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John Coffin Memorial Lectures and Literary Readings

15 July 2008
Argument into Design: Editions as a Sub-Species of the Printed Book by Professor Hans Walter Gabler
Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies

12 January 2007
'Beckett's Irish Voices' by Colm Tóibín

1 September 2006
Literary Readings by John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie & Alan Jenkins

29 June 2006
'On the Subject of Anon' by Professor Robert Patton

26 January 2006
'The Library of Abbot Simon of St. Albans' by Christopher de Hamel, FSA
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

22 June 2005
(*) 'The political economy of reading' by William St Clair
Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge and Senior Research Fellow Institute of English Studies

18 May 2005
Jackie Kay
 

9 December 2004
'Abbot Frowin of Engelberg and His Books: A Swiss Scriptorium of the Twelft Century' by Dr Martin Steinmann
University Library Basel

 
12 July 2004
'"The Devil in the Holy Water", or The Art and Politics of Slander in Paris and London, 1771-1794' by Professor Robert Darnton
Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of European Literature, Princeton University
 

29 April 2004
'Shakespeare's Teachers' by Professor Brian Vickers
School of Advanced Study, University of London

 
24 March 2004
'The Poet and the Piper' by Seamus Heaney and Liam O'Flynn
 

8 January 2004
Peter Porter

 
1 October 2003
Derek Walcott
 
8 April 2003
Les A. Murray
 

11 March 2003
Ciarán Carson and Medbh McGuckian

 
10 March 2003
Michael Longley and Derek Mahon
 
15 November 2001
John Hollander
Yale University
 

24 January 2001
Paul Muldoon
Oxford and Princeton

 
17 February 2000
'Dickens's Londoners' by Professor Michael Slater
Birkbeck College, London
 

22 November 1999
(*) 'Milton, Stevens and The Death of Satan' by Denis Donoghue
Henry James Professor of English and American Literature, New York University

 
26 November 1998
'Shakespeare and other Enemies' by Fiona Shaw
 
3 February 1997
'Contemplating Independence' by James Berry
 
5 February 1996
'Family Romances, Mother Goose Tales: The Child at the Heart of the Story' by Marina Warner

Copies of the lectures marked (*) are available free of charge; please contact the publications officer at the Institute.

 

 

 

 

 

   
 
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