Dr Sarah Dillon is to give the keynote address at an International Conference on contemporary author David Mitchell, to be held at the University of St Andrews on Saturday 3rd June. Sarah will be delivering a paper on the politics of adaptation.
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Dr Sarah Dillon to give Plenary Address at ‘Graphic Reading’ Symposium, University of Birmingham
Dr Sarah Dillon is to give a Plenary Address at a symposium on Graphic Reading at the University of Birmingham on Friday 19th May. Dr Dillon will be delivering a paper entitled ‘The Ungrammatical Knife: A Feminist Rereading of Ghost Dance‘ which will present material extracted from a chapter of her book, Queer Intimacies: Deconstruction, Feminism, Film, forthcoming […]
Continue ReadingProf Christopher Page Keynote at International Guitar Research Centre Conference
Professor Christopher Page will be a keynote speaker at the International Guitar Research Centre Conference, University of Surrey, 18 March to 23 March 2016. Some of the most distinguished and highly regarded scholars and musicians from around the world will gather for this major international conference featuring six public concerts, four keynote lectures, and over 50 lecture-recitals and academic papers.
Continue ReadingChristopher Tilmouth & Katrin Ettenhuber Plenary Lectures – Literature and Philosophy 1500-1700
Katrin Ettenhuber and Christopher Tilmouth delivered plenary lectures at University of Sussex Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies Postgraduate ‘Literature and Philosophy 1500-1700’ conference. This conference explored the relationship between early modern literature and philosophical thought, theories and issues and took place between the 14th and 16th of July. Dr Tilmouth’s lecture was entitled […]
Continue ReadingDr Gavin Alexander Keynote at ‘Speaking Pictures: Poetry, the Arts of Discourse and the Discourse of the Arts in Early Modern England’
Dr Gavin Alexander presented a keynote: ‘Of proportion poetical: order, form, decorum, and analogy in early modern poetry and poetics’, at a one-day colloquium ‘Speaking Pictures: Poetry, the Arts of Discourse and the Discourse of the Arts in Early Modern England’, Universidad de Huelva, Spain, 31 October 2014.
Continue ReadingWhither Political Theatre? – Cambridge Conference for a Poetics of Critical Political Theatre in Europe
Whither Political Theatre? Cambridge Conference for a Poetics of Critical Political Theatre in Europe. 19-20 Sept, St John’s College. The conference was sponsored by the British Academy as a BA Regional Event. Organising Committee: Dr Eva Urban, Dr Drew Milne, FBA Professor John Kerrigan. Keynote speakers included John Kerrigan & Eva Urban, from the Cambridge English Faculty, […]
Continue ReadingUsing, Misusing and Abusing Latin in the Early Modern Period
Dr Andrew Taylor delivered the keynote address at the University of Warwick’s, ‘Using, Misusing and Abusing Latin in the Early Modern Period’ conference, Friday 25th-26th April 2014. The conference was hosted by the Queen Mary University, the University of Warwick IAS Classical Reception Network and the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance.
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