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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

Byron Lecture - Peterloo: the English Uprising

Date: 27/07/2019
Location:: East Midlands Conference Centre (EMCC)
Description: Professor Robert Poole, UCLAN, tells for the first time the full extraordinary story of Peterloo: the English Uprising. RSVP to attend!

Exhibition: Romantic Facts and Fantasies - Paupers and Poetry

Date: 26/07/2019
Description: This talk by Dr Charlotte May will focus on the Workhouse at Southwell, Nottinghamshire, whose founder was a close connection of the poet Lord Byron.

The British Association for Romantic Studies 16th International Conference

Date: 25 - 28/07/2019
Location:: East Midlands Conference Centre
Description: The BARS 2019 conference will explore the potency of 'fact' and 'fantasy' both in the Romantic period and during the afterlife of Romanticism. The aim is to develop a collective understanding of how Romantic 'fact' and 'fantasy' work together and against one another, and in so doing embody the spirit of an age whose inventions and innovations laid the foundations for modernity while simultaneously exulting the power of the imagination and its creations.

Exhibition: Romantic Facts and Fantasies - Romantic Reputations

Date: 02/07/2019
Description: Lunchtime talks - a series of free talks to accompany the exhibition will be held at the Djanogly Theatre.

Austerity Gardens: The Poetics and Politics of Gardening in Hard Times

Date: 19/06/2019
Location:: B46 Trent Building
Description: What does it mean to garden in hard times, and why might humans turn to the garden (as shelter, refuge, or productive space) under straitened conditions? Find out more about the event..

Vikings in the East Midlands: Forging Relationships, Forming Identities

Date: 11/06/2019
Description: Exhbition launch

Romantic Facts and Fantasies: Gallery Tour

Date: 05/06/2019
Location:: Weston Gallery DH Lawrence Pavilion Nottingham Lakeside Arts University Park NG7 2RD
Description: Weston Gallery | FREE | advance booking required

Exhibition: Romantic Facts and Fantasies - Gothic Haunting

Date: 05/06/2019
Location:: Djangoly Theatre
Description: Lunchtime talks - a series of free talks to accompany the exhibition will be held at the Djanogly Theatre.

Poetry Reading Group: on Edna St Vincent-Millay

Date: 10/12/2018
Location:: Trent Building Room B4

Poetry reading with Amy Evans Bauer, Camilla Nelson and Cleo Asabre-Holt

Date: 28/11/2018
Location:: THiNK Cafe

Open Day - 15 September 2018

Date: 15/09/2018
Location:: University Park Campus
Description: Visit us and find out more about studying English at the University of Nottingham.

Open Day - 14 September 2018

Date: 14/09/2018
Location:: University Park Campus
Description: Visit us and find out more about studying English at the University of Nottingham.

Place and Placelessness: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference

Date: 16/07/2018
Location:: Highfields House, Nottingham NG7 2RD, University Park
Description: Find out more about the Place and Placelessness: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference here.

Open Day - June 2018

Date: 29 - 30/06/2018
Location:: University Park Campus
Description: Staff and students at the School of English are looking forward to welcoming you to the University's Open Days on 29 and 30 June 2018. Come and find out more about studying English at the University of Nottingham, meet our academic tutors and student ambassadors, have taster teaching sessions, visit our performing arts studio and linguistics laboratories.

FRONT HORSE: Poetry, Music and Magazine Launch

Date: 12/05/2018
Location:: 32a Clarendon St, NG1 5JD, Nonsuch, Nottingham
Description: Join us for the launch event for the third issue of the poetry and art magazine FRONT HORSE, edited by Matthew Hamblin and Lila Matsumoto. Hosted by the Nottingham Poetry Exchange.

Poetry Reading: J.R Carpenter, Isabel Galleymore and Zosia Kuczyńska

Date: 04/05/2018
Location:: 14a Long Row, Five Leaves Bookshop, NG1 3DH
Description: The Nottingham Poetry Exchange is proud to present poetry readings courtesy of J.R. Carpenter, Isabel Galleymore and Zosia Kuczynska at Five Leaves Bookshop.

Repton and the Legacy of the Great Viking Army

Date: 28/02/2018
Location:: A 30 Lakeside Arts Centre
Description: Learn about the latest results from excavations at the Viking site in Repton, Derbyshire.

Distinctiveness and Assimilation: Re-Discovering Viking Age Stone Sculpture in the East Midlands

Date: 07/02/2018
Location:: Djanogly Theatre
Description: Learn about Viking Age sculpture in the East Midlands.

Vikings in your Vocabulary

Date: 10/01/2018
Location:: Djanogly Theatre
Description: Find out how the Vikings influenced the English language.

Invasion, Immigration, Integration - or Diaspora?

Date: 05/01/2018
Description: Find out about some new ways of looking at the Viking phenomenon.

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Further information on selected events

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.