Seminar series
A hallmark of our vibrant and dynamic culture, our seminar series bring the latest topics to life for students and staff, sparking lively debate.
All seminars take place in the John Percival Building unless otherwise stated.
All teaching and research staff, postgraduates, undergraduates and other colleagues within the School are welcome to attend. The seminars are also open to the general public.
Upcoming seminars – Autumn 2018
Assuming Gender
To find out more visit the Assuming Gender blog.
Date | Speaker/Screening | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
17 October | Screening of Isaac Julien’s Looking for Langston Folowed by a paper delivered by Kenneth Norwood (University of Southampton), “Look Back at It”: Black Queer Art and a History of Disruption | 16:00 | Room 2.47 |
31 October | Film screening followed by a discussion Pedro Almodóvar, All About my Mother | 15:00 | Room 3.58 |
7 November | Dr Emily Cock (Cardiff University) Title TBC | 17:00 | Room 2.47 |
21 November | Film screening followed by a discussion Robin Campillo’s 120BPM | 15:00 | Room 3.58 |
6 December | Annual Christmas Lecture Dr Monica Pearl (University of Manchester) Title TBC | 17.15 | Room 2.01 |
Cardiff Creative Writing – Visiting Writer Series
Date | Speaker | Title | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
10 October | Anna-Marie Young | ‘The Problem with pastoral’ | 13:10 | Room 1.02 |
31 October | Jac Saorsa, Sam Sargeant, Julie Primon | Research briefs | 13:10 | Room 1.02 |
14 November | Christina Thatcher and Bob Walton | Later stages of the PhD and preparing for the Viva | 13:10 | Room 1.02 |
5 December | Durre Shahwar and Patrick Coffey | ‘South Asian identities in Welsh writing in English’ ‘Beneath the Silence’ | 13:10 | Room 1.02 |
Centre for Medieval Studies
Date | Speaker | Title | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
23 October | Katie Gramich (ENCAP-Cardiff) | 'On Translating Gwerful Mechain' | 17:15 | Room 0.31 |
20 November | Caitlin Ellis (The Queen’s College, Oxford) | 'The Irish Church Misunderstood: Cleric-Kings in Continental Comparison' | 17:15 | Room 4.45 |
4 December | Matthew McHaffie (King’s College, London) | 'Between Legal Reparations and Ritual Satisfaction: Violence, Mercy, and Courts in Western France (c.1000–c.1150)' | 17.15 | Room 4.45 |
Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research (CEIR)
To find out more about this centre visit the CEIR blog.
Date | Speaker | Title | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
22 October | Maximiliaan van Woudenberg (Cambridge) | A Stormy Night of Ghost-Telling: Fantasmagoriana and the Villa Diodati in 1816 | 17:30 | Room 0.31 |
27 November | Dorothy Butchard (Birmingham) | “Haunted Screens”: Digital Texts and Unplanned Obsolescence | 17:30 | Room 0.31 |
Modern and Contemporary Literature, Culture and Theory
Date | Speaker | Title | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
3 October | Jon Webber (ENCAP-Cardiff) | ‘Authentic and Inauthentic Shame’ (Co-hosted by philosophy) | 16:10 | Room 2.03 |
24 October | Carolyn Pedwell (University of Kent) | 'Habits of Solidarity: Networked Affect and New Social Movements'. | 17:15 | Room 2.47 |
31 October | Ranka Primorac (University of Southampton) | ‘The Crying Woman’ | 17:15 | Room 2.47 |
14 November | Elizabeth Barry (University of Warwick) | Death as Displacement: Psychoanalysis, Ageing and Literature from Balzac to Plath'. | 17:15 | Room 2.47 |
Medieval and Modern Early Research Initiative (MEMORI)
Date | Speaker | Title | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
11 October | Lloyd Bowen (Cardiff) | Appeals of Memory: Petitions and Partisan Welfare During and After the English Civil War Note: this is the Society for Renaissance Studies’ Annual Welsh Lecture; wine reception from 5pm in room 2.04 | 18:00 | Room 2.01 |
18 October | Helen Phillips (Cardiff) | ‘Robin Hood’s Hut, Robin Hood’s Temple, and Druids, 1765. The Picturesque, Ideas and Politics | 17:15 | Room 2.47 |
1 November | Bob Mills (UCL) | Medieval Dog Love | 17:15 | Room 2.47 |
22 November | Siân Echard (University of British Columbia) | Nota nota: Patterns of Attention in Manuscripts of Medieval British Historians | 17:15 | Room 2.47 |
13 December | Carl Phelstead (Cardiff) | ‘Border Kingdom: Mercia, Wales, and Modern Medievalism’ | 17:15 | Room 2.47 |
Centre for Language and Communication Research (CLCR)
Date | Speaker | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
10 October | CUROP | 12:10 | Room 3.58 |
24 October | Katy Brickley & Judith Reynolds (ESRC fellows) | 12:10 | Room 3.58 |
21 February | Thora Tenbrink (Bangor) | 12:10 | Room 3.58 |
Philosophy
Date | Speaker | Title | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
3 October | Jon Webber (ENCAP-Cardiff) | ‘Authentic and Inauthentic Shame’ (Co-hosted by philosophy) | 16:10 | Room 2.03 |
10 October | Joshua Habgood-Coote (Bristol) | Knowing More (About Questions) | 16:10 | Room 0.43 |
17 October | Matthew Parrott (Birmingham) | Introspection and Mental Content | 16:10 | Room 0.43 |
24 October | Hili Razinski (Lisbon) | Ambivalence | 16:10 | Room 0.43 |
31 October | Sarah Sawyer (Sussex) | TBC | 16:10 | Room 0.43 |
14 November | Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow) | TBC | 16:10 | Room 0.43 |
21 November | Howard Williams (Cardiff) | Kant’s Cosmopolitan Ideal | 16:10 | Room 0.43 |
28 November | Corine Besson (Sussex) | TBC | 16:10 | Room 0.43 |
5 December | Andrea Viggiano (Leeds) | Consequentialism and the Causal Efficacy of the Moral | 16:10 | Room 0.43 |
12 December | TBC | TBC | 16:10 | Room 0.43 |
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