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Open Readings, Seminars and Lectures

Michaelmas Term 2011

Departmental Research Seminar 1

Date: 12 October 2011 Time: 5-6.30 pm Venue: County Main Seminar Room 1
Kamilla Elliott (Lancaster University), Gothic Picture Identification; Catherine Spooner (Lancaster University), I'm the Shoreditch vampire: Goth Masculinities and Comic Dandies in The Mighty Boosh; Lynne Pearce (Lancaster University), Automobility in Manchester Fiction

Annual Public Lecture

Date: 17 October Time: 6 pm Venue: Management School Lecture Theatre 3
Terry Eagleton (Lancaster University), After Theory

Departmental Research Seminar 2

Date: 26 October Time: 5-6.30 pm Venue: County Seminar Room 1
Ken Gelder (University of Melbourne) Citational Vampires: Techniques of Circulation in Irma Vep, Blood, The Last Vampire and Thirst.

LRB Research Seminar

Date: 2 November Time: 4-6 pm Venue: George Fox Lecture Theatre 4
Christopher Tayler

Departmental Research Seminar 3

Date: 9 November Time: 5-6.30 pm Venue: County Seminar Room 1
Amy Pugh (Lancaster University), Negotiating Natural Boundaries: Reading the Garden Space in Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journals; Neal Kirk (Lancaster University), Virtual/Real Estate: Dying in Digital; Lucy Perry (Lancaster University), Narrative Medicine: Mimetic Fallacy in Contemporary Alzheimer's Fiction as Medical/Gerontological Resource

Ruskin Seminar

Date: 3 November Time: 4-6 pm Venue: FASS Meeting Room 2-3
Roger Ebbatson (Research Fellow, Lancaster University), title TBC

Departmental Research Seminar 4

Date: 23 November Time: 5-6.30 pm Venue: County Seminar Room 1
Kathleen Jones (Lancaster University); Philip Caveney (Lancaster University)

Inaugural Lecture

Date: 7 December Time: TBC Venue: TBC
Graham Mort (Lancaster University)

Lent Term 2012

Departmental Research Seminar 5

Date: 18 January Time: 5-6.30 pm Venue: County Seminar Room 1
Jonathan Dollimore (University of Sussex), Oscar Wilde and the Violence of Desire

Annual Departmental Lecture

Date: 23 January Time: 6 pm Venue: Management School Lecture Theatre 3 to be followed by wine reception
Terry Eagleton (Lancaster University), Culture and Violence

Departmental Research Seminar 7

Date: 15 February Time: 5-6.30 pm Venue: County Seminar Room 1
Roger Bromley (Visiting Professor at Lancaster University), Spaces of Meaning: Narratives of Displacement, Recognition and Belonging.

Departmental Research Seminar 8

Date: 29 February Time: 5-6.30 pm Venue: County Seminar Room 1
Claire Jowitt (Nottingham Trent University) Queen Elizabeth and Piracy

Departmental Research Seminar 9

Date: 14 March Time: 5-6.30 pm Venue: County Seminar Room 1
Eleanor Rycroft (Lancaster University), Hair-storicising performance: the trimming of players on the early modern English stage

Summer Term 2012

Public Lecture

Date: 28 May Time: TBC Venue: TBC
J. Hillis Miller (University of California at Irvine)

Postgraduate Research Seminar

Date: 30 May Time: TBC Venue: TBC
J. Hillis Miller (University of California at Irvine)

One Day Symposium with J. Hillis Miller

Date: 1 June Time: 9.30 am-6 pm Venue: Storey Creative Industries Centre
J. Hillis Miller and the Theory to Come

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.