Departmental seminars, conferences and events 2011-12
Seminars take place on Thursdays at 4.30pm in the Ground Floor Seminar Room of the Graduate Centre
Seminars
Autumn term
- 4.30pm Thursday 3 November Tom Sperlinger, 'The Teaching of Doris Lessing'
- 4.30pm Thursday 17 November David Hopkins, 'Homer from Pope to Cowper: Nature, History, and the Primitive'
- 4.30pm Thursday 1 December Stephanie Codsi, 'Enthusiasm in Blake'; Adam Hanna, 'Feminism and the Domestic Sphere in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian'
- 4.30pm Thursday 15 December Jane Wright, 'Robert Browning and Honey'
Spring term
- 4.30pm Thursday 19 January Richard Fawkes, 'Dion Boucicault'
- 4.30pm Thursday 2 February Andrew Bennett, 'Inside David Foster Wallace's Head: Boredom, Paradox and Suicide'
- 5.00pm Thursday 16 February: Churchill Lecture (venue tbc) David Fairer, 'Shakespeare in Eighteenth-Century Poetry'
- 4.30pm Thursday 1 March Francis O'Gorman, 'Remembering Edward Thomas'
- 4.30pm Thursday 15 March Ian Calvert, '"Happy Friends": Dryden and Pope's Translations of Homer'; Catherine Redford, 'The Battle of the Last Men: Issues of Plagiarism and Originality in End-of-the-World Poems by Byron and Campbell'
Summer term
- 4.30pm Thursday 3 May Andrea Brady, 'Melting in Renaissance Poetry'
- 4.30pm Thursday 17 May Hester Jones, (title tbc)
- 4.30pm Thursday 31 May Craig Savage, 'Bob Dylan and America'; Rachel Stenner, (title tbc)
- 4.30pm Thursday 14 June Ralph Pite, 'Hardy and "the reach of perished Rome"'
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