Events
We host a large number of conferences, lectures and seminars each year, many of them open to the public. Subscribe to our monthly North East Literature Events newsletter and we'll keep you posted. If you are a staff member or student and want to publicise your event, contact alistair.brown@durham.ac.uk.
Highlights
Late Summer Lectures 2018 brings bright sparks of research to a public audience. Come along and experience this year's theme of 'Beginnings and Endings'.
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A conference on Elegy: New Approaches on 14th September will explore the the poetry of mourning both past, present and future
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Wednesday 15 August 2018
“The Beginning of Sound Film -The End of Literary Modernism?” and “The Rise of Populism and a Call for the New Sincerity in Contemporary Fiction”
The first pair of talks in our series of Late Summer Lectures will look at how literature reflects trends and developments in wider culture and politics, focusing on modern and contemporary writers. Free and open to the public.
Contact latesummerlectures@gmail.com for more information about this event.
Wednesday 22 August 2018
Sacred Symbols, Snake-Women and Sisterhood: Crafting Power in Medieval Origin Stories
The second Late Summer Lecture takes us back to look at three stories from the medieval period. Free and open to the public.
Contact latesummerlectures@gmail.com for more information about this event.
Wednesday 29 August 2018
'Remembrance, but to what end?: Registers of petition in the holograph manuscripts of Thomas Hoccleve' and '(S)he’s just not that into you: Resistance and Persistence in Medieval Romance Literature'
Remembrance and lost love. These are two of the themes to be found in the medieval literature explored in this pair of talks from our Late Summer Lecture series. Free and open to the public.
Contact latesummerlectures@gmail.com for more information about this event.
Monday 3 September 2018
Symposium of Sound ‘The rest is silence’
A two-day conference supported by Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership, that looks at 'sound' from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
Contact symposiumofsound2018@gmail.com for more information about this event.
Tuesday 4 September 2018
Symposium of Sound ‘The rest is silence’
A two-day conference supported by Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership, that looks at 'sound' from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
Contact symposiumofsound2018@gmail.com for more information about this event.
Wednesday 5 September 2018
“Literary Ghosts: The death of Robert Greene and the Birth of Satirical Pamphleteering” and “Fire stopped play: Shakespeare, Henry VIII, and the day the Globe burned down”
Is death and destruction an ending, or a chance for a new beginning? These two talks in our Late Summer Lecture series will answer this question in relation to the writers William Shakespeare and Robert Greene. Free and open to the public.
Contact latesummerlectures@gmail.com for more information about this event.
Wednesday 12 September 2018
The Stream of Consciousness in the Works of William Wordsworth and James Joyce
William Wordsworth and James Joyce are not literary names who are generally thought of together, but this Late Summer Lecture will show how they are connected through their representation of consciousness. Free and open to the public.
Contact latesummerlectures@gmail.com for more information about this event.
Friday 14 September 2018
Elegy: New Approaches
The elegy may be a traditional form of poetry, but it is also one that has evolved and continues to change through time. This one-day conference, with keynote Professor Stephen Regan, will reflect on the current state of research.
Contact elegy2018@gmail.com for more information about this event.
Monday 17 September 2018
Personification Across Disciplines: An Interdisciplinary Conference
This two-day conference organised by Hearing the Voice will explore personifying dynamics and experiences through a variety of disciplines, methods and perspectives.
Contact marco.bernini@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Tuesday 18 September 2018
Personification Across Disciplines: An Interdisciplinary Conference
This two-day conference organised by Hearing the Voice will explore personifying dynamics and experiences through a variety of disciplines, methods and perspectives.
Contact marco.bernini@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Wednesday 19 September 2018
Personification Across Disciplines: An Interdisciplinary Conference
This two-day conference organised by Hearing the Voice will explore personifying dynamics and experiences through a variety of disciplines, methods and perspectives.
Contact marco.bernini@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
Ab origine mundi/ ad mea…tempora: Beginnings and Endings in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
The influences of Ovid's Metamorphoses can be found throughout later Western literature. This Late Summer Lecture will take us back to the original poem, at the end of which Ovid remarkably suggests his work is bound to last forever. Free and open to the public.
Contact latesummerlectures@gmail.com for more information about this event.
Wednesday 26 September 2018
'Victims in a Vacuum': Inscribing Identities in Childhood and Deathbed Scenes
The Victorians were fond of rather mawkish depictions of the angelic child and deathbed scenes. Not surprisingly, later writers have rebelled against these visions, as this next Late Summer Lecture will demonstrate. Free and open to the public.
Contact latesummerlectures@gmail.com for more information about this event.
Wednesday 3 October 2018
Behind Gilded Walls: Tales of wonder, the Gothic, and Islamic Mythology in Contemporary Literature
Our final Late Summer Lecture crosses cultures to explore the how Islamic mythology is used by contemporary Muslim authors to appeal to Muslim and non-Muslim readers alike. Free and open to the public.
Contact latesummerlectures@gmail.com for more information about this event.
Thursday 11 October 2018
Literary Birds
‘Literary Birds’ celebrates avian literary encounters in their myriad manifestations. The keynote speaker will be Professor Simon Armitage.
Contact literarybirdsconference@gmail.com for more information about this event.
Friday 12 October 2018
Literary Birds
‘Literary Birds’ celebrates avian literary encounters in their myriad manifestations. The keynote speaker will be Professor Simon Armitage.
Contact literarybirdsconference@gmail.com for more information about this event.
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