Public Lectures and Events 2009
Semester 1, 2009
Unless otherwise noted, all Wednesday Seminars meet at 4pm in Burns 4
February 3-5
Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference: “The Victorian Sensorium,” Otago Museum
February 9-13
Australasian Rare Book School, University of Otago Central Library
February 12
Dr Shef Rogers, "Mind the Gap: Puzzling out the Implications of Missing Signatures in a 1712 Miscellany,"Archway 3, 5.30 pm
March 11
Wednesday Seminar: Associate Professor John Hale, "How did Milton Age?"
March 18
Wednesday Seminar: PhD candidates Cassie Ringland-Stewart, “Bleeding Figures in Julian of Norwich's A Revelation of Love, ‘The First Revelation’” and Branden Wesseling, “Workingman's Blues: Social Exploration and Representations of Working-Class Fatherhood, 1860-1890”
March 25
Wednesday Seminar: Maria Hinterkoerner, PhD candidate, University of Vienna, “Kiwi Masculinities in New Zealand Short Stories”
English Department Meet and Greet, all students welcome! Humanities Common Room, 5.15 pm
April 8
Wednesday Seminar: Postgraduate Forum on Conferences and Presentations, featuring Simone Marshall and Wendy Parkins
April 13-17
Mid-semester break
April 22
Wednesday Seminar: MA candidates Ana Martino, "No Smiling Darkness: Time, Death and Freedom in Slaughterhouse-Five," David Large, "'No less real': Borges, Berkeley, and the road to 'Tlön'" and Leonard Bond, "James Bond & the Process of Adaptation: The Role of Indigenization in the World of 007"
April 30
Dr Alice Bell, Sheffield Hallam University, and David Ciccoricco, "Digital Fiction: It's About More than Just Sticking a Fork in It," Commerce 221, 4 pm
May 6
Wednesday Seminar: Dr Jacob Edmond, "Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and Poetic Correspondences"
May 8
ENGL 490 presentations
May 13
Wednesday Seminar: Professor Jocelyn Harris, “Jane Austen's Late Revisions to Mansfield Park”
May 20
Wednesday Seminar: Dr Shef Rogers, "Valuing Publication in Eighteenth-Century England"
May 27
Wednesday Seminar: Dr Wendy Parkins, "'What some people's feelings are made of': Emotions, ethics and sociality in Dickens's Sketches of Young Couples"
June 3
Patrick Spottiswoode, Director of Globe Education, Shakespeare's Globe, London, offers two lectures: "Happy to be Rude: Shakespeare's Syllables," 2.10pm; and "'Romeo and Juliet' Porcelain in a Bullring," 3.30pm, both at the College of Education Auditorium
June 24-26
Conference: "The New Exotic? Postcolonialism and Globalization"
Semester 2, 2009
Unless otherwise noted, all Wednesday Seminars meet at 4pm in Burns 4
July 21
William Evans Visiting Fellow and Emeritus Professor Bonnie McDougall, Edinburgh University, "Marginal benefits: post-colonialism, multi-culturalism and identity in Hong Kong fiction and poetry"
July 22
Wednesday Seminar: Dr Simone Marshall
July 29
Wednesday Seminar: MA presentations
August 4
William Evans Visiting Fellow and Emeritus Professor Bonnie McDougall, Edinburgh University, "State sponsorship or gift exchange: two models of translation transactions in modern China" Archway 2, 5 pm
August 5
Wednesday Seminar: Professor Evelyn Tribble and Dr Nicholas Keene, "Culture and Cognition: Case Studies from Early Modern England"
August 12
Joanna Orwin, "This year's Otago University College of Education's Writer in Residence talks about the background to her writing and reads from her work"
August 19
Wednesday Seminar: Burns Fellow Michael Harlow, "Poetry and the Persistent Imaginal: A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus"
August 26
Wednesday Seminar: Postgraduate Forum: Dr Dave Ciccoricco, Dr Jacob Edmond and Professor Peter Kuch, “From Thesis to Career”
August 31-September 4
Mid-semester break
September 3-4
Symposium on Women, Philosophy, and Literature (for details, see http://www.otago.ac.nz/humanities/research/clusters/modernthought/seminar.html)
September 3
Professor Jane Spencer, University of Exeter, “‘The link which unites man with brutes': Enlightenment feminism, women, and animals,” 5.15pm, Quad 1 (for further details, see http://www.otago.ac.nz/humanities/research/clusters/modernthought/seminar.html)
September 9
Wednesday Seminar: Dr Ken Smith, University of Bradford, "'The present Hour alone is Man's': Johnson's Poetry and the Redemption of Time"
September 17
THURSDAY in St David Seminar room 6 (NOTE change of day and venue for this week only) Seminar: Dr Paul Tankard, “Boswell, George Steevens and the Johnsonian biography Wars”
Margaret Dalziel Lecture at 5:10pm (Thursday 17 Sep) in Archway 3. This year's lecture will be delivered by Professor Lydia Wevers, who will speak on "Jam Tarts for the Mind," an exploration of the webs of intersection between nineteenth-century New Zealand rural readers and popular fiction a hundred years ago. All are welcome.
September 23
Wednesday Seminar: Professor Liam McIlvanney, "'The Only Tribe': James K. Baxter and Scotland"
September 30
Wednesday Seminar: PhD Presentations: Cy Mathews, "Genre and Parody in the Poetry and Prose of Kenneth Koch"; Joseph Rex Young, "Aphrodite on the Home Front; ER Eddison and World War II"
October 7
Wednesday Seminar: Professor Alistair Fox, "Hybridity and Identity in New Zealand Maori Literature: Alan Duff's Dreamboat Dad (2008)"
October 14
Wednesday Seminar: Simone Drichel, "'Don't we all live in mirrors, for ever?' On Not Knowing the Other in Janet Frame's The Carpathians"