Kennedy Hall
Kennedy Hall is home to the School of English. Located on The Scores, Kennedy Hall has a range of rooms used for teaching and selected events including the Garden Room and the Watson Room.
Upcoming events
English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Dr Maisha Wester, Manchester Metropolitan University
- Date
- Thursday 12 February 2026
- Time
- 4:00pm to 5:30pm
- Location
- Kennedy Hall - Lawson Room
English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Dr Jennifer Park, University of Glasgow
The elixir, the editor and the platonic lover: pathologising and calibrating asexuality in William Davenant's The Platonick Lovers
- Date
- Wednesday 18 February 2026
- Time
- 5:00pm to 6:30pm
- Location
- Kennedy Hall - Garden Room
English ModCon Research Symposium
School of English
- Date
- Wednesday 25 February 2026
- Time
- 2:00pm to 5:00pm
- Location
- Kennedy Hall - Garden Room
Late Heaney
Book Launch and Talk with Nicholas Allen, Baldwin Professor in Humanities and director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, University of Georgia USA
- Date
- Thursday 26 February 2026
- Time
- 6:00pm to 8:00pm
- Location
- Kennedy Hall - Garden Room
- Attend
- 26 spaces available
English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Associate Professor Henghameh Saroukhani, Durham University
Black British Writing and the Autotheoretical Impulse
- Date
- Thursday 5 March 2026
- Time
- 5:15pm to 6:30pm
- Location
- Kennedy Hall - Lawson Room
English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Assistant Professor Connie Scozzaro, Brown University, USA
'Speaking to Nobody in Late Shakespeare'
- Date
- Wednesday 11 March 2026
- Time
- 5:00pm to 6:30pm
- Location
- Kennedy Hall - Garden Room
English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Dr Tom Houlton, University of York
Cruising the Monument: Funerary Flowers, Queer Ecologies, and the Small Pleasures of Remembrance
- Date
- Tuesday 17 March 2026
- Time
- 5:15pm to 6:30pm
- Location
- Kennedy Hall - Garden Room
English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Professor Liz Losh, William and Mary, USA
AI and Assessment Design
- Date
- Wednesday 18 March 2026
- Time
- 2:00pm to 4:00pm
- Location
- Kennedy Hall - Lawson Room
Symposium: ‘The Chosen Ones? Character Groupings in Classical and Medieval Art and Literature'
Plenary Speaker: Professor Eva von Contzen, University of Freiburg
- Date
- Friday 17 April 2026 to Sunday 19 April 2026
- Time
- 2:00pm to 3:00pm
- Location
- Kennedy Hall - Garden and Lawson Rooms
The George Jack Memorial Lecture: ‘They are my only diary': Wilfred Owen, A Life in Letters
Dr Jane Potter, Oxford Brookes University
- Date
- Wednesday 22 April 2026
- Time
- 5:00pm to 6:30pm
- Location
- Kennedy Hall - Lawson Room