Events

See our upcoming events.

Home Circuits: queer temporalities and Welsh landscapes

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Dr Elizabeth Edwards (Wales).

'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).

‘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).

Book Launch

Join us as Dave Harper, Ezra Horbury and Lauren Working introduce their books - wine and nibbles included!

Remembering Richard Rowland: A mini-conference

Please mark your calendars for a mini-conference to honour the life and work of Dr Richard Rowland.

Circling Translation

Writers at York event with Kimberly Campanello.

Wolfe Tone and the Hibernian Catch Club: Sociability in Revolutionary Ireland

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Dr Martyn Powell (Bristol).

“Things have crowded in so thick”: Laurence Sterne, Antiquarian Quixotism, and the Printed Book

CECS Research Seminar with speaker Prof. Katharina Boehm (Passau).

Are Mushrooms Goth? Genre and ‘Life in Capitalist Ruins’

Modern School Research Seminar with speaker Dr Natalia Cecire (Sussex).

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!

Victorian Expansions 2025

A one-day Victorian Studies conference at the University of York.

Annual Riddy Lecture

Department of English and Related Literature Annual Riddy Lecture with speaker Professor Marion Turner (Oxford).