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The George Jack Memorial Lecture: 'They are my only diary': Wilfred Owen, A Life in Letters
Dr Jane Potter, Oxford Brookes University
In commemoration of George Barr Jack (1946 to 1999). Celebrated as one of the greatest poets of the First World War, Wilfred Owen is less recognised as an...
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English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Professor Liz Losh, William and Mary, USA
AI and Assessment Design
AI and Assessment Design
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English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Dr Tom Houlton, University of York
Cruising the Monument: Funerary Flowers, Queer Ecologies, and the Small Pleasures of Remembrance
Monuments and memorials mark where terror and counterterror did and do occur. They can also become agents of terror and counterterror themselves, drawn...
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English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Assistant Professor Connie Scozzaro, Brown University, USA
'Speaking to Nobody in Late Shakespeare'
Scozzaro is a specialist in Renaissance literature and culture, with a focus on law and the history of sexuality. She has also published work on contemporary...
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English Visiting Speaker Seminar: Associate Professor Henghameh Saroukhani, Durham University
Black British Writing and the Autotheoretical Impulse
"Anyone who speaks about himself," Roland Barthes once argued, "gets lost." This talk examines the politics of writing, and losing, the...
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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
What do early modern recipes for love and sex and modern editorial assumptions reveal about early modern asexualities and their pathologisations? In William...
