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.
'Why Tennyson?' and 'Why now?' Alfred Tennyson in 1862 and 2012
A staff and postgraduate research seminar.
John Batchelor's books include a literary history, The Edwardian Novelists (1982), and monographs on H.G.Wells (1985) and Virginia Woolf (1991); and he was general editor for Oxford University Press of the World's Classics edition of Conrad (1980 - 2002).
His new biography of Tennyson, entitled Tennyson: to strive, to seek, to find, will be published by Chatto & Windus, November 1 2012.
Contact jason.harding@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
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Events
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.
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Many of our public lectures, seminars and conferences are recorded, and can be listened to as podcasts.
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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)