Events from the 01 January 2025 - 31 December 2025 Reset
Our next research seminar, open to staff and postgraduates.
23 January 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
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
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