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.
'I Dream a World': The Life and Work of Langston Hughes
To coincide with the American Poetry module lectures on the Harlem Renaissance and in conjunction with The Centre for Poetry and Poetics, Garrett Turner will be performing his acclaimed one-act play on the life and work of Langston Hughes. Short clips from Garrett’s performance at Emory University can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKIYGRiqSyw; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6u_zKHyuEw
Garrett’s reading of Hughes’s poetry, drama and autobiographical writings takes place on Thursday March 8th in Room 142, Elvet Riverside from 6.15 to 7pm.
Everyone is very welcome.
Contact jason.harding@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
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Next Event
- 20th January 2021
- Sensory Experiments in Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Online (Zoom)
- Dr Erica Fretwell (University of Albany) and Dr Shannon Draucker (Siena College)