Term 1

Week 2: Christopher Norris, Philosophy, Cardiff: 'Poetry and Philosophy: recent poems and verse-essays

Week 4: Daniel Katz/Nick Lawrence, Engl & Comp Lit, Warwick. ‘Why We Suffer: Analysing Freud’s 'Civilisation and its Discontents. + CRPLA party, venue tbc.

Week 8: Peter Poellner, Philosophy, Warwick: "Musil's The Man without Qualities: Modernity, Desire, and Lack"

Week 10: Howard Caygill, CRMEP Kingston: Kafka’s Beginnings: A Reading of 'Children on a Country Road'

Term 2

Week 2: Emma Mason, Engl. & Comp Lit, Warwick: Everyday elegy: mourning and redemption in Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic

Week 4: Emily Brady, Geography/Philosophy, Edinburgh: Natural Beauty: 18th Century Aesthetic Philosophy and Contemporary Environmental Aesthetics

Week 8: Karen Lang Art History, Warwick: 'Philip Guston and the Allegory of Painting'

Week 10: Murray Smith, Film Studies, Kent: ‘Putting Transparency in its Place’

Term 3

Week 2: (Eileen John, tbc, if required)

week 3: ‘For A Materialist Psychoanalysis’ conference (Fri-Sat 8-9 May)

Week 4: Laurent Milesi, Engl/Critical & Cultural Theory, Cardiff: Counter-texting one another: Conceptual poetics, Flarf and Derridean counter-signature’.