Professor David Trotter will give the 2017  Katherine Mansfield Society Annual Birthday Lecture.  The title of his lecture is: ‘The Yellow Mackintosh: Sights, Sounds, and Smells in the Fiction of Katherine Mansfield’.  The lecture will take place at the Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London, on Saturday 14 October, at 2pm. http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/birthday-lecture-2017/

Dr Michael D. Hurley will be giving a paper on ‘Poetic Assent’ at Oxford on Thursday 12 October, addressing the MPhil seminar series on ‘Poetry as Religious Practice’.  The venue is the Magrath Room, Queen’s College. https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal/site/:humdiv:engfac:what#

Professor John Kerrigan will be the Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of English, Princeton University, from 9-12 October 2017. During an intensive three-to-five-day period, The Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow lectures and participates in classes, colloquia and informal discussions. https://humanities.princeton.edu/people/role/short-term-visiting-fellows/

Dr Leo Mellor will be giving a paper entitled ”Mountain heather and blunt trauma: demob aftermath, violent nature and the post-war sublime’ at the London Modernism Seminar on 7 October.  This seminar is organised by The Institute of English Studies (University of London). https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/event/12599