16 January
5.15pm, Room G2, 19 George Square.
Prof. Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila (Edinburgh): Alexander the Great in Early Persian and Arabic
Historiography.
[Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies / Iran Heritage Foundation]
April 7
4.30pm, 50 George Square Project Room 1.06.
Dr Sarah Prescott, Dr Cathryn Charnall-Whyte (Aberystwyth), Dr Sarah Dunnigan (Edinburgh): The Poetics and Politics of Female Elegy in Wales and Scotland, 1400-1800.
March 31
4.30pm, 50 George Square Project Room 1.06.
Dr David Higgins (Leeds): "Planets turn to ashes": Byron, Climate Change, and Extinction.
Caryl Phillips, Professor of English, Yale University
“A Sense of Home"
March 17
4.30pm, 50 George Square Project Room 1.06.
Prof Susan Jones (Oxford): “Saving grace” in literary modernism and dance.
March 10
4.30pm, 50 George Square Project Room 1.06.
Dr Anthony Mandal (Cardiff): Mysteries, Markets, Maps: Gothic Fiction and the Romantic Book Trade.
March 3
4.30pm, 50 George Square Project Room 1.06.
Dr Keith Hughes (Edinburgh): ‘“I see you have a feeling for symbols of power”: Robert Lowell’s Benito.
Cereno and American Civil Rights in the 1960s’
February 17
4.30pm, 50 George Square Project Room 1.06.
Nicola McCartney (Edinburgh): ‘“Life As Story”: new writing and drama as a tool for change’
February 10
4.30pm, 50 George Square Project Room 1.06.
Prof Rick Rylance (University of London/Institute of English Studies): Literature and the Public Good.
February 3
4.30pm, 50 George Square Project Room 1.06.
Prof Herbert Tucker (Virginia): Charms and the Nerd: Victorian Dark Arts as High Tech.