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Open Readings, Seminars and Lectures

Lent Term 2013

WEDNESDAY 16th January
Departmental Research Seminar
Kevin Mills and Alice Entwistle (University of Glamorgan), 'After Carson: Reflections on Collaboration and Creative-Critical Writing'
County Main Seminar Room 4, 5 pm

THURSDAY 24th January 6.30 pm
Exhibition Opening - Wordsworth Trust and Live at LICA
As part of the University's special agreement with the Wordsworth Trust at Dove Cottage in Grasmere, the first of a series of exhibitions based on material from the Wordsworth Trust opens at 6.30pm on Thursday 24th January. For further details, please see http://www.liveatlica.org/whats-on/in-residence
Manton Room, Peter Scott Gallery.

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

WEDNESDAY 13th February
Departmental Research Seminar
Martin McQuillan (University of Kingston), 'storytelling and Sovereignty in Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence
County Main Seminar Room 4, 5 pm

WEDNESDAY 20th February (READING WEEK), 5-7 pm
Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research Event: Writing Liberty 2
Bowland North Seminar Room 10

THURSDAY 28th February, 6.30pm
'Talking Myself Home': A Life in Writing. An evening with poet and broadcaster Ian Macmillan.
Peter Scott Gallery - wine reception to follow. This event is hosted by the Department of English and Creative Writing and sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

WEDNESDAY 6th March
Departmental Research Seminar
Janet Clare (University of Hull), '"Buried in the Open Fields": Ofelia and Early Modern Suicide’.
County Main Seminar Room 4, 5 pm

WEDNESDAY 13th March
Departmental Book Launch Event
Kamilla Elliott and Jen Asworth
County Main Seminar Room 4 , 5 pm

Summer Term 2013

WEDNESDAY 1st May, 6 pm
30th Anniversary of Creative Writing at Lancaster University
Peter Scott Gallery

WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY 7th and 8th May
Visit by Paul Muldoon (hoted jointly with the Department of Linguistics and English Language)
Full details to follow

MONDAY 13th May, 2 pm–4 pm
Open Postgraduate Seminar
Terry Eagleton (Lancaster University), ‘The Event of Literature 1: What is Literature?’
Bowland North Seminar Room 10

TUESDAY 14th May, 10am–12 pm
Open Postgraduate Seminar
Terry Eagleton (Lancaster University), ‘The Event of Literature 2: The English Novel’
Bowland North Seminar Room 23

TUESDAY 14th May, 1pm-2pm
First Year Undergraduate Lecture
Terry Eagleton (Lancaster University), ‘On Postmodernism’
Faraday LT

WEDNESDAY 15th May, 10 am–12 pm
Open Postgraduate Seminar
Terry Eagleton (Lancaster University), ‘The Event of Literature 3'
Bowland North Seminar Room 23

WEDNESDAY 15th May, 2 pm–4 pm
Postgraduate Tutorials
Terry Eagleton
County Main B193

MONDAY 27th May, 6 pm
Public Lecture with Simon Critchley
Faraday Lecture Theatre

TUESDAY 28th May, 2 pm
Research Seminar with Simon Critchley
Bowland North Seminar Room 10

WEDNESDAY 29th May, 9am-5.30pm
One Day Symposium with Simon Critchley (including lecture by Terry Eagleton on 'Jesus and Tragedy'
Venue TBC

Please note that Departmental Postgraduate Seminars are for postgraduates in the Department of English & Creative Writing only. The Faculty Postgraduate Seminars are open to all postgraduate students in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. The Annual Public and Departmental lectures are open to all.

Previous Events, 2012-13

Michaelmas Term 2012

WEDNESDAY 10th October
Departmental Research Seminar
Michael Greaney (Lancaster University), '"Snoring for the Million": Dickens and the Comedy of Sleep'.
Hilary Hinds (Lancaster University), 'Marie Stopes and the Literary Economy of Twin Beds'
County Main Seminar Room   4, 5 pm

WEDNESDAY 17th October
Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research Annual Lecture
Roger Bromley (Lancaster University), ‘Reading and Writing the Arab Spring’
LICA, A27

THURSDAY 18th October
Department Research Seminar
Jenn Ashworth (Lancaster University) and Nermin Yildirim, The Manchester Letters Project
Bowland North Seminar Room 9

WEDNESDAY 24th October
Department Research Seminar
Robert Spencer (University of Manchester), ‘The Dictator Novel’
County Main Seminar Room 4, 5 pm

THURSDAY 22nd November
Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research Event: Writing Liberty 1
Gillian Slovo
LICA, A27

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

THURSDAY 29TH November
Mikimoto Memorial Ruskin Lecture
Tristram Hunt MP, ‘Ruskin, Engels and the City’
Faraday Lecture Theatre followed by refreshments

WEDNESDAY 5th December
Departmental Research Seminar
Chris Witter (Lancaster University), ‘The American Short Story in the 1960s’
Maria Christou (Lancaster University), ‘Sex is Secretly Food’
County Main Seminar Room 4, 5 pm

THURSDAY 6th December
Charity Reading Event
Jenn Ashworth. Polly Atkin, Paul Farley and George Green will all read from their work in aid of local charity, The Twins' Appeal.
Admission by donation. Wine reception to follow.
Conference Centre Room 2, 6pm.