Public Lectures and Events 2008
Semester 1, 2008
Unless otherwise noted, all Friday Seminars meet at 4pm in Castle D
February 7-9
ANSZA 2008 Conference: "Embodying Shakespeare," Otago Museum
February 7
Annual Margaret Dalziel Lecture: Gail Kern Paster, Director, Folger Shakespeare Library, “Skulls that are Good to Think With: Holbein, Hamlet, and Early Modern Cognition,” Archway 3, 5.10 pm
February 8
"An Ordinary Storm" by Hilary Elfick, 8pm, Marjorie Barclay Theatre, $15.00 conference delegates, $20.00 general public. To guarantee your seat, you must register with Sarah Entwistle in advance. Payment for reserved tickets will be due at registration.
February 9
Michael Halliwell performs 19th and 20th century versions of Shakespearean songs, 5.15 pm, Marama Hall, University of Otago. There is no charge but to guarantee your seat, you must register with Sarah Entwistle in advance.
March 7
Friday Seminar: Professor Emerita Jocelyn Harris, "'Clarissa Lives!' The Novel and the Movie of Atonement"
March 13
English Department and Lit Soc Wine and Cheese, English Common Room, 5-7 pm
March 14
Friday Seminar Postgraduate Forum: Scholarly Presentations and Conferences, featuring Professor Evelyn Tribble and Dr Simone Marshall
March 28
Friday Seminar: Michael Cop, PhD candidate, "Biblical Harmony in Milton's Paradises"
April 4
Friday Seminar: Professor Cairns Craig, University of Aberdeen, "When Was the Scottish Enlightenment?" Commerce 222, 4 pm
April 11
Friday Seminar: PhD candidate Emily Ross, "Factions and Fictions: Rumour, Slander,
Poetic Licence and the Pecking Order in the Jacobean Court," and MA candidate Cy Mathews, "Narratives of Self in the Cross-Genre Texts of Charles Simic and Sarah Manguso"
April 18
ENGL 490 presentations
April 21-25
Mid-semester break
May 2
Friday Seminar: Dr Shef Rogers, "Rapes, Skeletons, and Disappearances: Who Says Bibliography is Dull?"
May 6
Professor Wolfgang Zach, University of Innsbruck, "Jonathan Swift and the
Anglicisation of Ireland," St David 5, 4 pm
May 9
Friday Seminar: Dr Paul Tankard, "Boswell the Journalist"
May 10
"William Morris and the Art of Everyday Life": A one-day conference convened by the Australasian Victorian Studies Association and the University of Otago at the Christchurch Art Gallery
May 12
Professor Stanley Fish, James and Jean Davis Prestige Visitor, Florida International University, "Save the world on your own time: What College and University Professors should and shouldn't do," Castle 1 Lecture Theatre, 7 pm
May 14
Professor Ellen Spolsky, Bar-Ilan University, "Affordances: Do Art and Literature Make us Better People?" Burns 1W1, 4 pm
May 15
Professor Florence Boos, University of Iowa, “Socialist Aesthetics in the Shadows of Amiens," Burns 1, 5.10 pm
May 16
Celebratory function for Graduating English Majors, 5-7 pm
May 21
English Quiz Night, Gazebo Lounge, 7.30 pm
May 22
Professor Chris Ackerley, "The Art of Annotation," College of Education Auditorium, 5.30 pm
May 23
Friday Seminar: Dr Greg Waite, "The Limits of Late Middle English Dialectology"
May 30
Friday Seminar: Simone Marshall, "Who is Geoffrey Chaucer? Chaucerian Collections in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries"
June 18
Dr Benjamin Myers, University of Queensland, "The Invention of Reason: Milton and the Theology of Secular Politics," Burns 1W1, 11 am
Semester 2, 2008
July 18
Friday Seminar: Postgraduate Forum: Articles and Publishing, featuring Dr Wendy Parkins and Dr Simone Drichel
July 25
ENGL 490 Presentations
August 1
Friday Seminar: Dr William Martin, "Joyce on Parnell: The Rhythm of Poetry, Dialogue and History"
August 4
Distinguished Communicator Lecture Series: Kim Hill, "Is Science Something
We Should Fear?" St David Lecture Theatre, 5.30 pm
August 8
Friday Seminar: Associate Professor John Hale, "Milton's Colour Sense," and Dr Tom McLean, "Joanna Baillie: New Letters and a New Chronology"
August 15
Friday Seminar: Professor Evelyn Tribble, "Cognitive Theory and Literary/Cultural History: An Interdisciplinary Approach in Early Modern Studies"
August 20
Professor Peter Kuch, "Thinking about Irish Studies," College of Education Auditorium, 5.30 pm
August 22
Friday Seminar: Dr Wendy Parkins, "Feeling at Home: Red House and the Affective Habitus"
August 25-29
Mid-semester break
September 5
Friday Seminar: Dr Rochelle Simmons, "John Berger's Revolutionary
Narratives"
September 12
Friday Seminar: Dr Chris Prentice, "Integral Culture: Agora-phobia at the
Polynesian Cultural Centre"
September 19
Friday Seminar: Dr Simone Drichel, "'Signposts to a World that is Not Even
Mentioned': Janet Frame's Levinasian Ethics of Transcendence"
September 26
Friday Seminar Graduate Forum: CVs and Job Search, featuring Dr Simone Marshall, Dr Thomas McLean, and Professor Evelyn Tribble
October 3
Friday Seminar: Featuring Dr Jacob Edmond, "Broken English: Charles Bernstein and the
Dialects of Modernism"
October 10
Friday Seminar: Professor Emeritus Lawrence Jones, "Flogging the Dead Horses: Maurice Gee, Realism, Wayne Booth and Literary Criticism"
October 24
Professor Nicholas Grene, Edward Dowden Professor of English Literature, Trinity College Dublin, '"Home and Away': Shaw, Yeats, Beckett, Heaney," Quad 3 Lecture Theatre, Geology Building, 1.00 pm
October 28
Dr Keith Maslen, "The Dunedin Printing Trade," Dunedin Public Library, 7.30 pm