This conference, timed to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the 1611 King James Bible, will look at the reception of the Bible in the early modern era.

CREMS Symposium

Thursday 17 March 2011

'Renaissance Reincarnations'

Older events: Spring and Summer 2011

Tuesday 25 January 2011	CECS RESEARCH SEMINAR 6.15pm [please note earlier start time], KG/07, King's Manor, Exhibition Square. Professor Jane Moody (University of York), 'Byron's Freedom of Speech'. Contact: Clare Bond
Wednesday 26 January 2011	ANNUAL CREMS/NCEM PUBLIC LECTURE 4.30pm, National Centre for Early Music, Walmgate. Professor Deborah Howard (University of Cambridge), 'Listening to Architectural Space'. Contact: Bill Sherman
Wednesday 26 January 2011	MODERN SCHOOL RESEARCH SEMINAR 5.15pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Professor Michael Wood (University of Princeton), 'Distraction and its friends'. Contact: Matthew Bevis
Thursday 27 January 2011	OPEN LECTURE BY ANDREW BENJAMIN 5.30pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. 'Art Matters: The Economy of Colour in Rosso Fiorentino'. Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Philosophy at Monash University, and has published extensively in the fields of philosophy, aesthetics, architectural philosophy and art theory. All welcome, admission free. Contact: Helen Hills
Friday 28 January 2011	POSTGRADUATE SEMINAR Professor Andrew Benjamin in conversation with Professor Derek Attridge 12.30-1.30pm, Tree House, Berrick Saul Building. Contact: Helen Hills
Friday 28 January 2011	CENTRE FOR MODERN STUDIES POSTGRADUATE FORUM EVENT 5.30pm, Seminar Room BS/008, Berrick Saul Building. Dr John David Rhodes (University of Sussex), 'Rituals of Expropriation: Maya Deren and the 'artist-native''. Contact: Jane Elliott
Monday 31 January 2011	MODERN SCHOOL IRISH SEMINAR 5.00pm, Seminar Room BS/008, Berrick Saul Building. The Third Policeman. O'Brien's novel 'features a bizarre Kafkaesque afterworld in which a nameless narrator stumbles upon a surrealistic police-station. Here he meets Policeman MacCruiskeen and Sergeant Pluck and learns that they have a mysterious third colleague as well: 'Policeman Fox is the third of us', says the Sergeant, 'but we never see him or hear tell of him at all because he is always on his beat and never off it and he signs the book in the middle of the night when even a badger is asleep'.' (Keith Booker, South Atlantic Review). The latest instalment of the 'Irish Seminar' reading group will focus on Flann O'Brien's famous novel The Third Policeman. 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
Friday 4 February 2011	INAUGURAL WHITE ROSE ANIMAL SEMINAR: 'ABOUT DOGS' 4.00-6.00pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Why attending to animal being in cultural texts reshapes how we think about them and their period. A roundtable discussion with Derek Attridge, Kevin Killeen, Emma Major and Erica Sheen (York); Robert McKay and Carmen Szabo (Sheffield); Graham Huggan (Leeds) and Erica Fudge (Strathclyde). To attend or participate please contact Erica Sheen
Tuesday 8 February 2011	CECS RESEARCH SEMINAR 8.00pm, KG/07, King's Manor, Exhibition Square. Dr Mark Towsey (University of Liverpool), ''Observe her Heedfully': Family, Friendship and a Lady's Life of Reading in Late Georgian Scotland'. Contact: Clare Bond
Wednesday 9 February 2011	CREMS RESEARCH SEMINAR 4.15pm, Seminar Room BS/008, Berrick Saul Building. Professor Zachary Lesser (University of Pennsylvania), 'Shakespeare's Flop: The Literary and the Popular in the 17th-Century Book Trade'. Contact: Bill Sherman
Wednesday 9 February 2011	POSTGRADUATE SEMINAR HONORARY VISITING PROFESSOR, ADAM PHILLIPS, Writer and Psychoanalyst 4.30pm, L/037, Langwith. Professor Phillips' seminar will be based on the text, 'The Unconscious Core of Perversion' by Arnold M. Cooper, 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 9 February 2011	LECTURE HONORARY VISITING PROFESSOR, ADAM PHILLIPS, Writer and Psychoanalyst 6.00pm, AEW/003, Alcuin East Wing. 'Modern Acting Madness'. This lecture offers some psychoanalytic reflections on modern theatrical versions of madness, looking in particular at versions of Shakespeare's King Lear and Macbeth, as well as Gogol's Diary of a Madman, exploring the crucial relationship between madness and performance more generally. All welcome, admission free. Contact: Hugh Haughton
Tuesday 15 February 2011	CREMS/CECS PUBLIC LECTURE 6.15pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Professor Mary Fissell (John Hopkins University), 'The Places of Popular Medicine: Aristotle's Masterpiece in Context'. Contact: Bill Sherman
Wednesday 16 February 2011	GRADUATE TRAINING PROGRAMME PROFESSIONAL SKILLS AFTERNOON 1.40-5.00pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Getting Published: programme (PDF , 15kb) : An afternoon of talks and workshops on writing book reviews, writing for different audiences, submitting journal articles and pitching for a book contract. No registration required for graduates in the department: just come along. Contact: Judith Buchanan
Tuesday 22 February 2011	A CREMS AND FILM AND LITERATURE EVENT 4.15pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. ''Words, words, words': Hamlet without them'. Hamlet (PDF , 1,239kb) Introductory lecture given by Dr Judith Buchanan (University of York) to a screening of the Asta Nielsen silent film 'Hamlet' (1920). Contact: Judith Buchanan
Wednesday 23 February 2011	MODERN SCHOOL RESEARCH SEMINAR 5.15pm, HG/21, Heslington Hall. Professor Neil Corcoran (University of Liverpool), 'Poison and Cure: Ted Hughes's Prose'. Contact: Matthew Bevis
Tuesday 1 March 2011	CECS RESEARCH SEMINAR 8.00pm, KG/07, King's Manor, Exhibition Square. Dr Phillipa Hubbard (University of Warwick), 'The Art of Advertising: Eighteenth-Century Trade Cards and Visual Culture'. Contact: Clare Bond
Wednesday 2 March 2011	CENTRE FOR MODERN STUDIES AND MODERN SCHOOL EVENT 6.00pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Dr Adam Gutteridge (Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past), 'Digging for Metaphors: Archaeology and Contemporary Fiction'. Contact: Jane Elliott
Thursday 3 March 2011	A ONE-DAY SYMPOSIUM ORGANISED BY CREMS AND THE ENGLISH SUBJECT CENTRE Teaching Civil War Writings in the Literature Classroom 10.30am-4.30pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Teaching Civil War Writings: programme (PDF , 7kb) To register please complete the online form Organisers: Crawford Gribben; Jerome Degroot; Kevin Killeen Contact: Kevin Killeen
Tuesday 8 March 2011	CECS RESEARCH SEMINAR 8.00pm, KG/07, King's Manor, Exhibition Square. Professor Michael O'Neill (University of Durham), 'Shelley's Defences of Poetry'. Contact: Clare Bond
Wednesday 9 March 2011	CENTRE FOR MODERN STUDIES RESEARCH SEMINAR 6.30pm, venue to be confirmed. Ed Cohen, title to be confirmed. Contact: Jane Elliott
Saturday 12 March 2011	CREMS/SORBONNE NOUVELLE DAY CONFERENCE Time and location to be confirmed. 'Representations of Regicide in Early Modern Europe'. Contact: Mark Jenner
Tuesday 15 March 2011	CENTRE FOR MODERN STUDIES NARRATIVE STRAND EVENT 5.15pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Professor Robyn Warhol (Director of Project Narrative, Ohio State University), ''The Office' and the Really Real: Structures of Address in Mockumentary and Reality TV'. Contact: Richard Walsh
Wednesday 16 March 2011	MODERN SCHOOL RESEARCH SEMINAR 6.00pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Professor Diane Negra (University College Dublin), 'Gendering The Recession'. Contact: Matthew Bevis
Friday 25 & Saturday 26 March 2011	A TWO-DAY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE HOSTED BY FILM AND LITERATURE IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE CENTRE FOR MODERN STUDIES 'Myths and Fairy Tales in Film and Literature post-1900'. Fairytales conference poster (PDF , 215kb) Keynote Speakers: Professor Marina Warner (University of Essex), Professor Ian Christie (Birkbeck, University of London), Dr Diane Purkiss (Keble College, Oxford). Fairytales programme (PDF , 116kb) Contact: Judith Buchanan

Tuesday 3 May 2011	CREMS AND MODERN SCHOOL EVENT 5.00pm, BS/008, Berrick Saul Building. Dr Brian Willan, 'Shakespeare in South Africa'. Contact: Ziad Elmarsafy or Matthew Bevis
Tuesday 3 May 2011	MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURES SEMINAR 5.30pm, KG/84, King's Manor, Exhibition Square. Dr Olga Burakov (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York), 'On Tasting: Praying and Backbiting in Speculum Vitae'. Contact: Elizabeth Tyler
Tuesday 3 May 2011	UNIVERSITY OF YORK PUBLIC LECTURE HENRY V: HISTORY'S MAN AND SHAKESPEARE'S 6.30-8.20pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. This two-part lecture will explore the life and afterlives of a legendary king. Speakers: Dr Craig Taylor (CMS and History, York) and Dr Judith Buchanan (English & Related Literature, York). Admission by free ticket only. Contact: publiclectures@york.ac.uk
Tuesday 3 May 2011	CECS RESEARCH SEMINAR 8.00pm, KG/07, King's Manor, Exhibition Square. Dr Joanna de Groot (University of York), ''A brave a powerful and a learned nation' or 'a barbarous people'?: Historians Contest Irishness in the Later Eighteenth Century'. Contact: Alison O'Byrne
Wednesday 4 May 2011	MODERN SCHOOL EVENT BOOK LAUNCH AND INTERDISCIPLINARY RECEPTION 4.30-6.30pm, The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building. 'Theory Alongside Theory? Critical Theories Across the Humanities and Social Sciences'. Contact: Jane Elliott
Wednesday 4 May 2011	MODERN SCHOOL RESEARCH SEMINAR 5.15pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Professor Nadia El Kholy (University of Cairo), 'The Current Situation in Egypt'. Contact: Ziad Elmarsafy or Matthew Bevis
Thursday 5 May 2011	CENTRE FOR MODERN STUDIES POSTGRADUATE FORUM 5.30-7.00pm, BS/008, Berrick Saul Building. Dr Drew Milne (University of Cambridge), 'Poetics in the Era of Digital Reproduction'. Contact: cmods-pgforum@york.ac.uk
Friday 6 May 2011	WHITE ROSE SOUTHERN AFRICA NETWORK EVENT 6.00-8.00pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. James Currey, 'The African Writers Series: Publishing Texts from Southern Africa'. Contact: Zoe Norridge
Wednesday 11 May 2011	THE MODERN SCHOOL'S ANNUAL JACQUES BERTHOUD LECTURE 5.00pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Professor James Wood (University of Harvard), 'Jens Peter Jacobsen and The Contradictions of Atheism'. Contact: Ziad Elmarsafy or Matthew Bevis
Friday 13 May 2011	MODERN SCHOOL EVENT: POETRY READING AND BOOK LAUNCH 6.00pm, The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building. Dr Kit Fan (University of York), 'Paper, Scissors, Stone'. Contact: Ziad Elmarsafy or Matthew Bevis
Tuesday 17 May 2011	CENTRE FOR MODERN STUDIES POSTGRADUATE FORUM 4.15-5.30pm, BS/007, Berrick Saul Building. Jay James May (English and Related Literature, York), and Fillipo Contesti (Philosophy, York), '[Dis]taste'. Contact: cmods-pgforum@york.ac.uk
Tuesday 17 May 2011	CECS RESEARCH SEMINAR 8.00pm, KG/07, King's Manor, Exhibition Square. Dr Joanna Dahn (Bath Spa University), 'Women and the Natural Sciences in the Long Eighteenth Century: The Entomological Paintings of Katherine Plymley (1758-1829)'. Contact: Alison O'Byrne
Thursday 19 May 2011	THE HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTRE(in association with THE LAURENCE STERNE TRUST and WRITERS AT YORK) 6.00-7.00pm, The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building. Visit from CHRISTIAN BÖK. Bök is a leading figure on the experimental writing and performance poetry scene. His readings of sound poetry are legendary, and his best-selling book Eunoia (in which each chapter uses only one of the five vowels) won the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2002. He is Professor of English at the University of Calgary and Artist-in-Residence at Shandy Hall. He very rarely reads/speaks in the UK, and we at York very rarely have the opportunity to see/hear someone whose work is so experimental. Over the last few weeks, Bök's work has been featured in The Observer and Radio 3's 'cabaret of the word,' The Verb. Bök will be read from his work and discuss his new project, The Xenotext, in which he is encoding a poem into the DNA of a bacterium that will outlive humanity. This event is open to the public and will be followed by a reception. There is no need to book a ticket. Contact Bill Sherman
Tuesday 24 May 2011	CECS RESEARCH SEMINAR 8.00pm, KG/07, King's Manor, Exhibition Square. Dr Judith Spicksley (University of York), 'Debt and Enslavement: The Portuguese in West Central Africa in the Early Modern Period'. Contact: Alison O'Byrne
Wednesday 25 May 2011	GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE 2011 Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Programme (PDF , 87kb) Contact: yorkgradconf2011@gmail.com
Wednesday 25 May 2011	CENTRE FOR MODERN STUDIES RESEARCH SEMINAR 1.00-5.00pm, The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building. Professor Jason Edwards (University of York), On Sentimentality Contact: Jason Edwards
Wednesday 25 May 2011	CREMS RESEARCH SEMINAR 4.15pm, BS/008, Berrick Saul Building. Dr Noel Malcolm (All Souls College, Oxford), 'The Context of Leviathan: A New Interpretation'. Contact: Bill Sherman
Tuesday 31 May 2011	CENTRE FOR MODERN STUDIES POSTGRADUATE FORUM 4.15-5.30pm, BS/007, Berrick Saul Building. Triona Fitton (Sociology, York), and Ben Nicholls (English and Related Literature, York), 'Utility and Waste'. Contact: cmods-pgforum@york.ac.uk
Tuesday 31 May 2011	YORK MEDIEVAL SEMINAR 5.30pm, Huntingdon Room, King's Manor, Exhibition Square. Professor Matthew Johnson (University of Southampton), 'Understanding Bodiam Castle'. Contact: Elizabeth Tyler
Wednesday 1 June 2011	YORK MEDIEVAL SEMINAR 11.15am, K/111, King's Manor, Exhibition Square. Professor Matthew Johnson (University of Southampton), 'What Do Medieval Buildings Mean?'. Contact: Elizabeth Tyler
Thursday 2 June 2011	THE 2011 PATRIDES LECTURE 5.15pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Professor Lena Cowen Orlin (Georgetown University), 'The Private Life of William Shakespeare'. Contact: Bill Sherman or John Roe
Tuesday 7 June 2011	CECS RESEARCH SEMINAR 8.00pm, KG/07, King's Manor, Exhibition Square. Dr Matthew Wickman (Brigham Young University/University of Aberdeen), 'Moretti and the Picturesque: A Long View of 'Distant Reading''. Contact: Alison O'Byrne
Wednesday 8 June 2011	WRITERS AT YORK IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE ZAHIR 6.15pm, Ron Cooke Hub, Heslington East. Public reading by the poet, ANDREW MOTION Contact: Geoffrey Wall
Thursday 9 - Saturday 11 June 2011	TWO DAY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CONVERSION NARRATIVES IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD Plenary Speakers: Irene Fosi (Università G. d'Annunzio, Chieti e Pescarai) and Nabil Matar (University of Minnesota). Contact: Simon Ditchfield or Helen Smith
Wednesday 15 June 2011	POSTGRADUATE SEMINAR BY HONORARY VISITING PROFESSOR, ADAM PHILLIPS, Writer and Psychoanalyst 4.30pm, AEW/105, Alcuin East Wing. Based on the text, 'On Sadomasochistic Object Relations' by Sheldon Bach, in 'Perversions & Near-Perversions in Clinical Practice - New Psychoanalytic Perspectives', edited by Gerald I. Fogel & Wayne A. Myers (Yale University Press, 1991). Contact: Ziad Elmarsafy or Matthew Bevis
Wednesday 15 June 2011	LECTURE BY HONORARY VISITING PROFESSOR, ADAM PHILLIPS, Writer and Psychoanalyst 6.00pm, AEW/003, Alcuin East Wing. 'First Impressions: The Young Freud'. Professor Phillips will look at biographical and autobiographical constructions of Freud's early life, reviewing the re-working of memory and memoir in the early era of psychoanalysis in relation to its founder. All welcome, admission free. Contact: Ziad Elmarsafy or Matthew Bevis
Tuesday 16 - Sunday 26 June 2011	PUBLIC EVENT EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN MINIHAN Part of the SAMUEL BECKETT: OUT OF THE ARCHIVE event. Venue: Gallery and Demonstration Space, Ron Cooke Hub. VIP Opening: Tuesday 16 June. Contact: Beckett.outofthearchive@gmail.com
Saturday 18 June 2011	CENTRE FOR MODERN STUDIES POSTGRADUATE FORUM ONE-DAY CONFERENCE WATCHED AND BEING WATCHED 9.00am-7.00pm, Humanities Research Centre, Berrick Saul Building. Keynote Speaker: Paula Roush Contact: cmods-pgforum@york.ac.uk
Monday 20 June 2011	MODERN SCHOOL IRISH 5.00pm, BS/008, Berrick Saul Building. 'Not so much a novel about memory as an examination of what it is to have a memory at all, to have had experiences that seem to be on the brink of slipping away'. The latest instalment of the 'Irish Seminar' reading group will focus on John Banville's Booker-winning The Sea (2005). 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
Tuesday 21 June 2011	MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURES SEMINAR 5.30pm, KG/84, King's Manor, Exhibition Square. Professor Eric Stanley (Emeritus Professor, Pembroke College, Oxford), title to be confirmed. Contact: Elizabeth Tyler
Tuesday 21 June 2011	MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURES SEMINAR 5.30pm, KG/84, King's Manor, Exhibition Square. Professor Eric Stanley (Emeritus Professor, Pembroke College, Oxford), title to be confirmed. Contact: Elizabeth Tyler
Tuesday 21 June 2011	UNIVERSITY OF YORK PUBLIC LECTURE 6.15pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Professor Dorothy Driver (University of Adelaide), 'Re-routing Cosmopolitanism: The birth, near-death and re-birth of the modernist South African short story in English'. Contact: Ziad Elmarsafy or Matthew Bevis
Wednesday 22 June 2011	MODERN SCHOOL EVENT: READING SOUTH AFRICA ROUNDTABLE 10.00-12.30, The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building. Professor Carrol Clarkson (University of Cape Town), 'Light-Writing: TJ Double Negative'; Dr Lucy Graham (University of Stellenbosch), 'State of Peril'; Professor Dorothy Driver (University of Adelaide), 'Zoe Wicomb: Cape Cosmopolitan Etcetera'. Contact: Ziad Elmarsafy or Matthew Bevis
Wednesday 22 June 2011	MODERN SCHOOL RESEARCH SEMINAR 5.15pm, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building. Dr Santanu Das (Queen Mary's University, London), 'The Singing Sepoy: India, Empire and First World War Writing'. Contact: Ziad Elmarsafy or Matthew Bevis
Wednesday 22 & Thursday 23 June 2011	PUBLIC EVENT GARE ST LAZARE PLAYERS PRESENT 'FIRST LOVE' BY SAMUEL BECKETT Part of the SAMUEL BECKETT: OUT OF THE ARCHIVE event. 8.00-9.20pm, Dixon Studio Theatre, Wentworth College. Contact: Beckett.outofthearchive@gmail.com
Thursday 23 - Sunday 26 June 2011	INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE SAMUEL BECKETT: OUT OF THE ARCHIVE Special Guests: John Banville, John Calder, J. M. Coetzee, John Minihan Keynote Speakers: Linda Ben-Zi (Tel Aviv University), Lois Overbeck (Emory University), Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania). Timetable of Events Register for the Conference Contact: Beckett.outofthearchive@gmail.com
Thursday 23 June 2011	PUBLIC EVENT READING BY JOHN BANVILLE followed by an interview and book signing. Part of the SAMUEL BECKETT: OUT OF THE ARCHIVE event. 6.00-7.30pm, Lecture Theatre P/X/001, Physics Building. Contact: Beckett.outofthearchive@gmail.com
Friday 24 June 2011	PUBLIC EVENT A TALK BY J. M. COETZEE Part of the SAMUEL BECKETT: OUT OF THE ARCHIVE event. 6.00-7.30pm, Central Hall. Contact: Beckett.outofthearchive@gmail.com
Friday 24 & Saturday 25 June 2011	PUBLIC EVENT GARE ST LAZARE PLAYERS PRESENT 'THE END' BY SAMUEL BECKETT Part of the SAMUEL BECKETT: OUT OF THE ARCHIVE event. Friday: 8.00-9.20pm; Saturday: 5.00-6.20pm, Dixon Studio Theatre, Wentworth College. Contact: Beckett.outofthearchive@gmail.com
Saturday 25 June 2011	PUBLIC EVENT BECKETT IN MUSIC - A LUNCHTIME CONCERT Part of the SAMUEL BECKETT: OUT OF THE ARCHIVE event. 1.00pm, Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall. Contact: Beckett.outofthearchive@gmail.com
Tuesday 28 June 2011	CENTRE FOR MODERN STUDIES POSTGRADUATE FORUM 4.15-5.30pm, BS/007, Berrick Saul Building. Sebastian Owen (English and Related Literature, York), and Majida Rasul (Post-War Reconstruction Unit, York), 'Rememoration and Reconstruction'. Contact: cmods-pgforum@york.ac.uk