Crudi Dench drag night

Thursday 2 February 2023

queer! hosts a drag night alongside Haus of Dench with a performance by Crudi Dench.

"All her martyr'd signes": Rethinking Muteness on the Early Modern English Stage

Thursday 2 February 2023

Join us for this engaging event with Professor Heidi Brayman (University of California, Riverside)

L-Shaped Kinships: Families that Fail Queerly in 1960s British Film

Wednesday 1 February 2023

Modern School research seminar with speaker Dr Melissa Oliver-Powell (York). THIS EVENT WILL NOW BE RE-SCHEDULED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION

queer! opening

Monday 30 January 2023

This exhibition will explore sexuality in all its forms and the world beyond a gender binary. 

Readerly Orientation: Narrative Absorption, Materiality, and the Book

Wednesday 25 January 2023

A talk in the BIANS Research Seminar series, Current Research in Narrative Studies, by David Wylot of the University of Leeds.

Towards a Theory of Holding the Dead: The Ghostly Edges of Rachel Chu's "Fractured Skull"

Wednesday 18 January 2023

Modern School research seminar with speaker Dr David Hering (University of Liverpool).

Reading Contingency

Wednesday 30 November 2022

A talk in the BIANS Research Seminar series, Current Research in Narrative Studies, by David Wylot of the University of Leeds. NB. IN VIEW OF THE UCU STRIKE ON 30TH NOV, THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH 8TH.

'What are Monuments?' Workshop and Talks

Sunday 27 November 2022

Join a group of University of York researchers from Art History, Archaeology and English and Related Literature, as they explore the monument in all its forms, from the stained glass to blue plaques, from statues to gardens.

Novel Belonging: Making a South LA Universe

Wednesday 23 November 2022

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Jacqueline Barrios (University of Arizona).

Daisy Hildyard: 'Emergency'

Tuesday 22 November 2022

Join Daisy Hildyard as she talks about her new novel, 'Emergency'. Part of the Writers at York series.

Kate Lowe, ‘Black and Florentine: Documenting the mixed ancestry babies at the Innocenti in the second half of the fifteenth century’

Thursday 17 November 2022

This engaging talk will be led by Dr Kate Lowe.

Proving the Round Earth is Round: Rediscovering Reformation England with John Rastell

Wednesday 16 November 2022

Merchant Adventurers' Arts Discovery Event with speaker Professor Helen Smith (York).

Gail McConnell: 'The Sun Is Open'

Wednesday 16 November 2022

Join poet Gail McConnell as she talks about her books 'Foremothers' and 'The Sun Is Open'. Part of the Writers at York series.

Jason Allen-Paisant

Wednesday 16 November 2022

Jamaican writer and academic Jason Allen-Paisant reads and discusses his prize-winning poetry. This is a Writers at York event.

Shara McCallum: 'No Ruined Stone'

Wednesday 9 November 2022

Join poet Shara McCallum as she reads from her anthology 'No Ruined Stone'. Part of the Writers at York series.

From Medieval to Early Modern Europe: Problems of Method for a Transregional Literary History

Tuesday 8 November 2022

Centre for Medieval Literature Seminar with Warren Boutcher (Queen Mary University of London)

Amy Jeffs in Conversation with George Younge

Thursday 3 November 2022

Join us at Waterstones on Coney Street for an evening of medieval storytelling and poetry with the bestselling author and printmaker Amy Jeffs, who will be in conversation with George Younge, Lecturer in Early English Literature at the University of York.

‘Ite dolci alimenti’: a confectionery speculum principis for a cardinal-duke

Thursday 3 November 2022

This paper examines the surviving evidence for an unusual gift offered to Ferdinando de’ Medici, during the brief period in 1587-88 in which he was both cardinal and grand duke of Tuscany: a sculptural confection in cotognata (quince paste) incorporating twelve allegorical figures of virtues.

The Bloomsbury Modernisms of Margaret Harkness and Olive Schreiner

Wednesday 2 November 2022

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Jade Munslow Ong (Salford).

The Quiet Place Book Club: 'Happy Stories, Mostly' by Norman Erikson Pasaribu

Thursday 27 October 2022

Join us for the October meeting at The Quiet Place Book Club, where we will discuss Norman Erikson Pasaribu's 'Happy Stories, Mostly' (Tilted Axis Press, 2021).

On Not Believing In Anything: Or, Why Freud?

Wednesday 26 October 2022

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

Fictionality and Cognition: An autofiction case study

Wednesday 26 October 2022

A talk in the BIANS Research Seminar series, Current Research in Narrative Studies, by Alison Gibbons, Sheffield Hallam University.

An insight into the world of Publishing with Hamza Jahanzeb

Wednesday 26 October 2022

Hamza Jahanzeb, British-Pakistani Publishing Professional, will discuss routes into publishing and making publishing a more inclusive industry. Part of the Writers at York series.

Freud’s 'Beyond The Pleasure Principle'

Wednesday 26 October 2022

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

Poetry Reading: '100 Queer Poems'

Monday 24 October 2022

A special poetry reading and launch event, celebrating the new anthology, 100 Queer Poems.

'Slavery Shall Cease': The Millennial Mission of British Abolitionists, 1780-1840

Thursday 20 October 2022

Join us for this illuminating talk from John Coffey

Feminist Literary History in the Digital Age: Questioning Assumptions about Eighteenth-Century Women Writers with New Evidence from the 'Orlando' Textbase

Tuesday 18 October 2022

CECS research seminar with speaker Katherine Binhammer (University of Alberta).

Walking York, Writing You: An autofiction masterclass with Sophie Coulombeau

Wednesday 12 October 2022

Are you a writer who finds York an inspirational environment? Join novelist and critic Dr Sophie Coulombeau for a two-hour masterclass in writing York-based autofiction. Part of the Writers at York series.

Decolonising Network Reading Group

Wednesday 12 October 2022

Join us for our first Decolonising Network reading group of the year. All welcome! More details to come.

Moorish Maidservants and Early Modern Erasure of Black Suffering

Tuesday 4 October 2022

Examining Moorish maidservants in a number of early modern plays, Dr Sheeha will argue that early modern drama was involved in erasing the suffering of African female servants.

Reframing Varda

Thursday 1 September 2022

An international conference on the work of Agnès Varda.

The Quiet Place Book Club: ‘Sabrina’ by Nick Drnaso

Thursday 25 August 2022

Join us for the August meeting at The Quiet Place Book Club, where we will discuss Nick Drnaso's graphic novel 'Sabrina' (Granta Books, 2018).

Charles and Mary Lamb: Elia and Beyond

Saturday 18 June 2022

A conference to mark the 200th anniversary of the first publication of Charles Lamb's Elia essays in the *London Magazine*.

‘For he was lively in his mother’s womb … yet dead born’: Medieval Frameworks for Grieving Pregnancy Loss

Thursday 16 June 2022

Speaker: Dr Lucy Allen-Goss (Oxford Centre for Life-Writing)

On the Contemporary Essay: Lauren Elkin in conversation

Tuesday 14 June 2022

Join Lauren Elkin and Alexandra Kingston-Reese in conversation about the contemporary essay. This event is part of the Centre for Modern Studies research strand 'The Contemporary Essay'.

Imagining New Worlds: Critical Thinking and the Power of Writing Now

Thursday 9 June 2022

Workshop with Professor Susheila Nasta. A collaboration between the Hope Consortium and the Department of English and Related Literature Modern School.

Borderlands: Postcolonial Formations of Connection and Separation

Thursday 9 June 2022

Please join us for this two-day interdisciplinary conference on the theme of 'the border' in all its forms.

2022 Berthoud Lecture: The Bloomsbury Indians: Writing Across the Tracks

Wednesday 8 June 2022

Professor Susheila Nasta (Emeritus, QMUL) will deliver this year's Berthoud Lecture.

Hersekzâde Ahmed Pasha (1456-1517): From Bosnian Prince to Ottoman Vizier

Wednesday 8 June 2022

A Masterclass with Professor Emir Filipović (University of Sarajevo).

Between Conflict and Cooperation: The Contrasting Image of the Ottoman Turks in Late Medieval Ragusan Sources

Tuesday 7 June 2022

Professor Emir Filipović (University of Sarajevo) will deliver this year's York Medieval Lecture which is sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies (York), Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (York), Fordham Center for Medieval Studies, Henry Pirenne Institute of Medieval Studies (Ghent), Centre for Medieval Literature (York and Odense) and Universidade Santiago de Compostela.

The Poetics of Typography

Wednesday 1 June 2022

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Daniel Matore (University of York).

The Quiet Place Book Club: ‘Lost & Found’ by Kathryn Schulz

Thursday 26 May 2022

Join us for the May meeting of The Quiet Place Book Club, where we will discuss Lost & Found (Picador, 2022) by Kathryn Schulz.

Falstaff on Tour: County, Town, and Country in the late Elizabethan Theatre’

Thursday 26 May 2022

Professor Neil Rhodes (University of St Andrews) will deliver this year's Annual Distinguished Patrides Lecture.

Second Chances Again

Wednesday 25 May 2022

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

An Outline of Psychoanalysis

Wednesday 25 May 2022

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

Cities of Modernism Conference

Tuesday 17 May 2022

Conference organised by Nicoletta Asciuto (University of York) and Nan Zhang (Fudan, University of China).

What do Brackets Want?

Monday 16 May 2022

The Annual Riddy Lecture with Professor Jane Gilbert, University College London

Political Forms Reading Group

Thursday 12 May 2022

Join us for the May meeting of the Political Forms Reading Group where we will discuss Hannah Arendt’s delineation of human action, appearance, and the rise of the social realm in The Human Condition.

Reviving Extinct Species in Virtual Reality: The Eco-Technological Artworks of Jakob Kudsk Steensen

Wednesday 11 May 2022

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Sarah Bezan (University of York).

Cruising the Monument: Funerary Flowers, Queer Ecologies, and the Small Pleasures of Remembrance

Thursday 5 May 2022

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Thomas Houlton (University of York).

Empires of the Saracens in High Medieval Literature

Tuesday 3 May 2022

Medieval Literatures Research Seminar with speaker Professor Shirin A. Khanmohamadi (San Francisco State University).

The Quiet Place Book Club: ‘Time is a Mother’ by Ocean Vuong

Thursday 28 April 2022

Join us for the April meeting of The Quiet Place Book Club, where we will discuss Time is a Mother (Penguin, 2022) by Ocean Vuong.

The Quiet Place Book Club: ‘A Visit from the Goon Squad’ by Jennifer Egan

Thursday 31 March 2022

Join us for the March meeting of The Quiet Place Book Club, where we will discuss 'A Visit from the Goon Squad' (Corsair, 2021) by Jennifer Egan.

Online Roundtable on New Poems by Edward Lear

Wednesday 16 March 2022

Modern School Research event with speaker Dr James Williams (York).

Tragic Form and Comic Effects in the Novel of Ideas

Wednesday 9 March 2022

A Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Matthew Taunton (University of East Anglia).

Agitated Air: Book Launch and Conversation

Tuesday 8 March 2022

Yasmine Seale will be in conversation with York Writer in Residence, Vahni Anthony Ezekiel Capildeo. A Writers at York International Womens' Day event.

Political Forms Reading Group: Grievability and the Politics of Mourning

Thursday 3 March 2022

Join us for the next meeting of the Political Forms Reading Group, during which we will discuss the notions of grievability, nonviolence, and the politics of mourning.

The Quiet Place Book Club: 'Sterling Karat Gold' by Isabel Waidner

Thursday 24 February 2022

Join us for the February meeting of The Quiet Place Book Club, where we will discuss 'Sterling Karat Gold' by Isabel Waidner.

Black British Laughter

Thursday 24 February 2022

A Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Graham Riach (University of Oxford).

Decolonisation in libraries, archives and museums: Action, inaction, redaction

Wednesday 23 February 2022

A Modern School and UoY English Decolonizing Network Event with speaker Pardaad Chamsaz (Curator of the Germanic Collections at the British Library and member of the BL Decolonization Group).

NorthBound Award and Writing the North Roadshow

Thursday 10 February 2022

The Department of English and Related Literature is delighted to continue our partnership with New Writing North and Saraband Books for this year's NorthBound Book Award. This event will include discussion ahead of this year's prize deadline, and look at the wider opportunities for writers in the North looking for agents and publishers for their work.

Modern School Research Seminar: Lydia Davis and the Grammar of Resistance

Wednesday 9 February 2022

Dr Lola Boorman discusses the short story writer Lydia Davis and her ambivalent place in post-1945 American Literature.

The potential for language to reflect/affect societal beliefs surrounding gendered violence

Wednesday 9 February 2022

Join Countervoices PG forum's first research seminar of the Spring term, part of a series of events that offer postgraduate students the opportunity to present a short piece of work to an interdisciplinary audience.

The Ten-Minute Ulysses

Wednesday 2 February 2022

A literary salon in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses. THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. A REVISED DATE WILL BE POSTED IN DUE COURSE.

YoU English Student Decolonizing Forum

Wednesday 2 February 2022

Are you interested in debates about decolonization and the university? What might these conversations mean for the discipline of English? What can you, as students, do to think more widely and in more engaged ways about this topic?

The Quiet Place Book Club: ‘If I Had Your Face’ by Frances Cha

Thursday 27 January 2022

Join us for the January meeting of The Quiet Place Book Club, where we will discuss If I Had Your Face (Penguin, 2020) by Frances Cha.

Art Essays Book Launch

Thursday 27 January 2022

Please join us for the book launch of 'Art Essays: a Collection', edited by English at York Faculty Alexandra Kingston-Reese.

Political Forms Reading Group: The politics of pity

Wednesday 26 January 2022

Join us for the January 2022 meeting of the Political Forms reading group, where we will discuss excerpts from Luc Boltanski’s Distant Suffering: Morality, Media, and Politics (1999).

Second Chances

Wednesday 26 January 2022

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

An Outline of Psychoanalysis

Wednesday 26 January 2022

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

Submerged: Race and Migration in Long Island Whaling Diasporas (Short Film and talk)

Thursday 20 January 2022

Dr. Ayasha Guerin (University of British Columbia, Department of English) will present 'Submerged'.

Friday's Accidental Blackness: Interpreting Race in 'Robinson Crusoe'

Tuesday 18 January 2022

Join us for this first CECS Research Seminar of the Spring Term with speaker Dr Olivia Carpenter (University of York).

Religion, Spiritualism and Occultism in Irish Literature: Nineteenth Century to the Present

Friday 7 January 2022

This conference will explore how the Victorian proliferation of interest in spiritualism and the occult shape Irish literature during the nineteenth century and in its aftermath.

Yeats and English

Friday 10 December 2021

Join us for this two-day symposium.

The Quiet Place Book Club: 'Approval' by John D. Rutter

Thursday 25 November 2021

Join us for the November meeting of The Quiet Place Book Club, where we will discuss 'Approval' (Saraband, 2021) by John D. Rutter.

Things, Greenly: Poetry with Vahni (Anthony) Capildeo and J. R. Carpenter

Thursday 25 November 2021

Writers at York is thrilled to welcome you to JR Carpenter and Writer in Residence Vahni (Anthony Ezekiel) Capildeo's conversation across poetry.

Political Forms Reading Group

Wednesday 24 November 2021

Join us for the November meeting of the Political Forms reading group, where we will discuss excerpts from Sara Ahmed’s 'The Promise of Happiness' (2010) and Paul Gilroy’s 'After Empire: Melancholia or Convivial Culture?' (2004).

Dante and the Idea of Italy

Tuesday 23 November 2021

The Medieval Literatures Autumn Term Research Seminar with Dr Tristan Kay, University of Bristol

Reviewing 'White Fragility': Psychoanalysis With Racism

Wednesday 17 November 2021

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

An Outline of Psychoanalysis

Wednesday 17 November 2021

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

The Lives of Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean

Wednesday 10 November 2021

A Centre for Medieval Studies lecture, with speaker Professor Karla Mallette (University of Michigan).

'Indigenismo' and the Limits of Cultural Appropriation: Frida Kahlo and Marina Núñez del Prado

Wednesday 10 November 2021

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Camilla Sutherland (University of Groningen).

Improvising Imperialism: The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in Ireland and South Africa

Wednesday 3 November 2021

Modern School Research School with speaker Dr Eleanor Lybeck (University of Liverpool).

Sarah Hall in Conversation

Friday 29 October 2021

In this, the first Writers at York event of the year, we’re delighted to be celebrating the publication of Burntcoat, the extraordinary new novel by multi-award-winning author Sarah Hall.

The Quiet Place Book Club: 'The Song of Youth' by Montserrat Roig

Thursday 28 October 2021

Join us for the October meeting of The Quiet Place Book Club, where we will discuss The Song of Youth (Fum d'Estampa, 2021) by Montserrat Roig.

Gaelic Influence in the Northumbrian Kingdom: A Focus on York

Wednesday 27 October 2021

A Centre for Medieval Studies even with speaker Dr Fiona Edmonds (University of Lancaster).

Laughter before the Law: Censorship, Caricature and Hunger Strike in Modern Irish Literature and Art

Wednesday 27 October 2021

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Barry Shiels (University of Durham).

Black History Month - Literary Salon

Wednesday 27 October 2021

We invite student and staff participants from any department at York to take part in a literary salon to celebrate the work of Black writers.

From Blodeuwedd to The Wife’s Lament: Medieval Remains in Brenda Chamberlain’s Tide-race (1962)

Tuesday 26 October 2021

Medieval Literatures and Languages Seminar with Dr Francesca Brooks (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of York)

Political Forms Reading Group

Monday 25 October 2021

If you are interested in critical theory and political philosophy, the political dimensions of art and literature, or interdisciplinary reflections on politics, please do join our Political Forms Reading Group.

The Politics of Plagiarism: Queer Appropriation and Collaborative Creation in Ena Lucía Portela and María Moreno

Wednesday 20 October 2021

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Natasha Tanna (University of York).

Poetry Prize Reading & Poetry Library Launch

Monday 18 October 2021

A celebration of this year's Ruth Selina prize winner and shortlist.

What Does a Walk Look Like? Modernity and Pedestrian Mobility in the Visual Arts

Wednesday 13 October 2021

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Professor William Chapman Sharpe (Columbia University).

The Quiet Place Book Club: 'The Song of Youth' LAUNCH

Wednesday 22 September 2021

Quiet Place Book Club has partnered with Fum d'Estampa publishers to launch their latest book, wonderful 'The Song of Youth' by Montserrat Roig. Join us in conversation with translator Tiago Miller and literary critic Kathleen McNerney to discuss Roig's fascinating stories.

Eco, Bio, Zoo: A Medieval and Early Modern Workshop

Friday 10 September 2021

Call for Participants – PhD and Early Career Researchers. This workshop brings medievalists and early modernists together in order to generate new thinking on ecocriticism, animal studies, biopolitics and their applications for work on premodern literature and history.

Forms of Care

Thursday 9 September 2021

Inspired by current scholarly and political debates that lament the systematic dismantling of caring infrastructures under neoliberalism and at the same time call for a more expansive sense of caring activities and ‘imaginaries’, this two-day workshop seeks to spotlight form as that which might productively organise but also capture the protean nature of care.

The Quiet Place Book Club: Stranger Faces by Namwali Serpell

Thursday 26 August 2021

Join us for the August meeting of The Quiet Place Book Club, where we will discuss Stranger Faces (Transit books, 2020) by Namwali Serpell.

Lines of Inquiry: New Approaches to Poetry

Friday 30 July 2021

A one-day symposium showcasing new scholarly approaches to twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry.

The Quiet Place Book Club: 'Diamond Hill' by Kit Fan

Thursday 29 July 2021

Join us for the July meeting of The Quiet Place Book Club, where we will discuss 'Diamond Hill' (Dialogue Books 2021) by Kit Fan.

The Quiet Place Book Club: The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez

Thursday 24 June 2021

Join us for the June meeting of The Quiet Place Book Club, where we will discuss 'The Dangers of Smoking in Bed' (Granta Books, 2021) by Mariana Enriquez (trans. Megan McDowell).

Essayisms Roundtable: Retracing Our Steps

Monday 21 June 2021

Please join us for the final instalment of Essayisms this year as part of the CMods research strand 'The Contemporary Essay’. During this roundtable, our panellists will present 5-minute position papers on any aspect of ‘Essayisms’ before we collectively reflect on our discussions this year and consider what essayistic terrain we have yet to cover.

Medieval Romances, Trash Fiction and Rebel Women

Friday 18 June 2021

Join Lydia Zeldenrust of the University of York and discover why 'romance' originally had nothing to do with anything ‘romantic’, and how the genre took medieval Europe by storm.

Defining a transnational colonial picturesque?- Ireland, Jamaica and Saint Domingue (Haiti)

Thursday 17 June 2021

This year's Stephen Copley lecture will be given by Finola O'Kane Crimmins (University College Dublin).

Sharlene Teo in conversation with Alexandra Kingston-Reese

Thursday 17 June 2021

Join Sharlene as she reads from her new work and discusses her fiction with Alexandra Kingston-Reese of the University of York’s Department of English and Related Literature.

Provisional Architectures: Thinking Towards Essaymatography

Thursday 17 June 2021

Please join us for a conversation between essayist and author of Tunnel Vision, Kevin Breathnach, and scholar Patricia Malone on what it means to be an essayist today.

The Tacit Knowledge of Medieval Paper

Wednesday 16 June 2021

This year's Riddy Lecture will be given by Dr Orietta Da Rold (University of Cambridge).

Atoms Then and Now

Tuesday 15 June 2021

How old are atoms? What different shapes have they taken throughout history? And how can we put them to use - both practically and imaginatively? Join Stuart Kenny of the University of York’s Department of Electronic Engineering and Helen Smith of York’s Department of English and Related Literature to discover the past, present and future of atomic thought.

Horizons of Print

Friday 11 June 2021

Discover how the invention of printing changed the horizons of what was possible, bringing new knowledge to a much wider range of audiences.

David Attwell: Writing South

Friday 11 June 2021

Celebrating David Attwell's contribution to the study of a region and its literatures.

My Mess is a Bit of a Life

Thursday 10 June 2021

Using humorous insights from her past and present, multi-award-winning comedy and drama writer Georgia Pritchett reflects on a life lived anxiously.

2021 Berthoud Lecture: Minor Languages and the Question of Translation, or, How I Learned to Love Afrikaans

Thursday 10 June 2021

This year's Berthoud Lecture will be given by Professor Derek Attridge (Emeritus, University of York).

Courttia Newland in conversation with Dr Clive Nwonka

Wednesday 9 June 2021

Writers at York is delighted to welcome author, screenwriter, playwright, creative writing tutor and literary activist, Courttia Newland, to discuss his work across literature and screen.

Kashmir, Conflict, Crossings, and Curfews: A SCoPe Event

Tuesday 8 June 2021

Join us for an evening in conversation with Kashmiri poet, Asiya Zahoor, and Kashmiri travel writer, Iqbal Ahmed.

She-Energy: Women as Creators

Monday 7 June 2021

York Festival of Ideas launch event brings together a dazzling array of international musicians, writers and poets to celebrate the energy and empathy of women's creativity.

Essayisms Reading Group: The Essay's Political Styles

Monday 7 June 2021

Details and readings to follow. This research seminar is part of the CModS research strand 'The Contemporary Essay'.

European Romances Across Languages: Book Celebration and Research Perspectives

Monday 7 June 2021

To celebrate the publication of books by Sofia Lodén and Lydia Zeldenrust, we invite you to join us for this online event, sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Literature (Odense/York) and Boydell and Brewer.

'Et stellam matutinam vus dunra to go te bedde': Women and Multilingualism in Late Medieval England

Friday 4 June 2021

Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures Annual Lecture with Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University).

On Giving Up

Wednesday 2 June 2021

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

Remembering, Repeating and Working Through

Wednesday 2 June 2021

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

The Quiet Place Book Club: Tokio Ueno Station by Yu Miri

Thursday 27 May 2021

Join us for the May meeting of The Quiet Place Club, where we will discuss 'Tokyo Ueno Station' (Tilted Axis Press, 2019) by Yu Miri (trans. Morgan Giles).

Essayisms Reading Group: Coercive Style

Monday 24 May 2021

Join the Essayisms Reading Group this week to discuss 'What constitutes a style?'.

Kit Fan and Ellen Wiles in conversation with Alice Nah

Thursday 20 May 2021

Writers at York is delighted to welcome acclaimed authors Kit Fan and Ellen Wiles in conversation with Alice Nah about their debut novels.

Fact/Fiction: A Workshop on the Essay Film

Thursday 13 May 2021

In this roundtable we'll discuss the formal, structural and (inter)national dynamics of the essay film.

Oblique Intimacy: Moonlight (2016) - LGBT, Queer, or Quare?

Wednesday 12 May 2021

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Maria Flood (Keele University).

Essayisms Reading Group: Queer Kinship and Collective Essay Writing

Monday 10 May 2021

Please join us at the next instalment of Essayisms to discuss queer kinship and collective essay writing.

Archives and Archival Sensibilities in Medieval Arabic Historiography

Tuesday 4 May 2021

Event co-sponsored by CMS and the Centre for Medieval Literature (University of Southern Denmark and University of York).

The Quiet Place Book Club: 'Bessie Smith' by Jackie Kay

Thursday 29 April 2021

Join us for the April meeting of The Quiet Place Book Club, where we'll be discussing 'Bessie Smith' (2021) by Jackie Kay

Happiness Masterclass

Wednesday 28 April 2021

Please join us for a masterclass on happiness with Dr Kirsty Martin (Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter).

Essayisms Reading Group: Essays on Film

Monday 26 April 2021

Please join us to discuss the essay film at the Essayisms Reading Group’s first meeting of the Summer Term.

Netflix: Coming Soon to a Screen Near You

Friday 23 April 2021

A Modern School/CMods research workshop.

Presentation of Michele Campopiano's 'Writing the Holy Land'

Friday 26 March 2021

You are invited to join this online presentation at the at the Centro Interuniversitario di Studi Francescani and the University of Campania.

The Quiet Place Book Club: Castles from Cobwebs by J. A. Mensah

Thursday 25 March 2021

To celebrate the launch of 'Castles from Cobwebs' by York’s very own Juliana Mensah, publishing as J.A. Mensah, we are delighted that Juliana will be joining us for the March instalment of the Quiet Place Book Club.

Poetry in Action: An Evening with Will Harris

Thursday 18 March 2021

Writers at York is thrilled to welcome Will Harris, an accomplished writer and performer of long and short form poems and a renowned workshop leader.

Book launch: Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Wednesday 17 March 2021

CECS Research Seminar with Chloe Wigston Smith (University of York) and Serena Dyer (De Montfort University, Leicester)

Ravenna, crucible of Europe

Tuesday 16 March 2021

The Centre for Medieval Studies York Medieval Lecture with Professor Judith Herrin (emerita King's College London)

Just Us: A Conversation with Claudia Rankine

Thursday 11 March 2021

In this exclusive event at the University of York, Claudia Rankine will give a short reading from Just Us, followed by a dialogue with Dr Lola Boorman (Department of English and Related Literature), and a Q&A with the audience.

Before Margery: The Book of Margery Kempe and its antecedents

Tuesday 9 March 2021

Medieval Literatures Seminar with speaker Professor Diane Watt (University of Surrey).

Essayisms Reading Group: The Personal Essay

Monday 8 March 2021

This session of The Essayisms Reading Group will consider why the personal essay and its attendant mode of confessionalism has become synonymous with “women’s writing”.

On Being Left Out

Wednesday 3 March 2021

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

Psychoanalysis and Not Wanting to Know

Wednesday 3 March 2021

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

The Quiet Place Book Club: A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Thursday 25 February 2021

Join us as we discuss Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s prose debut 'A Ghost in the Throat', which centres on the author’s discovery of and subsequent obsession with Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill’s eighteenth-century verse “Caodineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire” (“The Keen for Art Ó Laoghaire”).

Queering the Curriculum

Wednesday 24 February 2021

Join students and staff from the Department of English and Related Literature as we discuss, debate, and celebrate ways of queering the curriculum.

Essayisms Reading Group: The Art Essay

Monday 22 February 2021

Join us for this week's meeting, when we will be reading a selection of essays written by contemporary novelists on art.

Reckoning: Historical Practice in the Medieval Irish Classroom

Thursday 18 February 2021

Medieval Literatures Seminar with Dr Elizabeth Boyle (Maynooth University)

Dickens in the Digital Age

Thursday 18 February 2021

Join us for an afternoon exploring the V&A’s Dickens collections and discussing new ways in which we might read, edit and share historical materials in the digital age, both in Dickens's case and beyond.

Book Launch: Castles from Cobwebs – J.A. Mensah in conversation with Sara Hunt

Wednesday 17 February 2021

The Department of English and Related Literature is delighted to host the launch of Castles from Cobwebs, the debut novel by York’s Juliana Mensah, publishing as J.A. Mensah.

Writing Queer Biography

Wednesday 10 February 2021

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Diarmuid Hester (University of Cambridge).

Essayisms Reading Group: Modern Poets’ Essays

Monday 8 February 2021

Please join us to discuss essays by three modern poets: Tonya Foster, Susan Howe and William Carlos Williams.

What is an Essay?: A Roundtable

Thursday 4 February 2021

Join us for this roundtable which brings together academics who are writing and editing exciting new research on the essay.

Book launch: Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Tuesday 2 February 2021

CECS Research Seminar with Chloe Wigston Smith (University of York) and Serena Dyer (De Montfort University, Leicester)

The Quiet Place Book Club: A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson

Thursday 28 January 2021

Join us for the January meeting of The Quiet Place Book Club, where we’ll be discussing A Portable Paradise (2019) by Roger Robinson, a graceful collection of poetry that spans quotidian encounters, familial joys and pains, and the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire.

Book Launch: George Orwell joins the Oxford World’s Classics Series

Thursday 28 January 2021

A celebration of George Orwell joining Oxford World's Classics. Join David Dwan in conversation with John Bowen, Rosinka Chadhuri, and Lisa Mullen.

Quoting Dickens

Wednesday 27 January 2021

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Professor John Bowen (University of York).

Essayisms Reading Group: Ists and Isms

Monday 25 January 2021

Please join us for the first Spring term meeting of the Essaysisms reading group where we will be discussing the group's unwitting namesake, Brian Dillon's Essayism (2017).

Affects in History: A Workshop

Friday 15 January 2021

Join us for a day-long workshop on Affects in History, hosted by the Department of English and Related Literature, the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, and the Centre for Modern Studies.

Persianisms: Cultural Encounters in the Anglophone World

Thursday 10 December 2020

Registration is now open for this online colloquium.

The Quiet Place Book Club: End of Year Meeting

Wednesday 9 December 2020

Join us as we toast the end of term in the final meeting of The Quiet Place Book Club in 2020.

'The Development of the Pocket Diary in Georgian Britain' & 'Historiography and Travel in Maria Graham's Writing on Brazil and Chile'

Saturday 5 December 2020

York Georgian Society Lecture with Holly Day and Lilian Tabois

Dream of Uncommon Ground: Poetry with Bhanu Kapil, Vahni Capildeo, and Penny Boxall

Wednesday 2 December 2020

Bhanu Kapil, Vahni Capildeo, and Penny Boxall have been engaged in collecting fragments from the perimeter of an archive, contemplating the appeal of a literal hermitage for modern writers in the age of Zoom, and translating French texts into badly behaved English. Their readings will draw from this new work and light up a path into writing at York in the New Year.

Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism: Pakistani Women's Literary and Cinematic Fictions

Wednesday 25 November 2020

A Modern School Research Event with speaker Shazia Rahman (University of Dayton, Ohio).

Beyond the Anglo-American Tradition: Essayisms Reading Group

Monday 23 November 2020

Please join us the fourth meeting of the Essayisms Reading Group. This Group is part of the CModS 'The Contemporary Essay' Research Strand.

Sir Gawain vs. the Vikings: ‘Difficult’ Old Norse Borrowings in Middle English

Thursday 19 November 2020

This paper will offer a few highlights from Professor Richard Dance's etymological research into the language of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and will introduce the larger Gersum Project which has developed from it.

"Trim songes of love they wyll compile”: Reforming verse and godly recreations

Thursday 19 November 2020

Part of the 'Pulpit, Playhouse and Page' seminar series, an ongoing program of events examining theatrical and non-theatrical exchanges in early modern England.

The Pleasures of Censorship

Wednesday 18 November 2020

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

A “denser, richer, warmer spectacle”?: Europe in the Nineteenth-Century US American Essay

Wednesday 18 November 2020

A CModS Research Event with speaker Dr Philip Coleman (Trinity College, Dublin).

Psychoanalysis and Not Wanting to Know

Wednesday 18 November 2020

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

“I have every date regular, as I received it, in a book I keep on purpose”: Accounting and being accounted for under the old English poor law

Tuesday 17 November 2020

CECS Research Seminar with Elizabeth Spencer, University of York

‘A mere daughter of the soil’: Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Censorship, and Modernism

Wednesday 11 November 2020

Modern School Research Event with speaker Dr Katherine Mullin (University of Leeds).

The Machine in the Garden: Essayisms Reading Group

Monday 9 November 2020

Please join us to discuss the nature essay at the third meeting of the Essayisms Reading Group as part of the CModS The Contemporary Essay Research Strand.

Colonialism and the idea of 'sex' in eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought

Tuesday 3 November 2020

CECS Research Seminar with Onni Gust, University of Nottingham

Radio Across Borders: New Work in Radio Studies

Friday 30 October 2020

The second event in the New Work in Radio Studies series, with speakers Emily C. Bloom (Columbia University) and Emilie Morin (University of York).

The Quiet Place Book Club: Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine

Thursday 29 October 2020

Join us for the October meeting of The Quiet Place Book Club, where we’ll be discussing Killing and Dying (2015) by Adrian Tomine, a ground-breaking collection of graphic short stories that tackles the anxieties of contemporary living with acuity and razor-sharp illustrations.

Gilbert Osmond, Trans Woman: Norms of Embodiment and Transgender Recognition in 'The Portrait of a Lady'

Wednesday 28 October 2020

A Modern School Research paper by Victoria Coulson (York).

The Transatlantic Lecture Tour: Essayisms Reading Group

Monday 26 October 2020

Please join us at the second meeting of the Essayisms Reading Group. This Group is part of the CModS 'The Contemporary Essay' Research Strand.

Black History Month Event: The Power of Fiction

Thursday 22 October 2020

Please join us to mark Black History Month with the Department of English and Related Literature's Decolonizing Network.

Radio Literature: New Work in Radio Studies

Wednesday 21 October 2020

The first event in the New Work in Radio Studies series, with speakers Richard J. Hand (University of East Anglia) and Birgit van Puymbroeck (Vrije Univeristeit Brussels).

‘Sublime Archimedean Art’: Shelley’s Steam Engine

Tuesday 20 October 2020

CECS Research Seminar with John Gardner, Anglia Ruskin University

Black History Month: Essayisms Reading Group

Monday 12 October 2020

Please join us to mark Black History Month at the first meeting of the Essayisms Reading Group, part of CModS 'The Contemporary Essay' Research Strand.

William Godwin and Capacity

Tuesday 6 October 2020

CECS Research Seminar with Essaka Joshua, University of Notre Dame, Indiana

'What's Wrong with the Renaissance - curriculum, colonialism and English'?

Thursday 1 October 2020

A round-zoom-table discussion with Shani Bans, Islam Issa, Farah Karim-Cooper, Wendy Lennon, Subha Mukherji

The Quiet Place Book Club: 'Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl' by Andrea Lawlor

Thursday 24 September 2020

Join us for the September meeting of The Quiet Place Book Club, where we’ll be discussing 'Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl' (2019) by Andrea Lawlor.

The Quiet Place Book Club: 'Trick Mirror' by Jia Tolentino

Thursday 27 August 2020

Join us for the August meeting of The Quiet Place Book Club, where we’ll be discussing 'Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion' (2019) by Jia Tolentino.

The Quiet Place Book Club: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Thursday 30 July 2020

Join us for the July meeting of the Quiet Place Book Club, where we'll be discussing 'Between the World and Me' (2015) by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Quiet Place Book Club: June Meeting

Wednesday 24 June 2020

Join us for the June meeting of the Quiet Place Book Club, where we'll be discussing Ottessa Moshfegh's Homesick for Another World.

Early Modern Women's Writing

Thursday 11 June 2020

Join the Renaissance School's online summer event on Early Modern Women's Writing, which will feature three work-in-progress talks towards essays that will be part of the forthcoming 'Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing'.

Dr Hannah Roche, 'Plath, Hughes, and Amy Lowell: Intertextuality and Queer Invisibility'

Thursday 11 June 2020

A Modern School online event.

Valeria Luiselli and the Aesthetics of Education

Wednesday 3 June 2020

Our Summer online research programme continues with a research seminar with precirculated paper.

Affects in History/Persianisms

Wednesday 27 May 2020

A Research-in-Progress double bill bringing together colleagues from Modern School, CECS and the Centre for Medieval Studies.

Openings: A Launch Event for University of York Writer-in-Residence, Vahni Capildeo – with special guest Ian Duhig

Friday 22 May 2020

Writers at York and the department of English and Related Literature are delighted to announce this inaugural event for the University of York’s new Writer in Residence, Vahni Capildeo.

Roundtable: Working in the Archive

Wednesday 20 May 2020

Join us for a lively and entertaining roundtable discussion on working in the archive - both the physical archive and its virtual counterpart.

Research paper: 'Primal Reach: Seamus Heaney and Romanticism'

Wednesday 13 May 2020

A Modern School online event.

Roundtable: Working with Authors

Thursday 7 May 2020

A Modern School online event.

Launch Reading: York Writer-in-Residence Vahni Capildeo - EVENT POSTPONED

Thursday 23 April 2020

This event will no longer take place at the time and venue posted. Further information about new arrangements will be posted when available

'Still I Rise': International Women's Poetry

Friday 6 March 2020

We hope that you will join us in celebrating the poetic and political achievements of women writers across the globe. Please feel free to come along to any or all of the event. Light refreshments will be served.

Translation: The Pitfalls and the Poetry

Friday 28 February 2020

Join us for this talk with Dr Marielle Sutherland, who will discuss the realities of translation and the position of the translator, drawing on her extensive experience of non-fiction, academic and literary translation, the latter ranging from Holocaust poetry to the poems of Rainer Maria Rilke.

Alan Gillis Poetry Reading

Thursday 27 February 2020

‘Poetry happens when the sense can’t be separated from the sound of the sense.’ (Alan Gillis).

Performance Storytelling

Monday 24 February 2020

An Interdisciplinary Centre for Narrative Studies event with speakers Cath Heinemeyer, 'Sweeney Untethered' and Lara McClure, 'Barry Lyndon: Lover, Liar, Turncoat'.

Cold War (British) Modernism

Wednesday 12 February 2020

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Rebecca Beasley (University of Oxford).

ICNS Seminar: Aarhus School Approaches to Fictionality

Friday 7 February 2020

An Interdisciplinary Centre for Narrative Studies seminar in the 'Historicising Fictionality' series, with speakers Simona Zetterberg and Henrik Skov Nielsen (Aarhus).

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Enduring Bees

Wednesday 5 February 2020

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Jane Wright (University of Bristol).

Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England

Thursday 30 January 2020

CREMS research seminar with speaker Nandini Das (Oxford).

Unsatisfying Pleasures

Wednesday 29 January 2020

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

Psycho-Analysis and the Sense of Guilt

Wednesday 29 January 2020

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

Fornaldarsögur, Prosimetrum, and History-Writing in Medieval Iceland

Friday 24 January 2020

Dr Tim Rowbotham (York) presents to the Viking Studies Research Group

A Conversation Between Hirsh Sawhney and Claire Chambers

Wednesday 15 January 2020

A Writers at York event, supported by the York Asia Research Network (YARN).

Towards a Theatre of the Aesthetic

Tuesday 14 January 2020

CECS research seminar with speaker David Taylor (Oxford).

Literatures of Liberation: Non-European Universalisms and Democratic Progress

Monday 13 January 2020

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Mukti Lakhi Mangharam.

Modernism and Translation: A Workshop

Friday 22 November 2019

Join us for this workshop featuring three papers on modernism and translation.

Emilie Pine: Notes to Self

Thursday 21 November 2019

Courageous, humane and uncompromising, devastatingly poignant and yet never self-pitying, Emilie Pine’s Notes to Self investigates and challenges society's assumptions around pain, strength, resilience and identity, ultimately embracing joy and hope in the business of living.

On Not Having Experiences

Wednesday 20 November 2019

The first in a series of three lectures this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst. PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE.

The Capacity To Be Alone

Wednesday 20 November 2019

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

Narrative Factuality: Diachronic and Intercultural Perspectives

Monday 18 November 2019

An Interdisciplinary Centre for Narrative Studies lecture in the "Historicising Fictionality" series, with speaker Professor Monika Fludernik (University of Freiburg).

Performance issues in the 'Christos Paschon'

Thursday 14 November 2019

Medieval Literatures Seminar with speaker Margaret Mullett (Professor Emerita, Queen's University Belfast).

New Manuscripts and Old Bridges: Editing Mary Coleridge

Wednesday 13 November 2019

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Anna Barton (University of Sheffield). PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE.

Byzantine Tent Poems and the 'Global' Middle Ages

Tuesday 12 November 2019

Medieval Literatures Seminar with speaker Margaret Mullett (Professor Emerita, Queen's University Belfast).

Hyperbolisèd Nothing! Spiritual economy and the measure of man

Thursday 7 November 2019

Dr Lucy Harlow (Princeton & York graduate)

Nemeses: Collaborative Poetry in Performance

Wednesday 6 November 2019

Writers at York are delighted to host this very special event, bringing together some of the most radical and exciting poets in the UK for a set of collaborative performances.

Reading it Wrong: Misunderstanding in Early Eighteenth-Century Print Culture

Tuesday 5 November 2019

Professor Abigail Williams (University of Oxford)

Dickens and the Epitaphic Imagination. THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED BUT WE HOPE TO RE-SCHEDULE LATER IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR.

Wednesday 30 October 2019

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Claire Wood (University of Leicester).

Start the Conversation: Decolonising and Diversifying the Curriculum at York

Wednesday 30 October 2019

Staff and students will speak about their perspectives on and experiences of decolonising and diversifying the curriculum in York and beyond. Hosted by YUSU student groups and GSA.

A Colony Writes Back to the Empire: Rome and Constantinople in Medieval Welsh Poetry

Tuesday 29 October 2019

CML Video Seminar with speaker Professor Helen Fulton (University of Bristol).

David Edgar: 'Trying It On'

Saturday 26 October 2019

After a writing career spanning 50 years, celebrated playwright David Edgar makes his professional debut as a performer in a measured and moving show about activism, ageing, and the cyclical struggle against far-right populism.

Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland (SNSBI) 2019 Autumn day conference

Saturday 19 October 2019

The SNSBI 2019 Autumn day conference on Vikings and Names: exploring place-names, personal names, and the ongoing legacy of Scandinavian speakers in language, literature and culture.

HRC Celebration

Friday 18 October 2019

A celebration to mark the 10th anniversary of the Humanities Research Centre.

This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free

Thursday 17 October 2019

Professor Martin Hägglund (Yale University) joins us as part of the UK book tour for his new book 'This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom'.

Sylvia Townsend Warner and the Possibilities of Freedom

Wednesday 16 October 2019

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Professor Peter Swaab (University College London).

Some Aspects of English Poetry

Wednesday 9 October 2019

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr James Williams (University of York).

Suffering, Struggle, Survival: The Fight for Freedom of the Anna-Murray-Frederick Douglass Family

Tuesday 8 October 2019

Black History Month Lecture with speaker Celeste-Marie Barnier (University of Edinburgh).

The Politics of Experimenting with Fiction in Conquest England

Tuesday 8 October 2019

An Interdisciplinary Centre for Narrative Studies seminar in the Historicising Fictionality series with speaker Elizabeth Tyler.

[O]ur Englishman/ No word of Chinese spoke!': Satires of the Macartney Embassy to China, 1792-1805

Tuesday 8 October 2019

Dr Jim Watt (York)

Shakespeare's Rose Theatre talks: Twelfth Night

Wednesday 17 July 2019

Professor Helen Smith, from the Department of English and Related Literature, will delve into Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in a public lecture.

Shakespeare's Rose Theatre talks: The Tempest

Tuesday 16 July 2019

Professor Judith Buchanan of the University of York will explore Shakespeare's island romance in a lively lecture. All welcome.

Shakespeare's Rose Theatre talks: Hamlet

Monday 15 July 2019

Professor Lucy Munro (KCL) explores the appeal of Hamlet in this public lecture to accompany the Shakesepeare's Rose Theatre production.

A Contemporary Robinsonade

Thursday 11 July 2019

Peter Robinson (University of Reading) reads from 'The Constitutionals: A Fiction' (2019) and discusses the praxis of adaptation.

Shakespeare's Rose Theatre talks: Henry V

Friday 28 June 2019

Come along and explore some of the wonderful detail of the play with Professor Emma Smith to enhance your enjoyment of the production at Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre.

Michael Donkor: Reading and Interview

Friday 21 June 2019

Join us for a special reading by the British-Ghanain novelist Michael Donkor from his brilliant debut novel Hold. Inspired by Zadie Smith, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Toni Morrison, Michael Donkor was lauded in 2018 by The Observer Review as one of the new faces of fiction and has been long listed for this year's Dylan Thomas prize.

Designing Cultural Heritage Events that Facilitate Intercultural Dialogue: An Example from the Sultanate of Oman in the Middle East

Thursday 20 June 2019

A seminar by Dr Christa Knellwolf King (Associate Professor of English Literature, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman and Honorary Visiting Fellow, Department of English and Related Literature, University of York).

Space, Place, Diagram: Studying Cosmology in Medieval Byzantium

Tuesday 18 June 2019

Centre for Medieval Studies seminar with speaker Dr Divna Manolova.

Afterlives of the Roman de la rose, between England and France

Tuesday 11 June 2019

Medieval Literatures Seminar with speaker Dr Philip Knox (University of Cambridge).

Chaucer's Pardoner and the Rhetoric of Metafiction and Metalepsis

Wednesday 5 June 2019

An Interdisciplinary Centre for Narrative Studies seminar in the 'Historicising Fictionality' series with speaker Richard Walsh.

Thinking with Mysticism (from medieval to early modern)

Friday 31 May 2019

This day-symposium will explore how the mystical, the prophetic, enthusiastic or the apophatic were deployed, to political, scientific or artistic purposes.

Thomas Browne and the mystery of numbers

Thursday 30 May 2019

The Annual Distinguished Patrides Lecture with speaker Jessica Wolfe (University of North Carolina)

Scribal Cultures in Late Medieval England: A Conference in honour of Linne R. Mooney

Thursday 23 May 2019

With papers from leading scholars, this one-day conference honours Linne Mooney’s contribution to the study of medieval English manuscripts.

Which came first: the romance or the ballad?

Tuesday 21 May 2019

York Medieval Lecture with speaker Professor Laura Ashe (University of Oxford).

Speaking the Bright and Beautiful English of Shakespeare

Saturday 18 May 2019

York International Shakespeare Festival Free Pre-show Talk with Ben Crystal (actor and author of Shakespeare on Toast—Getting a Taste for the Bard and You Say Potato: A Book about Accents)

Shakespeare and Co.: On the Page and on the Stage

Saturday 18 May 2019

Come join our talented group of postgraduate and early career scholars and practitioners for our one-day conference as we explore the multiple functions of the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries as both texts and performance pieces.

Erica Whyman in conversation

Friday 17 May 2019

Erica Whyman OBE (Deputy Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company) in conversation about her community-inclusive RSC Shakespeare productions of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and 'Romeo and Juliet' (currently on a national tour). Part of the York International Shakespeare Festival.

Pre-Show Talk on 'Much Ado About Nothing'

Wednesday 15 May 2019

Professor Judith Buchanan will be giving a short pre-show talk ahead of the Northern Broadsides evening performance. Part of the York International Shakespeare Festival.

Much Ado About Nothing pre-show talk

Wednesday 15 May 2019

A pre-show talk by Professor Judith Buchanan (University of York) to accompany the Northern Broadsides production.

The Truth of Psychoanalysis

Wednesday 15 May 2019

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

Contemporary Concepts of Adolescent Development

Wednesday 15 May 2019

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

Early Modern Printing Workshop

Tuesday 14 May 2019

A hands-on printing workshop with experts from the University of York

Film Screening of 'Caesar Must Die'

Monday 13 May 2019

Dr Erica Sheen and Dr Nicoletta Asciuto will be introducing 'Caesar Must Die' (directors Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, 2012) at City Screen Picturehouse. Part of the York International Shakespeare Festival.

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin: Poetry Reading and In Conversation

Monday 13 May 2019

A Writers at York event.

Sam Reese: Reading and Interview

Thursday 9 May 2019

Join us at the York Medical Society for a special reading by Aotearoa/New Zealand-born writer Sam Reese. Part of the Creative Dissonance: Writing Now Centre for Modern Studies Research Strand and the Writers at York programme.

Cover Versions: Book Cover Design in a Digital Age

Wednesday 8 May 2019

PrintSoc talk with speaker Dr John McKay.

Writing the Future, the Present, and the Past

Tuesday 7 May 2019

A Writers at York discussion with panel including novelists Fiona Shaw and Tracey Mathias, and playwright Mike Kenny.

Wordsworth’s Anglo-French Pamphlet: Public and Private Codes in A Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff

Tuesday 7 May 2019

Professor David Duff (Queen Mary, University of London) will be giving the CECS Annual Stephen Copley lecture

In the next leyf: the edge of the material text

Thursday 2 May 2019

This year the Annual Riddy Lecture will be delivered by Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford).

Black, White, and Read All Over: Mines, Mountains, and the 'Paysage Moralise' of the British Press in the Early Twentieth Century

Wednesday 1 May 2019

A Centre for Modern Studies seminar with speaker Dr Abbie Garrington (Durham University). Part of the Centre for Modern Studies 'Modernist Peripheries' research strand.

'What I’m Looking For': Maureen McLane Poetry Reading

Thursday 25 April 2019

Loose-limbed, freewheeling and conversational yet musically taut, Maureen N. McLane's poetry has been described as having 'a tonal register somewhere between teenage fangirl and Wordsworth professor' (London Review of Books). Join us for this reading, which coincides with the publication date of Maureen's UK-published selected poems.

The Architecture of Conversion and the Early Modern Stage

Thursday 25 April 2019

CREMS Research Seminar with Abigail Shinn (Department of English, Goldsmiths London)

Equality of sacrifice: V.S. Pritchett, Graham Greene, The Third Man (and Shakespeare)

Wednesday 24 April 2019

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Erica Sheen (University of York).

Peterloo at 200

Friday 15 March 2019

Two days of public events to commemorate and understand the Peterloo massacre.

Aesthetics of Against: A Dialectic of the Contemporary Novel

Wednesday 13 March 2019

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Alexandra Kingston-Reese.

Claude Prance's ephemera: a bookman's Charles Lamb and associative literary culture

Tuesday 12 March 2019

CECS Research Seminar with Gillian Russell (York)

International Women's Day

Friday 8 March 2019

Join us for our celebration of women's writing.

Affording Innerscapes: Dreams, Introspective Imagery and the Narrative Exploration of Personal Geographies

Thursday 7 March 2019

A 'Narrative and the Senses' seminar with Marco Bernini (University of Durham). Part of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Narrative Studies seminar series: 'Limit Narratology: Cognition and Culture'.

Dorothy Parker's 'The Custard Heart'

Wednesday 6 March 2019

Part of the Centre for Modern Studies 'Modernist Peripheries: Fringes and Frontiers' research strand.

A Quiet Passion

Tuesday 5 March 2019

A screening of Terence Davies's 2016 film about Emily Dickinson.

New Artistic Practices: Instagram as (Plat)Form (Panel Discussion)

Thursday 28 February 2019

Part of the Centre for Modern Studies 'Creative Dissonance: Writing Now' research strand.

The Watch-Bitch Now: Reassessing the Natural Woman in Han Kang's 'The Vegetarian'

Thursday 28 February 2019

Part of the Centre for Modern Studies 'Creative Dissonance: Writing Now' research strand.

Story-Telling and Staging Romance in Shakespeare’s 'Pericles'

Wednesday 27 February 2019

A 'Historicizing Fictionality' Seminar with speaker Jane Raisch (Department of English and Related Literature, University of York).

Poetics of the Pillory: English Literature and Seditious Libel 1660-1820

Tuesday 26 February 2019

CECS Research Seminar with Thomas Keymer (University of Toronto)

CREMS Cabinet of Curiosities' Spring Colloquium

Monday 25 February 2019

Keynote: Professor Helen Smith (York)

Ten Reasons to Read Radclyffe Hall

Wednesday 20 February 2019

An event for LGBT History Month with speaker Dr Hannah Roche (University of York).

Memory, Emotion and Truth: The Posthumous Trial of Joan of Arc

Tuesday 19 February 2019

In our Spring York Medieval Lecture, Dr Craig Taylor will re-evaluate the reliability of these witness statements in reconstructing the story of Joan of Arc, and also investigate their value as windows into wider issues like gender, religion, politics, warfare and emotions in mid-fifteenth century France.

'A work of time' The material decay and notional permanence of the Cotton Library

Tuesday 19 February 2019

Will Burgess (Queen Mary University of London)

'Not undesirable’: South Africa’s Nobel laureates and the censors

Thursday 14 February 2019

A 'Historicizing Fictionality' Seminar with speaker David Attwell (Department of English and Related Literature, University of York).

"The Whole World’s at Sexes and Sevens": Gender Trouble in 1930s British Cinema

Wednesday 13 February 2019

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Chris O'Rourke (University of Lincoln).

The Shadow of Faux Semblant: Fiction, Deception, and Truth in Late Medieval Allegorical Poetry (France, England, and Italy)

Tuesday 12 February 2019

Medieval School Research Seminar with speaker Marco Nievergelt (University of Warwick).

Alia Trabucco Zerán, Sophie Hughes and Stefan Tobler: And Other Stories in Conversation

Thursday 7 February 2019

A Writers at York event.

On Attention-Seeking

Wednesday 6 February 2019

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

The Mirror-Role of Mother and Family in Child Development

Wednesday 6 February 2019

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

Female Human Animals - Public Film Screening with Panel Discussion

Thursday 31 January 2019

Shot in the real-life contemporary art world, FEMALE HUMAN ANIMAL is a darkly romantic psychothriller about a creative woman disenchanted with what modern life has to offer her.

A 'Narrative and the Senses' seminar

Thursday 31 January 2019

A 'Narrative and the Senses' seminar with Dr Claire Chambers and Dr Richard Walsh (University of York). Part of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Narrative Studies seminar series: 'Limit Narratology: Cognition and Culture'.

Oscar Wilde, Modernism and the Queering of Realism

Wednesday 30 January 2019

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Sos Eltis (University of Oxford).

Sam Thompson: Reading and Interview

Friday 25 January 2019

Join us for a special reading by Belfast-based writer Sam Thompson, followed by an interview and wine reception. Part of the Creative Dissonance CModS Research Strand and the Writers at York programme.

Radio's Vernacular Modernism

Wednesday 23 January 2019

CModS research seminar with Professor Kate Lacey (University of Sussex).

Locating Nancy Holt

Wednesday 16 January 2019

A Modernist Peripheries event with speaker Dr James Boaden (History of Art, University of York).

Mary Guyatt on Careers in the Heritage Industry

Monday 14 January 2019

Join us for a talk about careers in the Heritage industry, led by Dr Mary Guyatt, the Director of the Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton.

Videoseminar: Writing en route in the Middle Ages

Thursday 22 November 2018

Centre for Medieval Studies Videoseminar with speaker Professor Anthony Bale (Birkbeck, University of London).

Amit Chaudhuri on his book: 'The Origins of Dislike'

Wednesday 21 November 2018

Amit Chaudhuri will be speaking about his new book of essays, 'The Origins of Dislike'.

Projecting Modernism: The Future of Britain in 1930s Documentary Film

Tuesday 20 November 2018

A Centre for Modern Studies 'Modernist Peripheries: Fringes and Frontiers' research seminar with speaker Dr Michael McCluskey (University of York).

Imperialising Old English: 'The Battle of Brunanburh'

Tuesday 20 November 2018

Speaker Professor Elizabeth Tyler (University of York). Part of the York Medieval Lecture Series .

Leontia Flynn Poetry Reading

Thursday 15 November 2018

Leontia Flynn will be reading from her most recent prize-winning collection, 'The Radio'.

Serial Revolutions: Why 1848 Matters

Wednesday 14 November 2018

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Clare Pettitt (King's College London).

Ethics and the Modern Novel: Toni Morrison, Henry James and the Problem of Other People

Thursday 8 November 2018

The Modern School's annual Jacques Berthoud Lecture will this year be delivered by Professor Dorothy Hale (University of California, Berkeley).

Unsure Shores: Uncertain Orientalism in Lord Byron's 'The Giaour' (1813) and 'The Bride of Abydos' (1814)

Tuesday 6 November 2018

A Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Forum event with speaker Nicholas Dunn-McAfee (University of Oxford).

Peterloo: A Conversation with Jacqueline Riding

Friday 2 November 2018

A Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies/Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past event, with speaker Jacqueline Riding, historical advisor on the film 'Peterloo', and author of the related book 'Peterloo: the Story of the Manchester Massacre'.

Early Modern Sermons: Performances and Afterlives

Friday 2 November 2018

Across the spectrum of religious thought, from the court orations of Lancelot Andrewes to the preaching of non-conformist ministers, sermons were a crucial part of devotional practice for early modern church goers. This one-day workshop will consist of round table discussions, plenary papers and masterclasses on performance.

Who's Afraid of Alice Meynell?: Alice Meynell in the Age of Modernism

Thursday 1 November 2018

A Centre for Modern Studies 'Modernist Peripheries: Fringes and Frontiers' research seminar with speaker Dr Sarah Parker (Loughborough University).

The Lane Less Travelled: Logic and Literature in the Early Modern Period

Thursday 25 October 2018

Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Research Seminar with speaker Dr Katrin Ettenhuber (Pembroke College, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge).

Art as the Justification of Life in Nietzsche's 'The Birth of Tragedy'

Wednesday 24 October 2018

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Tom Stern (University College London).

Literature knows no frontiers

Thursday 18 October 2018

Join us to explore the processes that lead to a book being published in translation, and the factors that can help or hinder that process, from money to gender to geography. A Writers at York event.

Criticism and Truth, on the Epistemology of Literary Studies

Tuesday 16 October 2018

A Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies Research Seminar with speaker Professor Jonathan Kramnick (Yale University).

Poetry Book Society Autumn Launch

Thursday 11 October 2018

The Department of English and Related Literature is delighted to host the Poetry Book Society’s Autumn Launch as part of our Writers at York series, featuring poetry readings by Kate Potts, Kit Fan, and Zaffar Kunial.

The Cure for Psychoanalysis

Wednesday 10 October 2018

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

Creativity and Its Origins

Wednesday 10 October 2018

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

Empiricism, Epistolarity and Landscape in Elizabeth Montagu's Correspondence

Tuesday 9 October 2018

A Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Forum event with speaker Millie Schurch (University of York).

‘Forgive Me Awful Poet:’ The Redemption and Rewriting of Paradise Lost

Thursday 4 October 2018

Research Seminar organised by the Centres for Eighteenth Century Studies and Renaissance and Early Modern Studies with speaker Professor David Harper (West Point).

From Your John to Baby Precious: The Modernist Lesbian Love Letter

Wednesday 3 October 2018

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Hannah Roche (University of York).

Augustus Earle’s Pedestrian Tour in New Zealand: or, Get off the Beach

Tuesday 2 October 2018

A Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies Research Seminar with speaker Dr Ingrid Horrocks (Massey University, Wellington, NZ).

Reading and in Conversation: Bridging the Creative/Critical Divide

Monday 1 October 2018

A Writers at York event with speaker Ingrid Horrocks (Massey University, Wellington, NZ).

ICNS Seminar: Jan Alber, "Ways of Making Sense of the Unnatural"

Wednesday 19 September 2018

An event in the occasional ICNS seminar series on topics in narrative theory, featuring visiting speaker Jan Alber (RWTH Aachen), specialist in "unnatural narratology" and past president of the International Society for the Study of Narrative.

Ways of Making Sense of the Unnatural

Wednesday 19 September 2018

Interdisciplinary Centre for Narrative Studies event with speaker Jan Alber (RWTH Aachen)

Playhouses in Shakespeare’s time: why ‘play’? why ‘house’?

Friday 20 July 2018

As York celebrates the coming of the Rose playhouse to the city, this free pre-show talk asks what ‘playhouse’ really means and how this affects our understanding of Shakespeare.

The Worlds of Maria Edgeworth: Networks, Influence and Reception

Friday 29 June 2018

CECS is proud to host this two-day conference to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849).

'My Dearest Tussy': Coping with Separation during the Napoleonic Wars

Tuesday 12 June 2018

CECS public lecture with speaker Elaine Chalus (University of Liverpool).

Laurence Sterne: A sentimental picture

Friday 8 June 2018

A York Festival of Ideas event to mark the 250th anniversary of the death of novelist Laurence Sterne and of the publication of his last book, 'A Sentimental Journey'.

Fugitive Ideas: A Cerebration for Hugh Haughton

Friday 8 June 2018

In honour of our colleague Hugh Haughton on his birthday, the Department of English and Related Literature is hosting a poetic and scholarly "cerebration".

Frankenstein at 200: The science of the novel

Thursday 7 June 2018

Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein', Dr Mary Fairclough (University of York) discusses the science of the novel.

Frankestein: A Night at the Movies

Wednesday 6 June 2018

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein', we present a special festival screening at York's City Screen of the 1931 film adaptation of the same name.

Eleanor Catton in Conversation

Wednesday 6 June 2018

A UK exclusive event as part of the Creative Dissonance CModS research strand and the Writers at York series.

Storytelling as a Way of Bridging Cultural Divides

Wednesday 6 June 2018

Workshop led by Professor Christa Knellwolf-King (Associate Professor of English literature at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, and an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of York).

The Question of Middle English Romance

Tuesday 5 June 2018

Dr Nicola McDonald (University of York) will deliver this year's Riddy Lecture.

Foul or Fair?: The English Provincial Fair in Popular Culture

Tuesday 5 June 2018

CECS Postgraduate Forum.

Beyond Words: The Unknowable and the Unutterable in early modernity

Friday 1 June 2018

A one-day CREMS conference. Part of the Thomas Browne Seminar series.

Other Bodies: Women, Madness and Spectacle in the late 18th century

Tuesday 29 May 2018

CECS Postgraduate Forum.

Political Memory and its Archives: Symposium

Friday 25 May 2018

Part of the 'Political Forms' CModS research strand.

Shakespeare's Bibles

Thursday 24 May 2018

The Annual Patrides Lecture is this year given by Professor Debora Shuger (UCLA).

Rhythmical Subjects: D.H. Lawrence and ‘the American Rhythm’

Thursday 24 May 2018

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Professor Laura Marcus (University of Oxford).

Problematics of European literary history, 1559-1648

Thursday 24 May 2018

Medieval School Research Seminar with speaker Warren Boutcher (Queen Mary, University of London).

Memes, GIFs, and Remix Culture: Compact Appropriation in Everyday Digital Life

Wednesday 23 May 2018

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Professor Eckart Voigts (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany).

Fifty Years of Revolution: Gender, Race and Resistance 1968-2018

Monday 21 May 2018

A two-day interdiscplinary conference organised by Clare Bielby (Centre for Women's Studies) and Claire Chambers (Department of English and Related Literature).

Stephanie Burt Poetry Reading

Thursday 17 May 2018

Poetry reading by Stephanie Burt. A Writers at York event.

When Is a Lyric Poem a Song, When Are Song Lyrics a Poem, and Why Do We Care?

Thursday 17 May 2018

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Stephanie Burt (Harvard University).

Daisy Johnson reading

Tuesday 15 May 2018

Writers at York are proud to present a reading with our 2018 John Tilney Writer in Residence, Daisy Johnson.

"Pitt and Liberty" - Material culture and the recalibration of elite identity in 1760s Virginia

Tuesday 15 May 2018

CECS Postgraduate Forum.

New Modes of Reading

Friday 11 May 2018

A Creative Dissonance research seminar with Alexandra Kingston-Reese (York) and Doug Battersby (University of Tokyo).

Magical Realism: The Making of a Global Literature and International Anthology

Wednesday 9 May 2018

Dr Christopher Warnes talks about magical realism as a global literary phenomenon and about his upcoming landmark anthology. Supported by the Distinguished Visitors Fund.

Capital Personified: From Impersonality to the Dialectic of World Literature

Wednesday 9 May 2018

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Daniel Hartley (University of Leeds).

Toleration, Interfaith Marriage, and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century

Tuesday 8 May 2018

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Alison Conway (University of British Columbia).

Art and Politics Today

Thursday 3 May 2018

CModS research seminar with speakers David Barnett (TFTV, York) and Ruth Kelly (Centre for Applied Human Rights, York). Part of the 'Political Forms' CModS research strand.

Winnicott's Magic: 'Playing and Reality' and Reality

Wednesday 2 May 2018

This is the last of three lectures this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.

The Location of Cultural Experience

Wednesday 2 May 2018

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

Celebrating Women in Print

Tuesday 1 May 2018

CECS Postgraduate Forum.

Speech, Sound and Dialogue in Early Modern Culture, 1500-1700

Tuesday 24 April 2018

A friendly, afternoon symposium celebrating new postgraduate and early career research from York and beyond. All welcome. A Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies event.

Poetry Reading: Vahni Capildeo and Alex Houen

Wednesday 18 April 2018

Writers at York is proud to present an exciting evening of poetry with Alex Houen and Vahni Capildeo.

Seeing Black Women in Georgian London

Tuesday 17 April 2018

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Jennifer Germann (Ithaca College and Fulbright Scholar at University of York).

Mock Conference Panel: Aspects of Narrative

Monday 26 March 2018

A conference-panel style presentation of three papers, from Hanna Roine (Helsinki), Yu-Hua Yen (York) and Francesca Arnavas (York).

Carcanet Poets: Phoebe Power and Oli Hazzard

Thursday 22 March 2018

The University of York and Carcanet Press are delighted to present Phoebe Power and Oli Hazzard for an unmissable evening of poetry. A Writers at York event.

Eborakon Issue four launch party

Wednesday 14 March 2018

Come to our launch party at the Walmgate Alehouse to celebrate the launch of Issue four of Eborakon!

Archbishop Wulfstan and the Peace of God

Tuesday 6 March 2018

Talk by Professor Katy Cubitt (University of East Anglia). Part of the York Medieval Lecture Series.

A book a day keeps the doctor away

Thursday 1 March 2018

Does a book a day keep the doctor away? Find out in a panel discussion with a team of experts, chaired by Professor Helen Smith (York, English). World Book Day Event.

La civiltà delle città nell'Italia medievale

Wednesday 28 February 2018

Talk in Italian by Dr Michele Campopiano (York).

Workshop on 'Macbeth'

Wednesday 28 February 2018

and talk from the co-adaptor of, and Shakespeare advisor to, the forthcoming release of a new 'Macbeth' feature film.

Danelaw Stories: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Conquest

Tuesday 27 February 2018

Talk by Dr George Younge (University of York). Part of the Normans in the North Lecture Series.

Looking backward at eighteenth-century English pornography

Tuesday 27 February 2018

Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies Research Seminar with speaker Kathleen Lubey (York St John University).

The Secret Life of a Feminist Academic: Sexuality, Masculinity, Shoes and Power

Monday 26 February 2018

Centre for Women's Studies Research Seminar with speaker Professor Victoria Robinson (University of York).

Two Poets: Christopher DeWeese and Valzhyna Mort

Wednesday 21 February 2018

A Writers at York event.

Workshop and Seminar with Anat Pick

Wednesday 21 February 2018

This workshop and seminar has been postponed and will be rescheduled in the Summer Term.

Symposium: New Work on Edward Lear

Saturday 17 February 2018

Centre for Modern Studies Symposium with keynote speaker Jenny Uglow.

Viking Studies Research Group

Friday 16 February 2018

Speaker Dr Alexandra Sanmark (UHI)_

Brilliant Modernism: Lighting Technologies in Modernist Poetry

Wednesday 14 February 2018

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Nicoletta Asciuto.

Lordship, Violence and Very Small Churches in Southern France, c. 1000-1200

Tuesday 13 February 2018

Talk by Professor John Arnold (University of Cambridge). Part of the Centre for Medieval Studies 50th Anniversary Lecture Series.

Mapping piracy in Defoe

Tuesday 13 February 2018

Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies Research Seminar with speaker Manushag Powell (Purdue University).

Clare Pollard: Poetry in Translation

Thursday 8 February 2018

Clare Pollard is a poet, playwright, translator, and editor. Please join us for a special evening celebrating poetry and translation.

Conversion To Begin With

Wednesday 7 February 2018

This is the second of three lectures this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.

Finding, Receiving and Recognising the Absent

Wednesday 7 February 2018

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

Masculine Compromise: The Impact of Migration on Family and Gender Dynamics in China

Tuesday 6 February 2018

Centre for Women's Studies research seminar with speaker Professor Susanne Y P Choi (Chinese University of Hong Kong).

Women, Leadership and Risk in the Human Rights Movement

Monday 5 February 2018

Centre for Women's Studies Research Seminar with speaker Dr Alice Nah (University of York).

'My Lady Greensleeves': Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams and the Objectivist Nexus

Wednesday 31 January 2018

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Victoria Bazin (Northumbria University).

The tea-table, women, and gossip: heterosociability and the public sphere in early eighteenth-century Britain

Tuesday 30 January 2018

Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies Research Seminar with speaker Markman Ellis (Queen Mary University of London).

Grieving the Un-precarious Life: Mourning, Grief and Commemoration in Iraqi Literature

Monday 29 January 2018

Centre for Women's Studies Research Seminar with speaker Dr Nadia Atia (Queen Mary, University of London).

What did the dog say? Towns and municipal citizenship in 'English' Ireland, 1350-1500

Friday 26 January 2018

Viking Studies Research Group talk with speaker Dr Harriet Jean Evans (University of York).

Film screening of Patience Nitumwesiga's film 'Communion'

Monday 22 January 2018

Centre for Women's Studies film screening event.

The Heat Signatures of Refugee Transit: 'Incoming' by Richard Mosse (2017)

Wednesday 17 January 2018

Joint TFTV-English Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Emma Cox (Royal Holloway, University of London).

The End of Enlightenment

Tuesday 16 January 2018

Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies Research Seminar with speaker Richard Whatmore (University of St Andrews).

The Poetics of Faith: Exploring Belief in Modern and Contemporary Poetry

Friday 12 January 2018

A three-day interdisciplinary conference.

Institutions as Actors

Friday 1 December 2017

The final workshop of the ‘Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900’ research network.

Writing Now Reading Group

Wednesday 29 November 2017

The first meeting of the 'Writing Now' Reading Group. Part of the 'Creative Dissonance' research strand.

Living in the (Eighteenth Century) Material World: Female Collectors, Enlightenment Education and the Country House

Tuesday 28 November 2017

CECS Postgraduate Forum event with speaker Elizabeth Rogers (University of Hull).

Orosius’ description of the world: influence, adaptation and interpolation

Thursday 23 November 2017

Medieval Literatures Seminar with speaker Alfred Hieatt (Queen Mary University London).

The Pre-Raphaelite 'Haiku'

Tuesday 21 November 2017

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Jos Lavery (University of California, Berkeley).

CECS Postgraduate Forum Event

Tuesday 21 November 2017

CECS Postgraduate Forum event with speaker Alice Rhodes (University of York)

The Politics of Happiness

Monday 20 November 2017

CModS Research Seminar with speakers Dr David Dwan (University of Oxford) and Dr Emilie Morin (University of York). Part of the 'Political Forms' CModS research strand.

Essay Film and Narrative Technique: First Symposium of the BAFTSS ‘Essay Film’ Research Group

Saturday 18 November 2017

Symposium on this non-fiction form exploiting fictional techniques. Extended CFP 30th Sept.

Jennifer Egan: A Reading and Interview

Thursday 16 November 2017

Jennifer Egan will read at York from her new novel 'Manhattan Beach' and engage in an interview about her work. A Writers at York event.

How Novels Begin: Some Nineteenth-Century Test-Cases

Wednesday 15 November 2017

The Modern School's Annual Jacques Berthoud Lecture with speaker Professor Isobel Armstrong (Birkbeck, University of London).

The Wisdom of Some Short Poems in the Exeter Book

Wednesday 15 November 2017

Medieval Literatures Seminar with speaker Professor E. G. Stanley (Emeritus, University of Oxford).

Authentic Dross: Irish Poetry and Song - Moore, Mangan and (Jack) Yeats

Tuesday 14 November 2017

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Matthew Campbell (University of York).

Performing Care: Performance, Visibility and the Labour of Care

Wednesday 8 November 2017

Joint TFTV-English Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Amanda Stuart-Fisher (Central School of Speech and Drama).

Fibres and Fashion in the British Industrial Revolution, 1700-1800

Tuesday 7 November 2017

CECS Research Seminar with speaker John Styles (University of Hertfordshire).

Consolation's Discrepant Forms

Thursday 2 November 2017

Part of the Creative Dissonance CModS research strand.

Uses of Criticism in an Era of Postcritique

Thursday 2 November 2017

A workshop with English and CModS postgraduates. Part of the Creative Dissonance CModS research strand.

The Insider Conversation: Literary Agent & Poet Isobel Dixon

Wednesday 1 November 2017

If you’re interested in creative writing or publishing, you won’t want to miss this publishing masterclass and poetry reading with Isobel Dixon, Head of Books and Director of the Blake Friedmann Literary Agency. A Writers at York event.

Medieval Pilgrims' Books: Some Evidence, and Problems of Evidence

Tuesday 31 October 2017

Medieval Literatures and Languages Research School Seminar with speaker Anthony Bale (Birkbeck College, University of London).

The Death of the Artist: Memento Mori in Mary Hamilton's Munster Village (1778) & Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818)

Tuesday 31 October 2017

CECS Postgraduate Forum event with speaker Hannah Moss (University of Sheffield).

Contested Inheritances, 1750-1830

Saturday 28 October 2017

A one-day conference hosted by the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Women's Work: Allusion and Education in Mid-Twentieth Century Fiction

Wednesday 25 October 2017

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Claire Jarvis (Stanford University).

The Reform Debates of 1830-32: A 'Four Nations' Approach

Tuesday 24 October 2017

CECS Postgraduate Forum event with speaker James Smith (University of York).

Poetry Reading: Henri Cole

Monday 23 October 2017

Please join us for this special poetry event, with celebrated US poet Henri Cole. A Writers at York event.

Monastic Legacies: Memory and the Biography of Place

Tuesday 17 October 2017

Part of the York Medieval Lecture Series.

Gender and Things in Pope and Austen

Tuesday 17 October 2017

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Barbara Benedict (Trinity College, Cambridge).

Michael Longley: A Poetry Reading

Thursday 12 October 2017

Michael Longley will be reading from his new book, 'Angel Hill', which has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize. A Writers at York event.

"Being there": Shakespeare and live broadcast theatre - a history

Thursday 12 October 2017

Talk by Professor Judith Buchanan (York) in collaboration with the Film and Literature MA.

Shame and Attention

Wednesday 11 October 2017

This is the first of three lectures this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.

On Psychic Pain

Wednesday 11 October 2017

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

Writers at York Special Event: Fiona Mozley

Wednesday 11 October 2017

Join us for a very special Writers at York event, celebrating the success of York PhD student Fiona Mozley’s debut novel, 'Elmet', which is shortlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize.

The Influence of the Epic Genre in Eighteenth-Century History Writing

Tuesday 10 October 2017

CECS Postgraduate Forum event with speaker Alexandra Anderson (University of Leeds).

Silent Shakespeare

Friday 6 October 2017

An evening of nostalgia, wonderment and silliness.

Professors, Pigs and Pygmalion: Textual Traces of Lost Phonographic Practices and the Academic Study of Modern Languages

Wednesday 4 October 2017

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Catherine Robson (New York University).

So You Want to Submit a Journal Article! Strategies for Navigating Peer Review

Wednesday 4 October 2017

Publishing Workshop with Eugenia Zuroski (McMaster University).

The Cat-Arion of Strawberry Hill: Bentley's Illustration for Gray's Poem about the Death of Walpole's Cat

Tuesday 3 October 2017

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Eugenia Zuroski (McMaster University).

BARS 2017: Romantic Improvement

Thursday 27 July 2017

The 15th biannual conference of the British Association for Romantic Studies will be hosted by the University of York’s Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, with events in and around The King’s Manor in York’s historic city centre.

Pictures of perfection...make me sick and wicked?: Jane Austen and Reading for Lies

Friday 14 July 2017

Part of the AUSTEN AT 200 event series.

Narrative in Question Symposium and grants workshop

Thursday 15 June 2017

External speakers: Liesbeth Korthals-Altes (Groningen): 'Narrative fiction and Negotiations of Value – Genre Framing and Ethos Attributions.' Greta Olsen (Giessen): 'The Ideological Work of Images of Refugeeism.' Merja Polvinen (Helsinki): 'Enactive Processing of Science Fiction Narrative.'

'Sense and Sensibility' film screening with discussion

Wednesday 14 June 2017

Part of the AUSTEN AT 200 events series.

Historians at work

Sunday 11 June 2017

Part of the AUSTEN AT 200 events series.

The Future of Freedom

Friday 9 June 2017

Part of the Freedom After Neoliberalism CModS research strand.

Freedom After Neoliberalism Conference 2017

Friday 9 June 2017

Keynote Speakers: Nikolas Rose (King’s College London), Paul Crosthwaite (University of Edinburgh), Jane Elliott (King’s College London).

The Enduring Appeal of Jane Austen

Thursday 8 June 2017

Part of the AUSTEN AT 200 events series.

What Matters in Jane Austen

Thursday 8 June 2017

Part of the AUSTEN AT 200 events series.

In Praise of the Market: Christina Rosetti and the Salvific Signifier

Wednesday 7 June 2017

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Victoria Coulson (University of York).

The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment

Tuesday 6 June 2017

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Dr Tita Chico (University of Maryland).

Europe: What Value as an Analytical Category?

Tuesday 6 June 2017

A workshop forming part of the University of York Culture and Communication research theme.

Joining Scholarly Conversations: Academic Publishing, in Theory and Praxis

Monday 5 June 2017

CECS PG Workshop with speaker Dr Tita Chico (University of Maryland).

Loving Big Brother

Thursday 1 June 2017

John Bowen on George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' at York Explore Library.

Does Islam Need the Shariah? A Reply to a Christian Interrogation

Wednesday 31 May 2017

A Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Shabbir Akhtar (Oxford).

Narrative in Question Seminar 7

Wednesday 31 May 2017

Mark Jenner (History): 'What you drink is what you write? Diet, dullness and medical writing in Restoration and Augustan England' [Note that the talk from Alice Hall (English) on 'Disability and narrative: Kenzaburō Ōe's fiction' has been cancelled]

Austen as Wartime Novelist

Tuesday 30 May 2017

Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Stephen Copley Lecture, with speaker Professor Kathryn Sutherland (Oxford). Part of the AUSTEN AT 200 events series.

'Clueless' film screening with introduction

Friday 26 May 2017

Part of the AUSTEN AT 200 events series.

AUSTEN AT 200

Wednesday 24 May 2017

A series of events to commemorate Jane Austen’s writing and her legacy marking the 200th anniversary of her death. Presented by the University of York in partnership with City Screen, the South Bank Community Cinema the York Festival of Ideas, and Fairfax House.

'Love and Friendship' film screening with discussion

Wednesday 24 May 2017

Part of the AUSTEN AT 200 events series.

Narrative in Question Guest Lecture

Wednesday 24 May 2017

Sandy Louchart (Digital Design Studio, Glasgow School of Art), 'Interactive Digital Narratives: Exploring Narrative Creativity in Games'

In the Library with George Eliot and Mary Anne Evans: 'Romola', Arbury Hall, and the Circulation of Knowledge

Tuesday 23 May 2017

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Ruth Livesey (Royal Holloway)

Dangerous Spectacles: the 'Convulsionnaires' and the Anti-Philosophical Movement in 1760s Paris

Tuesday 23 May 2017

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Dr Anne Vila (University of Wisconsin)

Third Year Undergraduate Conference in the Renaissance and Eighteenth Century

Tuesday 23 May 2017

Afternoon conference held in the Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building.

Bloody, Bold and Resolute

Saturday 20 May 2017

Text, performance, politics, art history, film, poetry and with musical interludes. An afternoon devoted to Shakespeare’s Macbeth and creative responses to Macbeth.

Ezra Pound, Poetry, and Knowledge

Thursday 18 May 2017

Poetry and Poetics Reading Group event with speaker Kenneth Haynes (Brown University).

Narrative in Question Seminar 6

Wednesday 17 May 2017

Emily Heavey (SPRU): 'Telling ghost stories: The narrative construction of the phantom limb.' Richard Walsh (English): 'The Centre for Narrative Gravity: Narrative and the Philosophy of Selfhood after Dennett'

Witness for the Witnesses: Geoffrey Hill and Lyric Memorialization

Wednesday 17 May 2017

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Kenneth Haynes (Brown University).

"Speak the speech...trippingly on the tongue": Performing Shakespearean Verse

Tuesday 16 May 2017

Professor Michael Cordner and Dr Tom Cantrell (University of York) explore, via analysis and practical experiment, how the changing nature of Shakespeare's verse writing across his career gradually transformed the challenges he set for his actors.

Hamlet's Elsinore and Elsinore's Hamlet

Monday 15 May 2017

In this illustrated talk, Dr Anne Sophie Refskou (University of Surrey) and Lars Romann Engel (Artistic Director of Hamletscenen in Elsinore) discuss the lively history of Hamlet in Denmark, tracing how Shakespeare’s fictional setting for Hamlet has become a real one. Part of the York International Shakespeare Festival.

Hamlet at Elsinore

Monday 15 May 2017

An exhibition on display in the Berrick Saul Building (University of York). Free and open to the public 4.00pm-7.15pm, Monday 15th to Friday 19th May inclusive.

York International Shakespeare Festival 2017

Saturday 13 May 2017

The York International Shakespeare Festival is a major cultural venture for York and for the North of England. It emerges from a new partnership between the York Theatre Royal, the University of York and Parrabbola.

Writers at York: Poetry Reading

Thursday 11 May 2017

All are very welcome for this special Writers at York event, in conjunction with York Explore Library's Finding the Words series, featuring three exciting UK and US poets: Ruby Robinson, Nuar Alsadir, and Jodie Hollander.

On Inattention

Wednesday 10 May 2017

This is the third of three lectures this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.

Narrative in Question Seminar 5

Wednesday 10 May 2017

Roger Marsh (Music): 'Poor Yorick - singing Laurence Sterne.' Peter Lamarque (Philosophy): 'Transparent and opaque modes of reading narrative.'

On Death-work

Wednesday 10 May 2017

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

The Magdalens and the Performance of Virtue: Kelly, Sterne and Crebillon

Tuesday 9 May 2017

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Dr Mary Peace (Sheffield Hallam University).

The Pink Suit

Tuesday 2 May 2017

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Professor Stella Bruzzi (Film and Television, Warwick).

Literatures of betrayal: Risk, collaboration and narrative non-fiction in contemporary South Africa

Thursday 27 April 2017

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Hedley Twidle (University of Cape Town).

Medieval Psalters as Witnesses to Liturgical Song: The Iberian Case

Tuesday 25 April 2017

A Centre for Medieval Studies lecture with speaker Dr Emma Hornby (University of Bristol).

Are you talking to me? Questions of audience in Voltaire's 'Letters Concerning the English Nation or Philosophical Letters?'

Tuesday 25 April 2017

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Dr Nick Treuherz (University of York).

Poetry Reading: Denise Riley

Thursday 16 March 2017

One of the most compelling contemporary English poets reads from her work.

Rock 'N' Film: Cinema's Dance with Popular Music

Tuesday 14 March 2017

The Department of English and Related Literature is delighted to welcome the distinguished film scholar Professor David E James, who will present the lecture he delivered in January to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science in Los Angeles.

The Significance of Stories in the Post-Truth Era: Or, Why Literature Matters

Thursday 9 March 2017

A Leverhulme-funded talk by eminent writer and scholar Tabish Khair.

Narrative in Question Guest Lecture

Wednesday 8 March 2017

Mari Hatavara (Visiting Professor, Tampere), 'A Narratological Analysis of the Political Interview'.

Literary Networks of the Vicars Choral and the Clerical Proletariat in Late Medieval York

Tuesday 7 March 2017

Part of the York Medieval Lecture Series, with speaker Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (Notre Dame).

Ex-centric Cinema: Giorgio Agamben's film archaeology

Wednesday 1 March 2017

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Professor Janet Harbord (Film Studies, Queen Mary University of London).

Narrative in Question Seminar 4

Wednesday 1 March 2017

Debbie Maxwell (TFTI): 'Co-creating shared futures through storytelling.' Catherine Laws (Music): 'Player Piano: performing narratives of sound and body.'

Confronting Loss in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Britain

Tuesday 28 February 2017

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Kate Smith (University of Birmingham).

Narrative in Question Guest Lecture

Wednesday 22 February 2017

Alice Bell (Sheffield Hallam), 'Immersion in a Playable Story: a Cognitive, Empirical Approach'.

Gazing at the Planet: Olive Schreiner and Scale

Wednesday 15 February 2017

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Coílín Parsons (Georgetown University, USA).

Narrative in Question Seminar 3

Wednesday 15 February 2017

Kate Gridley (SPRU): 'Life Story Work in Dementia Care.' Silvia Gennari (Psychology): 'Narratives and cognitive processes during reading.'

Reparative Reading at 21

Tuesday 14 February 2017

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Memorial Symposium.

Paying Attention: Conversion Hysteria 5

Wednesday 8 February 2017

This is the second of three lectures this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.

Narrative in Question Guest Lecture

Wednesday 8 February 2017

Molly Andrews (CNR, East London), 'On Time: Narrative, Apology and Forgiveness'.

Between Freud and Charcot

Wednesday 8 February 2017

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

In Their Mother Tongue: The use of vernacular languages in medieval liturgy

Tuesday 7 February 2017

Medieval Literatures & Languages Research School seminar with speaker Helen Gittos (University of Kent).

Reparative Reading at 21: informal reading group 2

Tuesday 7 February 2017

This is the second of two preparatory reading groups in advance of 'Reparative Reading at 21', the fourth in the series of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Memorial Symposia, which will take place on 14 February 2017.

Nick Cave and the King James Bible

Thursday 2 February 2017

The Spring Term meeting of the Literature and Sacred Reading Group.

In the wars: Irish writing, 1914-1945

Wednesday 1 February 2017

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Gerald Dawe (Trinity College Dublin).

Narrative in Question Seminar 2

Wednesday 1 February 2017

Greg Currie (Philosophy): 'Not as we know it: narrative and the recreation of experience.' Romana Turina (TFTI): 'Making meaning in reparative storytelling through digital narrative.'

The Novel at the End of History: Donald Trump and 'Infinite Jest'

Wednesday 1 February 2017

A talk organised by the York Centre for the Americas with speaker Adam Kelly (English, York).

Reparative Reading at 21: informal reading group 1

Tuesday 31 January 2017

This is the first of two preparatory reading groups in advance of 'Reparative Reading at 21', the fourth in the series of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Memorial Symposia, which will take place on 14 February 2017.

Wolves, ravens and troll-women: 1066 in Old Norse History and Literature

Tuesday 31 January 2017

Part of the 'Normans in the North' Lecture Series, with speaker Erin Goeres (University College London).

Publishing, Patronage, and the Library of Liberty: Andrew Millar and Thomas Hollis in 1765

Tuesday 31 January 2017

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Adam Budd (University of Edinburgh).

Tracking Poetic Performance from Homer to Shakespeare

Monday 30 January 2017

A CModS Poetry and Poetics event with speaker Professor Derek Attridge (Emeritus Professor, English and Related Literature, York).

After Magic: Charm in Literary Theory and Practice

Wednesday 25 January 2017

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Herbert Tucker (University of Virginia).

Narrative in Question Guest Lecture

Wednesday 25 January 2017

Mark Currie (Queen Mary, London), 'Narrative, Time and Contingency'.

Adam Crothers and 'Eborakon' poetry reading

Monday 23 January 2017

Poetry reading to coincide with the launch of issue three of 'Eborakon'.

Narrative in Question Seminar 1 - An introduction to narrative theory

Wednesday 18 January 2017

Richard Walsh (English) will offer a perspective on narrative as a mode of cognition and sensemaking, and Mari Hatavara (Visiting Professor, Tampere) will respond.

Europe

Tuesday 17 January 2017

A Lightning Rods session organised by the Humanities Research Centre.

Crafting the Past in Sarah Scott's 'Millennium Hall'

Tuesday 17 January 2017

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Katharina Boehm (Universität Regensburg).

Being Citizens, 1770-1832

Saturday 3 December 2016

Interdisciplinary symposium hosted by the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies.

After Dickens

Friday 2 December 2016

A two-day conference with keynote speakers Professor Kamilla Elliott (Lancaster University) and Professor Juliet John (Royal Holloway).

Laughing at John Damer: The Reformative Ethics of George Coleman's 'The Suicide, A Comedy' (1778)

Tuesday 29 November 2016

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Eric Parisot (Flinders University, Adelaide).

The Cult of the Book

Thursday 24 November 2016

Professor Brian Cummings gives the Inaugural Lecture of the Friends of the University of York Library and Archives.

Conversion Hysteria 4: Believe It Or Not

Wednesday 23 November 2016

This is the first of three lectures by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.

Primary Process, Thinking and Art

Wednesday 23 November 2016

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

Pieces of 'The Pale King': Understanding David Foster Wallace's Final Novel

Tuesday 15 November 2016

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker David Hering (Liverpool).

No Place like Home: Irish Writing in a Changing World

Wednesday 9 November 2016

The 2016 Jacques Berthoud Lecture will be given by Fintan O'Toole, columnist, literary editor and drama critic for The Irish Times.

The Archers - an everyday story of...the real world? domestic abuse in Ambridge and beyond

Wednesday 9 November 2016

Polly Neate, Chief Executive of Women's Aid in conversation with Judith Buchanan, Director of the Humanities Research Centre.

Blizzards of Steel: Viking Poetry and the Battles of Fulford and Stamford Bridge

Tuesday 8 November 2016

Part of the 'Normans in the North' Lecture Series hosted by the Centre for Medieval Studies, Yorkshire Philosophical Society and York Museums Trust.

Restarting the Clock of History: Periodicity, Neoliberalism and Contemporary World Literature

Wednesday 2 November 2016

This talk is part of the Centre for Modern Studies 'Freedom After Neoliberalism' research strand.

After Ireland? Ireland's Afterlives in Global Anglophone Poetry

Wednesday 2 November 2016

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Omaar Hena (Wake Forest University).

Rosenberg's war: 'Iron, honey, gold'

Friday 28 October 2016

This year's FR Leavis lecture will be given by author Jean Liddiard.