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The LCCP hosts a regular series of events, ranging from public lectures, to research seminars, postgraduate workshops, to academic conferences. Whatever your interests, or level of study, there's lots to get involved in.

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Events

Upcoming events

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.

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News

Our students longlisted for the Aurora Prize for Writing!

Description: Congratulations to Cathy Symes, Lauren Colley and Lucile Deslignères, all current School of English students who have been longlisted for the Aurora Prize for Writing! The Aurora Prize is a national writing competition run by Writing East Midlands, in partnership with the Society of Authors, that has run since 2016 and seeks outstanding new writing in short fiction and poetry. The judges for this year are best-selling crime novelist Vaseem Khan for the Short Fiction category and esteemed poet and author Andrew McMillan for the Poetry category, the winners will be announced at the award ceremony on the 30th October 2024.