Event Archive

This is an archive of past events within the Department of English Studies. Please see our current events for forthcoming activities.

Some of our public events are recorded and are available as podcasts via our Research English At Durham blog.

Inventions of the Text Seminar: Two Talks on Aspects of Ezra Pound’s Poetry

19th October 2011, 16:30 to 18:00, Seminar Room, Hallgarth House, Jack Baker and Annabel Haynes

An Inventions of the Text staff-postgraduate seminar.

Two talks on the poetry of Ezra Pound:

'"Oh my England": Memory and Revaluation in the Cantos' by Jack Baker (Department of English Studies, Durham University)
'"The Peasant's bent shoulders" / "gritty grinding": The politics of labour poeticised in Ezra Pound and Basil Bunting' by Annabel Haynes (Department of English Studies, Durham University)

Contact inventionsofthetext@gmail.com for more information about this event.

Research in English At Durham (READ) blog showcasing the the literary research emerging from the Department of English Studies

We host a large number of conferences, lectures and seminars each year, many of them open to the public. Find out more on our Events page.

Many of our public lectures, seminars and conferences are recorded, and can be listened to as podcasts.

20th January 2021
Sensory Experiments in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Online (Zoom)
Dr Erica Fretwell (University of Albany) and Dr Shannon Draucker (Siena College)