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Professor Simon Critchley:  Leverhulme Visiting Professor

Professor Critchley's term at Lancaster has now been postponed until Michaelmas Term 2012: please see this web page for news about the rescheduling of his visit. 

The Department of English and Creative Writing is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship to bring Professor Simon Critchley of the New School, New York, to Lancaster. The theme of Professor Critchley’s visit will be ‘Religion-Literature-Politics’ and will add to the Department’s existing strengths in the area of literature and religion. His visit will include a series of open seminars, as well as two public lectures and a public dialogue with Terry Eagleton, the Department’s Distinguished Professor of English Literature. The visit will conclude in a day conference organised in association with Professor Mick Dillon and the Journal for Cultural Research (Routledge).

Draft Programme

week 0

- individual meetings with staff and research students

week 1

- Staff Seminar
- paper to be given by Dr Arthur Bradley introducing Simon Critchley’s recent work on religion and/or the recent St Paul debates
- reading: tbc

week 2

- Public Leverhulme Lecture no.1 - title: tbc
Wednesday 2pm
- Open PG Student Seminar: Contemporary Interpretations of St Paul 1
reading: tbc

week 3

- public dialogue with Terry Eagleton to be recorded and published in special issue of Journal for Cultural Research
- reading: tbc

week 4

- Open Seminar: Contemporary Interpretations of St Paul 2
- reading: tbc

week 5

- Open Seminar: Contemporary Interpretations of St Paul 3
plus
- individual meetings with staff and research students

week 6
- free for visits to other universities

week 7

- Public Leverhulme Lecture no.2 - title tbc

week 8

- Open Seminar: Contemporary Interpretations of St Paul 4

week 9
Staff Seminar
- seminar based on paper to be given by Dr Tony Sharpe re Simon Critchley’s work on Wallace Stevens
- text: Critchley, Things Merely Are: Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens

week 10
- a day symposium organised with Professor Mick Dillon including dialogue with Terry Eagleton – event to lead to special issue of Journal for Cultural Research

week 11
- individual meetings with staff and research students