Recordings and Podcasts
The Institute runs an extensive programme of seminars and lectures on a wide range of subjects, both general and specialised, within the broad area of English studies. We have collected a number of podcasts and recordings from these events over the years which you can listen to or watch here.
Seminars
Book Collecting Seminar
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Books in hand; but whose hands? 17th-century rare books from the Emmerson and Thomason Collections, 14 February 2023.
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Jessica Starr (Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers), Hazel Tubman (Maggs Bros. Ltd), Tom Lintern-Mole (Antiquates Ltd.): 'Cheap Thrills as Rare Survivals: Historic Ephemera in the Modern Market', 9 November 2021
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Jasper Jennings: "Pictures for the People: the Printed Image in Britain before photography", 23 February 2021
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Collecting Middle Eastern Books and Manucripts, 9 June 2020
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Magic from John Dee to Aleister Crowley, 10 December 2019
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Queer books - an academic, a collector and a librarian discuss the field, 10 May 2019
Contemporary Cultures of Writing
- Imagination and the Natural World - writers, writing and perception, 21 September 2021
- Climate Change and Creativity: round table discussion, 5 October 2021
- Neuroscience and narrative: Reading, writing and the brain, 4 May 2022
Contemporary Fiction Research Seminar
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Reworking the (Non) Literary Object, 25 May 2013
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History's Subjects: Race and National Form, 18 March 2013
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Modernist Afterlives, 23 February 2013
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After Buffy, 5 December 2012
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Hunting the Dark Knight, 14 November 2012
Digital Text and Scholarship
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Protocols for Encoding Shakespeare, 8 November 2012
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The Translator's Other Invisibility: Stylometry in Translation, 17 November 2011
EMPHASIS
- “The Old Ashmolean Museum and Oxford’s seventeenth-century chymical community: A material culture approach”, Umberto Veronesi (University College London), 17 October 2020
- “Machines, mines and mathematics: Elizabethan artisans as agents of change”, Boris Jardine (HPS, University of Cambridge), 14 November 2020
- “Ficino and the Nodus Divinus”, Denis Robichaud (Notre Dame University), 12 December 2020
- “Kepler’s Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and the Copernican ban of 1616”, Aviva Rothman (Case Western Reserve University), 15 January 2021
- 'Creation, Death, and Resurrection in Early Modern English Alchemical Treatises', Zoe Screti (University of Birmingham), 6 November 2021
- 'The Advancement of Mathematical Learning', Abram Kaplan (Harvard), 2 December 2021
- 'Natural regeneration in Kepler's science (1596-1611)', Stefano Gulizia (University of Milan), 15 January 2022
- "Explorers rather than gatherers": Digestion of Knowledge and Reading Practices in the notes of the Polish polymath Jan Brozek (1585-1652)', Alicja Bielak (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 19 February 2022
- 'Mechanicῶs/Mechanice: Reconsidering the Origin of Mechanical Philosophy',
Mattia Mantovani (KU Leuven), 5 March 2022 - 'Natural signs and the role of analogy in Descartes' theory of perception', Anna Ortin Nadal (University of Gronigen), 16 April 2022
- 'The Blind Naturalist: G. E. Rumphius (1627-1702) and the Problem of Other Minds', Jeremy Schneider (Princeton), 11 June 2022
- 'Broken Bones: Matter, Miracle, and the Reformation of the Relics', Spencer Weinreich (Princeton), 2 July 2022
- Intersubjectivity and the Senses in the late 18th Century: The Case of Henry Moyes (1750-1807), Alexander Wragge-Morley (Lancaster University), 11 March 2023.
History of Libraries Seminar
- 'Libraries, Reading Communities and Cultural Formation in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic: A New Database Project': Professor Mark Towsey, Sophie Jones, Max Skjönsberg, 3 November 2020
IES Unfinished Business Seminar
- 'English revenge tragedy on the London stage and the university stage', Elizabeth Sandis, 28 October 2020
- 'Fact or Fiction?: Questions Surrounding the History of HM 1', Danielle Magnusson, 18 November 2020
- 'Inside the World of Trading Medieval Manuscripts: Leo S. Olschki's Card Index', Federico Botana, 3 February 2021
London Beckett Seminar
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Remediating Beckett and the Graven Image, 6 November 2015
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Beckett and Music, 23 October 2015
London Screenwriting Seminar
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Unfolding Texts: Form, Transatlantic Influence and the "Problem" of Seriality in writing Contemporary "High-End" TV Drama, 24 October 2013
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Hitchcock and his Writers, 7 February 2013
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Sean French and Nicci Gerrard, 6 December 2012
London Shakespeare Seminar
- 'Editing, performing, printing': Andrea Stevens (University of Illinois), Jennifer Richards (Newcastle University), 5 October 2020
- 'Eco-criticism and animal studies': Todd Borlik (Univeristy of Huddersfield), Rebecca Ann Bach (University of Alabama), 2 November 2020
- 'Shakespeare’s Poetry: Trans Philology and Queer Prosody': Colby Gordon (Bryn Mawr College), Robert Stagg (Shakespeare Institute / St Anne’s College, University of Oxford), 11 October 2021
- Roundtable: Editing Shakespeare’s Poems. Colin Burrow (All Souls’ College, University of Oxford), Jane Kingsley-Smith (University of Roehampton), Lynne Magnusson (University of Toronto), Cathy Shrank (University of Sheffield), Emma Smith (Hertford College, University of Oxford), 15 November 2021
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Colleen Rosenfeld (Pomona College) The Suppositions of Form in Picasso’s Las Meninas (After Velázquez) and Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 14 March 2022
London Theatre Seminar
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Performing Proximity, 16 March 2014
Media History and Nineteenth Century Studies joint seminar
- Alice in Cabeland, 12 May 2016
Medieval Manuscripts Seminar
- 'Wilfrid Voynich's dealings in manuscripts (c. 1898-1930) and why they matter', Laura Cleaver (IES), 13 October 2020
Modernist Magazines Seminar
- Gerri Kimber, 12 June 2014
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Art work in The New Age, 16 January 2014
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Virginia Woolf and Good Housekeeping, 12 December 2013
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Rhythm, 10 October 2013
Researching Contemporary Culture Workshops
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Matt Hills, 16 July 2014
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Kieran Connell, 15 July 2014
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Roger Luckhurst, 15 July 2014
Stephen Spender Research Seminar
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New Life in Life Writing, 15 May 2013
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Stephen Spender in Germany, 1945, 14 March 2013
Lectures
Being Human Festival IES events, 2020
- 'An Introduction to Medieval Ink', Sara Charles, 15 November 2020
- 'Reading in the Pandemic, Part 1', Shafquat Towheed, 18 November 2020
- 'Reading in the Pandemic, Part 2', Ella Berthoud, 18 November 2020
- 'Reading in the Pandemic, Part 3', Maya Parmar, 18 November 2020
- 'Over the Wall: Cultures of Collecting', Cynthia Johnston, Jamie Holman, Peter Shukie, 19 November 2020
Bloomsbury Chapter Stevenson Lecture
'Book Empires: Investigating British Publishing in Colonial Africa', Caroline Davis, 2021
The Bibliographical Society
To view recordings of The Bibliographical Society events please visit The Bibliographical Society website
Bloomsbury Festival, 2013
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Resurrecting Lost London Fictions: Andrew Whitehead, Ken Worpole, and Cathi Unsworth, 19 October 2013
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Bloomsbury in Contemporary Fiction: D.J. Taylor and Helen Smith, 19 October 2013
International Vernon Lee Society (IVLS) Lecture
Sinister Exile’: Queer Myth and Aesthetic Teleology in Walter Pater and Vernon Lee': Dustin Friedman, 14 October 2020
John Coffin Memorial Irish Studies Lectures
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Shifting Ground: Irish Poetry in a Time of Change: Eavan Boland, 28 June 2017
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"James Joyce, Our Dad, Alas": a late modernist autobiography of Bloom fugues in simultaneous cities, London and Dublin: Iain Sinclair, 16 June 2016
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Desire and Dishonour: Heterosexuality in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Joanna Bourke, 5 June 2014
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"Because she never let them in": Irish Immigration a Century Ago and Today: Cormac Ó Gráda, 9 May 2013
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Samuel Beckett - Mystic: Declan Kiberd, 17 May 2012
John Coffin Memorial Palaeography Lectures
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Who Wrote Magna Carta?: Nicholas Vincent, 13 May 2015
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From Milan to Europe. The transmission and diffusion of the works of St Ambrose: Mirella Ferrari, 2 May 2013
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"In private men’s hands": The library of Archbishop John Whitgift (d. 1604): sources, catalogue, and dispersal: James Carley, 14 October 2010
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Reading in the Refectory: monastic practice in England from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries: Teresa Webber, 18 February 2010
John Coffin Memorial Readings
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The influence of Joyce's writing on Iain Sinclair's own style of urban narrative: Iain Sinclair, 16 June 2016
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The Emergence of the Everyday: Kipling and Indian Regional Writing: Elleke Boehmer, 1 November 2011
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Poetry Reading: Robin Robertson, 16 July 2010
Heythrop Lectures
The Heythrop 400th Anniversary Conference Lectures:
'For the Greater Glory of God and the More Universal Good', 2014
- Michael J Walsh, 20 June 2014
- Rowan Williams, 20 June 2014
- Philip Endean SJ, 20 June 2014
- Stefanie Hugh-Donovan, 20 June 2014
- Karen Kilby, 20 June 2014
- Elena Buia Rutt, 20 June 2014
- Paul Lakeland, 20 June 2014
- Aakanksha Virkar-Yates, 20 June 2014
- Paul Barber, 20 June 2014
- Hugh Goodacre, 20 June 2014
- Cyril Law, 20 June 2014
- Michael Barnes SJ, 20 June 2014
- Kathleen Comerford, 19 June 2014
- Maurice Whitehead, 19 June 2014
- John Haldane, 19 June 2014
- Robert A. Maryks, 19 June 2014
- Nicholas Sagovsky, 19 June 2014
- Guy Consolmagno SJ, 19 June 2014
Poetry and Prayer: Continuities & Discontinuities, 2012
- Religion, Grace, Imagination: Help from India, Michael Barnes, 30 June 2012
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Prayer and Prayfulness in Dante, John Took, 30 June 2012
- Denise Levertov: Poetry as a Way to Prayer: Dana Greene, 29 June 2012
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"Prayer is the little implement": Poetic Speech and the Gestures of Prayer in Christian Traditions, Mark Burrows, 29 June 2012
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Poetry as Immanence: How Language Informs Reality, Jay Parini, 29 June 2012
Hilda Hulme Memorial Lectures
- "Shakespeare His Contemporaries": Exploring Early Modern Drama in a Digital Environment: Martin Mueller, 2 July 2013
- Unravelling Shakespeare's Life: James Shapiro, 23 April 2012
- "Ha-ha-ha. Hi-hi-hi. Ho-ho-ho. Ha-hi-ho": Representing sounds in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature: H. R. Woudhuysen, 2 June 2011
Human Mind Festival Lectures, 2016
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Shakespeare and the Mind, 18 May 2016
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Language, Literacy, Literature & the Mind: Sarah Churchwell, 9 March 2016
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Language, Literacy, Literature & the Mind: Thomas Scott-Philips, 9 March 2016
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Language, Literacy, Literature & the Mind: Charles Ferneyhough, 9 March 2016
Liberty Lectures
Miscellaneous
- 'On Essays: Montaigne to the Present', Thomas Karshan and Kathryn Murphy, 27 October 2021
- 'Stuart Hood: Twentieth-Century Partisan', David Johnson, David Hutchison, 26 January 2021
- 'Women Translators and Authorship: Sarah Harriet Burney', Gillian Dow, 25 November 2020
- 'The Life and Work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning', Isobel Armstrong, 1 July 2020 (British Academy 10-Minute Talks)
- 'On Plague and Politics', Sarah Churchwell, Kate Kirkpatrick and Lyndsey Stonebridge, 21 May 2020 (Being Human Festival, In Conversation)
- "Nearer than anyone else": Katherine Mansfield, D.H. Lawrence, and the ‘modern’ short story: Steven Matthews,13 October 2018 (Katherine Mansfield Society Annual Birthday Lecture)
- The Humanities Now - Literature and the Public Good Book Launch: Rick Rylance, 19 October 2016
- 'Recasting Book History': Simon Eliot, 3 July 2015
- Living Literature: The Great Gatsby: Sarah Churchwell, 5 May 2016
- Finding Words: The Shelter of Stories in Times of War: Marina Warner, 2 December 2015 (Reading the World: Changing the Dynamics of Canon Formations - Keynote Address)
- Liberal Education: the Jesuit Response to a Theological Imperative': Rowan Williams, 20 June 2014
- To pin down the moment with date and season: Dame Hermione Lee, 25 January 2014 (Virginia Woolf Society Annual Birthday Lecture)
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Literature and Pop Music: Cathi Unsworth, 23 October 2013
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Research Symposium on the Cowell Manuscript: Karen Attar, Peter Bower, Nicholas Eastaugh and James Shapiro, 19 June 2013
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Self and City Poetry: Jakobson, Deictics and Shifters: M. A. Coghill, 19 March 2013
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Inaugural Arden Shakespeare Lecture: René Weiss, 2 December 2012
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The Museum of Writing: Alan Cole and Simon Eliot, 12 October 2012
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Bernard Spencer: Mystery Poet: Jonathan Barker, Valentine Cunningham and Peter Robinson, 11 October 2012
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Imperialism, Ecology, and the Origins of the Anti-Copyright Movement in the 19th Century: Adrian Johns, 28 June 2011 (John Coffin Memorial Lecture in Book History)
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Waste and Literature: The Poet as Ragpicker: Susan Morrison, 15 June 2011 (Dean's Seminar)
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Reciting Gray's Elegy: Cultural Capital and the Scholarship Boy: Catherine Robson, 10 June 2011 (Sally Ledger Memorial Lecture)
T.S. Eliot Summer School
- T.S. Eliot International Summer School Digital Session: Anthony Cuda, 19 August 2020
- T.S. Eliot and Four Letter Words: Colm Tóibín, 7 July 2018
- T.S.Eliot and Popular Music: Ragtime, Music-Hall, Bawdy Ballads, and All That Jazz: Nancy and Guy Hargrove, 7 July 2013
Wordsworth Annual Lectures
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A Daedalus for the Romantic Era? Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Fiona Sampson, 22 November 2018
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Byron and Wordsworth: Art and Nature: Drummond Bone, 31 November 2017
- Romantic Poetry and "the Existing State of Things": Michael Rossington, 15 November 2016
- Wordsworth and the Meaning of Trees: Fiona Stafford, 16 October 2014
- "A Sea Rolling High": Wordsworth in 1804: Stephen Gill, 8 October 2013
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What Did Wordsworth Make of Coleridge?: Seamus Perry, 29 November 2012
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Prometheus²: The Two Shelleys and Romantic Science: Richard Holmes, 27 October 2011