2013-14 (archive)

Hilary Term

Dorfman Room, St. Peter’s College
Mondays (weeks 2, 4, 6 and 8 at 5.15 pm)

27 January:
Robert Clark-Majerus (Literary Encyclopaedia)The Politics of Mansfield Park: Nobility, Evangelicalism, and the East India Company Charter Renewal of 1813’

10 February:
Kerri Andrews (Strathclyde): ‘Editing Ann Yearsley: new texts, new contexts’

24 February:
Ruth Scobie (Worcester College, Oxford): ‘Before Byromania: Mapping celebrity in autumn 1780’

10 March:
Anthony Mandal (Cardiff): ‘From Perthshire Walks into the Pathless Wild: Religion and Nation in Mary Brunton’s Self-Control (1811)’

Convenors: Dr Ros Ballaster (Mansfield), Dr Christine Gerrard (LMH), Dr Freya Johnston (St Anne’s), Dr Kathryn Murphy (Oriel College), Dr Nicole Pohl (Brookes University) Dr Abigail Williams (St Peter’s).

 

Trinity Term

Dorfman Room, St. Peter’s College
Mondays (weeks 2, 4, 6 and 8 at 5.15 pm)

Week 2 (5 May): Professor Pamela Clemit (Durham University, Oxford):
‘Readers Write to Godwin: The Fabrication of Political Justice’.

Week 4 (19 May): Professor Ruth Perry (MIT):
‘Balladry and the Scottish Enlightenment’

Week 6 (2 June): Sally Tagholm, Helen Cowie (University of York) and Robert Wenley (The Barber Institute Birmingham):
‘Celebrity Beasts’.

Week 8 (16 June): Joseph Hone, Jesus College, Oxford:
‘Newton’s Medals: Public Poetry and Material Culture’. Followed by END OF TERM PARTY.

Convenors: Dr Ros Ballaster (Mansfield), Dr Christine Gerrard (LMH), Dr Freya Johnston (St Anne’s), Dr Kathryn Murphy (Oriel College), Dr Nicole Pohl (Brookes University) Dr Abigail Williams (St Peter’s).