Events from the 01 January 2022 - 31 December 2022 Reset
You are warmly invited to attend the talk of Dr Alena Heinritz, a visiting postdoctoral fellow from the University of Innsbruck.
03 May 2022
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Elvet Riverside 143 and Online
You are warmly invited to the final Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Studies Research Seminar of this academic year, hosted by Durham University's English Studies Department and the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies.
04 May 2022
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Online
Everyone is warmly welcome to join Inventions of the Text, for poetry reading and critical thinking with Dr Kim Moore.
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Online (Zoom)
Mark Abdulrazak Gurnah's recent award of the Nobel Prize for Literature with our afternoon of talks and discussions. This event is co-organised between the Department of English Studies at Durham University, the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University, and the Newcastle Postcolonial Research Group.
10 May 2022
2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Online and Department of English Studies, Hallgarth House
This talk is organised with the Institute of Medical Humanities. Dr Lesel Dawson, Associate Professor in Literature and Culture at the University of Bristol, specialises in grief, Renaissance literature and the history of the emotions.
12 May 2022
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
A talk in the series Unregarded: Forms of 'Outside' in Art Writing, which is run in collaboration with Newcastle University's School of Art and Cultures and the Art Writing programme
18 May 2022
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Elvet Riverside 142 and online
A research seminar in our Global Literatures strand.
19 May 2022
Inventions of the Text is delighted to welcome two Durham University Creative Writing PGRs – Lucy Atkinson and Soumyaroop Majumdar – to read for us at our next seminar on 25 May.
25 May 2022
This afternoon workshop will offer ten-minute presentations on the theme of 'outside'. Centring on Art Writing's mobility as a form and its intuitive correspondence with visual culture, the workshop will take an aptly creative-critical focus, providing a forum in which scholars and practitioners may present works-in-progress, new writings or ideas that might occur between (or, indeed, 'outside') disciplines, departments, or definitions.
20 June 2022
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Elvet Riverside 141
Encounter rebellious spirits and abominable monsters as they prowl the halls of Brancepeth Castle this summer.
21 June 2022
10:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Brancepeth Castle