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
SEMINAR CANCELLED: 'From Modest Shoot to Forward Plant: Women, Writing and the Sexuality of Botany, 1760-1830'
Unfortunately, this seminar has had to be cancelled.
Contact ulrika.maude@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
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@READEnglish
READ: Research in English At Durham. Sharing new research and events from the Department of English Studies at Durham University.
- Pleased to welcome the Centre for Humanities Innovation @centrhumanities to Twitter! #humanities #research
Tweeted 4 days ago - RT @mdiclhumanities: "Fashionable Suicides of the Romantic Era": Michelle Faubert (Newcastle, 23 May 2013) http://t.co/ERLuqP1ziZ
Tweeted 5 days ago - RT @gospelsdurham: Tickets are on sale now for Lindisfarne #Gospels Durham. Have you bought yours yet? http://t.co/MiZlKWx3KX
Tweeted 5 days ago - CFP Literary Dolls (closes 1st June): The Female Textual Body from the 19th Century to Now: http://t.co/nxgbW4y4EE #feminism #gender
Tweeted 6 days ago - Postgraduate English is now out, feat. an eclectic mix of Robert Herrick, Charlie Chaplin, Karl Marx, and T.S. Eliot: http://t.co/GBXdSiLWVj
Tweeted 6 days ago
English Events Newsletter
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.
To see this month's newsletter, or for instructions on how to subscribe to the mailing list, visit our Research in English At Durham blog.
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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