Events 2013

Finding your place in history and politics: the life of universal chronicles in the High Middle Ages

Friday 6 December 2013

Further details of this event will be posted in due course.

Richard Rolle's Miraculous Multi-tasking: Manuscript Studies Meets Media Theory

Tuesday 3 December 2013

Medieval Literatures Seminar with speaker Dr Katharine Zieman (Centre for Medieval Studies Visiting Professor).

Launch of Mikail Eldin's 'The Sky Wept Fire'

Wednesday 27 November 2013

York Student PEN and Granta Books host the launch of Mikail Eldin's book 'The Sky Wept Fire'.

Richard III Silent Film

Wednesday 27 November 2013

Screening of silent film version of Richard III, with script, voice-to-screen direction and introduction by Judith Buchanan (University of York), in partnership with York Theatre Royal.

Martin Martin: A late seventeenth-century Hebridean Outlier of the Republic of Letters

Tuesday 26 November 2013

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Donald William Stewart (University of Edinburgh).

Writing Revolution: the manuscript revisions of J. M. Coetzee's 'Waiting for the Barbarians'

Tuesday 26 November 2013

Modern School Seminar with speaker David Attwell (University of York).

Shakespeare, Anecdotally

Wednesday 20 November 2013

CREMS/TFTV Event with speaker Paul Menzer (Mary Baldwin College, Virginia).

Reconstructing Shakespeare's Songbook

Wednesday 20 November 2013

Music Department Seminar with speaker Ross W. Duffin (Case Western Reserve University).

Tennyson and the Ancients

Saturday 16 November 2013

A one-day seminar offering lectures and panel discussions on the subject of Tennyson and antiquity.

The Unforbidden 1

Wednesday 13 November 2013

The first in a series of three public lectures by psychoanalyst, literary critic and essayist, Adam Phillips.

Adam Phillips Autumn Seminar

Wednesday 13 November 2013

The first in a series of three postgraduate seminars by psychoanalyist, literary critic and essayist, Adam Phillips.

Publishing Visualisations

Wednesday 13 November 2013

Three experts from the University of York's Centre for Digital Heritage talk about some of the issues of digital dissemination of visualisations of cultural heritage.

Thomas Hardy, Politics, Religion, and 'public' discourse in the 1790s

Tuesday 12 November 2013

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Jon Mee (University of York).

Neurasthenia, Ghosts and Alienation from Nature during and after the First World War: the Case of Frank 'Toronto' Prewett, 1893-1962

Tuesday 12 November 2013

Centre for Modern Studies and Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Professor Joy Porter (University of Hull).

John Banville and His Precursors

Saturday 9 November 2013

With an already substantial and still growing oeuvre and a burgeoning field of scholarship, much of which explores such relations and interactions, this two-day international conference aims to prompt discussion of the author’s work through an exploration of his engagement with his precursors, literary and otherwise.

Sociability and Print Culture

Saturday 9 November 2013

One-Day CECS Conference with plenary speaker, Gillian Russell (ANU).

The Romantic Essay and the City

Tuesday 5 November 2013

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Greg Dart (UCL).

Realignment and Televisual Intellect: From 'The Wire' through 'Occupy' to 'Hemlock Grove'

Tuesday 5 November 2013

What can the 'golden age' of American television tell us about the transformation of social relations in this age of austerity?.

Social Water: an Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Workshop

Friday 25 October 2013

This workshop takes water's various forms as a provocation and invitation to postgraduates to present diverse critical perspectives on water's social meanings. The day will feature a keynote speech by Dr Kimberley Peters, Lecturer in Human Geography at Aberystwyth University, and will conclude with a roundtable discussion led by Professor Graham Huggan of the School of English at the University of Leeds.

Amit Chaudhuri: Reading and In Conversation on Words and Music

Wednesday 23 October 2013

Part of the Writers at York series.

Lyrical Ballads and the Poetry of Place

Tuesday 22 October 2013

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford).

A Conflict of Reports

Friday 18 October 2013

Talk by Christopher Ricks (Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University and Visiting Professor, New College of the Humanities, London). Part of the Leavis at York 2013 international conference.

Leavis at York 2013: an international conference

Friday 18 October 2013

A conference of presentations and discussions about the life, thought and work of the English critic and educationalist F. R. Leavis (1895–1978) and the continuing influence of these on contemporary debate.

Leverhulme Trust research funding

Friday 18 October 2013

With Professor Gordon Marshall (Director, Leverhulme Trust) and contributions from recipients of project, network and fellowship grants.

Annual Riddy Lecture

Thursday 17 October 2013

The year Dame Janet Nelson (King's College, London) will talk about 'Gendering an Early Medieval Life: the Case of Charlemagne'.

Adam Smith goes to Hollywood: Cinema as a medium of sentiment

Wednesday 16 October 2013

This talk will trace the unexpected history and intricate strategies of the sentimental mode and demonstrate how it has been reimagined over the past three centuries.

Nested Polyphonies: Stratification and Organicism in 15th-Century Chansonniers

Wednesday 16 October 2013

CREMS Seminar with speaker Jane Alden (Wesleyan University).

Afterthoughts on Sentiment, Forethoughts on Melodrama

Tuesday 15 October 2013

CECS Research Seminar with speaker James Chandler (University of Chicago).

Lyric Structures

Friday 11 October 2013

Modern School Reserach Seminar with speaker Jonathan Culler (Cornell University).

Theory of the Lyric

Thursday 10 October 2013

Modern School event with speaker Jonathan Culler (Cornell University).

Fixed like a ballad on the wall: Printed lobbying and public persuasion in the Seventeeth Century

Wednesday 9 October 2013

CREMS Research Seminar with speaker Jascon Peacey (UCL).

HRC Doctoral Fellowships Presentations

Monday 8 July 2013

These presentations will be held throughout the afternoon.

Neoliberalism, Crisis and the World System

Tuesday 2 July 2013

A two-day interdisciplinary conference exploring the economic and socio-political dynamics of 'neoliberalism' in relation to the contemporary 'crisis' of capital and set against a foundational concern with the capitalist world system

Encounters, Affinities, Legacies: the Eighteenth Century in the Present Day

Friday 28 June 2013

This two-day international, interdisciplinary academic conference and arts festival seeks to explore the complex webs of interconnection between the long eighteenth century and the ‘long’ twentieth century, from 1900 to the present.

Owenvarragh: A Belfast Circus on 'The Star Factory'

Thursday 27 June 2013

Poet, author and 'Journal of Music' contributor Ciaran Carson’s 1997 memoir and elegy to Belfast, 'The Star Factory', will be performed 'as a circus of sound, words, and images'

A reading by Seamus Heaney

Wednesday 26 June 2013

An exclusive and rare opportunity to hear Irish poet and Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney, read from a selection of his poetry

North and South: The Latitude of Letters

Wednesday 26 June 2013

The North South conference seeks to discuss the impact that relationships between Norths and Souths have had on literature and culture by examining the connections between geography and representation, with the ultimate goal of achieving a clearer understanding of the factors that converge to create dichotomies of this scale and subtlety, as well as their repercussions on culture and society

Copying the Middle English New Testament: Some manuscript relationships and their implications

Tuesday 25 June 2013

CMS Research Seminar with speaker Matti Peikola (University of Turku, Finland, & CMS Visiting Professor)

What is Unnatural Narratology?

Tuesday 25 June 2013

Inaugural event of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Narrative Studies, with speaker Brian Richardson (University of Maryland)

Unnatural Stories, Plots, Progressions and Endings

Tuesday 25 June 2013

A graduate workshop led by Brian Richardson (University of Maryland)

Anti-Happenings/Anti-Politics: Experimental Art in Late Socialist Central Europe

Monday 24 June 2013

Centre for Modern Studies postgraduate forum seminar with speaker Dr Klara Kemp-Welch (Courtauld Institute of Art)

Sensing the Sacred: Religion and the Senses, 1300-1800

Friday 21 June 2013

This two-day international, interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars working on the role played by the senses in the experience and expression of religion and faith in the pre-modern world.

The Fate of the Book

Wednesday 19 June 2013

CREMS Research Seminar with speaker Eric Rasmussen

Putting England in its Place: Cultural Production and Cultural Relations in the High Middle Ages

Tuesday 18 June 2013

An afternoon presentation of CMS (York) papers given at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University (9-10 March 2013)

Concluding Freud

Wednesday 12 June 2013

The third in series of three public lectures by psychoanalyst, literary critic and essayist, Adam Phillips

Adam Phillips Summer Seminar

Wednesday 12 June 2013

The third in a series of three postgraduate seminars by psychoanalyist, literary critic and essayist, Adam Phillips

Reading by Gillian Slovo

Wednesday 5 June 2013

The John Tilney Writer in Residence this term is the distinguished and versatile South African born writer, Gillian Slovo.

Describing Maps in the Middle Ages: verbal and visual culture from the eighth to the beginning of the fourteenth century

Wednesday 5 June 2013

Medieval Literatures Seminar with speaker Patrick Gautier Dalché (Institut de Recherche et d'histoire des textes, Sorbonne)

The European Marvell

Tuesday 4 June 2013

This year's annual Patrides Lecture will be delivered by Professor Nigel Smith (Princeton University)

Poetics and Prose theory in Early Modern English

Wednesday 29 May 2013

This one day-symposium is part of the diffuse and ongoing Thomas Browne Seminar

PEN, Justice and the Creative Process

Thursday 23 May 2013

Readings and discussion with Writer in Residence, Gillian Slovo, and South African crime writer, Margie Orford

The Oral Bishop: The Epicurean Theology of Earl-Bishop Frederick Hervey (1730-1803)

Tuesday 21 May 2013

CECS Research Seminar with speaker May Willa Murphy (University of Ulster)

Reading by Bernard O'Donoghue

Thursday 16 May 2013

A modern and medieval poetry reading by poet Bernard O'Donoghue

Capuchin Model of Leadership: the Père Ange (Henri de Joyeuse) 1563-1608

Wednesday 15 May 2013

CREMS Research Seminar with speaker Peter Goddard (University of Guelph)

CECS Research Seminar

Tuesday 14 May 2013

Speaker Elizabeth Eger (King's College, University of London)

'I Am Changing, And Things Around Me Change': making a revolutionary generation in Ireland, 1890-1916

Thursday 2 May 2013

This year's annual Jacques Berthoud lecture will be delivered by Professor R. F. Foster (Carroll Professor of Irish History, University of Oxford)

Creative Writing and English Literature: The State of the Disciplines

Thursday 2 May 2013

The last decade has seen a proliferation of creative writing courses springing up throughout the UK, as independent degrees, components of English Literature degrees, or outside universities altogether. But aren't English Literature and Creative Writing fundamentally different crafts? Three experts from different fields discuss these issues in an interactive panel.

The Poisoned Gift of Forgiveness in 'Jane Eyre'

Wednesday 1 May 2013

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Henry Staten (University of Washington)

Women and the Popular in Early Modern England

Wednesday 1 May 2013

CREMS Afternoon Workshop, with speakers Laura Gowing (King's College, London), Adrian Wilson (Leeds), Claire Canavan (York), Abigail Shinn (York), and Helen Smith (York)

Anna Barbauld's Stoic Politics and the Question of Patriotism

Tuesday 30 April 2013

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Emma Clery (University of Southampton)

Prison Life Writing, Rehabilitation, and the Story of the American Prison System

Monday 29 April 2013

Talk by Simon Rolston (Leeds Metropolitan University & Honorary Associate in English at York University)

Poetry Reading by John Wilkinson

Thursday 25 April 2013

A Modern School/Writers at York event

Psychoanalytic Animal

Wednesday 24 April 2013

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Maud Ellmann (University of Chicago)

The Reader's Eye: Between Annotation and Illustration

Monday 22 April 2013

Departmental Seminar in History of Art with speaker Bill Sherman (University of York)

Embroidered Encounters: Travel, Religion, and the Household at Hardwick Hall

Monday 25 March 2013

The last in a series of public lectures 'Cultural Encounters: Travel, Religion, and Identity in the Early Modern World'

Renaissance Reincarnations in the Theatre

Thursday 14 March 2013

This event will focus on the theatrical construction of early modern afterlives

Reading and Discussion: 'True Stories and other Tales'

Wednesday 13 March 2013

An evening of readings and conversation with Aamer Hussein

Guns, sermons and indecent behaviour: Conduct and Space in Scottish churches, 1638-1660

Wednesday 13 March 2013

CREMS Research Seminar with speaker Chris Langley (York)

Hannah Arendt: A One-Day Symposium

Wednesday 13 March 2013

Through a series of short, sharp interventions, this symposium will address the critical neglect with which Arendt’s legacy has been met hitherto, and start the process of restitution and engagement with her oeuvre.

Encountering Islam: the Qu'ran in the European Enlightenment

Monday 11 March 2013

The fifth in a series of public lectures 'Cultural Encounters: Travel, Religion, and Identity in the Early Modern World'

The Politics of Touch: Shaking hands in Early Modern England

Wednesday 6 March 2013

CREMS Research Seminar with speaker John Walter (Essex)

Ulster Truism: Francis Hutcheson and William Hazlitt

Tuesday 5 March 2013

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Terry Eagleton (Lancaster)

Alumni Event

Tuesday 5 March 2013

Calling all students! Come along and hear some of the Department's alumni talking about making the transition from university to the workplace. A Q&A session and informal drinks reception will follow.

Playful Translation

Thursday 28 February 2013

Translation Reading Group meeting with speaker Martin Sorrell (Exeter)

Third Year Undergraduate Conference in the Renaissance

Wednesday 27 February 2013

Please come along to hear third year papers on all aspects of the Renaissance. All welcome!

Improbable Lives: a One-Eyed Soldier, a Dervish, and Other Converts in Early Modern Rome

Monday 25 February 2013

The fourth in a series of public lectures 'Cultural Encounters: Travel, Religion, and Identity in the Early Modern World'

'A Certain Imaginary Conjunction': Law, medicine, and 'libertinage'

Wednesday 20 February 2013

CREMS Research Seminar with speaker Wes Williams (Oxford)

Contemporary Fiction and Everyday Life

Wednesday 20 February 2013

Workshop by Neal Alexander (Nottingham) as part of the Ordinary/Everyday/Quotidian speaker series

New College, Hackney and the Liberal Dissenting Academies, 1751-96

Tuesday 19 February 2013

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Stephen Burley (Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies)

Contemporary Fiction and Everyday Life

Tuesday 19 February 2013

Lecture by Neal Alexander (Nottingham) as part of the Ordinary/Everyday/Quotidian speaker series

Psychoanalysis Comes Out

Wednesday 13 February 2013

The second in a series of three public lectures by psychoanalyst, literary critic and essayist, Adam Phillips

Laughter and civil conversation: from Castiglione to Hobbes

Wednesday 13 February 2013

CREMS Research Seminar with speaker Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary)

Adam Phillips Spring Seminar

Wednesday 13 February 2013

The second in a series of three postgraduate seminars by psychoanalyst, literary critic and essayist, Adam Phillips

Sinan: A Muslim Converts in Elizabethan England

Monday 11 February 2013

The third in a series of public lectures 'Cultural Encounters: Travel, Religion, and Identity in the Early Modern World'

Poetry Reading

Thursday 7 February 2013

with Peter Robinson and Mairi MacInnes

How to Go On and When to Stop: Composition, Translation, and Evaluation

Thursday 7 February 2013

Translation Reading Group meeting with speaker Peter Robinson (Reading)

Queering National Mythologies: Anandamath, The Mahabharata, and the Gendering of Resistance

Wednesday 6 February 2013

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Shamira Meghani (Leeds)

Domesticating Wonder: Late-Eighteenth-Century Children's Writing and the Home

Tuesday 5 February 2013

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Richard De Ritter (Leeds)

Weaving the Web: Women's Translations as Dialogues in Early Modern England

Thursday 31 January 2013

CREMS Seminar and Translation Reading Group meeting with speaker Brenda Hosington (Warwick)

There Is Nothing Other than Ordinary Language

Wednesday 30 January 2013

Workshop by Rupert Read (UEA) as part of the Ordinary/Everyday/Quotidian speaker series

John Bull Meets Uncle Sam: British attitudes towards the United States from Independence to the War of 1812

Tuesday 29 January 2013

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Emma Macleod (Stirling)

There Is Nothing Other than Ordinary Language

Tuesday 29 January 2013

Lecture by Rupert Read (UEA) as part of the Ordinary/Everyday/Quotidian speaker series

Traveller's Tales

Monday 28 January 2013

The second in a series of public lectures 'Cultural Encounters: Travel, Religion, and Identity in the Early Modern World'

Modernism and the Art of Typing Up

Wednesday 23 January 2013

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Hannah Sullivan (Oxford)

'Multi vocati pauci vero electi': Affective Spirituality Revisited

Tuesday 22 January 2013

York Medieval Seminar with speaker Nicholas Watson (Harvard)

Incorruptible: Robespierre and Terror's Two Bodies

Wednesday 16 January 2013

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Arthur Bradley (Lancaster)

Robespierre: Authenticity and Terror in Revolutionary Politics

Tuesday 15 January 2013

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Marisa Linton (Kingston)

Cultural Encounters: the Circulation of the Sacred in the Early Modern World

Monday 14 January 2013

The first in a series of public lectures 'Cultural Encounters: Travel, Religion, and Identity in the Early Modern World'

Britain, Ireland and Italy: Cultural Exchanges c.1270-c.1400

Friday 11 January 2013

The first of a number of events in the ongoing international research project, ‘Britain, Ireland and the Italian Renaissance: Reception and Legacy, c.1240 – c.1640’.