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16 November (Week 6): ‘At the Back of George MacDonald: Romanticism, Fairy Tales and the Redemptive Child’. Prof. Bill Gray, University of Chichester.
5:15 PM in Room 11 of the English Faculty Building
Professor Bill Gray discusses George MacDonald's nineteenth-century children's works in relation to Romantic ideas about fairy tales and the redemptive power of children. Gray, who studied literature, philosophy and theology at the universities of Oxford, Edinburgh and Princeton, is an expert in children's fantasy. His publications include the books Fantasy, Myth and the Measure of Truth: Tales of Pullman, Lewis, Tolkien, MacDonald and Hoffmann and Death and Fantasy: Essays on George MacDonald, C.S. Lewis, Philip Pullman and R.L. Stevenson.

Directions to the Faculty can be found here:
http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/directions-and-map.html

Call for Papers - Romantic Graduate Forum

Michaelmas Term Call for Papers
Tuesdays of Weeks 2, 4, 6 and 8 of Michaelmas Term
5.30-7.30pm The Bajpai Room, Balliol College

Romantic Graduate Forum invites proposals for papers for the Michaelmas Term schedule. RGF provides an arena for postgraduates to try out ideas, prepare for conferences and discuss their work in progress. Papers on all topics bearing on the field are welcome and should be around 20 minutes; please contact either James Baxendine (james.baxendine@magd.ox.ac.uk) or Anna Camilleri (anna.camilleri@balliol.ox.ac.uk) with a title and short summary of your topic.

How to find us

Once your in Oriel College, just ask for the MacGregor Room (for weeks 2-8) Week 1 we're in the Basil Mitchell Room.


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Marina Warner

For our 5th week seminar, Professor Marina Warner (University of Essex) will be speaking on –

'Playing with Sorcery after the Tales of 1001 Nights'

Thursday 28th May, 5:15pm, Ferrar Room, Hertford.

To find a little bit out about Marina Warner's work, go to http://www.marinawarner.com/.

Trinity Term 2009

The seminar will meet every Thursday during term, 5:15 – 6:45 pm, in the Ferrar Room, Hertford College.

Week 1 – Thursday 30th April
'Truth and Reality in Byron's Don Juan'
Dr Nicholas Halmi (University College, Oxford)

Week 2 – Thursday 7th May
TBC
James Baxendine (Magdalen College, Oxford)
&
'Keats reading Catullus - a glance into Cockney Classicism'
Henry Stead
(St Hilda's College, Oxford and the Open University)

Week 3 – Thursday 14th May
'"May JOHN look on PAT as his brother": The Stage Irishman in the 1790s'
Dr David O’Shaughnessy (Linacre College, Oxford)

Week 4 – Thursday 21st May
'"Lost in Stormy Visions": Shelley's Adonais and The Triumph of Life'
Prof. Michael O'Neill (Durham University)

Week 5 – Thursday 28th May
'Playing with Sorcery after the Tales of 1001 Nights'
Prof. Marina Warner (University of Essex)

Week 6 – Thursday 4th June
'Romantic Ruin: Dwelling in the Time of Waste'
Will Viney (The London Consortium)
&
'"The clear universe of things around": Lucretius, Michel Serres, and Shelley's early poetry'
Heather Yeung (Durham University)

Week 7 – Thursday 11th June
'The Road to Ruins: relics, pilgrimage, and the Romantic imagination'
Kathryn Barush (Wadham College, Oxford)
&
'"I will write a book on leaves of flowers":
Hermeneutics and Blake’s Ecopoetics'
Devin Zuber (University of Osnabrück, Germany)

Week 8 – Thursday 18th June
'On Byron, editing and exile'
Dr Jane Stabler (University of St Andrews)

William Blake in Paris

Click on the link above for information about the exhibition.

For more Blake-related events (Conferences at the College de France, BlakeConference on June 5th-6th at the English Department of Paris VIIuniversity), as well as contacts in Paris, please email jean-marie.fournier@univ-paris-diderot.fr or laurent.chatel@paris-sorbonne.fr.

Romantic Graduate Forum: Michaelmas Term Call for Papers

Tuesdays of Weeks 2, 4, 6 and 8 of Michaelmas Term
5.30-7.30pm The Bajpai Room, Balliol College

Romantic Graduate Forum invites proposals for papers for the Michaelmas Term schedule. RGF provides an arena for postgraduates to try out ideas, prepare for conferences and discuss their work in progress. Papers on all topics bearing on the field are welcome and should be around 20 minutes; please contact either James Baxendine (james.baxendine@magd.ox.ac.uk) or Anna Camilleri (anna.camilleri@balliol.ox.ac.uk) with a title and short summary of your topic.