Monthly Archives: March 2013

Vampiric Literary Monday

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Cindy

FROM NECROPHILIA TO TECHNOPHILIA: The Vampiric Imagination on Film Kevin Jackson’s illustrated talk on Monday 18 March 5pm HumSS 125, Whiteknights Campus rounds off this term’s series of Modern Studies Seminars Come and celebrate the last week of term and enjoy … Continue reading →

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Archives and Texts: seminar with Dr Alison Martin on ‘Translating Nature’

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Cindy

Dr Alison Martin (Modern Languages and European Studies, Reading) Translating Nature: Helen Maria Williams and Alexander von Humboldt’s Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du nouveau continent  Monday 11th March, 5pm in Humss 124, Whiteknights Campus Helen Maria Williams’ English translation (1814-29) … Continue reading →

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Theatre History and Performance Studies: a lecture

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Cindy

  Dr Farah Karim-Cooper Head of Courses and Research at Shakespeare’s Globe will speak on   “The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse: A Jacobean Archetype” Tuesday, March 5, 5pm, URS Lecture Theatre, Whiteknights Campus Sponsored by the School of Languages and Literature … Continue reading →

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Department Research Evening: Thursday 7th March

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Cindy

There will be an informal gathering, to be held in 125 (Humss) on Thursday 7th March, from 5-7pm, to celebrate some of the recent research activity of the Dept. Over some nibbles and wine, members of the Department will get … Continue reading →

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International Women’s Day party

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Cindy

This is just a quick reminder to all that the Student Union’s Women’s Group is hosting an ‘International Women’s Day’ party on Wednesday 6th March The event will be held in Humss Room 125, Whiteknights Campus, from 6 pm. Several members of the English … Continue reading →

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Chloe Houston on her recent research

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Cindy

During my research leave I mostly worked on plans for a new book project, which has the working title Staging Persia in Early Modern England: Gender, Politics and Religion 1558-1688. In the past few years I have published a couple … Continue reading →

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Early Modern Women in Italy

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Cindy

Early Modern Research Seminar Dr Helena Sanson (Clare College, Cambridge) will be talking about ‘Women, Language(s) and Orality in Early Modern Italy’ Wednesday 6th March, Humss 126, Whitknights Campus,  5.15 pm All most welcome!  

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Literary Mondays event

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Cindy

An invitation to next week’s Monday Seminar: 4 March at 5pm. Dr Inga Bryden will be talking about text, materiality, the modern city and of urban space. She’s full of interesting interdisciplinary angularities, so it should be well worth attending. Monday … Continue reading →

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