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  1. George Jack Lecture -- Professor Michael Kuczynski

    George Jack Lecture -- Professor Michael Kuczynski

    Blake's Pilgrimage

    In 1809, the visionary writer and artist William Blake exhibited a fresco painting (as he called it) of Chaucer's pilgrims from the Canterbury Tales....

  2. English Research Seminar -- Dr Tom Duggett

    English Research Seminar -- Dr Tom Duggett

    Horace Walpole's Historic Doubts and the uses of anachronism Tom Duggett 'I did not take Shakespeare's tragedy for a genuine...

  3. Biblical Studies research seminar --- Martinmas 2023, week 8

    Biblical Studies research seminar --- Martinmas 2023, week 8

    Professor Eckart Frahm (Yale): Reception history of Enuma Elish

    This week's seminar will be online via Teams only. The seminar features Eckart Frahm, Professor of Assyriology at Yale University, who will be presenting...

  4. English Research Seminar -- Maureen McLane
    Cancelled

    English Research Seminar -- Maureen McLane

    Maureen McLane will be reading from her new collection of poems, What You Want (Penguin, 2023).

  5. Rachel Muers --- Smith Lecture Autumn 2023

    Rachel Muers --- Smith Lecture Autumn 2023

    A Systematics of One's Own: Reflections on a Search For Foremothers In Systematic Theology

    Each semester, an outstanding female scholar from any sub-discipline of Divinity is invited to St Andrews to deliver the Smith Lecture in memory of Agnes Lewis...

  6. Hebrew Bible/Ancient Judaism research seminar -- Candlemas 2024, week 1

    Hebrew Bible/Ancient Judaism research seminar -- Candlemas 2024, week 1

    Welcome back Tea

    Most seminars take place in person on Thursdays in College Hall, St Mary's College unless otherwise indicated. For online seminars, please e-mail wt21 for...

  7. English Research Seminar --- Thijs Porck (Leiden University)

    English Research Seminar --- Thijs Porck (Leiden University)

    Old English is Dutch and Beowulf is ours! Appropriations of Early Medieval English in 19th-Century Europe

    "In the 19th century, Old English poems were claimed as cultural heritage by various non-Anglophone nations, including Scandinavians, the Germans and the...

  8. English Research Seminar -- Professor Francis Leneghan (University of Oxford)

    English Research Seminar -- Professor Francis Leneghan (University of Oxford)

    'Beowulf and the Wrath of God'

    School of English Research Seminar featuring Professor Francis Leneghan (University of Oxford). Professor Leneghan will be discussing 'Beowulf and the...

  9. Alexander Berry and Colonial Legacies

    Alexander Berry and Colonial Legacies

    A colloquium hosted by the School of English

    In 1889 the University of St Andrews received a gift of £100,000 from David Berry fulfilling the intentions of his older brother Alexander who had been a...

  10. English Research Seminar -- Dr Edward Allen

    English Research Seminar -- Dr Edward Allen

    Catch as Catch Can: Towards an Understanding of Literary-Sonic Pests

    Dr Allen is Associate Professor in modern British and Irish Literature, and a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. His primary focus is sound and media...