2006 Events
March 10 - Friday Seminar: Associate Professor Chris Ackerley and Dan Cape, "Lowry Illustrado: An Electronic Visual Companion to Under the Volcano"
March 15 - Ulrika Andersson, PhD Candidate, University of Göteborg, Sweden, "Childhood and Sacrifice in the Contemporary Maori Novel," Arts 1W1, 1 p.m.
March 17 - Friday Seminar: Professor Emerita Jocelyn Harris, "Anne Elliott's Determined Disinclination for Bath," and Dr. Shef Rogers, "Accounting for Travel: Subscriptions, Translations, Dedications and Re-Issues of Eighteenth-Century Travel Narratives"
March 23 - Dr. Elisabeth Okasha, University College Cork, "Anglo-Saxon Inscribed Rings," CO219, 11:00 a.m.
March 24 - Friday Seminar: Dr. Elisabeth Okasha, University College Cork, "Anglo-Saxon Inscriptions found outside the British Isles"
March 31 - Friday Seminar: Dr. Wendy Parkins, "The New Woman's 'wheels of daily existence': Home and Mobility in Mona Caird's The Daughters of Danaus"
April 7 - MA Seminar Day, Castle D, 4:00pm.
April 12 - Dunedin book launch for Unreal City, edited and translated by Dr Jacob Edmond and Dr Hilary Chung, University Book Shop, 6pm.
April 28 - Friday Seminar: Dr. John Hale, "Milton at Cambridge University, 1625-1632."
May 3 - Cilla McQueen, one of New Zealand's finest and most respected poets will be in Dunedin for one reading at 5pm in the Gazebo Lounge. Brought to you by the Association of English Majors, University of Otago.
May 5 - English 490 presentations, St David Lecture Complex, room 4, 1pm.
May 10 - Medieval Reading Group: Chaucer's Wife of Bath and the recent BBC adaptation.
May 12 - Friday Seminar: Dr. Keith Maslen, "Fashions and Challenges in Bibliographical Scholarship"
May 19 - Friday Seminar: Professor Emeritus F. Donald Logan, Emmanuel College, "Runaway Religious in Medieval England: Why Did They Flee?"
May 25 - Medieval Reading Group: discussion of selected chapters from Book I & II of St. Augustine's On Christian Doctrine.
May 26 - Friday Seminar: Dr Paul Tankard, "Didactic Pleasure and the Dialectic of Holiness in C.S. Lewis's Narnia"
June 1 - Medieval Reading Group: discussion of selected chapters from Book III of St. Augustine's On Christian Doctrine.
June 9 - Friday Seminar: Dr Jacob Edmond, "Theory and Practice in the Politics of Language Poetry"
July 28 - Friday Seminar: Dr. Simone Drichel, "'Don't Mess with Mister In-Between': On the Ambivalence of Being Between"
July 31 - Dr Cliona O Gallchoir, University College Cork, "Fact, Fiction and Intertextuality in Joseph O'Connor's The Star of the Sea", 1W1, 1pm
August 4 - PhD Seminar Day
August 10 - Margaret Dalziel Lecture: Professor Dympna Callaghan, Syracuse University, "Art and Life in Hamlet and Comedy of Errors"
August 18 - Friday Seminar: Ann Hassan, PhD Candidate, "Speech! Speech!: A European Poem"
August 25 - Friday Seminar: Dr Thomas McLean, "Reading Spectacles: Robert Ker Porter's Panoramas and the Emergence of Historical Fiction" and Pete Dulgar, PhD candidate, "Shooting Stories: The Retelling of American Short Fiction through Hollywood Film"
September 8 - 490 presentations
September 15 - Friday Seminar: Dr Richard Berkeley, "'Jealous of the listening air': Silence and the Gothic Sublime in Christabel."
September 22 - Genders/Families/Cultures Colloquium with keynote speaker Prof Rachel Bowlby, Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature, University College London & William Evans Visiting Fellow.
September 29 - Friday Seminar: Catherine Dale, PhD candidate, "Artaud, Derrida, and the Enemy Within"
October 6 - MA Conference Day, 2-5:30 p.m., Arts 1W1.
October 11 - Annual Hocken and Michael King Memorial Lectures: C.K. Stead, Fifty Years Ago: Some images of the young poet and his elders, Brasch, Curnow, Sargeson.
October 13 - Friday Seminar: Dr Jacob Edmond, "Walking in Auckland: the flâneur in Yang Lian's exile works."