2025 events
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Medieval Fictionality: Poetics, Emotion, and Chaucer
Department of English and Related Literature Annual Riddy Lecture with speaker Professor Marion Turner (Oxford).
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Elizabeth Montagu (1718-1800): Literary Landscaper
CECS Research Seminar with speaker Nicolle Jordan (University of Southern Mississippi).
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A Decolonial Intersectional Approach to Abortion Narratives in Indian Anglophone Fiction
Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Priyanka Tripathi, Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Patna (India).
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Daniela Azevedo: Breaking Into Bookstagram
A Writers at York event with speaker Daniela Azevedo.
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Oaths on the Edge in The Battle of Maldon and Völundarkviða
York Medieval Literature Seminar with speaker Dr Harriet Soper (University of Bristol).
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Book launch: 'Brilliant Modernism: Cultures of Light and Modernist Poetry'
Please join us for an evening celebrating the recent publication of Dr Nicoletta Asciuto’s monograph, 'Brilliant Modernism Cultures of Light and Modernist Poetry'.
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Indigenous Cartographies and the (Cultural) Rhetorics of Mapping: a Conversation
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.
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Strangers to the City: Travel and Tourism in Eighteenth-Century London
CECS Research Seminar with speaker Alison O'Byrne (York).
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Can We Trust the Novel?: Contemporary Fiction and Liberal Crisis
Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Adam Kelly (University College Dublin).
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What was New Sincerity?
Reading Group with Dr Adam Kelly (University College Dublin)
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Victorian Expansions 2025
A one-day Victorian Studies conference at the University of York.
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Seeing the Worst
The second in a series of three lectures this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
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Adam Phillips Seminar 2, 2024/25
The second in a series of three seminars this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
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Reading the University in the Twenty-First Century
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.
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Jane Austen keywords
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.
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Modern School Reading Group - Temporalities
Join us for our new Temporalities reading group which will meet on the last Thursday of the month.