English and Related Literature
Events 2010
| Tuesday 19 January | CECS RESEARCH SEMINAR 8.00pm, KG/07, King's Manor, Exhibition Square, York. Professor Marcia Pointon (University of Manchester/Courtault Institute of Art, London), 'Liaisons Dangereuses: buttons, button-holes and the materials of masculinity in eighteenth-century England'. Contact: cecs1@york.ac.uk. |
| Wednesday 27 January | CREMS RESEARCH SEMINAR 4.30pm, Seminar Room 008, Berrick Saul Building. Dr Natasha Constantinidou (University of St Andrew's), 'James VI and I, Sarpi, Trent and all that'. Contact: crems-enquiries@york.ac.uk. |
| Thursday 28 January | MODERN SCHOOL RESEARCH SEMINAR 6.30pm, Bowland Lecture Theatre, Berrick Saul Building. Dr Helen Small (Oxford University), 'Of Sweetness and Light and Other Utilities'. Contact: Derek Attridge. |
| Tuesday 2 February | CECS RESEARCH SEMINAR 8.00pm, KG/07, King's Manor, Exhibition Square, York. Dr Rowland Weston (University of Waikato, New Zealand), 'The Quackery of Reason' and 'Honest Men's Blunders': a reading of William Godwin's St Leon, A Tale of the Sixteenth Century (1799). Contact: cecs1@york.ac.uk. |
| Saturday 6 February | CECS EVENT A ONE-DAY INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE: 'Religion, India and the Long Eighteenth Century' King's Manor, Exhibition Square. Contact: cecs1@york.ac.uk. |
| Wednesday 10 February | CREMS PUBLIC SEMINAR 4.30pm, National Centre for Early Music, St Margaret's Church, Walmgate, York. Richard Wistreich (Royal Northern College of Music), 'Reading Between the Notes: Sight-singing and Sociability in the Sixteenth Century'. A paper with practical experiment featuring singers from the University of York Music Department. Admission free. Contact: Sally Kingsley. |
| Wednesday 10 February | MODERN SCHOOL RESEARCH SEMINAR 5.15pm, Bowland Lecture Theatre, Berrick Saul Building. Professor David Attwell (University of York), 'J. M. Coetzee and the Idea of Africa'. Contact: Derek Attridge. |
| Wednesday 17 February | ONE-DAY CONFERENCE FOR POSTGRADUATES 'Professional Skills in Literary Academia'. Full programme and further details to be published with the Graduate Training Programme. Contact: Judith Buchanan. |
| Tuesday 23 February | YORK MEDIEVAL SEMINAR 5.30pm, Huntingdon Room, King's Manor, Exhibition Square, York. Professor Sandy Heslop (University of East Anglia), 'Saint Anselm and the Visual Arts in England c.1100'. Contact: cms-office@york.ac.uk. |
| Tuesday 23 February | CECS RESEARCH SEMINAR 8.00pm, KG/07, King's Manor, Exhibition Square, York. Dr Elizabeth Edwards (Aberystwyth University), 'Wales and war: poetry 1794-1804'. Contact: cecs1@york.ac.uk. |
| Tuesday 2 March | CECS RESEARCH SEMINAR 8.00pm, KG/07, King's Manor, Exhibition Square, York. Dr Mark Jenner (University of York), 'Polite and Excremental Labour? London's Nightmen in the Long Eighteenth Century'. Contact: cecs1@york.ac.uk. |
| Wednesday 3 March | MODERN SCHOOL RESEARCH SEMINAR
5.15pm, Bowland Lecture Theatre, Berrick Saul Building. Professor Oliver Harris (Keele University), 'Shooting Hemingway'. Contact: Derek Attridge. |
| Tuesday 9 March | CECS RESEARCH SEMINAR 8.00pm, KG/07, King's Manor, Exhibition Square, York. Dr Mathias Persson (Uppsala University, Sweden), 'The Utility of the Other: Sweden in the öttingische Anzeigen von gelehrten Sachen, 1753-1792'. Contact: cecs1@york.ac.uk. |
| Wednesday 10 March | AYLMER SEMINAR 4.30pm, Seminar Room 008, Berrick Saul Building. Professor Alexandra Walsham (University of Exeter), 'The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland'. Contact: Sally Walters. |
| Wednesday 10 March | 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. POSTGRADUATE SEMINAR 4.00pm, L/N/006, Langwith. 'The Capacity To Be Alone'. LECTURE 6.00pm, ATB/056 & 057, Alcuin. 'My Happiness, Right or Wrong'. This is the second in a series of three lectures. Third lecture to follow on 23 June. All welcome, admission free. Contact: Hugh Haughton. |
| Monday 15 March | MODERN SCHOOL RESEARCH SEMINAR 5.30pm, Seminar Room 008, Berrick Saul Building. Dr Rebecca Beasley (Oxford University), 'Modernism's Translation'. Contact: Derek Attridge. |
| Thursday 18 March | CREMS EVENT EARLY MODERN LIBRARIES SYMPOSIUM (4th THOMAS BROWNE SEMINAR) 2.30-5.30pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Bill Sherman (York), 'Hernando Colon and the Biblioteca Colombina'; Lisa Skogh (Stockholm), 'Library of Swedish queen Hedwig Eleonora'; Daniel Starza-Smith (UCL), 'Edward, second Viscount Conway'; Hugh Adlington (Birmingham), 'On Donne's Library'; Piers Brown (York), 'On Donne's Library'. Open to all, no need to book. Contact: Kevin Killeen. |
| Monday 22-Wednesday 24 March | CMS CONFERENCE: 'York 1190: Jews and Others in the Wake of Massacre' Centre for Medieval Studies, King's Manor, Exhibition Square, York. Contact: cms-office@york.ac.uk. |
| Thursday 25 March | A FILM & LITERATURE EVENT 9.30am-6.30pm, Berrick Saul Building. |
| Tuesday 20 April 2010 | CREMS RESEARCH SEMINAR 5.30pm, Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building. Professor Debra Shuger (UCLA), 'The Girls of Little Gidding: A Forgotten Masterpiece of Renaissance Feminism'. Contact: Kevin Killeen |
| Tuesday 4 May 2010 | MODERN SCHOOL RESEARCH SEMINAR 6.15pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Professor Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania), 'Think Pig! Beckett's Animal Philosophy'. Contact: Derek Attridge |
| Tuesday 4 May 2010 | CECS RESEARCH SEMINAR 8.00pm, KG/07, King's Manor, Exhibition Square, York. Dr Jennie Batchelor (University of Kent), ''Which was her work?' Charlotte Smith, Labour and Authorship'. Contact: Alison O'Byrne |
| Friday 7 May 2010 | A ONE-DAY CONFERENCE CO-HOSTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK AND TATE BRITAIN Revisiting British Art, 1660-1735 Berrick Saul Building, University of York. Contact: cecs1@york.ac.uk |
| Wednesday 12 May 2010 | CREMS RESEARCH SEMINAR 4.30pm, Seminar Room BS/008, Berrick Saul Building. Dr Fabio Barry (University of St Andrews), title to be confirmed. Contact: crems-enquiries@york.ac.uk |
| Wednesday 12 May 2010 | CREMS RESEARCH SEMINAR 4.30pm, Seminar Room BS/008, Berrick Saul Building. Dr Fabio Barry (University of St Andrews), title to be confirmed. Contact: crems-enquiries@york.ac.uk |
| Thursday 13 May 2010 | CECS RESEARCH SEMINAR 8.00pm, KG/07, King's Manor, Exhibition Square, York. Professor David Simpson (UC Davis), 'Hoping for a Stranger: the Dynamics of Frost at Midnight'. Contact: Alison O'Byrne |
| Tuesday 18 May 2010 | CECS ANNUAL STEPHEN COPLEY LECTURE 5.00pm, Huntingdon Room, King's Manor, Exhibition Square, York. Dr Robert Jones (University of Leeds), 'Performing The Rivals: Sheridan at Covent Garden and Drury Lane'. Contact: cecs1@york.ac.uk |
| Wednesday 19 May 2010 | MODERN SCHOOL RESEARCH SEMINAR 5.15pm, L/N/006, Langwith. Dr Jane Elliott (University of York), 'Neoliberalism, Aesthetics, and the Inexorability of Agency'. Contact: Derek Attridge |
| Tuesday 25 May 2010 | CECS RESEARCH SEMINAR 8.00pm, KG/07, King's Manor, Exhibition Square, York. Dr Gregory Dart (UCL), 'Charles Lamb and the Alchemy of the Streets'. Contact: Alison O'Byrne |
| Wednesday 26 May 2010 | GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE 2010 10.00am-4.30pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Lunch provided. Contact: Alex Beaumont |
| Wednesday 26 May 2010 | CENTRE FOR MODERN STUDIES LECTURE 5.00pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Marie-Laure Ryan (University of Colorado), 'Narrative and Maps'. Contact: Richard Walsh |
| Tuesday 8 June 2010 | CENTRE FOR MODERN STUDIES/HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTRE EVENT
5.30-7.00pm, Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building. LIGHTNING RODS INAUGURAL SEMINAR 'The 9/11 Novel'. Contact: Jane Elliott |
| Tuesday 8 June 2010 | CECS RESEARCH SEMINAR 8.00pm, KG/07, King's Manor, Exhibition Square, York. Alex Werner (Museum of London), 'Modalities of Display: Creating the New Galleries of Modern London'. Contact: Alison O'Byrne |
| Wednesday 9 June 2010 | MODERN SCHOOL RESEARCH SEMINAR 5.15pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Professor Udaya Kumar (University of Delhi), 'Autobiography and the Postcolonial'. Contact: Derek Attridge |
| Thursday 10 June 2010 | CMODS POSTGRADUATE FORUM 1.00pm, Seminar Room BS/007, Berrick Saul Building. Laura Price, 'Community and trade unionism in the Twentieth Century woollen district of West Yorkshire'. Tim Lawrence, 'The economics of narratives and the narrative of economics in the TV show The Wire. Contact: Jane Elliott |
| Thursday 10 June 2010 | PATRIDES LECTURE 5.30pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Professor Stephen Orgel (Stanford University), 'Real Places in Imaginary Spaces: Inigo Jones and the Topography of Theatre'. Contact: crems-enquiries@york.ac.uk |
| Tuesday 15 June 2010 | MODERN RESEARCH SCHOOL & CENTRE FOR MODERN STUDIES EVENT 6.30pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Lecture by Professor Linda Zerilli, Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science (University of Chicago). 'Feminism, Value Pluralism, and the Problem of Judgment'. Followed by drinks reception in the Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building. Contact: Jane Elliott or Liz Buettner |
| Wednesday 16 June 2010 | CREMS RESEARCH SEMINAR 4.30pm, Seminar Room BS/008, Berrick Saul Building. Professor David Norbrook (University of Oxford), 'Materialist politics in the seventeenth century: Lucretius and his readers'. Contact: crems-enquiries@york.ac.uk |
| Wednesday 23 June 2010 | HONORARY VISITING PROFESSOR, ADAM PHILLIPS, Writer and Psychoanalyst Professor Phillips will deliver a lecture and postgraduate seminar based on The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment: Studies in the Theory of Emotional Development by D. W. Winnicott. POSTGRADUATE SEMINAR 4.00pm, The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building. 'Morals and Education'. LECTURE 6.00pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. 'On Satisfaction'. All welcome, admission free. Contact: Hugh Haughton |
| Saturday 3 - Monday 5 July 2010 | INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. What Postcolonial Theory Doesn't Say Contact: yorkpoco@gmail.com |
| Friday 16 - Sunday 18 July 2010 | SOCIETY FOR RENAISSANCE STUDIES: 4th Biennial Conference, hosted by the Centre for Renaissance & Early Modern Studies. Contact: Bill Sherman or Sally Kingsley |
| Friday 15 & Saturday 16 October 2010 | LECTURE AND ONE-DAY CONFERENCE The Legacy of F R Leavis Speaker: Professor John Sutherland (University College London). Tickets available from Dr Chris Joyce or publiclectures@york.ac.uk |
| Tuesday 19 October 2010 | CMS RESEARCH SEMINAR 5.30pm, KG/07, King's Manor, Exhibition Square. Anthony Bale (Birkbeck, University of London), 'Being John Mandeville'. Contact: Linne Mooney |
| Tuesday 19 October 2010 | CECS RESEARCH SEMINAR 8.00pm, KG/07, King's Manor, Exhibition Square. Dr Mark Philp (University of Oxford), 'Struggling with Words: Rethinking Democracy in the 1790s'. Contact: Alison O'Byrne |
| Wednesday 20 October 2010 | MODERN SCHOOL RESEARCH SEMINAR 5.15pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Dr Emilie Morin (University of York), 'Contemporary British Drama and Intermediality'. Contact: Matthew Bevis |
| Tuesday 26 October 2010 | CREMS CONVERSION NARRATIVES LAUNCH EVENT 5.30pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Professor Kate Lowe (Queen Mary, University of London), 'News from Africa: Reporting Conversion in Renaissance Italy'. Contact: Helen Smith or Simon Ditchfield |
| Wednesday 27 October 2010 | CREMS BROWN BAG SEMINAR 12.15-1.45pm, Treehouse, First Floor, Berrick Saul Building. 'Conversion Narratives'. Contact: Helen Smith or Simon Ditchfield |
| Wednesday 27 October 2010 | FILM AND LITERATURE & TFTV EVENT 5.30pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Professor R. Barton Palmer, 'Hitchcock and his sources'. Contact: Judith Buchanan |
| Tuesday 2 November 2010 | CECS RESEARCH SEMINAR 8.00pm, KG/07, King's Manor, Exhibition Square. Dr Sarah Easterby-Smith (European University Institute), 'Cultivating Commerce: Connoisseurship and the Plant Trade in Late Eighteenth-Century London and Paris'. Contact: Alison O'Byrne |
| Wednesday 3 November 2010 | MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS RESEARCH SEMINAR 3.00pm, KG/33, King's Manor, Exhibition Square. Professor Linne Mooney and Dr Estelle Stubbs (University of York),'Guildhall Clerks as Scribes of Chaucer: The Identity of Doyle and Parkes' 'Scribe D''. Contact: Linne Mooney |
| Wednesday 3 November 2010 | CREMS RESEARCH SEMINAR 4.15pm, Seminar Room BS/008, Ground Floor, Berrick Saul Building. Dr Fabio Barry (University of St Andrews), 'Coming in the Clouds: Bernini's Architecture as Painting'. Contact: Bill Sherman |
| Monday 8 November 2010 | PROFESSOR HUGH HAUGHTON INAUGURAL LECTURE Hearing from poets: letters to poems 5.30pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Admission by free ticket only, available from Communications Office |
| Tuesday 9 November 2010 | CENTRE FOR MODERN STUDIES & MODERN SCHOOL EVENT 6.00pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Professor Gillian Harkins (University of Washington), 'The Queer Aesthetics and Politics of the Sex Predator'. Contact: Jane Elliott |
| Tuesday 9 November 2010 | MERCHANT ADVENTURERS' ARTS DISCOVERY EVENT
Pantomime before Berwick Kaler 6.30pm, Merchant Adventurers' Hall, Fossgate. Professor Jane Moody (Director of the Humanities Research Centre and Professor in the Department of English & Related Literature) will lead the first Merchant Adventurers' Arts Discovery Event. The event will take the form of an interactive presentation, including scenes from pantomimes, which will be brought to life by actors from York Theatre Royal and York Youth Theatre. Tickets available from www.york.ac.uk/tickets or publiclectures@york.ac.uk or from 01904 432622. |
| Tuesday 9 November 2010 | CECS RESEARCH SEMINAR 8.00pm, KG/07, King's Manor, Exhibition Square. Dr Finola O'Kane (University College Dublin), ''To Lead the Curious to Points of View': Picturesque Tourism in Ireland'. Contact: Alison O'Byrne |
| Wednesday 10 November 2010 | MEDIEVAL LITERATURES RESEARCH SEMINAR 5.15pm, KG/84, King's Manor, Exhibition Square. Professor Joel Fredell (CMS Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of York), 'The Green Knight in York: Was Cotton Nero A.10 Written in York?' Contact: Linne Mooney |
| Wednesday 17 November 2010 | CREMS SYMPOSIUM with ARCHAEOLOGY, ENGLISH and THEATRE, FILM & TV 'The Archaeology of Performance Space' 3.00-6.00pm, K/159, Department of Archaeology, King's Manor, Exhibition Square. Professor Martin White (University of Bristol), 'Recovering the Indoor Jacobean Playhouse'. Dr Kate Giles (University of York), 'The Guild Buildings of Shakespeare's Stratford'. Dr Ollie Jones (University of York), 'Bastards, Brawls and Broken Benches: The Queen's Men at Stratford-upon-Avon'. Contact: Bill Sherman |
| Wednesday 17 November 2010 | MODERN SCHOOL RESEARCH SEMINAR 5.15pm, L/N002, Langwith College. Dr Kamilla Elliott (University of Lancaster), 'The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Rise of Mass Picture Identification'. Contact: Matthew Bevis |
| Tuesday 23 November 2010 | CECS ANNUAL STEPHEN COPLEY LECTURE 5.00pm, Huntingdon Room, King's Manor, Exhibition Square. Professor Pete de Bolla (University of Cambridge), 'The Architecture of Concepts: Parsing Human Rights'. Contact: Alison O'Byrne |
| Tuesday 23 - Wednesday 24 November 2010 | YORK MEDIEVAL SEMINAR Professor Piero Boitani (Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Rome). Tuesday, 7.30pm, Huntingdon Room, King's Manor, Exhibition Square. Lecture: title to be confirmed. Wednesday, 2.00pm, KG/33, King's Manor, Exhibition Square. Seminar: title to be confirmed. Contact: Linne Mooney |
| Wednesday 24 November 2010 | POSTGRADUATE SEMINAR HONORARY VISITING PROFESSOR, ADAM PHILLIPS, Writer and Psychoanalyst 4.45pm, AEW/105, Alcuin East Wing. Professor Phillips' seminar will be based on the text, 'The Term Perversion' by Robert J. Stoller, in 'Perversions & Near-Perversions in Clinical Practice - New Psychoanalytic Perspectives', edited by Gerald I. Fogel & Wayne A. Myers (Yale University Press, 1991). Contact: Hugh Haughton |
| Wednesday 24 November 2010 | LECTURE HONORARY VISITING PROFESSOR, ADAM PHILLIPS, Writer and Psychoanalyst 6.30pm, AEW/003, Alcuin East Wing. 'Freud's Impossible Life'. All welcome, admission free. Contact: Hugh Haughton |
| Thursday 25 November 2010 | MEDIEVAL SCHOOL ANNUAL RIDDY LECTURE 5.15pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Professor Christopher Baswell (Barnard College and Columbia University, New York), 'Kings and Cripples: Royal and Eccentric Bodies in the Middle Ages'. All welcome. Contact: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne Professor Baswell is a distinguished scholar of Latin and vernacular medieval literatures, and, at Barnard, a sponsor of the C20th and C21st Barnard Women Poets Series. He was an Honorary Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature at York in 2006, where he spoke on the reconceptualisation of literary thinking entailed in manuscript culture, ran a colloquium on 'Founding Mothers' and the first national and international symposium on 'Historicising Disability: The Middle Ages and After', and contributed a graduate course on 'The Scandal of Origins' in medieval Europe. He is currently working on the literary and cultural politics of medieval disability. |
| Monday 29 November 2010 | CREMS RESEARCH SEMINAR 5.00pm [preceded at 4.00pm by a planning meeting to discuss the Warburg Institute], Seminar Room BS/008, Ground Floor, Berrick Saul Building. Professor Peter Mack (Director, Warburg Institute), 'The Impact of Renaissance Rhetoric, 1380-1620'. Contact: Bill Sherman |
| Tuesday 30 November 2010 | CECS RESEARCH SEMINAR 8.00pm, KG/07, King's Manor, Exhibition Square. Dr Jonathan Sachs (Concordia University), 'The Politics and Poetics of Decline: Gibbon, Smith, and the American War'. Contact: Alison O'Byrne |
| Tuesday 30 November 2010 | MODERN SCHOOL IRISH SEMINAR 5.15pm, Seminar Room BS/007, Berrick Saul Building. Part childhood adventure story, part adult thriller, Emma Donoghue has stared into the abyss and returned with the literary equivalent of a great Madonna and Child. The latest instalment of the 'Irish Seminar' reading group will focus on Emma Donoghue's Booker long-listed Room (2010). The seminar is a reading and discussion group for those interested in Irish literature, and continues 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: James Fraser or Katherine Ebury |
| Wednesday 1 December 2010 | MODERN SCHOOL RESEARCH SEMINAR 5.15pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Dr Andrzej Gasiorek (University of Birmingham), 'Vorticism and Modern Art c.1914: T. E. Hulme and Wyndham Lewis'. Contact: Matthew Bevis |
| Saturday 4 December 2010 | LONDON SCENES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP 9.30am-4.30pm, K/G133, King's Manor, Exhibtion Square. 'London Scenes' will examine sequences of images of the metropolis produced in the long eighteenth century by artists including Samuel Scott, Paul Sandby, Edward Pugh, George Cruickshank, and Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin. Speakers will include John Barrell, Mark Hallett, Stephen Daniels, John Mee, John Bonehill, Markman Ellis, Elizabeth Grant, John Bowen, Amy Todman, and Alison O'Byrne. Contact: Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies |
| Wednesday 8 December 2010 | MODERN SCHOOL RESEARCH SEMINAR 5.15pm, L/N002, Langwith College. Professor Neil Lazarus (University of Warwick), 'World Literature and Combined and Uneven Development'. Contact: Matthew Bevis |
| Monday 13 December 2010 | CREMS RESEARCH SEMINAR & CREMSmas PARTY!
4.30-7.30pm,Seminar Room BS/008, Ground Floor, Berrick Saul Building. Dr Richard Rowland (University of York), '(Gentle)men Behaving Badly: Aggression, Anxiety and Repertory in the Playhouses of Early Modern London'. Contact: Bill Sherman |
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