Follow the links below for details of conferences, seminars and other events associated with department staff. Information about past events is available from our events archive.
About the series: This is the second of a two-part series of seminars on anti-colonial thinkers whose work has to date been relatively neglected in Postcolonial Literary Studies. Further details are available online and you can download the programme in PDF format. This seminar organised in collaboration with the Institute of English Studies at the University of London.
Venue: Senate House. Seminars are on Thursdays from 17.30 -19.00.
In the context of a Research Group whose focus is on the cultures shaping contemporary modes of writing, this seminar series will look at the kinds of creativity involved in writing and translation with a view to highlighting the re-versioning and re-visioning at the heart of creative and literary endeavour. It will also seek to interrogate notions of translation both literal and metaphorical and to reflect on the challenges posed by multilingual writing and self-translation for both Creative Writing and Translation Studies.
The seminars are free and are on Tuesdays from 17.30 – 19.30 from the end of January to the middle of March 2013. All seminars will be at Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London - Venue map for Senate House.
See the Contemporary Cultures of Writing website for further details and a downloadable flyer.
Book History Research Group seminar, Autumn-Winter 2012 and Spring 2013
Venue: The Institute of English Studies, University of London,
Senate House, Room 234
About the series: These seminars will feature leading and emerging scholars in Shakespeare studies and focus attention on the impact that the “new” theatre history Stern has has had on recent developments in the history of the book. Organized by Edmund King (English Department, Open University), this series will involve nine speakers, and will take place between October 2012 and February 2013. Full details are available from the Book History Research Group website.