2025 events
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!
Join us for this book launch and conversation with Claude Cahun translator, Susan Demuth and Dr Boriana Alexandrova. A Centre for Women's Studies event.
The first in a series of three lectures on 2025/26 by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
The first in a series of three seminars this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
Medieval Literatures Seminar with speaker Professor Kenneth Clarke (York).
Join us for this Writers at York event with editor, translator, medievalist, and prestigious Irish poet, Bernard O'Donoghue.
Dr Rachael Scarborough King, CECS British Academy International Fellow (University of California, Santa Barbara), addresses close and distant reading, and he computational analysis of manuscript archives.
Rachael King, our British Academy International Fellow, addresses close and distant reading, and the computational analysis of manuscript archives.
Join us for a reading and discussion with author, publisher and Professor, Sunny Singh, who is in conversation with Juliana Mensah on her latest book 'Refuge: Stories of War (and Love)' and her important work in the publishing industry.
Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Maya Caspari (York).
CREMS / CMS Research Seminar with speaker Dr Jane Raisch (York).
Rachael King, our British Academy International Fellow, discusses the ethics of care.
Dr Rachael Scarborough King, CECS British Academy International Fellow ((University of California, Santa Barbara), discusses the ethics of care.
Department of English graduate Jack Mackay returns to York to discuss his acclaimed Gothic debut 'Gloam', share writing insights, and inspire aspiring authors.
Come to 'Singing Back the Buffalo', a film about preserving the Great Plains buffalo through Indigenous culture, followed by a director Q&A.
Join us for a conversation and reading with Rozie Kelly, who will discuss her novel 'Kingfisher', a beautifully crafted, compelling novel about grief, power and desire – and the tangles in between that make up a life.
Join us for the launch of Dr. Gemma Gibson's brand new book on the triumphs and shortcomings of the "body positivity" movement. A Centre for Women's Studies event.
CECS Research Seminar with speaker Professor Mary Fairclough (York).
Dr Kanupriya Dhingra will be in conversation with Professor Claire Chambers about her book 'Old Delhi’s Parallel Book Bazaar' (Cambridge Elements, 2024).
Join Writers at York to hear Curtis Chin discuss his award-winning memoir.
In collaboration with Comma Press, the EUTERPE project is honoured to present a panel on Palestinian British voices.
A Workshop by Prof. Birgit M. Kaiser (Utrecht University).
A poetic performance-lecture exploring language, feeling, and vulnerability—where words meander, evoke, and create meaning beyond the literal.
CECS Research Seminar with speaker Paul Keen (Carleton University).
Join the EUTERPE Spring School opening evening exploring multilingual translation, with talks and readings.
The CECS Annual Stephen Copley Lecture with speaker Tita Chico (University of Maryland).
The Modern Research School Annual Berthoud Lecture with speaker Professor Wen-chin Ouyang.
A joint lecture by Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst, and T. J. Clark, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, University of California, Berkeley.
The third in a series of three seminars this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
A Writers at York event.
The Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Annual Patrides lecture with speaker Professor Andrew Hadfield (Sussex).
Department of English and Related Literature Annual Riddy Lecture with speaker Professor Marion Turner (Oxford).
CECS Research Seminar with speaker Nicolle Jordan (University of Southern Mississippi).
Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Priyanka Tripathi, Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Patna (India).
A Writers at York event with speaker Daniela Azevedo.
York Medieval Literature Seminar with speaker Dr Harriet Soper (University of Bristol).
Please join us for an evening celebrating the recent publication of Dr Nicoletta Asciuto’s monograph, 'Brilliant Modernism Cultures of Light and Modernist Poetry'.
Professor David Stirrup (Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies, York) in conversation with Julianne Newmark, New Mexico's Director of Technical & Professional Communication and Assistant Chair for Core Writing.
CECS Research Seminar with speaker Alison O'Byrne (York).
Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Adam Kelly (University College Dublin).
Reading Group with Dr Adam Kelly (University College Dublin)
A one-day Victorian Studies conference at the University of York.
The second in a series of three lectures this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
The second in a series of three seminars this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
Join us for the first meeting of this Reading Group, which seeks to interrogate the central questions facing the study of humanities and literary criticism right now.
To mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen, the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies will be hosting a 'Jane Austen keywords' event.
Join us for our new Temporalities reading group which will meet on the last Thursday of the month.