2007-08 Staff Research Seminars
All seminars are on Wednesdays at 3pm in Room H545 unless otherwise specified. Staff and students from all faculties are warmly invited to attend. Please contact Nick Lawrence for further details.
Autumn Term
October 17, 2007
Paul Giles (Rothermere American Institute, Oxford)
“Augustan American Literature: An Aesthetics of Extravagance”
October 24, 2007 in Ramphal 1.03 at 5pm
David Harvey (CUNY Graduate Center)
“Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom”
October 31, 2007
Colin Burrow (All Souls, Oxford)
“Reading Tudor Literature Politically: The Case of 2 Henry IV”
Spring Term
January 16, 2008
Sukanta Chaudhuri (Jadavpur)
“Texts and the Text in the Renaissance”
March 5, 2008
Sally Ledger (Birkbeck)
“Dog Eat Dog: Dickens, Darwin and Our Mutual Friend”
Summer Term
April 30, 2008 in Ramphal 1.04 at 5pm
Laura Marcus (Edinburgh)
‘Urban Rhythms: Time and the City in Modernist Fiction and Film’
May 14, 2008
Frederick Burwick (UCLA Emeritus)
“‘An Orphic Tale’: Goethe’s Faust Translated by Coleridge”