'I'm Glad I Read It'

I'm Glad I Read It' Series

Please join us for informal discussion of some cherished reading experiences. Each week a faculty member will present briefly on something they are glad to have read, followed by discussion. No pre-reading is required. The hope is that we will have a chance to learn about - and perhaps become interested in reading - works we do not know much about. Feel free to bring your lunch, and feel free to drop in for single sessions. All are welcome: undergrads, postgrads and staff.

From a compendium of Christine de Pizan's works commissioned in 1413, produded by her scriptorium in Paris. Public domain.

Schedule

All sessions will be held on Mondays 1.00-2.00 pm, in the Philosophy Common Room (S2.73)

Week 3 (20 Oct. 2025) David Bather Woods 

'Sailing to Byzantium (via Liverpool): Irish literature as a journey home' [Yeats poem Link opens in a new windowat Poetry Foundation]]

Week 4 (27 Oct.) Nick Lawrence

Summer Will ShowLink opens in a new window, Sylvia Townsend Warner

Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political DefeatLink opens in a new window, Hannah Proctor

Week 5 (3 Nov.) Emma Williams

‘Walden in Tokyo’, Stanley Cavell

Week 7 (17 Nov.) Emma Mason

'Nest Box'Link opens in a new window, Simon Armitage

Week 8 (24 Nov.) Paulo de Medeiros

'Benjamin and Pessoa on the telephone’

Berliner Kindheit um 1900, Walter Benjamin

The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa

Week 9 (1 Dec.) Johannes Roessler

 'Human relations', Natalia Ginzburg (in her Little Virtues)