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Join Associate Professor Emily Rohrbach of Durham University as she explores Romantic poet John Keats's creative encounter with his predecessor Shakespeare, focusing on the young poet’s engagement with Shakespeare through his facsimile copy of the 1623 folio. In that book, Keats inscribed an original poem in the space left by the printer between the end of Hamlet and the beginning of King Lear.
25 September 2025
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Museum of Archaeology
Linked to the Ushaw College exhibition on the writer Lafcadio Hearn, in this free public event, historians and cultural scholars from Durham University will introduce the culture and politics of the Meiji period – from the decline of the Samurai to the rise of militarism and colonialism, alongside the remarkable perseverance and transformation of Japanese literature, music, science and art.
22 October 2025
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Exhibition Theatre, Ushaw College
Step into the shadows this spooky season as Dr Fraser Riddell and Ushaw College host a screening of Kwaidan (1964) – Masaki Kobayashi’s haunting masterpiece of Japanese cinema, based on stories from Lafcadio Hearn’s collections of Japanese folk tales.
24 October 2025
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Ushaw College
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