Lectures and Readings

The Institute runs an extensive annual programme of lectures and readings on a wide range of subjects, both general and specialised, within the broad area of English studies.

If you would like to attend any of these events please email IESEvents@sas.ac.uk or call +44(0)207 862 8675 to reserve a seat.

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15 October 2016: 2.00pm - 6.00pm (Senate Room, Senate House)

The Annual Katherine Mansfield Society Birthday Lecture: Professor Claire Davison: 'Katherine Mansfield's Musical World'. Professor Davison will be joined by musician Joseph Spooner. £15 KM Society and IES members/concs.; £20 non-members standard. The price includes a wine reception to follow the lecture. REGISTRATION OPEN CLICK HERE

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Recent past lectures (with links to podcasts):

• The 17th Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture: Professor Frances Spalding CBE (Newcastle): 'Virginia Woolf and Tristram Shandy'. 23 January 2016

• The Roehampton Poetry Centre: readings by W.N. Herbert and Carole Satyamurti. 17 November 2015

• The T. Edward Carpenter Memorial Lecture: Giles Waterfield: The Artist's and Writer's House Preserved. 12 November 2015

• The Annual Wordsworth Lecture: Professor Simon Bainbridge (Lancaster University): A 'closing deed magnificent?' Wordsworth, War and Waterloo. 15 October 2015

• The Literary London Annual Lecture: Imtiaz Dharker (poet, artist and documentary film-maker), 22 July 2015

• Professor Simon Eliot: 'Recasting Book History'. 3 July 2015

• John Coffin Memorial Palaeography Lecture. Professor Nicholas Vincent FBA: 'Who Wrote Magna Carta?'. 13 May 2015

• Click here for podcasts of the Heythrop 400th Anniversary Conference lectures

• Dr Rowan Williams (Magdalene College, Cambridge): 'Liberal Education: the Jesuit Response to a Theological Imperative'. 20 June 2014

• The Irish Studies Lecture. Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck College): 'Desire and Dishonour: Heterosexuality in Nineteenth-Century Ireland'. 5 June 2014 

• Professor Ronald Schuchard (Emory University, IES Senior Research Fellow): ' "Into the heartland of the ordinary": Seamus Heaney, Thomas Hardy, and the Divided Traditions of Modern and Contemporary Poetry'. 12 May 2014 

• The Annual Palaeography Lecture.  James Willoughby (New College, Oxford): 'The Hand of Ralph of Coggeshall. Chronicle-Making in the Reign of King John'. 7 May 2014

• The 15th Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture. Professor Dame Hermione Lee (Wolfson College, Oxford): 'To pin down the moment with date and season': 25 January 2014
• Annual Wordsworth Lecture.  Professor Stephen Gill (Lincoln College, Oxford): '"A Sea Rolling High": Wordsworth in 1804': 8 October 2013

Hilda Hulme Memorial Lectures:

2014: Professor Dayton Haskin (Boston College): 'The Jesuits and English Literature - John Donne and Ignatian Spirituality' (available here as a PDF file)

2013: Professor Martin Mueller (Professor emeritus of English and Classics, Northwestern University Illinois): '"Shakespeare His Contemporaries": Exploring Early Modern Drama in a Digital Environment': 2 July 2013

2012: Professor James Shapiro (Columbia University): 'Unravelling Shakespeare's Life': 23 April 2014

2011: Professor Henry Woudhuysen (University College London): '"Ha-ha-ha. Hi-hi-hi. Ho-ho-ho. Ha-hi-ho": Representing sounds in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature': 2 June 2011

Texts of earlier Hulme lectures, and recordings/texts of John Coffin Memorial Lectures to be posted here shortly.

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