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• The Book as Cure: Bibliotherapy and Literary Caregiving from the First World War to the Present, 14 September 2018
• Dickens Day 2018, 20 October 2018
• ‘Faithful to our task’: 175 Years of Macmillan Publishing, 22 October 2018. 
• Women and the Book, 26 October 2018.
• English in the World 1: From the Outside, 18 January 2019.
• Jane Austen Society Study Day, 9 February 2019. 
• Reading Joyce’s ‘Aeolus’, 2 March 2019.
• Eighth London Anglo-Saxon Symposium, 16 March 2019.
• Workshop on Creative-Critical Teaching, 30 March 2019. 
• Virginia Woolf Society Conference and AGM 2019, 6 April 2019. 
• A Celebration of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), 27 April 2019.
• On the Creative-Critical: A Summit, 1 June 2019.
• British Association for Modernist Studies International Conference, 20-22 June 2019.
• Biennial London Chaucer Conference 2019, 28-29 June 2019.
• Literary London Society Annual Conference 2019, 11-12 July 2019 

• The Shelley Conference, 15-16 September 2017
• Blocks Plates Stones Conference, 21 September 2017
• Coetzee & the Archive Conference, 5-6 October 2017
• Dickens Day Conference: Dickens and Fantasy, 14 October 2017
• Russian Evolution Conference, 21 October 2017
• Punch Conference: Women in Punch 1841 - 1920, 2 November 2017
• 'Something for my native town': Recent Discoveries and New Directions in the R.E. Hart Collections of the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, 9-10 November 2017
• Thinking Big: New Ambitions for English and the Humanities, 18-19 January 2018
• London Nineteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Colloquium V, 20 January 2018
• Jane Austen Society Study Day, 14 February 2018. 
• Seventh London Anglo-Saxon Symposium, 10 March 2018.
• Printing Colour 1700–1830 Conference, 10-12 April 2018.
• Virginia Woolf Society Conference and AGM 2018, 14 April 2018.
• Brits Abroad, Brits at Home: Travel Narratives from the Grand Tour to the End of Empire, 9 May 2018.
• Corresponding with Beckett, 1-2 June 2018.
• Heresy and Borders Conference, 15-16 June 2018.
• Writing Workshop: The Craft of Georgette Heyer, 18 June 2018.
• The Nonesuch? Georgette Heyer and Her Historical Fiction Contemporaries, 19 June 2018.
• Literary London Society Annual Conference 2018, 28-29 June 2018.
• Victorian Popular Fiction Association Conference 2018, 3-7 July 2018.
• ISLE 5 Conference, 17-20 July 2018.

• Nineteenth-Century Studies London Postgraduate Colloquium IV, 10 September 2016
• Reading Communities: Connecting the Past and the Present, 15-16 September 2016
• Dickens Day 2016: Dickens's Days: Heritage, Celebrations and Anniversaries, 8 October 2016
• Poetics and Metonymy Conference: Poetics of the Metonym with Reference to City Poetry, 22 October 2016
• Historical Modernisms Symposium, 12-13 December 2016
• Jane Austen Society Study Day: Jane Austen: Writing to the End, 11 February 2017
• Radical Collections: Radicalism and Libraries and Archives, 3 March 2017
• English Association Sixth Form Shakespeare Study Day, 14 March 2017 
• Poetics of Home, Place and Identity Creative Writing Symposium, 18 March 2017
• Sixth London Anglo-Saxon Symposium: Animals, 25 March 2017
• Virginia Woolf Society Conference and AGM: Virginia Woolf: Images, Archives and Memories, 1 April 2017
• The Elzeviers and their Contemporaries Conference, 2 June 2017
• Britain, Canada and the Arts: Cultural Exchange as Post-War Renewal Conference, 15 - 17 June 2017
• Appropriate Forms: Conference in Honour of Barbara Hardy and her Work, 27 June 2017
• Biennial London Chaucer Conference: Chaucer and the Law, 30 June - 1 July 2017
• English: Shared Futures Conference, 5 - 7 July 2017
• Literary London Society Annual Conference: Fantastic London: Dream, Speculation and Nightmare, 13 - 14 July 2017
• Victorian Popular Fiction Association Conference: Travel, Translation and Communication, 19 - 21 July 2017
• Information and Its Communication in Wartime Conference, 25 - 26 July 2017

• 8th Screenwriting Research Network International Conference, 10-12 September 2015
• What Ever Happened to the Working Class? Rediscovering Class Consciousness in Contemporary Literature, 17 September 2015
• English Literary Heritage Conference, 18 September 2015
• Association of Adaptation Studies 10th Annual Conference: Adaptations and the Metropolis, 24-25 September 2015
• Dickens Day: Dickens, Readers and Reading, 10 October 2015
• The Annual George Eliot Conference: Daniel Deronda, 7 November 2015
• Eric Mottram Memorial Conference, 19-21 November 2015
• Reading the World: Challenging the Dynamics of Canon Formations, 3 December 2015
• Jane Austen Society Study Day: Persuasion, 13 February 2016
• Fifth London Anglo-Saxon Symposium: Anglo-Scandinavian England, 12 March 2016
• Virginia Woolf Society Conference and AGM: Virginia Woolf: Annotating Woolf, 9 April 2016
• Collectors, Collections, Collecting: From Sloane to Chester Beatty, 15 April 2016
• Samuel Beckett: Performance/Art/Writing, 26-28 May 2016
• Anniversary Joyce - XXV International James Joyce Symposium 2016, 13-18 June 2016
• The Literary London Society's Annual Conference: London and the Globe, 6-8 July 2016
• Victorian Popular Genres, 14-15 July 2016
• International Association of University Professors of English: Triennial Conference, 25-29 July 2016

• Jane Austen Society Conference: Emma, 14 February 2015
• Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out, 28 March 2015
• Aestheticism & Decadence in the Age of Modernism, 17-18 April 2015
• Dissemination and Production: The Progress of Information, 3-4 July 2015
• Biennial London Chaucer Conference: Science, Magic and Technology, 10-12 July 2015
• The 7th Annual Conference: Victorian Authenticity and Artifice, 13-15 July 2015
• The Literary London Society Annual Conference: London in Love, 22-24 July 2015
• Language, Culture and Society in Russian/English Studies: 6th International Conference, 27-28 July 2015

• The Literary London Society Annual Lecture 2019: 'Words on the Move' with Marina Warner. 11 July 2019.
• Writing Women: Reviving Kana Shodo (‘Woman-Hand’), a Forgotten Female Script: Lecture & Demonstration by Kaoru Akagawa, Master of Japanese Calligraphy. 26 June 2019.
• Are Universities Still Laggards about Open Access?: Peter Baldwin. 19 March 2019. 
• The Central Collecting Point in Munich: A New Beginning for the Restitution and Protection of Art, 29 January 2019. 
• T.S. Eliot International Summer School Opening Lecture 2018: Colm Toibin 'T.S. Eliot and Four Letter Words'. 7 July 2018.
• Annual Literary London Society Lecture: David Caute, 'The Student Revolt: London and the Wider World in 1968'. 28 June 2018.
• The Novel as Commodity: Rewiring Book History: Priya Joshi. 28 March 2018.
• IES Lunchtime Lecture: Dr Peter Mitchell BA MA PhD FRHistS: The Composition of the Text: The Purple Island (1633) and Mimesis of Anatomical Demonstrations and Illustrated Textbooks. 18 January 2018.
• Fleming, Ian Fleming: The Author as Collector: Jon Gilbert. 31 May 2017.
• “Gatsby, Trump and the American Dream” - Fitzgerald 100th Anniversary: Professor Sarah Churchwell (UOL). 2 March 2017.
• The Charles Holden Lecture 2017: Professor Simon Eliot (IES). 2 February 2017.
• Medieval and Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age: Dr Arianna Ciula (University of Roehampton) on "Material culture and societal resonance in Digital Humanities: Modelling Textuality". 6 May 2016.
• Roehampton Poetry Prize Ceremony 2016. 3 May 2016 - cancelled
• The Roehampton Poetry Centre: readings by W.N. Herbert and Carole Satyamurti. 17 November 2015
• The T. Edward Carpenter Memorial Lecture: Giles Waterfield: The Artist's and Writer's House Preserved. 12 November 2015
• The Literary London Annual Lecture: Imtiaz Dharker (poet, artist and documentary film-maker), 22 July 2015
• Professor Simon Eliot: 'Recasting Book History'. 3 July 2015
• Dr Rowan Williams (Magdalene College, Cambridge): 'Liberal Education: the Jesuit Response to a Theological Imperative'. 20 June 2014
• Professor Ronald Schuchard (Emory University, IES Senior Research Fellow): ' "Into the heartland of the ordinary": Seamus Heaney, Thomas Hardy, and the Divided Traditions of Modern and Contemporary Poetry'. 12 May 2014 

• 2019: The IES Annual Lecture in the History of the Book and Masterclass with Professor David McKitterick (3 July 2019)
• 2019: Dr Lyndall Gordon: 'The Brontës and Passion' (22 May 2019)
• 2018: Professor Dame Gillian Beer, '“Off with Her Head”: Lewis Carroll and Violence' (23 May 2018)
• 2014: Professor Dayton Haskin (Boston College): 'The Jesuits and English Literature - John Donne and Ignatian Spirituality'
• 2013: Professor Martin Mueller (Professor emeritus of English and Classics, Northwestern University Illinois): '"Shakespeare His Contemporaries": Exploring Early Modern Drama in a Digital Environment' (2 July 2013)
• 2012: Professor James Shapiro (Columbia University): 'Unravelling Shakespeare's Life' (23 April 2012)
• 2011: Professor Henry Woudhuysen (University College London): '"Ha-ha-ha. Hi-hi-hi. Ho-ho-ho. Ha-hi-ho": Representing sounds in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature' (2 June 2011)
• 2010: Michael Slater: 'Dicken's Shakespeare' (7 July 2010)
• 2009: Denis Donoghue: 'Eliot's Shakespeare' (29 June 2009)
• 2008: Professor Annabel Patterson: 'Milton and the D-Word' (9 July 2008)
• 2007: Claire Tomalin: 'Thomas Hardy: Poet and Novelist' (4 October 2007)
• 2006: Professor Jonathan Bate, FBA: 'Shakespeare: The Man from the Greenwood' (26 September 2006)
• 2005: Professor David Crystal: 'Johnson and the Internet' (21 April 2005)
• 2004: Professor Germaine Greer: 'The Shakespearean Boy' (14 January 2004)
• 2003: Professor Hilary Fraser (Birkbeck College, London): 'Possession and Dispossession: Owning the Story of Harriet Taylor and John Stuart Mill' (28 May 2003)
• 2002: Dr Ato Quayson (Pembroke College, University of Cambridge): 'Thunder in the Index: A Preface to a Post-Colonial Shakespeare' (17 January 2002)
• 2001: Professor Gillian Fellows-Jensen: 'English Place-Names and Settlement History Seen with the Wisdom of Handsight' (22 February 2001))
• 2000: Professor Marjorie Garber (Harvard University): 'Historical Correctness' (11 May 2000)
• 1998: Professor Jerome J. McGann (University of Virginia): 'Dante and Rossetti: Translation, Pastiche, Ritual, Fate' (8 December 1998)
• 1997: Sir Frank Kermode: 'Explorations in Shakespeare's Language' (18 December 1997)
• 1996: Dr Elizabeth M. Brennan (Emeritus Reader in English, University of London): 'The Dull Duty of an Editor: Working with Webster and Dickens'
• 1995: Barbara Everett (Somerville College, Oxford): 'Jane Austen: Hard Romance' (18 December 1995)
• 1992: Professor Isobel Armstrong (Birkbeck College, London): 'Charlotte Brontë's City of Glass' (2 December 1992)
• 1991: Professor Rosemary Ashton: 'Dickens, George Eliot and George Henry Lewes' (3 December 1991)
• 1990: Professor Helen Vendler: 'Ways into Shakespeare's Sonnets' (3 December 1990)
• 1988: Gillian Beer: 'Can the Native Return?' (8 December 1988)
• 1987: Professor Stanley Wells: 'Shakespeare and Revision' (3 December 1987)
• 1986: Professor Barbara Hardy: 'The Narrators in Macbeth' (11 December 1986)

2020: Dustin Friedman, “‘Sinister Exile’: Queer Myth and Aesthetic Teleology in Walter Pater and Vernon Lee.”​ 14 October

• 2022 John Coffin Memorial Lecture in Palaeography 2022: Professor Marc Smith (École nationale des chartes): The script palaeographers forgot: Gothic (Lombardic) majuscules. 8 December 2022.
• 2022 John Coffin Memorial Lecture (postponed from 2020): Professor David D'Avray: 'Mass Production of Books Before Printing'.(Opens in new window) 8 June 2022.
• 2019 John Coffin Memorial Annual Irish Studies Lecture: Professor Ruth Padel: ‘This is the Vowel of Earth: on the Katabasis of Seamus Heaney’. 30 May 2019.
• 2019 John Coffin Memorial Annual Palaeography Lecture: Professor Susan Rankin: Writing Music on Parchment in the Early Middle Ages. 15 May 2019.
• 2018 John Coffin Memorial Annual Irish Studies Lecture: Professor Ian McBride: The Struggle for Ireland's Soul: Catholics under the Penal Laws. 31 May 2018.
• 2018 John Coffin Memorial Annual Palaeography Lecture: Professor A.S.G. (Tony) Edwards: What is palaeography for?: the role of palaeography in scholarly research from the nineteenth century onwards. 16 May 2018.
• 2018 John Coffin Memorial Annual History of the Book Lecture: Alan May and Martin Andrews: Commemorating 550 Years since Gutenberg's Death. 1 February 2018.
• 2017 John Coffin Memorial Annual Irish Studies Lecture: Eavan Boland: "Shifting Ground: Irish Poetry in a Time of Change". 28 June 2017.
• 2017 John Coffin Memorial Annual Palaeography Lecture: Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, FBA, École Pratique des Hautes Études, "Crossing palaeographical borders: bi-alphabetical Hebrew scribes and manuscripts in Egypt, Spain and Northern France (11th to 15th centuries)". 24 May 2017.
• 2016 John Coffin Memorial Lecture: Iain Sinclair FRSL, '"James Joyce, Our Dad, Alas": a late modernist autobiography of Bloom fugues in simultaneous cities, London and Dublin'. 16 June 2016.
• 2016 John Coffin Memorial Annual Palaeography Lecture: Daniel Wakelin (Jeremy Griffiths Professor of Palaeography, University of Oxford): '"Let me slip into something less comfortable": Gothic textualis by accident and by design'. 11 May 2016.
• 2016 John Coffin Memorial Annual Irish Studies Lecture: Professor Clair Wills (Louis Milberg Chair of Irish Letters, Princeton University) on 'Digs and Lodging Houses: Literature, ruins and survival in post-war Britain'. 21 April 2016
• 2015 John Coffin Memorial Annual Palaeography Lecture: Professor Nicholas Vincent FBA: 'Who Wrote Magna Carta?'. 13 May 2015
• 2014 John Coffin Memorial Annual Irish Studies Lecture: Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck College): 'Desire and Dishonour: Heterosexuality in Nineteenth-Century Ireland'. 5 June 2014
• John Coffin Memorial Annual Palaeography Lecture: James Willoughby (New College, Oxford): 'The Hand of Ralph of Coggeshall. Chronicle-Making in the Reign of King John'. 7 May 2014
• 2010 John Coffin Memorial Lecture: Teresa Webber: 'Reading in the Refectory: monastic practice in England, c.1000-c.1300' (18 February 2010)
• 2005 John Coffin Memorial Lecture in the History of the Book: William St Clair: 'The Political Economy of Reading'

• 2019: Katherine Mansfield Society Annual Birthday Lecture: Professor Angela Smith (University of Stirling): '"We are all sailors, bending over a great map": Katherine Mansfield’s travellers'. 12 October 2019.
• 2018: Katherine Mansfield Society Annual Birthday Lecture 2018: Steven Matthews ‘Nearer than anyone else’: Katherine Mansfield, D.H. Lawrence, and the ‘modern’ short story. 13 October 2018. Listen here.
• 2017: Katherine Mansfield Society Birthday Lecture: Professor David Trotter (Cambridge University). 14 October 2017.
• 2016: The Annual Katherine Mansfield Society Birthday Lecture: Professor Claire Davison: 'Katherine Mansfield's Musical World', joined by musician Joseph Spooner. 15 October 2016.

• 2020: Liberty Lecture: Elif Shafak, Sarah Churchwell, and Martha Spurrier in conversation. 25 September 2020
• 2019: The Liberty Lecture with Kamila Shamsie. 28 February 2019.
• 2017: Inaugural Liberty Lecture: Ali Smith CBE FRSL. 6 November 2017.

• 2021: Bloomsbury Chapter Stevenson Lecture: Book Empires: Investigating British Publishing in Colonial Africa, Caroline Davis. 26 October 2021
• 2019: Bloomsbury Chapter Stevenson Lecture: Taking Mapping to the World. Laurence Worms. 30 October 2019
• 2018: Bloomsbury Chapter Stevenson Lecture: The Golden Treasury, Don Paterson OBE. 22 October 2018.
• 2017: Iain Stevenson Memorial Inaugural Lecture:(Opens in new window) Professor Simon Eliot (IES). 23 October 2017.

• 2019: Stuart N.Clarke: 'Virginia Woolf’s Non-literary Reputation'. 26 January 2019.
• 2018: Stephen Barkway (Chair and founder-member of the Virginia Woolf Society): ‘Virginia Woolf: Woman of Letters’. 27 January 2018.
• 2017: Professor Susan Sellers (St Andrews University): 'Woolf and the Essay'. 28 January 2017.(Opens in new window)
• 2016: Professor Frances Spalding CBE (Newcastle): 'Virginia Woolf and Tristram Shandy'. 23 January 2016
• 2015: Professor Dame Hermione Lee (Wolfson College, Oxford): 'To pin down the moment with date and season'. 25 January 2014

• 2019: Professor Lucy Newlyn, ‘(Opens in new window)Vital Stream’: Love and Creativity in the Wordsworth Circle, 1802. 20 November 2019
• 2018:  Professor Fiona Sampson: A Daedalus for the Romantic Era? Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. 22 November 2018. Listen here.
• 2017: Professor Sir Drummond Bone (Oxford University): Byron and Wordsworth, Art and Nature. 31 October 2017.
• 2016: Professor Michael Rossington (Newcastle University): 'Romantic Poetry and "the Existing State of Things'". 15 November 2016
• 2015: Professor Simon Bainbridge (Lancaster University): A 'closing deed magnificent?' Wordsworth, War and Waterloo. 15 October 2015
• 2014: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford): 'Wordsworth and the Meaning of Trees'. 16 October 2014
• 2013: Professor Stephen Gill (Lincoln College, Oxford): '"A Sea Rolling High": Wordsworth in 1804'. 8 October 2013