (Oxford University), 'Auden Unparadised'. Contact: Derek Attridge |
| Tuesday 27 October | CECS RESEARCH SEMINAR 8.00pm, K/G07, King's Manor. Professor Theresa M. Kelley (University of Wisconsin), 'Reading Matter and Paint: Indian Botanicals and the British, c.1780-1800'. Contact: cecs@york.ac.uk |
| Monday 2 November | SHAKESPEARE, PEELE AND PERFORMANCE 3.15-6.30pm, Bowland Lecture Theatre, Berrick Saul Building. This conference features several talks from York people on aspects of Shakespearean performance. The day will conclude with a presentation entitled 'Shakespearean performance in exile: Falstaff in Geneva, Hamlet in Bavaria' from Professor Michael Dobson (Birkbeck College, University of London). All welcome, no registration required. Contact: Judith Buchanan |
| Tuesday 3 November | CECS RESEARCH SEMINAR 8.00pm, K/G07, King's Manor. Professor Pamela Clemit (University of Durham), 'Readers Respond to Godwin: The Fabrication of Political Justice'. Contact: cecs@york.ac.uk |
| Thursday 12 November | FELICITY RIDDY LECTURE 5.30-6.30pm, K/133, King's Manor. Professor Pauline Stafford (University of Liverpool), 'Fathers and Daughters in early medieval England'. Contact: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne |
| Thursday 12 November | MODERN SCHOOL RESEARCH SEMINAR 5.15pm, Seminar Room 008, Berrick Saul Building. Dr David McAllister (University of York), ''The Thing in the Coffin' and the Coffin as Thing: The Body and Burial in Dracula'. Contact: Derek Attridge |
| Tuesday 17 November | CECS RESEARCH SEMINAR 8.00pm, K/G07, King's Manor. Speaker to be confirmed. Contact: cecs@york.ac.uk |
| Wednesday 25 November | HONORARY VISITING PROFESSOR, ADAM PHILLIPS, Writer and Psychoanalyst Professor Phillips will deliver a lecture and related postgraduate seminar based on The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment: Studies in the Theory of Emotional Development by D. W. Winnicott. LECTURE 6.00pm, Bowland Lecture Theatre, Berrick Saul Building. 'On Frustration'. This is the first in a series of three lectures. Second and third lectures to follow on 10 March and 23 June 2010. All welcome, admission free. POSTGRADUATE SEMINAR 4.00pm, Seminar Room 007, Berrick Saul Building. 'Psychoanalysis and the Sense of Guilt'. Contact: Hugh Haughton |
| Thursday 26 November | MODERN SCHOOL RESEARCH SEMINAR 5.15pm, Bowland Lecture Theatre, Berrick Saul Building. Steven Connor (Professor of Modern Literature and Theory, Birkbeck College, University of London), 'Michel Serres, The Hard and the Soft'. Contact: Derek Attridge |
| Monday 30 November | A FILM & LITERATURE EVENT, IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE, FILM & TELEVISION 4.15pm, Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall. Neil Brand (the UK's premier pianist for silent films, and film historian) will give an illustrated lecture presentation (with projected clips and live piano accompaniment) on 'Musical scores for cinematic Westerns'. Contact: Judith Buchanan |
| Tuesday 1 December | JACQUES BERTHOUD LECTURE 5.30pm, Bowland Lecture Theatre, Berrick Saul Building. Laura Marcus (Regius Professor, Edinburgh University), ''To Make You See': Modernism's Visual Turn'. Contact: Derek Attridge |
| Tuesday 1 December | CECS RESEARCH SEMINAR 8.00pm, K/G07, King's Manor. Dr Ultán Gillen (Queen Mary, University of London), 'The Burke-Paine Debate in Comparative Perspective'. Contact: cecs@york.ac.uk |
| Tuesday 8 December | IRISH SEMINAR 5.15pm, Seminar Room BS/008, Berrick Saul Building. 'Imagine a Graham Greene thriller projected through the sensibility of Virginia Woolf'. The latest instalment of the Irish Seminar reading group will focus on Elizabeth Bowen's The Heat of the Day (1949). The seminar is a reading and discussion group for those interested in Irish literature, and is proving to be a highly enjoyable termly event for staff and postgraduate students. All are welcome to come and talk about the book. Refreshments will be provided. Contact: Bryan Radley |
| Wednesday 9 December | CREMS RESEARCH SEMINAR 4.30pm, Seminar Room BS/08, Berrick Saul Building. Dr Margit Thøfner (University of East Anglia), 'Framing the Sacred: Some Thoughts on Lutheran Altarpieces'. Contact: crems-enquiries@york.ac.uk |