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A seminar about the long history of references to liver and heart-eating witches in medieval texts from the Indian sub-continent, and how these reflect popular attitudes about women's bodies and roles in society.
18 January 2024
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Pemberton Rooms PG21, Palace Green, Durham University, DH1 3RL
Due to unforeseen circumstances this seminar has been cancelled at short notice. Apologies if you were planning to attend.
24 January 2024
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Online
All welcome at our next research seminar.
07 February 2024
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
21 February 2024
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Speaker Tomos Evans
06 March 2024
Our inaugural 'English Creates Alumni Careers' online panel discussion is not to be missed!
In this seminar, Dr Reynolds will introduce early modern waste paper and explore its unexpected imaginative potency in the period.
08 May 2024
Zoom
An exciting one-day symposium at Durham University celebrating the latest work on moving images in the Medical Humanities.
18 September 2024
Tom Percival Annex, Brooks House, St Cuthbert‘s Society, Parson‘s Field, Durham DH1 3JP
Elysium Theatre Company & Durham University present a round table discussion and Q&A.
18 October 2024
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Assembly Rooms Theatre
Staff and postgraduates are welcome to our first English Studies research seminar of the academic year.
21 November 2024
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Hallgarth House 004
Our next research seminar, open to staff and postgraduates.
28 November 2024
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Elvet Riverside 155
An international workshop with scholars from cognitive sciences and narrative studies advancing on the problem of 'implicit narrativity'
05 December 2024
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Institute for Medical Humanities, Confluence Building, Durham University
In 2019, the Durham Commission on Creativity and Education, a partnership between Durham University and Arts Council England, launched its first report investigating the teaching of young people to be creative and to think creatively, and made ten recommendations across not only schools, but also Early Years, apprenticeships, Universities and the arts.
12 December 2024
CB008, Confluence Building, on the main Durham University Science Site off Stockton Road.
23 January 2025
HH004
A workshop organised by the North Modern and Contemporary Network, where researchers will discuss the ways in which creative tools can be applied to their own writing. The event is free and open to all PhD students, ECR, and academics interested in modern and contemporary studies, broadly understood. Please feel free to share it in your networks.
28 January 2025
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
ER146 (Elvet Riverside I) 83 New Elvet DH1 3AQ
Part of a regular series of research seminars hosted by the Department of English Studies at Durham University.
20 February 2025
Hallgarth House, HH004
In this seminar, members of Durham’s 'The SOE, Covert Action, and the British Cultural Imaginary’ project will discuss the research they have been conducting towards understanding these post-war legacies of the SOE.
26 February 2025
ER152, Elvet Riverside
Dr Rebecca Macklin (Aberdeen) will be giving the final staff and postgraduate research seminar of Epiphany term. All English Studies staff and postgraduates are warmly invited.
27 February 2025
A Research Showcase – on Theatre and Performance in the Long Nineteenth Century, followed by the Book Launch for Stock Pieces: British Repertory Theatre, 1760–1830, with Bennett Zon (Professor of Music and Director of the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, Durham) in conversation with Susan Valladares.
19 March 2025
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Durham‘s Teaching and Learning Centre TLC 116 and/or Online via Teams
How does feminist speculative fiction critique capitalism and ecological neglect, reimagining solidarities in the face of planetary crises?
08 May 2025
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Hybrid: Institute for Medical Humanities | Online
A conversation with cognitive literary scholar Karin Kukkonen and novelist Laura Otis reflecting on creativity and cognition.
12 June 2025
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Tom Percival Annex, Brooks House, St Cuthbert‘s Society Parsons Field
A workshop with cognitive literary scholars Marco Bernini and Karin Kukkonen, and novelist Laura Otis reflecting on creativity and cognition.
13 June 2025
2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
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
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