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Raw Livers and Rampant Lovers: The South Asian Witch as a Consuming Force

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

  • Discussion
  • Lecture
  • Research event
  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences
  • Department of English Studies
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CANCELLED: White Masks, Dead Poets

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

  • Discussion
  • Lecture
  • Research event
  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences
  • Department of English Studies
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Poetics of Rendering

All welcome at our next research seminar.

07 February 2024

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Online

  • Discussion
  • Lecture
  • Public
  • Research event
  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences
  • Department of English Studies
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21 February 2024

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Online

  • Discussion
  • Lecture
  • Public
  • Research event
  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences
  • Department of English Studies
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06 March 2024

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Online

  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences
  • Department of English Studies
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English Creates: Alumni Careers

Our inaugural 'English Creates Alumni Careers' online panel discussion is not to be missed!

06 March 2024

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Online

  • Alumni
  • Discussion
  • Online
  • Support services
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Waste, Paper, and the Imagination

In this seminar, Dr Reynolds will introduce early modern waste paper and explore its unexpected imaginative potency in the period.

08 May 2024

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Zoom

  • Discussion
  • Lecture
  • Online
  • Public
  • Research event
  • Department of English Studies
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Gender and Genre: Medical Humanities and the Moving Image

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

  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences
  • Department of English Studies
  • Research Institute
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Othello and Shakespeare's Tragic Vision

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

  • Discussion
  • Performance
  • Department of English Studies
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T. S. Eliot, Verse Drama, and Dance

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

  • Research event
  • Department of English Studies
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Covert Challenges: Antislavery before Abolition and Work at Sea

Our next research seminar, open to staff and postgraduates.

28 November 2024

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Elvet Riverside 155

  • Research event
  • Department of English Studies
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Implicit Narrativity: The Workshop

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

  • Research event
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05 December 2024

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Hallgarth House 004

  • Research event
  • Department of English Studies
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Children and Creativity: In Conversation with Anne Longfield

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

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

CB008, Confluence Building, on the main Durham University Science Site off Stockton Road.

  • Discussion
  • Other
  • Public
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23 January 2025

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

HH004

  • Research event
  • Department of English Studies
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Creative Writing as Research Practice: A Workshop

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

  • Research event
  • Department of English Studies
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Research Seminar: Natalie Goodison

Part of a regular series of research seminars hosted by the Department of English Studies at Durham University.

20 February 2025

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Hallgarth House, HH004

  • Research event
  • Department of English Studies
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The Special Operations Executive and the British Cultural Imaginary: A Work in Progress Seminar

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

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

ER152, Elvet Riverside

  • Research event
  • Department of English Studies
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“This is not a poem […] it is a lifeline”: Gender, Social Reproduction, and South African Literary Infrastructures of Care

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

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Hallgarth House, HH004

  • Research event
  • Department of English Studies
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CNCS Research Showcase and Book Launch: Stock Pieces: British Repertory Theatre, 1760–1830 by Susan Valladares

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

  • Research event
  • Department of English Studies
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Cap-Lit, Cli-Fi, and Vi-Fi by Diasporic Women Writers

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

  • Lecture
  • Research event
  • Research Institute
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Creativity and Cognition: A Conversation

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

  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences
  • Department of English Studies
  • Research Institute
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Creativity and Cognition: A Workshop

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

Tom Percival Annex, Brooks House, St Cuthbert‘s Society Parsons Field

  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences
  • Department of English Studies
  • Research Institute
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Twilight Talks - John Keats Encounters the Shakespeare Folio

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

  • Lecture
  • Department of English Studies