Events from the 01 January 2021 - 31 December 2021 Reset
Dr Tyler Bradway, a leading contemporary queer theorist, will be presenting a paper entitled: Queer Narrative Theory and the Relationality of Form.
12 February 2021
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Online (Zoom)
Join us at our next Inventions of the Text seminar. Dr Louisa Egbunike examines examples of approaches to the arts which characterised the first two decades following Nigeria’s independence.
17 February 2021
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
You are warmly invited to ‘a Hellish seminar’: the first medieval seminar of the term.
19 February 2021
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Join Alexander Geppert (NYU) at this public seminar as he identifies how the race for space required the development of a new vocabulary.
25 February 2021
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
This paper unpacks the gender, political and material implications of archaeological excavations carried out by Elizabeth Rawdon, Countess of Moira (1731-1808) and Catherine Downes (dates unknown) in 1780s Ireland and England, respectively.
26 February 2021
Join Professor Jane Bennett as she takes an intellectual stroll, in our next Inventions of the Text seminar.
17 March 2021
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Our next 18th and 19th-Century Research Seminar will look at Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, woman of letters and political theorist
21 April 2021
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
You are warmly invited to join us for a reading by Peter Gizzi.
05 May 2021
5:30 PM - 6:45 PM
Part of our 20th- and 21st-century research seminar series.
07 May 2021
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
What—if anything—do Lear’s paintings and poems see in one another? And what sense (or nonsense) can be made from thinking about landscapes alongside limericks?
12 May 2021
Part of our regular staff and postgraduate research seminar series.
14 May 2021
12:00 PM - 2:30 PM
This joint Inventions of the Text and Centre for Visual Arts and Culture seminar will discuss how modern poets have represented the visual portrait in writing.
19 May 2021
Celebrate the publication of Kayo Chingonyi's latest collection, A Blood Condition, at our next Inventions of the Text seminar.
26 May 2021
14 June 2021
In the intermission between two wars your father sang a song. By the time I heard this song, it had no music. – ‘Music Practice’ Join our next Inventions of the Text poetry reading.
16 June 2021
We end the academic year of Inventions of the Text with an evening of poetry.
23 June 2021
Join the online launch of a new book on John Milton, at an event coming live from Milton's Cottage.
03 July 2021
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Everyone is welcome to our Late Summer Lecture Series 2021, as we roam across The Past, Present, and Future in literature and culture.
18 August 2021
25 August 2021
01 September 2021
08 September 2021
15 September 2021
22 September 2021
29 September 2021
06 October 2021
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Each year Durham Book Festival works in partnership with Durham University’s Centre for Poetry and Poetics to invite an acclaimed poet to become the Festival Laureate. This year we are delighted to welcome Fiona Benson to this prestigious role.
10 October 2021
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Online
Fiona Benson, Durham Book Festival Laureate, reads and talks about "The Poems that Made Me"...
14 October 2021
Professor Tom Mole launches the paperback of his book The Secret Life of Books with a talk and signing.
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Waterstones Durham University Bookshop
A Durham Book Festival event. Join poet Kayo Chingonyi and philosopher Clare Mac Cumhail for an exploration of Chingonyi’s new highly acclaimed collection A Blood Condition and of the philosophy of the late and brilliant Newcastle philosopher and environmentalist Mary Midgley as part of Notes from a Biscuit Tin.
17 October 2021
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Gala Theatre
To mark the beginning of Inventions of the Text for 2021/22, all are welcome to join us for a poetry reading with Mary Jean Chan.
20 October 2021
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
A medieval research seminar. Email m.j.huxtable@durham.ac.uk for the Zoom logon.
21 October 2021
Dr Alix Beeston shares new archival research about the 20th-century playwright and author, Kathleen Collins. Everyone is welcome to join this C20th/C20th research seminar.
04 November 2021
We hope you will join us for a thought-provoking hour of lecture and discussion at our next Inventions of the Text event, open to the public.
10 November 2021
You are warmly invited to this academic year's first Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Studies Research Seminar, hosted by Durham University’s English Studies Department and the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies.
11 November 2021
You are warmly invited to this academic year's first Medical Humanities Research Seminar, hosted by Durham University’s English Studies Department and the Institute for Medical Humanities.
At a junction that marks both the twenty-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and the USA’s recent withdrawal from Afghanistan, two current Durham researchers will discuss their work on how the legacy of 9/11 has played out across contemporary culture. This event is organised by the Centre for Modern Conflicts and Cultures.
16 November 2021
Fresh from winning the 2021 Forward Prize for Poetry, we’re delighted to welcome Luke Kennard to our next Inventions of the Text. Free and open to everyone.
24 November 2021
This lecture explores the extent to which creative work developed by a number of ex-intelligence operatives in the wake of war posited a total recalibration of sensation and the senses at midcentury.
07 December 2021
You are warmly invited to the second Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Studies Research Seminar, hosted by Durham University’s English Studies Department and the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies.
09 December 2021
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