Alexandra Harris, The marsh and the visitor Alex will introduce and read from recent essays about an area of Sussex which she finds familiar from her childhood, but to which she has experienced increasingly as unknown territory.
‘Debates and Doughnuts: Is Feminism Dead?’ This event is organised by two students who would like to reignite feminist debate on campus. Predominantly student-facing, the aim is to draw in students and staff from several Schools. The students hope that … Continue reading
Sethina Watson (University of York) 'Hospitals and the Law: the problem of charities for a church in the world' Drinks and nibbles to follow in G27L
Dr Cathy Clay (English, Nottingham Trent) ‘Rereading the Time and Tide Archive: The Feminist and Cultural Politics of a Modern Magazine’
Clover Stroud, The wild other: on landscape and grief Clover will read extracts from The Wild Other, her deeply confessional memoir about the role horses and the landscape of Oxfordshire have played in managing trauma in her life.
Elizabeth van Houts (University of Cambridge) 'Marriage and Consent in the Middle Ages (1000-1200)' Drinks and nibbles to follow in G27L
Dr. Mary Morrissey, University of Reading “Rhetoric and belonging in Donne's sermons”
Dr Daisy Hay (English, Exeter) ‘Dinner with Joseph Johnson: On a Romantic bookseller and group biography’
Inspired by Vote 100: Celebrating Forgotten Heroines’. The evening is the idea of a Part 3 student in connection with a work placement for ‘Literature, Media, Education’, and the planned event splices activity between SLL, MERL, and Dr Jacqui Turner’s … Continue reading
Simon Kovesi, John Clare and place The Romantic labouring-class poet John Clare is regarded as English literature’s first major ecologically-conscious writer. Simon discusses place as a foundation of Clare’s writing, and asks what position he should have in contemporary … Continue reading
