Forthcoming Events

The Fanatic

Interdisciplinary Research Workshop
Friday, September 9th 2011
Storey Institute, Lancaster

During the last 20 years a new wave of thinkers have mobilised the figure of the fanatic as a means of re-visiting such core political problems as the relationship between religion and politcs, faith and knowledge, theory and practice, reason and revolution. This symposium explores the figure of the fanatic in political, historical and cultural discourse from pre-modernity to the present day. Download poster and details of the event.

Rethinking Contemporary Gothic

An Interdisciplinary Study Day, June 3 2011

This study day aims to showcase some of the research currently being conducted on contemporary Gothic at Lancaster, with the intention of opening up new avenues for exploration and discussion. It will incorporate papers from current postgraduate students and staff on topics as diverse as vampire humour and sarcasm in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Trauma Gothic and the creation of postcolonial England. The day will be rounded off by a keynote by Professor Fred Botting of the University of Kingston entitled 'Love Your Zombie'. The day is free and open to all but requires registration. For more details contact Dr Catherine Spooner.  Download our poster.

The Price of Peace: Cultures of War and Conflict Resolution Network. In conjunction with the Northern Renaissance Seminar

Lancaster University - Friday, 10 June 2011

The discourse of peacemaking in the early modern period emphasised the benefits or commodities of peace. In peacetime the arts flourished, trade expanded, camaraderie and tranquillity reigned. Nevertheless, peace always came with a price, and not everyone in every occasion was willing to pay it. What was the price of peace in early modern Europe? What did peace require? What did parties entering into peace have to sacrifice in order to arrive at it? What was lost when peace was gained, and why were so many people on so many occasions unable to lose it? Answers from the records of art, music, history and literature are all encouraged.

Download our poster and read our programme.  Contact r.appelbaum@lancaster.ac.uk for further details.  Go to online payments to register for the Price od Peace conference.

Travel, Writing, and the Ethics of Observation

Workshop and Seminar at Lancaster University, Thursday June 16th, 10 am - 5 pm, County Main MR2 and FASS Building MR 2/3.

A free one-day event featuring a generative writing workshop, a projected photographic exhibition and presentations from Dr. Corinne Fowler and Dr. Harry Whitehead (University of Leicester) and photographer Richard Hanson. Read full details and download our poster.

Shakespeare Inside-out: Depth / Surface / Meaning

British Shakespeare Association: 10th Anniversary Conference

24-26 February, 2012, Lancaster University

Shakespeare’s texts produce meaning by turning insides out. We are drawn into the plays and poems from the outside through surfaces: books, screens, words, objects, costumes, the surfaces of actors' faces and bodies, retellings or adaptations, teaching spaces and theatres, and via our experiences of immediate effects like music, laughter, tears, movement. The texts, meanwhile, turn deep human questions, emotions, subjectivities outwards by projecting them as words and performance. This conference will ask how the relationship between surface and depth operates in Shakespeare's work. Download a full description of Shakespeare Inside-out.