2023 events
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Fiction and Narrative Theory: A Conference Panel
Join us to see a preview of three papers submitted for the next annual conference for the International Society for the Study of Narrative.
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Ignorance and the Unknowable in Early Modernity
Sandrine Parageau and Kevin Killeen in conversation with Katie Murphy and Line Cottegnies, hosted by Namratha Rao.
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Launch: City of Marvels
Join us for the launch of City of Marvels, a new chapbook by J. R. Carpenter, published by Broken Sleep Books.
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‘Mr Peter Aretine, the right naturall poet’: Aretino and the Tudors
In this lecture, Dr William Rossiter will discuss his paper on Aretino, considering his diverse relationships with the courts, counsellors, and diplomats.
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EVENT POSTPONED Are Mushrooms Goth? Genre and ‘Life in Capitalist Ruins'
This talk reconsiders the state of contemporary fiction genres through the recent vogue for fungi as an imaginative resource for withstanding the twin crises of economics and ecology of the present moment.
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Revoicing Medieval Poetry
Join poets Susie Campbell and Ruth Wiggins for an evening of readings and discussion about their recent poetry publications: The Sleeping Place (Susie Campbell, 2023) and The Lost Book of Barkynge (Ruth Wiggins, 2023).
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Revisiting Smerwick: Spenser and Massacre
In this lecture, Professor Jane Grogan will discuss what happened at the Siege of Smerwick.
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On Not Being Taught
The first in a series of three lectures this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
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The Ego and the Id
The first in a series of three seminars this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
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Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf
The 2023 York Asia Research Network (YARN) Autumn Lecture, in association with the Modern School.
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Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf
Modern School Research Seminar, in collaboration with YARN.
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‘Tant en françois qu’en latin': Self-translation and multilingual publishing in the Renaissance
In this lecture, Dr Sara Miglietti will discuss their new paper, which considers self-translation in early modern Europe.
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You-Narration in the Millennial Novel
A talk in the BIANS Research Seminar series, Current Research in Narrative Studies, by Denise Wong from Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany.
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L-Shaped Rooms and Other Bends: Queering the Home in the British New Wave
Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Melissa Oliver-Powell.
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Black Victorians: Hidden In History
Black History Month Lecture with speakers Dr Keshia Abraham and Dr John Woolf.
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Poetry Reading: Kit Fan & Tristram Fane Saunders
All are welcome for this reading by poets Kit Fan and Tristram Fane Saunders.
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Northern Poetry
As part of our Writers at York series, the Department of English and Related Literature is delighted to host a reading by the poets Kit Fan and Tristram Fane Saunders.
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British Milton Seminar at York
York CREMS (Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies)
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Care, hope, resilience: permacrisis and the emojification of critical thought: an Exploratory Workshop
Join us for this two-day Exploratory Workshop. A collaboration between the Department of English and Related Literature Modern School, University of York UK and the Department of English Philology, Vilnius University, Lithuania.
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Commerce, Credit, and Transaction: the Rhetorical Origins of Big Science
In this lecture, professor Claire Preston will discuss her paper on 'big science', from Henry Oldenburg to Robert Oppenheimer.
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Narrative Study of Transgender Autobiographies: Aleksandr Aleksandrov’s Notes of A Cavalry Maiden (1838)
A talk in the BIANS Research Seminar series, Current Research in Narrative Studies, by Margarita Vaysman from New College, Oxford.
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John Dee and the 'Holy Art' of Alchemy
In this seminar, Dr Stephen Clucas will discuss the work of Renaissance polymath, John Dee.
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In Bad Taste: Sugar, Slavery and Wordsworth’s Racist Poems
Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Mathelinda Nabugodi (UCL).
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Creative Writing Open Mic
All staff and students are welcome to share their poetry, prose, song, and other work at this informal open mic.
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Challenging Evangelization: Jesuits and Ideas about Blackness and Mission Work in New Spain
In this talk, Dr Danielle Terrazas Williams will share their research into Challenging Evangelization.
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CREMS Introductory Shindig
Event details to be confirmed.
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Psychoanalysis for Beginners
The third in a series of three lectures this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
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Beyond the Pleasure Principle
The third in a series of three seminars this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
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The Jay, The Beech, and the Limpetshell
Join writer Richard Smyth for a reading and discussion of his memoir, 'The Jay, The Beech, and the Limpetshell'.
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Festival of Ideas: Preti Taneja in conversation with Juliana Mensah
Join Preti Taneja - writer, educator, activist and Professor of Worid Literature and Creative Writing at Newcastle University - in conversation with Juliana Mensah, writer and University of York lecturer.
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Happy Days in the Anthropocene
Join us for the Annual Berthoud Lecture with speaker Professor Peter Boxall (University of Sussex).
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Water Poetics: Suzannah V Evans and Rowan Evans
Award-winning Bristol-based poets Suzannah V Evans and Rowan Evans will read and talk about their work, chaired by expert in tidalectics Christ Astwood.
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History's Monsters: Nineteenth Century Medievalists and the Parahuman
Samual Lasman (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge)
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Deforestation: Hacking games to investigate narratives of systems thinking
A talk in the BIANS Research Seminar series, Current Research in Narrative Studies, by Paul Wake from Manchester Metropolitan University.
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Sayan Chattopadhyay, In Conversation with Claire Chambers
Dr Sayan Chattopadhyay in conversation with Prof Claire Chambers about his book 'BeingEnglish: Indian Middle Class and the Desire for Anglicisation' (2022).
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The Other Courtly Figure: Medieval Paradiastole
Professor Nicolette Zeeman (King's College, Cambridge)Annual Riddy Lecture
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Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth Century
Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Xine Yao (UCL).
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Estrangement, Consolation: On Black Criticism
Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Professor Kevin Quashie (Brown University).
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Sayan Chattopadhyay, “Single, Singular and Together”: Self-identity as Repetition of Difference in Gayatri Chakravorty
Talk by Sayan Chattopadhyay, Associate Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
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Linearity, Disruption, Simultaneity, and Circularity in Narratives - Why Time Matters in Storytelling
A talk in the BIANS Research Seminar series, Current Research in Narrative Studies, by MonicaMastrantonio, visiting Professor at the University of York.
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Reality in America, Redux
Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Nicholas Gaskill (Oxford).
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'Cold Fish Soup' & Writing North: A Conversation with Adam Farrer
Join Adam Farrer as he discusses his debut book, 'Cold Fish Soup' with Rebecca Bevington and Wiktoria Tunska of the University of York’s Department of English and Related Literature.
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On Not Wanting
The second in a series of three lectures this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
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Beyond the Pleasure Principle
The second in a series of three seminars this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
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Wise Wives and Manly Sons: Matching Saladin in El Conde Lucanor
Professor Christine Chism (UCLA)
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Translation and the Transcreated Nation: The Case of Quratulain Hyder
Reading by Sadia Abbas, professor of postcolonial studies at Rutgers University-Newark and director of the Center for European Studies at Rutgers-New Brunswick.
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Black Mobility, Documented
Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Christine Okoth (King's College London).
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Fission-Fusion Cognition in Contemporary Film: A Case Study of Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock
A talk in the BIANS Research Seminar series, Current Research in Narrative Studies, by Miranda Anderson of the University of Edinburgh and the University of Stirling.
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LGBTQ+ History Month - PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS HAD TO BE CANCELLED AT SHORT NOTICE
This salon will feature readings of LGBTQ+ works and an informal discussion about how these ideas and identities manifest across history.
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Modern School Research Seminar
Further details about this event will be posted shortly. THIS EVENT WILL BE RE-SCHEDULED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION
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Not Your Valentine's Performance
What is love? Still unsure? Love your dog? Love your comrades? Love solitude? Queer joy? Winter blues? Please join us for a sad, glad, and in-between evening of ancient and modern textual explorations.
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Crudi Dench drag night
queer! hosts a drag night alongside Haus of Dench with a performance by Crudi Dench.
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L-Shaped Kinships: Families that Fail Queerly in 1960s British Film
Modern School research seminar with speaker Dr Melissa Oliver-Powell (York). THIS EVENT WILL NOW BE RE-SCHEDULED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION
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queer! opening
This exhibition will explore sexuality in all its forms and the world beyond a gender binary.
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Readerly Orientation: Narrative Absorption, Materiality, and the Book
A talk in the BIANS Research Seminar series, Current Research in Narrative Studies, by David Wylot of the University of Leeds.
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Towards a Theory of Holding the Dead: The Ghostly Edges of Rachel Chu's "Fractured Skull"
Modern School research seminar with speaker Dr David Hering (University of Liverpool).
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The Ten-Minute Ulysses
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.