2024 events
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Creative Writing Open Mic
Whether you’re brand new to writing or a seasoned pro, all staff and students are welcome to share their poetry, prose, song, and other work at this informal open mic. Come share your work or just listen!
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Are Mushrooms Goth? Genre and ‘Life in Capitalist Ruins’
Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Natalia Cecire (Sussex).
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"Things have crowded in so thick”: Laurence Sterne, Antiquarian Quixotism, and the Printed Book’
Katharina Boehm presents this seminar.
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“Things have crowded in so thick”: Laurence Sterne, Antiquarian Quixotism, and the Printed Book
CECS Research Seminar with speaker Prof. Katharina Boehm (Passau).
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Wolfe Tone and the Hibernian Catch Club: Sociability in Revolutionary Ireland
Martyn Powell (University of Bristol) presents this seminar.
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Wolfe Tone and the Hibernian Catch Club: Sociability in Revolutionary Ireland
CECS Research Seminar with speaker Dr Martyn Powell (Bristol).
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Circling Translation
Writers at York event with Kimberly Campanello.
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Remembering Richard Rowland: A mini-conference
Please mark your calendars for a mini-conference to honour the life and work of Dr Richard Rowland.
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Book Launch
Join us as Dave Harper, Ezra Horbury and Lauren Working introduce their books - wine and nibbles included!
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‘I am tired of earnestly placating him’: Women's folk songs about patriarchal oppression among the Guji of southern Ethiopia
Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Ayele Kebede Roba (York).
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'Our peculiar northern antiquity of speech': Mary Powley of Langwathby (1811-1882), the Vikings in England, and Local Dialect
York Medieval Lecture series lecture by Professor Matthew Townend (York).
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Home Circuits: queer temporalities and Welsh landscapes
CECS Research Seminar with speaker Dr Elizabeth Edwards (Wales).
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“We now prescribe, like doctors in despair”: The Satirist-as-Doctor Metaphor in Early Eighteenth-Century Print
Adam Smith (York St John University) presents this seminar.
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“We now prescribe, like doctors in despair”: The Satirist-as-Doctor Metaphor in Early Eighteenth-Century Print
CECS Research Seminar with speaker Dr Adam Smith (York St John).
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'Still City: Diary of an Invasion', Oksana Maksymchuk
This debut collection by Oksana Maksymchuk reflects life in the wake of extreme and unpredictable violence.
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Book Launch: 'Apennine Crossings: Travellers on the Edge of Tuscany'.
Join us for this event to celebrate the launch of Professor Nick Havely’s new book, 'Apennine Crossings: Travellers on the Edge of Tuscany'.
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Rendered Bodies: Film Art and Expanded Organology
Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Lucy Bollington (UCL).
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On Resistance
The first in a series of three lectures this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
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Adam Phillips Seminar, Semester 1, 2024/25
The first in a series of three seminars this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
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Insight into Publishing: Literary Agents, Career Guidance, and More
Hamza Jahanzeb, British-Pakistani Publishing Professional, discusses how to break into the publishing industry and routes for publishing books.
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The Writer's Craft: Novel Making in the Eighteenth Century
CECS Research Seminar with speaker Professor Jennie Batchelor (York).
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Nigel Smith (Princeton University): Plays, Poems, Politics and Protest: Why Joost van den Vondel Matters
Professor Nigel Smith discussed Joost van den Vondel, a significant Dutch author who used his plays to critique power and societal risks.
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The Early Modern Stage between Baroque and Enlightenment: Vondel’s Century
This conference seeks to encourage a dialogue between early modern scholars from different disciplines including literary history, art history, theatre studies and intellectual history and different intellectual traditions.
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On Getting The Life You Want
The third in a series of three lectures this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
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The Ego and its Forms of Dependence
The third in a series of three seminars this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
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Ripe for Dictatorship: Fearing the Worst in American Fiction and Film of the 1930s: Berthoud Lecture by Professor Kasia Boddy, University of Cambridge
The Modern School's Annual Berthoud Lecture
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Plants, Poetry, and Punchy Prose
A mini-symposium in honour of Kasia Boddy.
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The Englishman Abroad: the Medieval Origins of an Identity
Department of English and Related Literature Annual Riddy Lecture with speaker Prof. Anthony Bale (Birkbeck, London).
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"A spacious wound": going underground with the picturesque home tour
The annual Centre for 18th Century Studies Copley lecture with speaker Mary-Ann Constantine (Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales).
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The Matter of Black Living
Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Autumn Womack (Princeton).
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Narrative Fate
A talk in the BIANS Research Seminar series by Mark Currie from Queen Mary London. Hosted by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Narrative studies.
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A Conversation with Carmen Maria Machado
Join us in the Bowland Auditorium for a virtual conversation with the acclaimed author Carmen Maria Machado.
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'Ruderal Poetics: Epic, Empire, and the Tenacity of Weeds': The Annual Patrides Lecture by Prof Nandini Das (Oxford)
This lecture from Prof Nandini Das reflects on the growth in the cracks of the edifices of the past, and of imperial and national narratives.
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Northbound Book Award Evening
An evening to celebrate the winner of this year’s Northbound Book Award, hosted by the University of York and New Writing North, in partnership with Saraband.
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Narration of the moment: Present-tense story formats on social media
A talk in the BIANS Research Seminar series by Alexandra Georgakopoulou from Kings CollegeLondon. Hosted by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Narrative studies.
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If Freedom Writes No Happier Alphabet
A Writers at York and Artist in Residence event.
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Symposium: On Giving Up
In this special colloquium, acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips discusses with colleagues from the University of York his latest book published on 11 January 2024 by Penguin Books.
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Adam Phillips Seminar 2
The second in a series of three seminars this year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, Writer and Psychoanalyst.
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Stopped Leaks and Littlenesses: Details in the Prosaic Poetry of Robert Browning
Dr Pritika Pradhan (University of York)
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Experiments in Life Writing: In Conversation with Francesca Bratton
Francesca Bratton will read from her debut Stronger than Death: Hart Crane’s Last Year in Mexico (John Murray Originals, 2023), and will discuss her approach to life writing with Dr Nicoletta Asciuto.
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LGBTQ+History Month & International Women's Day poetry sharing
A Writer in Residence/Writers at York event
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Archival Geographies and Literary Tourism: May Sinclair’s Papers
Dr Rebecca Bowler (University of Keele)
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Water Poetics: in Conversation with Alycia Pirmohamed
Join us for a one-off Q&A with Alycia in which we think about ‘What … it means to belong somewhere or to something’, ‘the consequences of being decentred, perceived as unfamiliar or as a stranger to place’.
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Reading circles, poetic communities: Dante at Berkeley 1946–1950
Medieval School research seminar with speaker Valentina Mele (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Leeds).