Events in 2020

Past events

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.