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Cap-Lit, Cli-Fi, and Vi-Fi by Diasporic Women Writers

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

  • Lecture
  • Research event
  • Research Institute
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Creativity and Cognition: A Conversation

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

  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences
  • Department of English Studies
  • Research Institute
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Creativity and Cognition: A Workshop

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

Tom Percival Annex, Brooks House, St Cuthbert‘s Society Parsons Field

  • Talks, training, seminars & conferences
  • Department of English Studies
  • Research Institute
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Twilight Talks - John Keats Encounters the Shakespeare Folio

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

  • Lecture
  • Department of English Studies
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Joint Book Launch: Decadence and Orientalism & Modernism After the Ballets Russes

A joint book launch to celebrate recent publications from two academic staff in English Studies.

17 October 2025

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Elvet Riverside 152

  • Research event
  • Department of English Studies
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Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan

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

  • Lecture
  • Department of English Studies
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Screening of Kwaidan (1964)

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

  • Film screening
  • Lecture
  • Department of English Studies
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Post-Soul, Post-Racial, Post-Black Black Boxes: What Turn of the Millennium African American Literature Can Tell Us About Critical Turns

A staff and postgraduate research seminar.

12 November 2025

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Elvet Riverside 147

  • Research event
  • Department of English Studies
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Antipastoral. Agribusiness, and Post 1945 literature of Postmodern Farming

A staff and postgraduate research seminar.

26 November 2025

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Hallgarth House 004

  • Research event
  • Department of English Studies
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Staff and Postgraduate Research Seminar: Shazia Jagot - Title TBC

A staff and postgraduate research seminar.

28 January 2026

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

TBC

  • Research event
  • Department of English Studies
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