Events Archive On this page you will find listings of our past events. This archive is under construction and will be completed soon. Archive by year: 2005 \| 2004 \| 2003 \| 2002 \| 2001 \| 2000 \| 1999
Events held in 2006
4 February 2006	Conference: Jews and British Romanticism
11 February 2006	Conference: 'This is a monument, if you like': Celebrating The Dickensian at 100. We regret to announce that this event has been cancelled
17 February 2006	Conference: The Mind's Eye : Perspectives on Word and Image
Events held in 2005
17 January 2005	T.S.Eliot Prize Awards (by invitation only)
19 February 2005	Conference: Arundel Manuscripts - a Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts (DigCIM) Conference
22 February 2005	Poetry Book Society Choice readings by John Stammers
18 March 2005	Conference: Coming of Age: Childhood and Adolescence in Literature and Film (UCL 3rd Annual Post Graduate Conference)
30 - 31 March 2005	Conference: London Chaucer Conference
21 April 2005	Public Lecture: Hilda Hulme Memorial Lecture by Professor David Crystal (Johnson and the Internet)
1 June 2005	Public Lecture: S.T. LEE Visiting Professorial Fellow's Lecture - Professor MacDonald P. Jackson- 'Augmenting Shakespeare: A New Play-Scene for the Collected Works', 5.30pm in the Chancellor's Hall
4 June 2005	Conference: Passion and Fantasy: The Work of Cora Kaplan
16 - 17 June 2005	Conference: Irish Theatre in England (held at the National Portrait Gallery)
17 - 18 June 2005	Symposia: LOMERS ANNUAL SYMPOSIA Welshness(es) and Medieval English Literary Culture II Scottsihness(es) and Middle English Literary Culture I
22 June 2005	Public Lecture: John Coffin Memorial Lecture in the History of the Book by William St Clair: The political economy of reading
25 June 2005	Conference: Irishness Abroad
2 July 2005	Study Day: Museum of Writing - The Writing Equipment Society's Study Day
7 July 2005	Symposium: The Caine Prize for African Writing
16 July 2005	Conference: Nuclear Anxiety: The Cold War novel and its culture
27-28 July 2005	Conference: Reading Problem
8- 10 August 2005	Conference: Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875): A Celebration and Reappraisal
14 - 17 September 2005	Conference: Speculation, Displacement and Writing about Capital: 1700-2000
19 September 2005	Public Lecture: G. Thomas Tanselle, 'Dust-Jackets, Dealers, and Documentation', part of the Dust Jackets conference
19 - 20 September 2005	Conference: Dust Jackets
8 October 2005	Conference: Manuscripts from the Time of Edward the Confessor
28 - 29 October 2005	Conference: The Aesthetic Interior: Neo-Gothic, Aesthetic, Arts and Crafts
3 - 5 November 2005	Conference: Reaching The Margins: The Colonial and Postcolonial Lives of the Book, 1765 - 2005
11 November 2005	Conference: Publishing In World War Two
19 November 2005	Conference: Jane Austen for the Twenty - First Century
26 November 2005	Symposium: The Long 19th Century

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Events held in 2004
8 - 9 January 2004	Conference: The Poetry of Peter Porter
14 January 2004	Public Lecture: Hilda Hume Lecture: Germaine Greer "The Shakespearean Boy"
22 January 2004	Public Lecture: Annual Palaeography Lecture: "Preaching with the Pen: Insular Scribes and the Transmission of Sacred Text" by Dr Michelle P. Brown (Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts, British Library)
4 March 2004	Conference: mutation and mutability: encounters with change (Second Annual University College London Postgraduate Conference)
20 March 2004	Conference: Dickens and Sex
24 March 2004	Public Lecture: The Poet and the Piper: Seamus Heaney and Liam O'Flynn
13-15 April 2004	Conference: Skin: texture / textuality / word / image
19-20 April 2004	Conference: Rethinking the 1880s
24 April 2004	Conference: Trollope and Television
29th April 2004	Public Lecture: Shakespeare's Teachers, Professor Brian Vickers
29 May 2004	Conference: Romantic-Era Writing for Children
11 June 2004	Symposium: The Moving Subject: Interdisciplinarities in Nineteenth-Century Studies
19 June 2004	Symposium: Lomers: "Welshness(es) and Middle English Literary Culture"
23 - 26 June 2004	Conference: Back to Bloomsbury: 14th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf
8 - 10 July 2004	Conference: An English Codicological Vocabulary
12 - 14 July 2004	Conference: The History of the Book and Literary Cultures
12 July 2004	Public Lecture: The First John Coffin Memorial Lecture in the History of the Book by Robert Darnton "The Devil in the Holy Water, or The Art and Politics of Slander in Paris and London, 1771-1794".
13 July 2004	Public Lecture: The Gladys Kriebel Delmas Lecture by Jonathan Bate 'The Elizabethans and the origins of English literary history'
16 - 17 July 2004	Conference: Literary London:Interdisciplinary Studies in the Represenatation of London
21 July 2004	Symposium: Caine Prize for African Writing 2004
26 - 27 July 2004	Conference: Wallace Stevens
29 - 30 July 2004	Conference: Food and Consumption in the Nineteenth Century
22 - 23 October 2004	Conference: Languages of Emotion
20 November 2004	Conference: Character and Caricature in Jane Austen Conference
20 November 2004	Study Day: Book History Research Network Study Day
9 December 2004	Public Lecture: TheAnnual Palaeography Lecture (a John Coffin Memorial Lecture): Abbot Frowin of Engelberg and his books: A Swiss scriptorium of the 12th century byDr Martin Steinmann
11 December 2004	Council for College and University English (CCUE) Ordinary General Meeting
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Events held in 2003
15 January 2003	Book Launch: Ben Levitas : The Theatre of the Nation - Irish Drama and Cultural Nationalism 1890-1916 (Oxford University Press, 2002)
16 January 2003	Book Launch: Paulina Kewes: Plagiarism in Early Modern England (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002)
23 January 2003	Special Guest Seminar: Robin Alston (Senior Research Fellow), Compiling A Bibliography of the English Language 1500 - 1800: A Retro-perspective
25 February 2003	Conference: Mise-en-Page: The Artifactual Book in the Digital Age
27 February 2003	Conspiracy and Paranoia
10-11 March 2003	Resilient Voice: Northern Irish Poetry 1960-2002 John Coffin Memorial Readings: Michael Longley, Derek Mahon John Coffin Memorial Readings: Ciarán Carson & Medbh McGuckian
12 March 2003	Public Lecture: S.T. Lee Fellow's Lecture: Professor Alastair Hamilton: "Europe and the Copts of Egypt"
15 March 2003	Textbook Colloquium
3 - 5 April 2003	Moving Forward, Looking Back: Thinking about Progress 1800-1850
8 April 2003	John Coffin Memorial Reading by: Les A Murray
14 April 2003	Specialist English Schools (by invitation only)
28 May 2003	Hilda Hulme Lecture: Possession and Dispossession: Owning the Story of Harriet Taylor and John Stuart Mill
10 June 2003	Vernon Lee: Literary Revenant
20 June 2003	"Rigid Boundaries of Space and Time" : Writing, Editing and Reading Periodicals
28 June 2003	George Orwell Conference
28 - 30 July 2003	Towards a Gower Hypertext
24 - 25 July 2003	Gissing and the City: Centenary Conference
17 - 19 July 2003	English: the Condition of the Subject
10 July 2003	Caine Prize for African Writing Symposium
10-11 October 2003	Thorold Dickinson and British Cinema
1 November 2003	Madame de Stael's Corinne (1807)
7 November 2003	Irish Studies in the Curriculum
15 November 2003	Jane Austen
22 November 2003	Renaissance Textbooks
25 November 2003	Public Lecture: Larkin's Jazz, Peter Dickinson
29 November 2003	Council for College and University English - Ordinary General Meeting
29 November 2003	Languages of Loss: Death and Bereavement in the Nineteenth Century Seminar
13 December 2003	Literary Encounters between the UK and Hungary
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Events held in 2002
11 January 2002	Lindisfarne Gospels
17 - 18 January 2002	George Eliot Life and Letters Symposium
17 January 2002	Hilda Hulme Lecture
18 March 2002	Symposium: Centre for Palaeography
8 - 9 April 2002	The London Chaucer Conference: Chaucer: 'Cities, Courts and Provinces'
12 - 13 April 2002	The History of the Irish Book 1891-2000 Symposium
15-16 April 2002	Victorian Shakespeare
14 June 2002	Women's Poetry and the Fin de Siècle (1875-1914)
21 June 2002	Radical Aesthetics: a Conference in Honour of Isobel Armstrong
25 June 2002	Staging Wilde
10-13 July 2002	Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP 2002)
18 July 2002	Caine Prize for African Writing Symposium
25-27 July 2002	A Man For All Media: The Popularity of Dickens (1902 - 2002)
5 October 2002	Sayers in the 21st Century: Readers, Critics and Writers on the Detective Fiction of Dorothy L Sayers
18 - 19 October 2002	La Prude Angleterre: Victorians and France
1 - 2 November 2002	Writers' Rights: The Fleur Cowles Flair Symposium
5 November 2002	* Book Launch: Geoffrey Hartman, Scars of the Spirit: the struggle against in authenticity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002)
15 - 16 November 2002	Joyce, Ireland and Britain
4 December 2002	Free Public Lecture '"A Kiss is Just a Kiss". Rituals of Submission along the "East-West Divide"'.* (by Professor Palmira Brummett)
4 - 6 December 2002	1453-1699: Cultural Encounters between East and West
14 December 2002	Jane Austen and the Art of the Novel
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Events held in 2001
24 January 2001	Public Lecture: John Coffin Memorial Literary Readings - Paul Muldoon
27 January 2001	Conference: Stephen Spender and His Circle in the 1930s
1 February 2001	Seminar: Computer Games and Literary Criticism
22 February 2001	Public Lecture: Hilda Hulme Memorial Lecture -Gillian Fellows-Jensen
2 March 2001	Preparing for English Academic Review: Understanding the Context
12-13 March 2001	Do We Want to Keep Our Newspapers?
27 March 2001	H.G. Wells and Science Fiction: with the Research Project on the Reception of British Authors in Europe
30 March 2001	Preparing for English Academic Review: Teaching, Learning and Assessment
6-7 April 2001	Discourses of Slavery and Abolition
4-5 May 2001	Patrick White: life and work
11 May 2001	Preparing for English Academic Review: The Curriculum
16-17 May 2001	The Reception of Henry James in Europe
16 June 2001	Literature of the Reign of Henry II (LOMERS)
6-7 July 2001	The Culture of Collected Editions
12 July 2001	All the News that's Fit to Scan: Increasing Access to Historic Newspapers
24-25 July 2001	Anxious Flirtations: Homoeroticism, Art and Aestheticism in Late-Victorian Britain
26 July 2001	Caine Prize For African Writing Symposium
3 September 2001	Jewish Textualities Symposium
22 September 2001	English and The Audit Culture
20 October 2001	Renaissance Pages: Renaissance Texts and Modern Readers
8-9 November 2001	Collecting and Culpability: Thomas James Wise - After the Event
15 November 2001	John Coffin Memorial Literary Readings - John Hollander
15-17 November 2001	The Lyric
23 November 2001	Historical Fictions (Raymond Williams Society)
28 November 2001	National Book History Projects Meeting, Research Centre in the History of the Book (by invitation only)
8 December 2001	Jane Austen: Mansfield Park
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Events held in 2000
13-15 January 2000	Literature, Film, Modernity 1880-1940
1 April 2000	English Association Conference
5-7 July 2000	Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
27-29 July 2000	Shakespeare's Narrative Poems
19-20 October 2000	Irish and British Fin-de-siècle Figures in Europe: Wilde and Yeats
28 October 2000	Libraries for the Church and the Professions to 1850
2 - 4 November 2000	The Black Gaze
10 November 2000	Martinus Revived: Scriblerian Satire and its Significance
17 November 2000	Time, Work and the Everyday (Raymond Williams Society)
17-18 November 2000	Modern Poetry and Prejudice
18 November 2000	Jane Austen and History
1-2 December 2000	Incunabula and Their Readers
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Events held in 1999
20 February 1990	Trinity Trent Colloquium
12 March 1999	Lord Byron: his reception in Europe
13 March 1999	Keying into English
26 March 1999	Modernist Technologies of Writing
17 April 1999	Reading and Pleasure: Gender and Popular Literature
24 April 1999	Victorian Crime
7-8 May 1999	The Irish Book in the Twentieth Century
21-22 May 1999	Jan Potocki The Manuscript Found At Saragossa