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2025 events

Thursday 4 December 2025 6.15pm

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!

Wednesday 3 December 2025 5pm

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.

Wednesday 19 November 2025 5pm

The first in a series of three lectures on 2025/26 by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.

Wednesday 19 November 2025 3pm

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

Tuesday 18 November 2025 5.30pm

Medieval Literatures Seminar with speaker Professor Kenneth Clarke (York).

Wednesday 12 November 2025 7pm

Join us for this Writers at York event with editor, translator, medievalist, and prestigious Irish poet, Bernard O'Donoghue.

Tuesday 11 November 2025 5pm

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.

Tuesday 11 November 2025 5.00pm

Rachael King, our British Academy International Fellow, addresses close and distant reading, and the computational analysis of manuscript archives.

Thursday 23 October 2025 6.15pm

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.

Wednesday 22 October 2025 1pm

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Maya Caspari (York).

Tuesday 14 October 2025 6pm

CREMS / CMS Research Seminar with speaker Dr Jane Raisch (York).

Tuesday 14 October 2025 5.00pm

Rachael King, our British Academy International Fellow, discusses the ethics of care.

Tuesday 14 October 2025 5pm

Dr Rachael Scarborough King, CECS British Academy International Fellow ((University of California, Santa Barbara), discusses the ethics of care.

Monday 13 October 2025 6pm

Department of English graduate Jack Mackay returns to York to discuss his acclaimed Gothic debut 'Gloam', share writing insights, and inspire aspiring authors.

Thursday 9 October 2025 6pm

Come to 'Singing Back the Buffalo', a film about preserving the Great Plains buffalo through Indigenous culture, followed by a director Q&A.

Wednesday 8 October 2025 6pm

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.

Wednesday 8 October 2025 5pm

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.

Tuesday 7 October 2025 5pm

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Professor Mary Fairclough (York).

Friday 6 June 2025 4pm

Dr Kanupriya Dhingra will be in conversation with Professor Claire Chambers about her book 'Old Delhi’s Parallel Book Bazaar' (Cambridge Elements, 2024).

Wednesday 28 May 2025 6.15pm

Join Writers at York to hear Curtis Chin discuss his award-winning memoir.

Wednesday 21 May 2025 5pm

In collaboration with Comma Press, the EUTERPE project is honoured to present a panel on Palestinian British voices.

Wednesday 21 May 2025 11am

A Workshop by Prof. Birgit M. Kaiser (Utrecht University).

Tuesday 20 May 2025 5pm

A poetic performance-lecture exploring language, feeling, and vulnerability—where words meander, evoke, and create meaning beyond the literal.

Tuesday 20 May 2025 4.30pm

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Paul Keen (Carleton University).

Monday 19 May 2025 5pm

Join the EUTERPE Spring School opening evening exploring multilingual translation, with talks and readings.

Tuesday 13 May 2025 4.30pm

The CECS Annual Stephen Copley Lecture with speaker Tita Chico (University of Maryland).

Wednesday 7 May 2025 6.30pm

The Modern Research School Annual Berthoud Lecture with speaker Professor Wen-chin Ouyang.

Wednesday 7 May 2025 5pm

A joint lecture by Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst, and T. J. Clark, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, University of California, Berkeley.

Wednesday 7 May 2025 3pm

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

Thursday 1 May 2025 5.30pm

A Writers at York event.

Thursday 1 May 2025 5pm

The Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Annual Patrides lecture with speaker Professor Andrew Hadfield (Sussex).

Tuesday 29 April 2025 5.30pm

Department of English and Related Literature Annual Riddy Lecture with speaker Professor Marion Turner (Oxford).

Tuesday 29 April 2025 4.30pm

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Nicolle Jordan (University of Southern Mississippi).

Wednesday 23 April 2025 4.30pm

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Priyanka Tripathi, Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Patna (India).

Thursday 3 April 2025 4pm

A Writers at York event with speaker Daniela Azevedo.

Tuesday 25 March 2025 5.30pm

York Medieval Literature Seminar with speaker Dr Harriet Soper (University of Bristol).

Wednesday 12 March 2025 5.15pm

Please join us for an evening celebrating the recent publication of Dr Nicoletta Asciuto’s monograph, 'Brilliant Modernism Cultures of Light and Modernist Poetry'.

Wednesday 12 March 2025 1.30pm

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.

Tuesday 11 March 2025 4.30pm

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Alison O'Byrne (York).

Wednesday 26 February 2025 4.30pm

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Adam Kelly (University College Dublin).

Wednesday 26 February 2025 2.30pm

Reading Group with Dr Adam Kelly (University College Dublin)

Friday 21 February 2025 10am

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

Wednesday 19 February 2025 5pm

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

Wednesday 19 February 2025 3pm

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

Monday 17 February 2025 5pm

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.

Friday 14 February 2025 10am

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.

Thursday 30 January 2025 4pm

Join us for our new Temporalities reading group which will meet on the last Thursday of the month. 

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