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Academic Year 2012-13
Michaelmas Term 2012
MONDAY 26th November, 6 pm
Annual Public Lecture
Terry Eagleton (Lancaster University) ‘Orphans, Aliens and Others’
Elizabeth Livingstone Lecture Theatre
TUESDAY 27th November 2 – 4 pm
Open MA Seminar
Terry Eagleton (Lancaster University), ‘The English Novel’
Bowland North Seminar Room 15
WEDNESDAY 28th November 1 pm – 3pm
Open MA Research Methodologies Seminar
Terry Eagleton (Lancaster University), ‘What is Literature?’
George Fox Lecture Theatre 2
WEDNESDAY 28TH November, 5 pm
Departmental Research Seminar
Terry Eagleton (Lancaster University), ‘Tragic Humanism’
County Main Seminar Room 4, 5 pm
Lent Term 2013
MONDAY 28th January 6 pm
Annual Departmental Lecture
Terry Eagleton (Lancaster University), ‘How to Read a Text: The Case of A Passage to India’.
Elizabeth Livingstone Lecture Theatre
TUESDAY 29th January 10 am – 12 pm:
PhD Tutorials
Terry Eagleton (Lancaster University)
County Main B193
TUESDAY 29th January, 4 pm:
Undergraduate Lecture on ENGL 203: Victorian Literature
Terry Eagleton (Lancaster University), ‘Victorian Poetry and Religion’
Cavendish Lecture Theatre
WEDNESDAY 30th January, 9 am – 11 am:
Open MA Seminar
Terry Eagleton (Lancaster University), ‘The Doubleness of Oscar Wilde’
Bowland North Seminar Room 4
WEDNESDAY 30th January, 2 pm – 4 pm
Open Faculty Seminar on Cultural Theory
Terry Eagleton (Lancaster University), ‘Sacrifice and Subversion’
Bowland North Seminar Room 2
Academic Year 2011-12
Michaelmas Term 2011
Annual Public Lecture: 'After Theory'
Monday 17 October, 6 pm
Management School Lecture Theatre 3
To be followed by wine reception
Postgraduate Tutorials
Tuesday 18 October, 10 am - 12 pm
County B193 (Tutorials to be arranged by prior arrangement with Professor Lynne Pearce)
Departmental Postgraduate Seminar 1: 'What is Literature? 1'
Tuesday 18 October, 2 pm - 4 pm
Recommended reading: Chapter 1 of Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction
FASS Meeting Room 3
Departmental Postgraduate Seminar 2: 'What is Literature? 2'
Wednesday 19 October, 10 am - 12 pm
Recommended reading: Chapter 1 of Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction
FASS Meeting Room 2
Faculty Postgraduate Seminar 1: 'Why Marx was Right'
Wednesday 19 October, 2 pm - 4 pm
Recommended reading: Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right
County Main Seminar Room 1
Lent Term 2012
Annual Departmental Lecture: 'Culture and Violence'
Monday January 23, 6 pm
Management School Lecture Theatre 3
To be followed by wine reception
Postgraduate Tutorials
Tuesday January 24, 10 am - 12 pm
County B193 (Tutorials to be arranged by prior arrangement with Professor Lynne Pearce)
Departmental Postgraduate Seminar 3 'What is Literature? 3'
Tuesday January 24, 2 pm - 4 pm
Recommended reading: Paul Hernardi ed. What is Literature?
FASS Meeting Room 2
Departmental Postgraduate Seminar 4: 'What is Literature? 4'
Wednesday January 25, 10 am - 12 pm
Recommended reading: Paul Hernardi ed. What is Literature?
FASS Meeting Room 2
Faculty Postgraduate Seminar 2: Title TBC
Wednesday January 25, 2 pm - 4 pm
FASS Meeting Room 3
Academic Year 2010-11
Michaelmas Term 2010
Monday November 29th 6pm
Public Lecture: ‘Ireland, the Brontës and Jane Eyre’
venue: Management School Lecture Theatre 1
to be followed by wine reception
Tuesday November 30th morning 10 am - 12 noon
PhD Tutorials (to be arranged via PGR Director) in Professor Eagleton’s office (County Main B193)
Tuesday November 30th 3-5 pm
Open Departmental PG seminar (for MAs and PhDs in English and Creative Writing)
venue: County SR7
topic: The Culture of Postmodernism 3
text/ background reading: Terry Eagleton, The Illusions of Postmodernism
Wednesday December 1st 10 am - 12 noon
Open Departmental PG seminar (for MAs and PhDs in English and Creative Writing)
venue: County SR6
topic: After Theory
text/ background reading: Eagleton, After Theory
Wednesday December 1st 2-4 pm
Open Faculty Cultural Theory PG seminar (for all MAs and PhDs in the Faculty)
venue: Institute for Advanced Studies MR2
topic: The Culture of Postmodernism 4
text/ background reading: Frederic Jameson, 'Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism' in Jameson, Postmodernism
Lent Term 2011
Monday 31st January 6pm
Public Lecture
Title: ‘What is Poetry?’
venue: Cavendish Lecture Theatre
to be followed by wine reception
Tuesday 1st February 2-4 pm
Open Departmental PG Seminar (for MAs and PhDs in English and Creative Writing)
venue: Bowland North SR9
topic: The Culture of Postmodernism 5
texts/ background reading: David Harvey, The Postmodern Condition
Tuesday 1st February 10-12 noon
PhD Tutorials (to be arranged via PGR Director)
venue: Professor Eagleton’s office, County B193
Wednesday 2nd February 10am - 12 noon
Open Departmental PG Seminar (for MAs and PhDs in English and Creative Writing)
venue: Bowland North SR11
topic: The Idea of Evil
text/ background reading: Terry Eagleton, On Evil
Wednesday 2nd February 2-4pm
Open Faculty Cultural Theory PG seminar (for all MAs and PhDs in the Faculty)
venue: Bowland North SR1
topic: 'Reflections on My Work'
text/ background reading: Terry Eagleton, The Gatekeeper
Colloquium
Saturday, 7th May 2011: William Shakespeare, 25 Years Later: A Colloquium with Terry Eagleton
Academic Year 2009-10
Lent Term 2010
Monday 1st February 6pm
Public Lecture
Title: ‘What is a Novel?’
venue: Management School Lecture Theatre 1
to be followed by wine reception
Tuesday 2nd February 11am - 1pm
Open Departmental PG Seminar (for MAs and PhDs in English and Creative Writing)
-venue: County College (Main), Meeting Room 2
- topic: The Culture of Postmodernism 1
- texts/ background reading:
David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity
Frederic Jameson, ‘Postmodernism, or the Cultural logic of Late Capital,’ in New Left Review, no.146 (1984) or Jameson, Postmodernism
Tuesday 2nd February 2 - 4pm
PhD Tutorials
venue: Professor Eagleton’s office, County B193
(to be arranged via Dr Arthur Bradley)
Wednesday 3rd February 10am - 12 noon
Open Departmental PG Seminar (for MAs and PhDs in English and Creative Writing)
venue: County College (Main), Meeting Room 2
- topic: The Culture of Postmodernism 2
- text/ background reading:
Steven Connor, Postmodernist Culture
Terry Eagleton, The Illusions of Postmodernism
Wednesday 3rd February 2-4pm
Open Faculty Cultural Theory PG seminar (for all MAs and PhDs in the Faculty)
venue: County College (North), Seminar Room 4
- topic: The Idea of Theory
- text/background reading: Stanley Fish, Is There a Text in this Class?
Michaelmas Term 2009
In Michaelmas Term 2009 another week of events was offered by Professor Terry Eagleton, starting Monday 26th October: a similar week of events will take place each term.
Monday October 26th 6pm
Public Lecture: Readings from The Gatekeeper: A Memoir
- venue: Faraday Lecture Theatre
- to be followed by wine reception
Tuesday October 27th morning
PhD Tutorials (to be arranged via Dr Sally Bushell) in Professor Eagleton’s office
Tuesday October 27th 2-4pm
Open Departmental PG seminar (for MAs and PhDs in English and Creative Writing)
- venue: Bowland North SR 18
- topic: The Culture of Modernism 1
- text/ background reading:
- Raymond Williams, The Politics of Modernism
- Perry Anderson, ‘Modernity and Revolution,’ New Left Review 44 (March-April, 1984)
Wednesday October 28th 10-12 noon
Open Departmental PG seminar (for MAs and PhDs in English and Creative Writing)
- venue: Bowland North SR3
- topic: The Culture of Modernism 2
- text/ background reading: Marshall Berman, All That is Solid Melts into Air
Wednesday October 28th 1.30-3.30pm
Open Faculty Cultural Theory PG seminar (for all MAs and PhDs in the Faculty)
- venue: Bowland North SR3
- topic: Problems of Interpretation
- text/ background reading: Marx, ‘Theses on Feuerbach' and Rubenstein, Marx and Wittgenstein
In Lent Term, 2009, the following week of events was offered by Professor Terry Eagleton:
Monday January 26th, 6pm
Open Lecture: ‘The Doubleness of Oscar Wilde’
- Faraday Lecture Theatre
- Free
- wine reception to follow
Tuesday January 27th, 9-11am
Open Departmental PG seminar (for MAs and PhDs in English and Creative Writing)
- topic: ‘The Culture of Modernism 1’
- background reading: Raymond Williams, Politics of Modernism
- venue: SR4, County College
Tuesday January 27th, 2-4pm
PhD Tutorials (to be arranged via Dr Arthur Bradley)
Wednesday January 28th, 11am-1pm
Open Departmental PG seminar (for MAs and PhDs in English and Creative Writing)
- topic: ‘The Culture of Modernism 2’
- background reading: Raymond Williams, Politics of Modernism
- venue: LT2, Fylde College
Wednesday January 28th, 2.30-4.30pm
Open Faculty Cultural Theory PG seminar (for all MAs and PhDs in the Faculty)
- topic: ‘Problems of Interpretation’
- text: Stanley E. Fish, Is There a Text in this Class: The Authority of Interpretative Communities
- venue: SR1, County College
In Michaelmas Term, 2008, the following week of events was offered by Professor Terry Eagleton:
Monday 20th October, 6 pm
Terry Eagleton’s Inaugural Lecture: 'Tragedy and Terror'
Venue: Faraday Lecture Theatre
Wine reception to follow
Tuesday 21st October, 10-12 am
Open Departmental MA seminar (open to ALL MAs in English and Creative Writing)
Topic: 'W.B.Yeats' "Easter 1916" and Modernism'
Venue: Bowland North Rm 2
Tuesday 21st October, 2-4 pm
PhD Tutorials
4 x 30 min slots in each of which Terry Eagleton meets one PGR who briefly introduces his/her work and seeks his advice/comments. Each student will be asked to send Terry Eagleton (or leave in his pigeon-hole) an abstract or sample of their work (of no more than 500 words) a day or two beforehand.
Venue: Terry Eagleton’s office (B190, County)
Wednesday October 22, 10-12 am
Open Departmental MA/PhD seminar (open to all MAs and PhDs in English and Creative Writing)
Topic: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
Venue: Bowland North, Rm 22
[Terry Eagleton plans to sustain the investigation of modernism from the first seminar and to develop it in the Lent term seminars]
Wednesday October 22, 2.30-.4.30
Open Faculty Cultural Theory seminar (open to all MAs and PhDs within the Faculty)
Topic: Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations*
Please note: it is not expected that students will have a thorough knowledge or grasp of this [!!] but simply to be acquainted with it
Venue: IAS MR2
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