Please find below details of forthcoming events at the Institute of English Studies. For further details of all our events please visit:

http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/index.htm

Monday, 21 May 2007: 5.30pm, Room NG16 (Senate House, North Block)
Research Seminar: CELM Seminar in Early Modern English Manuscript Studies
Lena Orlin (University of Maryland): ‘Searching for Alice Barnham in the Archives of Tudor London’
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Thursday, 24 May 2007: 5:30pm, Room NG16 (North Block, Senate House)
Research Seminar: London Forum for Authorship Studies
Professor Brian Vickers, Litt D, FBA (Institute of English Studies): “Composite Authorship in Henry VI”
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Friday, 25 May 2007: 6pm, Royal Holloway, 11 Bedford Square, Room G3
Research Seminar: University of London Finnegans Wake Seminar
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Saturday, 02 June 2007: 11 am, Room NG15 (North Block, Senate House)
Research Seminar: London Modernism Seminar
Professor Michael Levenson (University of Virginia): ‘1913 and 1914: Two Years in the History of Modernism’
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Saturday, 02 June 2007: 2pm, Room ST273 (Stewart House)
Research Seminar: EMPHASIS Seminar (Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination)
Catherine Rider (Christ’s College, Cambridge): ‘The Doctor and the Witches: Bartholomaeus Carrichter’s “On the Healing of Magical Illnesses” (1551)’
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Thursday, 07 June 2007: 7pm, Durning-Lawrence Room (Senate House Library)
Book Club: Senate House Library Friends
Michael Slater: Charles Dickens “Pictures from Italy” (modern reprints include Penguin Classics and Everyman paperback editions).
For further information please contact Leanne Booth, Senate House Library; tel. 020 7862 8432
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Friday, 8th June 2007
Conference: Literary Tourism and Nineteenth Century Culture
Alison Booth (University of Virginia), Simon Bainbridge (Lancaster University & Wordsworth Centre), Juliet John (University of Liverpool and Gladstone Centre for Victorian Studies), Pamela Corpron Parker (Whitworth College), Nicola J Watson (Open University)
Click here for further information and registration
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Saturday, 9th June 2007
Conference: Marxism and Children’s Literature 2
Jeannie Robinson (Nottingham Trent University); Victoria de Rijke (Middlesex University); Alan Gibbons; Michael Rosen; Ann Turnbull; China Mieville; Jonathan Neale. Click here for further information and registration.
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007: 7.00pm, at the Common Room, Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square, London WC1N
John Coffin Memorial Lecture/Recital: Lucie Skeaping (ft. Robin Jeffrey): “Have I Got News for Thee”: English Broadside Ballads of the 17th Century
Presented by the Institute of English Studies, Institute of Musical Research and Goodenough College. If you would like to attend please contact Jon Millington
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Saturday, 16 June 2007: Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Colloquium: English Literature and Classical Translation
This one-day colloquium concludes a series of seminars on English Literature and Classical Translation that took place in the SAS over the last few months.
For further details please follow this link: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lina0897/classicaltranslation2007.
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Thursday, 28 June 2007: 3pm
Senate House Library Friends Event
Friends visit to the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art Library, 53 Gordon Square. Free of charge, but places limited to 15.
For further information please contact Leanne Booth, Senate House Library; tel. 020 7862 8432
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02-03 July 2007 (Monday-Tuesday): 2pm, The British Library Conference Centre
Conference: Treasures Known and Unknown:
Presented by The British Library in partnership with the Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies, University of London, and the Research Centre for Illuminated Manuscripts, Courtauld Institute. To register contact Teresa Harrington
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05 - 06 July 2007 (Thursday - Friday)
Conference: The Poetry of Robert Graves
Christopher Ricks, Robert J. Bertholf (State University of New York at Buffalo), Fran Brearton (Queen’s University, Belfast, Assistant Director of the Seamus Heaney Poetry Centre), D.N.G.Carter (University of Trieste), Frank Kersnowski, Grevel Lindop, Patrick McGuinness (St Anne’s College, Oxford), Paul O’Prey (Roehampton University), Dunstan Ward (University of London Institute in Paris).
Click here for further information and registration.
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08 - 14 July 2007 (Sunday - Saturday)
Conference: Ninth International F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference
Plenary Speakers: Ronald Berman, Horst Kruse, Richard Godden
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Wednesday, 11 July 2007: 1.30pm
Symposium: Caine Prize for African Writing 2007
For further details please follow this link: http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/annual/CainePrize/index.htm
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23 - 26 July 2007 (Monday - Thursday)
The London Rare Books School
The Institute of English will run the first London Rare Books School (LRBS), a series of four-day, intensive courses on a variety of book-related subjects in July 2007.
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Tuesday, 24th July 2007, details tbc
John Coffin Memorial Lecture in the History of the Book
H. J. Jackson: ‘Fame: the Book-History Version’
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30 July- 04 August 2007 (Monday-Saturday): 10.15 start
Conference: International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
Plenary speakers: Anton Scharer, Julia Crick. Click here for further information and registration.