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Dr Rebecca Macklin (Aberdeen) will be giving the final staff and postgraduate research seminar of Epiphany term. All English Studies staff and postgraduates are warmly invited.
27 February 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Hallgarth House, HH004
A Research Showcase – on Theatre and Performance in the Long Nineteenth Century, followed by the Book Launch for Stock Pieces: British Repertory Theatre, 1760–1830, with Bennett Zon (Professor of Music and Director of the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, Durham) in conversation with Susan Valladares.
19 March 2025
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Durham‘s Teaching and Learning Centre TLC 116 and/or Online via Teams
How does feminist speculative fiction critique capitalism and ecological neglect, reimagining solidarities in the face of planetary crises?
08 May 2025
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Hybrid: Institute for Medical Humanities | Online
A conversation with cognitive literary scholar Karin Kukkonen and novelist Laura Otis reflecting on creativity and cognition.
12 June 2025
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Tom Percival Annex, Brooks House, St Cuthbert‘s Society Parsons Field
A workshop with cognitive literary scholars Marco Bernini and Karin Kukkonen, and novelist Laura Otis reflecting on creativity and cognition.
13 June 2025
2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Join Associate Professor Emily Rohrbach of Durham University as she explores Romantic poet John Keats's creative encounter with his predecessor Shakespeare, focusing on the young poet’s engagement with Shakespeare through his facsimile copy of the 1623 folio. In that book, Keats inscribed an original poem in the space left by the printer between the end of Hamlet and the beginning of King Lear.
25 September 2025
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Museum of Archaeology
A joint book launch to celebrate recent publications from two academic staff in English Studies.
17 October 2025
Elvet Riverside 152
Linked to the Ushaw College exhibition on the writer Lafcadio Hearn, in this free public event, historians and cultural scholars from Durham University will introduce the culture and politics of the Meiji period – from the decline of the Samurai to the rise of militarism and colonialism, alongside the remarkable perseverance and transformation of Japanese literature, music, science and art.
22 October 2025
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Exhibition Theatre, Ushaw College
Step into the shadows this spooky season as Dr Fraser Riddell and Ushaw College host a screening of Kwaidan (1964) – Masaki Kobayashi’s haunting masterpiece of Japanese cinema, based on stories from Lafcadio Hearn’s collections of Japanese folk tales.
24 October 2025
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Ushaw College
A staff and postgraduate research seminar.
12 November 2025
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Elvet Riverside 147
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