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Events archive

The LCCP centre has hosted numerous past events, including annual conferences, postgraduate workshops, the Byron Lectures, and interdisciplinary seminar series.

Former research groups

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18th century research seminar

This programme of seminars aimed to reach across disciplinary boundaries and provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of new work based in the 18th century.

All CRLC past events

Dr Andrew Harrison - Reading Group at the DH Lawrence Festival 2025

Date: 12/09/2025
Location:: DH Lawrence Birthplace Museum

From Great White Mothers to Black Sisters: Jackie Kay, Feminism and the 1980s

Date: 16/07/2025
Location:: A31 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Dr Fiona Tolan, Reader in English at Liverpool John Moores University, will be giving a talk entitled 'From Great White Mothers to Black Sisters: Jackie Kay, Feminism and the 1980s'.

A publisher is like a host at a party introducing people to one another': Behind the Scenes of Virago publishing Angela Carter, Maya Angelou and Margaret Atwood

Date: 14/05/2025
Location:: LG9 Trent Building
Description: In this seminar, PhD student Annabel Wearing Smith will discuss her research into Virago Press between 1973 and 1999, focusing on what happened behind-the-scenes of their publication of Angela Carter, Maya Angelou, and Margaret Atwood.' Annabel's research asks how Virago's concern with its own place in history signifies their transition from publishers of emergent feminist work to purveyors of the dominant discourse of feminism, and how by changing the way history was conceived, they made it. Part of her work focuses on the impact Angela Carter, Maya Angelou and Margaret Atwood had upon the press.

The women who WEREn't there: hidden female authorship in the early modern period

Date: 28/03/2025
Location:: LG9 Trent Building
Description: This bite-sized presentation will introduce specialists, non-specialists and members of the public to the highlights of some key women authors of the early modern period, including Amelia Lanyer who calls for women's equality in her 1611 published work. Usually, when we think about seminal and canonical authors, those who are critical to the contribution and development of the English language and culture, authors such as Shakespeare and Milton spring to mind, (and for good reason). However, absent from this general cultural-consciousness around our most influential authors are the women who were producing equally worthy-works contemporaneously with their male counterparts. Their names are still generally unknown. The fact that women were writing and publishing during this historic period is still an opaque fact, which continues to contribute to the unequal, imbalanced assumption of male power and authority. This event aims to contribute to the body of work trying to redress that imbalance.

Fiction, History, Activism: A Conversation with Juliet Jacques

Date: 12/02/2025
Location:: Senate Chamber Trent Building
Description: A Q&A with Juliet Jacques, author of, among other works, Trans: A Memoir (2015), Variations (2021), and The Woman in the Portrait (2024). No booking is needed - feel free to join on the day.

Poetry from Hasib Hourani and Lila Matsumoto

Date: 27/11/2024
Location:: Five Leaves Bookshop
Description: Five Leaves Bookshop is welcoming Lebanese-Palestinian poet Hasib Hourani and the School of English's Lila Matsumoto for a poetry reading. We are pleased to welcome the Lebanese-Palestinian poet Hasib Hourani to read from his debut collection of poetry, a set of poetic sequences concerned with Palestine's occupation. The collection, rock flight is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Winter 2024, published by Prototype. His book also appears with Giramondo in Australia and, soon, with New Directions in the US.rock flight is a book-length poem that follows a personal and historical narrative to compose an understated yet powerful allegory of Palestine's occupation. The poem uses refrains of suffocation, rubble, and migratory bird patterns to address forced displacement, economic restrictions and surveillance technology that Palestinians face both within and outside Palestine. It depicts a restlessness brought about by dispossession, and a determination to find significance in fleeting objects and fragments. Formally claustrophobic, rock flight morphs into irony, declaring everything a box while refusing to exist within one. Lila Matsumoto is the author of Two Twin Pipes Sprout Water, a Poetry Society Recommendation published by Prototype in 2021. Lila's other publications include the poetry collection Urn & Drum (Shearsman, 2018) and the chapbooks Soft Troika (If a Leaf Falls Press, 2016) and Allegories from my Kitchen (Sad Press, 2015). She teaches poetry and creative-critical writing at the University of Nottingham.

Learning to be Joyce's Contemporaries: Annotating James Joyce in the Age of the Search Engine

Date: 27/11/2024
Location:: A46 Trent Building
Description: Dr Steven Morrison will be talking about his experiences in annotating two volumes of the new Penguin Classics editions of James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses. These works have been annotated many times before and these new editions will be published into a world where much if not all of the information needed to make sense of the manifold quotations, allusions, and references to the novels' own time and culture is freely available online. Steven will be exploring the purpose of a new set of annotations through a pedagogic lens and reflecting on what this exercise has to say about the contemporary moment, both within the academy and beyond it.

Twenty-first century Juliets - Contemporary Literary Studies research seminar

Date: 16/10/2024
Location:: A46 Trent Building (University Park)
Description: In this seminar, Midlands 4 Cities funded PhD researcher Amy Bromilow will talk through her research process with a large and varied corpus of twenty-first century women writers' novelisations of Romeo and Juliet, sharing intriguing commonalities and unexpected findings. She will demonstrate how even the most bizarre of these texts are significant in exploring Juliet as a 'relevant' icon for contemporary readers, and ultimately reveal the centrality of Shakespeare's supposed universality even amongst texts that engage with the feminist praxis of re-writing.

Ben Masters' The Flitting North American Book Launch

Date: 04/10/2024
Location:: Online
Description: Ben Masters joins Point Reyes Books on Zoom to celebrate the US publication of his memoir, The Flitting: A Memoir of Fathers, Sons, and Butterflies (Tin House). Ben Shattuck, author of Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau, will server as interlocutor.

Dr Will Green shares new research focusing on Travelling Players in the Tudor period

Date: 10 - 14/09/2024
Location:: Shakespeare's Schoolroom & Guildhall Church Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV376HB
Description: Dr William Green has been part of the Schoolroom & Guildhall team since 2023 in a paid partnership with Nottingham University. Will has been fascinated by the history behind the upper Guildhall specifically and its use as a performance space. His work, entitled 'Early Modern Travelling Players, theatrical Adaption & Stratford-upon-Avon's Guildhall (1568-1622) seeks to understand which performances may have occurred in the time of Shakespeare's education in the Schoolroom, and how they were created. He hopes to uncover some of the first plays William Shakespeare witnessed in his childhood. As part of his research, Dr Green will be looking at how travelling players operated at the time and how they moved their performances outside of London into unfamiliar surroundings.

Public Lecture: Anne Donovan

Date: 03/07/2024
Location:: Clive Granger A48, University Park NG7 2RD Nottingham
Description: We are delighted to announce that the Public Lecture at the 4th World Congress of Scottish Literatures will be delivered by Anne Donovan, author of Scottish literary fiction. Anne Donovan is the author of the short story collection, Hieroglyphics and other Stories (2001), and the novels, Buddha Da (2003), Being Emily (2008) and Gone Are The Leaves (2014), all published by Canongate. In this lecture, Anne will talk about her novels, explaining what she aims to do with her language within each novel. It is sure to be a fascinating talk from an influencial author of fiction set in Scotland. There will be an opportunity for questions following the lecture.

World Congress of Scottish Literatures 2024

Date: 03 - 07/07/2024
Location:: University of Nottingham
Description: The fourth World Congress of Scottish Literatures will be hosted by the School of English at the University of Nottingham, from Wednesday 3rd to Sunday 7th July 2024. Both the School and the city enjoy a richly interlinked history with Scotland and Scottish writing. The School has particular specialist research in Older Scots, Romanticism, literary Modernism, and in the contemporary. Nottingham and its Midlands environs recur in the writing of Walter Scott; Byron's ancestral home of Newstead Abbey lies just north of the city; J. M. Barrie earned a living writing for the Nottingham Journal; and the University holds the papers of Catherine Carswell. We hope that the Congress will be an opportunity to continue the mission of the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures, to bring together scholars from all over the world situate Scotland in a global and transnational scope. Hosting the Congress south of the border also offers us an opportunity to revisit the historical relationship between England and Scotland, and the effect that collaboration has had on the world. Nottingham, meanwhile, is indelibly marked by an outlaw imagination, and we are looking forward to a Congress held in that spirit.

Writing Place and Writing Life: Camilla Balshaw and Helen Juke

Date: 08/05/2024
Location:: B46 Trent Building
Description: Authors Camilla Balshaw and Helen Jukes will be reading from their own work, as well as chatting to Dr Lila Matsumoto about their approaches to place and region in their non-fiction, which sits broadly under the category of 'life writing'. We'll get a sneak peek at Camilla's memoir (released next year), and hear about Helen's book A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings.

Immersion Symposium

Date: 26/04/2024
Location:: University Park Campus University of Nottingham Nottingham NG7 2RD
Description: A one day symposium focused on 'immersion', which in literary reading is the feeling of 'immersion' in the world of the text has been recognised as a key experience for readers.

The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton

Date: 23/04/2024
Location:: Online

Poetry Reading and Q&A with Jane Hartshorn

Date: 05/12/2023
Location:: B02 Monica Partridge Building (Performing Arts Studio)
Description: As part of our commemoration of Disability Recognition Month, the School of English is delighted to announce that we'll be hosting a poetry reading and Q&A with Jane Hartshorn.

Precarious Work: The Labour and Ecology of Social Reproduction in World-Literature

Date: 29/03/2023
Location:: B16 Trent Building, Online (Microsoft Teams)

Poetry Reading with Lisa Kelly

Date: 22/11/2022
Location:: Portland Coffee Company (University Park Campus)

Research Seminar: Silver Washed: A Memoir in Progress - Dr Ben Masters

Date: 02/11/2022
Location:: A35 Trent Building

Families, Friends, Selves: Approaches to Black-Led Research

Date: 27/10/2022
Location:: A19 (Committee Room), Trent Building
Description: Consider how we write with grace and care about ourselves and the people we love in our research.

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2018-19

RFaF - Paupers

RFaF - Politics

THINK-poetry

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2017-18

Urn & Drum, poetry book launch with Lila Matsumoto, supported by Vicky Sparrow

Description: Please join us for the launch of Lila Matsumoto's new collection of poetry from Shearsman Books, Urn & Drum. Lila will be joined by poet Vicky Sparrow.

FRONT HORSE poetry night

Poetry Reading Group

Description: Come along to our Poetry Reading Group meeting.

Poetry Reading with Rachael Allen, Camilla Nelson, and Leah Wilkins

Description: Join us for an evening of poetry with Camilla Nelson, Rachael Allen, and Leah Wilkins.

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2016-17

Benign Fiesta: Wyndham Lewis's Texts, Contexts, and Aesthetics

Description: Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) was one of the twentieth century's most innovative and most controversial avant-garde painters, writers, and theorists. This conference will mark the 60th anniversary of Lewis's death and is intended to be a scholarly celebration of his work.

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2015-16

Birds of Prey and Passage, Imagining Britain in India, 1780-1856

Description: On Tuesday the 15th of March Dr Máire ní Fhlathúin (University of Nottingham) will be delivering a talk for the Interdisciplinary Eighteenth Century Research Seminar entitled "Birds of Prey and Passage": Imagining Britain in India, 1780-1856'.

Letters to Robert Southey 1774-1843 the other side of the story

Description: We are delighted to announce this upcoming talk for the Interdisciplinary Eighteenth Century Research Seminar "Letters to Robert Southey 1774-1843 the other side of the story".

Manuscript workshop

Description: We are very excited to offer first year undergraduate students the chance to explore the University's Manuscripts and Special Collections.

Poets Laureate Then and Now: Creating National and Local Identities through Poetry

Description: This unique event brought together contemporary poets and critics to explore the relationship between poetry and local and national identities.