Events
This page lists events taking place within Durham University or in the local area with which English Studies staff and students are directly involved. For English related events in Durham or in the local region organised outside of the Department, see the Regional Events page.
Forthcoming Events
Staff/Postgraduate Research Seminar: 'Maps of Utopia: H.G. Wells and the End of Culture' by Dr. Simon James (University of Durham)
Simon James is Senior Lecturer at the University of Durham. He is the author of Unsettled Accounts: Money and Narrative in the Novels of George Gissing (Anthem Press, 2003). He has edited four H. G. Wells novels for Penguin Classics, as well as George Gissing's Charles Dickens: A Critical Study (Grayswood, 2004). He is also the editor of the journal The Wellsian. In addition, he has published a number essays and aritcles on topics such as masculinity, consumption and realism in Victorian literature. He is currently finishing a monograph on H. G. Wells.
Contact ulrika.maude@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
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In addition to these web listings, a monthly email digest of all English-related events at Durham University and across the wider region is circulated to all staff and students in the Department, and to interested members of the public.
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IMRS/IMEMS Conference Series Summer 2013
- Early Modern Catholicism
- Intellectual Networks in the Long Seventeenth Century
- Producing Text and Gospel Commentary in Medieval Perspective
Three conferences in June and July will mark the launch of the University’s Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies and the Durham exhibition of the Lindisfarne Gospels, and celebrate the rich resources of the city’s historic libraries – Cosin’s Library, the Cathedral Library, and the Library of Ushaw College.
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