Past events
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EACW research seminar: Dr. Ben Ware (KCL), 'Dialectics of Extinction: From Freud to Anti-Natalism'
17:00 - 18:30 5 February 2025
English, American Studies and Creative Writing research seminar: Dr. Ben Ware (KCL), 'Dialectics of Extinction: From Freud to Anti-Natalism' Venue: C1.18, Ellen Wilkinson Building All welcome! -- Dr. Ben Ware is the Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and the Visual Arts (CPVA) at King’s...
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Leverhulme Visiting Professor Lecture: Prof. Karen Karbiener (NYU), “I Stop Somewhere Waiting for You”: Introducing Walt Whitman and Your ‘Song of Myself’
16:00 - 17:30 29 January 2025
Leverhulme Visiting Professor Karen Karbiener (NYU) will deliver a public lecture on Walt Whitman: “I Stop Somewhere Waiting for You”: Introducing Walt Whitman and Your ‘Song of Myself’ Venue: Sam Alex Lecture Theatre, Samuel Alexander Building Organised by Dr. Gordon Fraser --- Karen Karbiener...
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Professor David Alderson’s Inaugural Lecture – Beyond Subcultures: Populism, Hegemony and Cultural Production
16:30 - 18:30 4 December 2024
Alan Sinfield once distinctively theorised both the New Left generally and liberation movements individually as subcultures, but regarded these positively in the context of the defeats the Left had suffered during the 1980s. The recent emergence of culture wars directed against a ‘new elite’ appears...
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Brook Lecture in Middle English: Prof. Marion Turner (Oxford): 'Imagining Medieval Lives'
17:00 - 19:30 27 November 2024
Everyone is warmly invited to the Annual Brook Lecture in Middle English, to take place in: Ellen Wilkinson C1.18 at 5pm on Wednesday 27 November This year's lecturer is Marion Turner, Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at Oxford, and author of an acclaimed biography, Geoffrey Chaucer:...
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