Sayan Chattopadhyay, In Conversation with Claire Chambers
Thursday 25 May 2023
The Other Courtly Figure: Medieval Paradiastole
Wednesday 24 May 2023
Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth Century
Wednesday 24 May 2023
Estrangement, Consolation: On Black Criticism
Tuesday 23 May 2023
Monday 22 May 2023
Thursday 18 May 2023
Lunar Semiotics in "Ancrene Wisse" and "Pearl"
Tuesday 16 May 2023
Wednesday 26 April 2023
Wednesday 26 April 2023
'Cold Fish Soup' & Writing North: A Conversation with Adam Farrer
Wednesday 19 April 2023
Wednesday 15 March 2023
Wednesday 15 March 2023
Wise Wives and Manly Sons: Matching Saladin in El Conde Lucanor
Thursday 9 March 2023
Translation and the Transcreated Nation: The Case of Quratulain Hyder
Thursday 9 March 2023
Wednesday 8 March 2023
Fission-Fusion Cognition in Contemporary Film: A Case Study of Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock
Wednesday 8 March 2023
LGBTQ+ History Month - PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS HAD TO BE CANCELLED AT SHORT NOTICE
Friday 17 February 2023
Modern School Research Seminar
Wednesday 15 February 2023
Not Your Valentine's Performance
Monday 13 February 2023
Thursday 2 February 2023
"All her martyr'd signes": Rethinking Muteness on the Early Modern English Stage
Thursday 2 February 2023
L-Shaped Kinships: Families that Fail Queerly in 1960s British Film
Wednesday 1 February 2023
Monday 30 January 2023
Readerly Orientation: Narrative Absorption, Materiality, and the Book
Wednesday 25 January 2023
Towards a Theory of Holding the Dead: The Ghostly Edges of Rachel Chu's "Fractured Skull"
Wednesday 18 January 2023
Wednesday 30 November 2022
'What are Monuments?' Workshop and Talks
Sunday 27 November 2022
Novel Belonging: Making a South LA Universe
Wednesday 23 November 2022
Tuesday 22 November 2022
Thursday 17 November 2022
Proving the Round Earth is Round: Rediscovering Reformation England with John Rastell
Wednesday 16 November 2022
Gail McConnell: 'The Sun Is Open'
Wednesday 16 November 2022
Wednesday 16 November 2022
Shara McCallum: 'No Ruined Stone'
Wednesday 9 November 2022
From Medieval to Early Modern Europe: Problems of Method for a Transregional Literary History
Tuesday 8 November 2022
Amy Jeffs in Conversation with George Younge
Thursday 3 November 2022
‘Ite dolci alimenti’: a confectionery speculum principis for a cardinal-duke
Thursday 3 November 2022
The Bloomsbury Modernisms of Margaret Harkness and Olive Schreiner
Wednesday 2 November 2022
The Quiet Place Book Club: 'Happy Stories, Mostly' by Norman Erikson Pasaribu
Thursday 27 October 2022
On Not Believing In Anything: Or, Why Freud?
Wednesday 26 October 2022
Fictionality and Cognition: An autofiction case study
Wednesday 26 October 2022
An insight into the world of Publishing with Hamza Jahanzeb
Wednesday 26 October 2022
Freud’s 'Beyond The Pleasure Principle'
Wednesday 26 October 2022
Poetry Reading: '100 Queer Poems'
Monday 24 October 2022
'Slavery Shall Cease': The Millennial Mission of British Abolitionists, 1780-1840
Thursday 20 October 2022
Tuesday 18 October 2022
Walking York, Writing You: An autofiction masterclass with Sophie Coulombeau
Wednesday 12 October 2022
Decolonising Network Reading Group
Wednesday 12 October 2022
Moorish Maidservants and Early Modern Erasure of Black Suffering
Tuesday 4 October 2022
Thursday 1 September 2022
The Quiet Place Book Club: ‘Sabrina’ by Nick Drnaso
Thursday 25 August 2022
Charles and Mary Lamb: Elia and Beyond
Saturday 18 June 2022
Thursday 16 June 2022
On the Contemporary Essay: Lauren Elkin in conversation
Tuesday 14 June 2022
Imagining New Worlds: Critical Thinking and the Power of Writing Now
Thursday 9 June 2022
Borderlands: Postcolonial Formations of Connection and Separation
Thursday 9 June 2022
2022 Berthoud Lecture: The Bloomsbury Indians: Writing Across the Tracks
Wednesday 8 June 2022
Hersekzâde Ahmed Pasha (1456-1517): From Bosnian Prince to Ottoman Vizier
Wednesday 8 June 2022
Tuesday 7 June 2022
Wednesday 1 June 2022
The Quiet Place Book Club: ‘Lost & Found’ by Kathryn Schulz
Thursday 26 May 2022
Falstaff on Tour: County, Town, and Country in the late Elizabethan Theatre’
Thursday 26 May 2022
Wednesday 25 May 2022
Wednesday 25 May 2022
Cities of Modernism Conference
Tuesday 17 May 2022
Monday 16 May 2022
Thursday 12 May 2022
Reviving Extinct Species in Virtual Reality: The Eco-Technological Artworks of Jakob Kudsk Steensen
Wednesday 11 May 2022
Cruising the Monument: Funerary Flowers, Queer Ecologies, and the Small Pleasures of Remembrance
Thursday 5 May 2022
Empires of the Saracens in High Medieval Literature
Tuesday 3 May 2022
The Quiet Place Book Club: ‘Time is a Mother’ by Ocean Vuong
Thursday 28 April 2022
The Quiet Place Book Club: ‘A Visit from the Goon Squad’ by Jennifer Egan
Thursday 31 March 2022
Online Roundtable on New Poems by Edward Lear
Wednesday 16 March 2022
Tragic Form and Comic Effects in the Novel of Ideas
Wednesday 9 March 2022
Agitated Air: Book Launch and Conversation
Tuesday 8 March 2022
Political Forms Reading Group: Grievability and the Politics of Mourning
Thursday 3 March 2022
The Quiet Place Book Club: 'Sterling Karat Gold' by Isabel Waidner
Thursday 24 February 2022
Thursday 24 February 2022
Decolonisation in libraries, archives and museums: Action, inaction, redaction
Wednesday 23 February 2022
NorthBound Award and Writing the North Roadshow
Thursday 10 February 2022
Modern School Research Seminar: Lydia Davis and the Grammar of Resistance
Wednesday 9 February 2022
The potential for language to reflect/affect societal beliefs surrounding gendered violence
Wednesday 9 February 2022
Wednesday 2 February 2022
YoU English Student Decolonizing Forum
Wednesday 2 February 2022
The Quiet Place Book Club: ‘If I Had Your Face’ by Frances Cha
Thursday 27 January 2022
Thursday 27 January 2022
Political Forms Reading Group: The politics of pity
Wednesday 26 January 2022
Wednesday 26 January 2022
Wednesday 26 January 2022
Submerged: Race and Migration in Long Island Whaling Diasporas (Short Film and talk)
Thursday 20 January 2022
Friday's Accidental Blackness: Interpreting Race in 'Robinson Crusoe'
Tuesday 18 January 2022
Religion, Spiritualism and Occultism in Irish Literature: Nineteenth Century to the Present
Friday 7 January 2022
Friday 10 December 2021
The Quiet Place Book Club: 'Approval' by John D. Rutter
Thursday 25 November 2021
Things, Greenly: Poetry with Vahni (Anthony) Capildeo and J. R. Carpenter
Thursday 25 November 2021
Wednesday 24 November 2021
Tuesday 23 November 2021
Reviewing 'White Fragility': Psychoanalysis With Racism
Wednesday 17 November 2021
Wednesday 17 November 2021
The Lives of Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean
Wednesday 10 November 2021
'Indigenismo' and the Limits of Cultural Appropriation: Frida Kahlo and Marina Núñez del Prado
Wednesday 10 November 2021
Improvising Imperialism: The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in Ireland and South Africa
Wednesday 3 November 2021
Friday 29 October 2021
The Quiet Place Book Club: 'The Song of Youth' by Montserrat Roig
Thursday 28 October 2021
Gaelic Influence in the Northumbrian Kingdom: A Focus on York
Wednesday 27 October 2021
Laughter before the Law: Censorship, Caricature and Hunger Strike in Modern Irish Literature and Art
Wednesday 27 October 2021
Black History Month - Literary Salon
Wednesday 27 October 2021
From Blodeuwedd to The Wife’s Lament: Medieval Remains in Brenda Chamberlain’s Tide-race (1962)
Tuesday 26 October 2021
Monday 25 October 2021
Wednesday 20 October 2021
Poetry Prize Reading & Poetry Library Launch
Monday 18 October 2021
What Does a Walk Look Like? Modernity and Pedestrian Mobility in the Visual Arts
Wednesday 13 October 2021
The Quiet Place Book Club: 'The Song of Youth' LAUNCH
Wednesday 22 September 2021
Eco, Bio, Zoo: A Medieval and Early Modern Workshop
Friday 10 September 2021
Thursday 9 September 2021
The Quiet Place Book Club: Stranger Faces by Namwali Serpell
Thursday 26 August 2021
Lines of Inquiry: New Approaches to Poetry
Friday 30 July 2021
The Quiet Place Book Club: 'Diamond Hill' by Kit Fan
Thursday 29 July 2021
The Quiet Place Book Club: The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
Thursday 24 June 2021
Essayisms Roundtable: Retracing Our Steps
Monday 21 June 2021
Medieval Romances, Trash Fiction and Rebel Women
Friday 18 June 2021
Defining a transnational colonial picturesque?- Ireland, Jamaica and Saint Domingue (Haiti)
Thursday 17 June 2021
Sharlene Teo in conversation with Alexandra Kingston-Reese
Thursday 17 June 2021
Provisional Architectures: Thinking Towards Essaymatography
Thursday 17 June 2021
The Tacit Knowledge of Medieval Paper
Wednesday 16 June 2021
Tuesday 15 June 2021
Friday 11 June 2021
Friday 11 June 2021
Thursday 10 June 2021
Thursday 10 June 2021
Courttia Newland in conversation with Dr Clive Nwonka
Wednesday 9 June 2021
Kashmir, Conflict, Crossings, and Curfews: A SCoPe Event
Tuesday 8 June 2021
Monday 7 June 2021
Essayisms Reading Group: The Essay's Political Styles
Monday 7 June 2021
'Et stellam matutinam vus dunra to go te bedde': Women and Multilingualism in Late Medieval England
Friday 4 June 2021
Wednesday 2 June 2021
Remembering, Repeating and Working Through
Wednesday 2 June 2021
The Quiet Place Book Club: Tokio Ueno Station by Yu Miri
Thursday 27 May 2021
Essayisms Reading Group: Coercive Style
Monday 24 May 2021
Kit Fan and Ellen Wiles in conversation with Alice Nah
Thursday 20 May 2021
Fact/Fiction: A Workshop on the Essay Film
Thursday 13 May 2021
Oblique Intimacy: Moonlight (2016) - LGBT, Queer, or Quare?
Wednesday 12 May 2021
Essayisms Reading Group: Queer Kinship and Collective Essay Writing
Monday 10 May 2021
Archives and Archival Sensibilities in Medieval Arabic Historiography
Tuesday 4 May 2021
The Quiet Place Book Club: 'Bessie Smith' by Jackie Kay
Thursday 29 April 2021
Wednesday 28 April 2021
Essayisms Reading Group: Essays on Film
Monday 26 April 2021
Netflix: Coming Soon to a Screen Near You
Friday 23 April 2021
Presentation of Michele Campopiano's 'Writing the Holy Land'
Friday 26 March 2021
The Quiet Place Book Club: Castles from Cobwebs by J. A. Mensah
Thursday 25 March 2021
Poetry in Action: An Evening with Will Harris
Thursday 18 March 2021
Book launch: Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Wednesday 17 March 2021
Tuesday 16 March 2021
Just Us: A Conversation with Claudia Rankine
Thursday 11 March 2021
Before Margery: The Book of Margery Kempe and its antecedents
Tuesday 9 March 2021
Essayisms Reading Group: The Personal Essay
Monday 8 March 2021
Wednesday 3 March 2021
Psychoanalysis and Not Wanting to Know
Wednesday 3 March 2021
The Quiet Place Book Club: A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Thursday 25 February 2021
Wednesday 24 February 2021
Essayisms Reading Group: The Art Essay
Monday 22 February 2021
Reckoning: Historical Practice in the Medieval Irish Classroom
Thursday 18 February 2021
Thursday 18 February 2021
Book Launch: Castles from Cobwebs – J.A. Mensah in conversation with Sara Hunt
Wednesday 17 February 2021
Wednesday 10 February 2021
Essayisms Reading Group: Modern Poets’ Essays
Monday 8 February 2021
What is an Essay?: A Roundtable
Thursday 4 February 2021
Book launch: Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Tuesday 2 February 2021
The Quiet Place Book Club: A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson
Thursday 28 January 2021
Book Launch: George Orwell joins the Oxford World’s Classics Series
Thursday 28 January 2021
Wednesday 27 January 2021
Essayisms Reading Group: Ists and Isms
Monday 25 January 2021
Affects in History: A Workshop
Friday 15 January 2021
Persianisms: Cultural Encounters in the Anglophone World
Thursday 10 December 2020
The Quiet Place Book Club: End of Year Meeting
Wednesday 9 December 2020
Saturday 5 December 2020
Dream of Uncommon Ground: Poetry with Bhanu Kapil, Vahni Capildeo, and Penny Boxall
Wednesday 2 December 2020
Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism: Pakistani Women's Literary and Cinematic Fictions
Wednesday 25 November 2020
Beyond the Anglo-American Tradition: Essayisms Reading Group
Monday 23 November 2020
Sir Gawain vs. the Vikings: ‘Difficult’ Old Norse Borrowings in Middle English
Thursday 19 November 2020
"Trim songes of love they wyll compile”: Reforming verse and godly recreations
Thursday 19 November 2020
Wednesday 18 November 2020
A “denser, richer, warmer spectacle”?: Europe in the Nineteenth-Century US American Essay
Wednesday 18 November 2020
Psychoanalysis and Not Wanting to Know
Wednesday 18 November 2020
Tuesday 17 November 2020
‘A mere daughter of the soil’: Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Censorship, and Modernism
Wednesday 11 November 2020
The Machine in the Garden: Essayisms Reading Group
Monday 9 November 2020
Colonialism and the idea of 'sex' in eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought
Tuesday 3 November 2020
Radio Across Borders: New Work in Radio Studies
Friday 30 October 2020
The Quiet Place Book Club: Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine
Thursday 29 October 2020
Wednesday 28 October 2020
The Transatlantic Lecture Tour: Essayisms Reading Group
Monday 26 October 2020
Black History Month Event: The Power of Fiction
Thursday 22 October 2020
Radio Literature: New Work in Radio Studies
Wednesday 21 October 2020
‘Sublime Archimedean Art’: Shelley’s Steam Engine
Tuesday 20 October 2020
Black History Month: Essayisms Reading Group
Monday 12 October 2020
Tuesday 6 October 2020
'What's Wrong with the Renaissance - curriculum, colonialism and English'?
Thursday 1 October 2020
The Quiet Place Book Club: 'Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl' by Andrea Lawlor
Thursday 24 September 2020
The Quiet Place Book Club: 'Trick Mirror' by Jia Tolentino
Thursday 27 August 2020
The Quiet Place Book Club: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Thursday 30 July 2020
Quiet Place Book Club: June Meeting
Wednesday 24 June 2020
Thursday 11 June 2020
Dr Hannah Roche, 'Plath, Hughes, and Amy Lowell: Intertextuality and Queer Invisibility'
Thursday 11 June 2020
Valeria Luiselli and the Aesthetics of Education
Wednesday 3 June 2020
Affects in History/Persianisms
Wednesday 27 May 2020
Friday 22 May 2020
Roundtable: Working in the Archive
Wednesday 20 May 2020
Research paper: 'Primal Reach: Seamus Heaney and Romanticism'
Wednesday 13 May 2020
Roundtable: Working with Authors
Thursday 7 May 2020
Launch Reading: York Writer-in-Residence Vahni Capildeo - EVENT POSTPONED
Thursday 23 April 2020
'Still I Rise': International Women's Poetry
Friday 6 March 2020
Translation: The Pitfalls and the Poetry
Friday 28 February 2020
Thursday 27 February 2020
Monday 24 February 2020
Wednesday 12 February 2020
ICNS Seminar: Aarhus School Approaches to Fictionality
Friday 7 February 2020
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Enduring Bees
Wednesday 5 February 2020
Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England
Thursday 30 January 2020
Wednesday 29 January 2020
Psycho-Analysis and the Sense of Guilt
Wednesday 29 January 2020
Fornaldarsögur, Prosimetrum, and History-Writing in Medieval Iceland
Friday 24 January 2020
A Conversation Between Hirsh Sawhney and Claire Chambers
Wednesday 15 January 2020
Towards a Theatre of the Aesthetic
Tuesday 14 January 2020
Literatures of Liberation: Non-European Universalisms and Democratic Progress
Monday 13 January 2020
Modernism and Translation: A Workshop
Friday 22 November 2019
Thursday 21 November 2019
Wednesday 20 November 2019
Wednesday 20 November 2019
Narrative Factuality: Diachronic and Intercultural Perspectives
Monday 18 November 2019
Performance issues in the 'Christos Paschon'
Thursday 14 November 2019
New Manuscripts and Old Bridges: Editing Mary Coleridge
Wednesday 13 November 2019
Byzantine Tent Poems and the 'Global' Middle Ages
Tuesday 12 November 2019
Hyperbolisèd Nothing! Spiritual economy and the measure of man
Thursday 7 November 2019
Nemeses: Collaborative Poetry in Performance
Wednesday 6 November 2019
Reading it Wrong: Misunderstanding in Early Eighteenth-Century Print Culture
Tuesday 5 November 2019
Wednesday 30 October 2019
Start the Conversation: Decolonising and Diversifying the Curriculum at York
Wednesday 30 October 2019
A Colony Writes Back to the Empire: Rome and Constantinople in Medieval Welsh Poetry
Tuesday 29 October 2019
Saturday 26 October 2019
Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland (SNSBI) 2019 Autumn day conference
Saturday 19 October 2019
Friday 18 October 2019
This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free
Thursday 17 October 2019
Sylvia Townsend Warner and the Possibilities of Freedom
Wednesday 16 October 2019
Some Aspects of English Poetry
Wednesday 9 October 2019
Suffering, Struggle, Survival: The Fight for Freedom of the Anna-Murray-Frederick Douglass Family
Tuesday 8 October 2019
The Politics of Experimenting with Fiction in Conquest England
Tuesday 8 October 2019
[O]ur Englishman/ No word of Chinese spoke!': Satires of the Macartney Embassy to China, 1792-1805
Tuesday 8 October 2019
Shakespeare's Rose Theatre talks: Twelfth Night
Wednesday 17 July 2019
Shakespeare's Rose Theatre talks: The Tempest
Tuesday 16 July 2019
Shakespeare's Rose Theatre talks: Hamlet
Monday 15 July 2019
Thursday 11 July 2019
Shakespeare's Rose Theatre talks: Henry V
Friday 28 June 2019
Michael Donkor: Reading and Interview
Friday 21 June 2019
Thursday 20 June 2019
Space, Place, Diagram: Studying Cosmology in Medieval Byzantium
Tuesday 18 June 2019
Afterlives of the Roman de la rose, between England and France
Tuesday 11 June 2019
Chaucer's Pardoner and the Rhetoric of Metafiction and Metalepsis
Wednesday 5 June 2019
Thinking with Mysticism (from medieval to early modern)
Friday 31 May 2019
Thomas Browne and the mystery of numbers
Thursday 30 May 2019
Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England: A Conference in honour of Linne R. Mooney
Thursday 23 May 2019
Which came first: the romance or the ballad?
Tuesday 21 May 2019
Speaking the Bright and Beautiful English of Shakespeare
Saturday 18 May 2019
Shakespeare and Co.: On the Page and on the Stage
Saturday 18 May 2019
Friday 17 May 2019
Pre-Show Talk on 'Much Ado About Nothing'
Wednesday 15 May 2019
Much Ado About Nothing pre-show talk
Wednesday 15 May 2019
Wednesday 15 May 2019
Contemporary Concepts of Adolescent Development
Wednesday 15 May 2019
Early Modern Printing Workshop
Tuesday 14 May 2019
Film Screening of 'Caesar Must Die'
Monday 13 May 2019
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: Poetry Reading and In Conversation
Monday 13 May 2019
Sam Reese: Reading and Interview
Thursday 9 May 2019
Cover Versions: Book Cover Design in a Digital Age
Wednesday 8 May 2019
Writing the Future, the Present, and the Past
Tuesday 7 May 2019
Wordsworth’s Anglo-French Pamphlet: Public and Private Codes in A Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff
Tuesday 7 May 2019
In the next leyf: the edge of the material text
Thursday 2 May 2019
Wednesday 1 May 2019
'What I’m Looking For': Maureen McLane Poetry Reading
Thursday 25 April 2019
The Architecture of Conversion and the Early Modern Stage
Thursday 25 April 2019
Equality of sacrifice: V.S. Pritchett, Graham Greene, The Third Man (and Shakespeare)
Wednesday 24 April 2019
Friday 15 March 2019
Aesthetics of Against: A Dialectic of the Contemporary Novel
Wednesday 13 March 2019
Claude Prance's ephemera: a bookman's Charles Lamb and associative literary culture
Tuesday 12 March 2019
Friday 8 March 2019
Thursday 7 March 2019
Dorothy Parker's 'The Custard Heart'
Wednesday 6 March 2019
Tuesday 5 March 2019
New Artistic Practices: Instagram as (Plat)Form (Panel Discussion)
Thursday 28 February 2019
The Watch-Bitch Now: Reassessing the Natural Woman in Han Kang's 'The Vegetarian'
Thursday 28 February 2019
Story-Telling and Staging Romance in Shakespeare’s 'Pericles'
Wednesday 27 February 2019
Poetics of the Pillory: English Literature and Seditious Libel 1660-1820
Tuesday 26 February 2019
CREMS Cabinet of Curiosities' Spring Colloquium
Monday 25 February 2019
Ten Reasons to Read Radclyffe Hall
Wednesday 20 February 2019
Memory, Emotion and Truth: The Posthumous Trial of Joan of Arc
Tuesday 19 February 2019
'A work of time' The material decay and notional permanence of the Cotton Library
Tuesday 19 February 2019
'Not undesirable’: South Africa’s Nobel laureates and the censors
Thursday 14 February 2019
"The Whole World’s at Sexes and Sevens": Gender Trouble in 1930s British Cinema
Wednesday 13 February 2019
Tuesday 12 February 2019
Alia Trabucco Zerán, Sophie Hughes and Stefan Tobler: And Other Stories in Conversation
Thursday 7 February 2019
Wednesday 6 February 2019
The Mirror-Role of Mother and Family in Child Development
Wednesday 6 February 2019
Female Human Animals - Public Film Screening with Panel Discussion
Thursday 31 January 2019
A 'Narrative and the Senses' seminar
Thursday 31 January 2019
Oscar Wilde, Modernism and the Queering of Realism
Wednesday 30 January 2019
Sam Thompson: Reading and Interview
Friday 25 January 2019
Wednesday 23 January 2019
Wednesday 16 January 2019
Mary Guyatt on Careers in the Heritage Industry
Monday 14 January 2019
Videoseminar: Writing en route in the Middle Ages
Thursday 22 November 2018
Amit Chaudhuri on his book: 'The Origins of Dislike'
Wednesday 21 November 2018
Projecting Modernism: The Future of Britain in 1930s Documentary Film
Tuesday 20 November 2018
Imperialising Old English: 'The Battle of Brunanburh'
Tuesday 20 November 2018
Thursday 15 November 2018
Serial Revolutions: Why 1848 Matters
Wednesday 14 November 2018
Ethics and the Modern Novel: Toni Morrison, Henry James and the Problem of Other People
Thursday 8 November 2018
Tuesday 6 November 2018
Peterloo: A Conversation with Jacqueline Riding
Friday 2 November 2018
Early Modern Sermons: Performances and Afterlives
Friday 2 November 2018
Who's Afraid of Alice Meynell?: Alice Meynell in the Age of Modernism
Thursday 1 November 2018
The Lane Less Travelled: Logic and Literature in the Early Modern Period
Thursday 25 October 2018
Art as the Justification of Life in Nietzsche's 'The Birth of Tragedy'
Wednesday 24 October 2018
Thursday 18 October 2018
Criticism and Truth, on the Epistemology of Literary Studies
Tuesday 16 October 2018
Poetry Book Society Autumn Launch
Thursday 11 October 2018
Wednesday 10 October 2018
Wednesday 10 October 2018
Empiricism, Epistolarity and Landscape in Elizabeth Montagu's Correspondence
Tuesday 9 October 2018
‘Forgive Me Awful Poet:’ The Redemption and Rewriting of Paradise Lost
Thursday 4 October 2018
From Your John to Baby Precious: The Modernist Lesbian Love Letter
Wednesday 3 October 2018
Augustus Earle’s Pedestrian Tour in New Zealand: or, Get off the Beach
Tuesday 2 October 2018
Reading and in Conversation: Bridging the Creative/Critical Divide
Monday 1 October 2018
ICNS Seminar: Jan Alber, "Ways of Making Sense of the Unnatural"
Wednesday 19 September 2018
Ways of Making Sense of the Unnatural
Wednesday 19 September 2018
Playhouses in Shakespeare’s time: why ‘play’? why ‘house’?
Friday 20 July 2018
The Worlds of Maria Edgeworth: Networks, Influence and Reception
Friday 29 June 2018
'My Dearest Tussy': Coping with Separation during the Napoleonic Wars
Tuesday 12 June 2018
Laurence Sterne: A sentimental picture
Friday 8 June 2018
Fugitive Ideas: A Cerebration for Hugh Haughton
Friday 8 June 2018
Frankenstein at 200: The science of the novel
Thursday 7 June 2018
Frankestein: A Night at the Movies
Wednesday 6 June 2018
Eleanor Catton in Conversation
Wednesday 6 June 2018
Storytelling as a Way of Bridging Cultural Divides
Wednesday 6 June 2018
The Question of Middle English Romance
Tuesday 5 June 2018
Foul or Fair?: The English Provincial Fair in Popular Culture
Tuesday 5 June 2018
Beyond Words: The Unknowable and the Unutterable in early modernity
Friday 1 June 2018
Other Bodies: Women, Madness and Spectacle in the late 18th century
Tuesday 29 May 2018
Political Memory and its Archives: Symposium
Friday 25 May 2018
Thursday 24 May 2018
Rhythmical Subjects: D.H. Lawrence and ‘the American Rhythm’
Thursday 24 May 2018
Problematics of European literary history, 1559-1648
Thursday 24 May 2018
Memes, GIFs, and Remix Culture: Compact Appropriation in Everyday Digital Life
Wednesday 23 May 2018
Fifty Years of Revolution: Gender, Race and Resistance 1968-2018
Monday 21 May 2018
Thursday 17 May 2018
When Is a Lyric Poem a Song, When Are Song Lyrics a Poem, and Why Do We Care?
Thursday 17 May 2018
Tuesday 15 May 2018
"Pitt and Liberty" - Material culture and the recalibration of elite identity in 1760s Virginia
Tuesday 15 May 2018
Friday 11 May 2018
Magical Realism: The Making of a Global Literature and International Anthology
Wednesday 9 May 2018
Capital Personified: From Impersonality to the Dialectic of World Literature
Wednesday 9 May 2018
Thursday 3 May 2018
Winnicott's Magic: 'Playing and Reality' and Reality
Wednesday 2 May 2018
The Location of Cultural Experience
Wednesday 2 May 2018
Tuesday 1 May 2018
Speech, Sound and Dialogue in Early Modern Culture, 1500-1700
Tuesday 24 April 2018
Poetry Reading: Vahni Capildeo and Alex Houen
Wednesday 18 April 2018
Seeing Black Women in Georgian London
Tuesday 17 April 2018
Mock Conference Panel: Aspects of Narrative
Monday 26 March 2018
Carcanet Poets: Phoebe Power and Oli Hazzard
Thursday 22 March 2018
Eborakon Issue four launch party
Wednesday 14 March 2018
Archbishop Wulfstan and the Peace of God
Tuesday 6 March 2018
A book a day keeps the doctor away
Thursday 1 March 2018
La civiltà delle città nell'Italia medievale
Wednesday 28 February 2018
Wednesday 28 February 2018
Danelaw Stories: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Conquest
Tuesday 27 February 2018
Looking backward at eighteenth-century English pornography
Tuesday 27 February 2018
The Secret Life of a Feminist Academic: Sexuality, Masculinity, Shoes and Power
Monday 26 February 2018
Two Poets: Christopher DeWeese and Valzhyna Mort
Wednesday 21 February 2018
Workshop and Seminar with Anat Pick
Wednesday 21 February 2018
Symposium: New Work on Edward Lear
Saturday 17 February 2018
Friday 16 February 2018
Brilliant Modernism: Lighting Technologies in Modernist Poetry
Wednesday 14 February 2018
Lordship, Violence and Very Small Churches in Southern France, c. 1000-1200
Tuesday 13 February 2018
Tuesday 13 February 2018
Clare Pollard: Poetry in Translation
Thursday 8 February 2018
Wednesday 7 February 2018
Finding, Receiving and Recognising the Absent
Wednesday 7 February 2018
Masculine Compromise: The Impact of Migration on Family and Gender Dynamics in China
Tuesday 6 February 2018
Women, Leadership and Risk in the Human Rights Movement
Monday 5 February 2018
'My Lady Greensleeves': Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams and the Objectivist Nexus
Wednesday 31 January 2018
Tuesday 30 January 2018
Grieving the Un-precarious Life: Mourning, Grief and Commemoration in Iraqi Literature
Monday 29 January 2018
What did the dog say? Towns and municipal citizenship in 'English' Ireland, 1350-1500
Friday 26 January 2018
Film screening of Patience Nitumwesiga's film 'Communion'
Monday 22 January 2018
The Heat Signatures of Refugee Transit: 'Incoming' by Richard Mosse (2017)
Wednesday 17 January 2018
Tuesday 16 January 2018
The Poetics of Faith: Exploring Belief in Modern and Contemporary Poetry
Friday 12 January 2018
Friday 1 December 2017
Wednesday 29 November 2017
Tuesday 28 November 2017
Orosius’ description of the world: influence, adaptation and interpolation
Thursday 23 November 2017
Tuesday 21 November 2017
Tuesday 21 November 2017
Monday 20 November 2017
Essay Film and Narrative Technique: First Symposium of the BAFTSS ‘Essay Film’ Research Group
Saturday 18 November 2017
Jennifer Egan: A Reading and Interview
Thursday 16 November 2017
How Novels Begin: Some Nineteenth-Century Test-Cases
Wednesday 15 November 2017
The Wisdom of Some Short Poems in the Exeter Book
Wednesday 15 November 2017
Authentic Dross: Irish Poetry and Song - Moore, Mangan and (Jack) Yeats
Tuesday 14 November 2017
Performing Care: Performance, Visibility and the Labour of Care
Wednesday 8 November 2017
Fibres and Fashion in the British Industrial Revolution, 1700-1800
Tuesday 7 November 2017
Consolation's Discrepant Forms
Thursday 2 November 2017
Uses of Criticism in an Era of Postcritique
Thursday 2 November 2017
The Insider Conversation: Literary Agent & Poet Isobel Dixon
Wednesday 1 November 2017
Medieval Pilgrims' Books: Some Evidence, and Problems of Evidence
Tuesday 31 October 2017
Tuesday 31 October 2017
Contested Inheritances, 1750-1830
Saturday 28 October 2017
Women's Work: Allusion and Education in Mid-Twentieth Century Fiction
Wednesday 25 October 2017
The Reform Debates of 1830-32: A 'Four Nations' Approach
Tuesday 24 October 2017
Monday 23 October 2017
Monastic Legacies: Memory and the Biography of Place
Tuesday 17 October 2017
Gender and Things in Pope and Austen
Tuesday 17 October 2017
Michael Longley: A Poetry Reading
Thursday 12 October 2017
"Being there": Shakespeare and live broadcast theatre - a history
Thursday 12 October 2017
Wednesday 11 October 2017
Wednesday 11 October 2017
Writers at York Special Event: Fiona Mozley
Wednesday 11 October 2017
The Influence of the Epic Genre in Eighteenth-Century History Writing
Tuesday 10 October 2017
Friday 6 October 2017
Wednesday 4 October 2017
So You Want to Submit a Journal Article! Strategies for Navigating Peer Review
Wednesday 4 October 2017
Tuesday 3 October 2017
BARS 2017: Romantic Improvement
Thursday 27 July 2017
Pictures of perfection...make me sick and wicked?: Jane Austen and Reading for Lies
Friday 14 July 2017
Narrative in Question Symposium and grants workshop
Thursday 15 June 2017
'Sense and Sensibility' film screening with discussion
Wednesday 14 June 2017
Sunday 11 June 2017
Friday 9 June 2017
Freedom After Neoliberalism Conference 2017
Friday 9 June 2017
The Enduring Appeal of Jane Austen
Thursday 8 June 2017
Thursday 8 June 2017
In Praise of the Market: Christina Rosetti and the Salvific Signifier
Wednesday 7 June 2017
The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment
Tuesday 6 June 2017
Europe: What Value as an Analytical Category?
Tuesday 6 June 2017
Joining Scholarly Conversations: Academic Publishing, in Theory and Praxis
Monday 5 June 2017
Thursday 1 June 2017
Does Islam Need the Shariah? A Reply to a Christian Interrogation
Wednesday 31 May 2017
Narrative in Question Seminar 7
Wednesday 31 May 2017
Tuesday 30 May 2017
'Clueless' film screening with introduction
Friday 26 May 2017
Wednesday 24 May 2017
'Love and Friendship' film screening with discussion
Wednesday 24 May 2017
Narrative in Question Guest Lecture
Wednesday 24 May 2017
Tuesday 23 May 2017
Dangerous Spectacles: the 'Convulsionnaires' and the Anti-Philosophical Movement in 1760s Paris
Tuesday 23 May 2017
Third Year Undergraduate Conference in the Renaissance and Eighteenth Century
Tuesday 23 May 2017
Saturday 20 May 2017
Ezra Pound, Poetry, and Knowledge
Thursday 18 May 2017
Narrative in Question Seminar 6
Wednesday 17 May 2017
Witness for the Witnesses: Geoffrey Hill and Lyric Memorialization
Wednesday 17 May 2017
"Speak the speech...trippingly on the tongue": Performing Shakespearean Verse
Tuesday 16 May 2017
Hamlet's Elsinore and Elsinore's Hamlet
Monday 15 May 2017
Monday 15 May 2017
York International Shakespeare Festival 2017
Saturday 13 May 2017
Writers at York: Poetry Reading
Thursday 11 May 2017
Wednesday 10 May 2017
Narrative in Question Seminar 5
Wednesday 10 May 2017
Wednesday 10 May 2017
The Magdalens and the Performance of Virtue: Kelly, Sterne and Crebillon
Tuesday 9 May 2017
Tuesday 2 May 2017
Literatures of betrayal: Risk, collaboration and narrative non-fiction in contemporary South Africa
Thursday 27 April 2017
Medieval Psalters as Witnesses to Liturgical Song: The Iberian Case
Tuesday 25 April 2017
Tuesday 25 April 2017
Thursday 16 March 2017
Rock 'N' Film: Cinema's Dance with Popular Music
Tuesday 14 March 2017
The Significance of Stories in the Post-Truth Era: Or, Why Literature Matters
Thursday 9 March 2017
Narrative in Question Guest Lecture
Wednesday 8 March 2017
Literary Networks of the Vicars Choral and the Clerical Proletariat in Late Medieval York
Tuesday 7 March 2017
Ex-centric Cinema: Giorgio Agamben's film archaeology
Wednesday 1 March 2017
Narrative in Question Seminar 4
Wednesday 1 March 2017
Confronting Loss in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Britain
Tuesday 28 February 2017
Narrative in Question Guest Lecture
Wednesday 22 February 2017
Gazing at the Planet: Olive Schreiner and Scale
Wednesday 15 February 2017
Narrative in Question Seminar 3
Wednesday 15 February 2017
Tuesday 14 February 2017
Paying Attention: Conversion Hysteria 5
Wednesday 8 February 2017
Narrative in Question Guest Lecture
Wednesday 8 February 2017
Wednesday 8 February 2017
In Their Mother Tongue: The use of vernacular languages in medieval liturgy
Tuesday 7 February 2017
Reparative Reading at 21: informal reading group 2
Tuesday 7 February 2017
Nick Cave and the King James Bible
Thursday 2 February 2017
In the wars: Irish writing, 1914-1945
Wednesday 1 February 2017
Narrative in Question Seminar 2
Wednesday 1 February 2017
The Novel at the End of History: Donald Trump and 'Infinite Jest'
Wednesday 1 February 2017
Reparative Reading at 21: informal reading group 1
Tuesday 31 January 2017
Wolves, ravens and troll-women: 1066 in Old Norse History and Literature
Tuesday 31 January 2017
Publishing, Patronage, and the Library of Liberty: Andrew Millar and Thomas Hollis in 1765
Tuesday 31 January 2017
Tracking Poetic Performance from Homer to Shakespeare
Monday 30 January 2017