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Department of English Studies

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

'A Tale of Two Newmans: Victorian Faith, Doubt and Mathematical Certainty,' by Professor Alice Jenkins (University of Glasgow)

26th January 2011, 16:30 to 18:00, Seminar Room, Hallgarth House, Professor Alice Jenkins (University of Glasgow)

A staff and postgraduate research seminar.

Alice Jenkins is Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture and works mainly on the emergence of the knowledge economy in the nineteenth century.  Recent publications include Space and the 'March of Mind’: Literature and the Physical Sciences, 1815-1850 (OUP, 2007) and an edition of Michael Faraday’s essays, Michael Faraday’s ‘Mental Exercises’: An Artisan Essay-Circle in Regency London (Liverpool UP, 2008).  She has just completed a book on Victorian ideals about knowledge in daily life, and is currently writing a cultural history of geometry in the nineteenth century.  This book is the first volume of a projected three-volume history of Victorian rationality, and is part of Professor Jenkins’s three-year research project, ‘Nineteenth-Century Euclid’, funded by the European Research Council.

Contact ulrika.maud@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

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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.

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IMRS/IMEMS Conference Series Summer 2013

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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