Past Events

2019

"The Wall in the North (of England) or Shakespeare and 'The Office of Wall'"

• Professor Adam N. McKeown, Tulane University
• Tuesday 2 April at 5:00 pm
• British and Irish Studies Room (M549), 5th floor Norlin Library 
• Professor McKeown is the author of Fortifications and its Discontents from Shakespeare to Milton: Trouble in the Walled City (Routledge, 2019) and English Mercuries: Soldier Poets in the Age of Shakespeare (Vanderbilt, 2009)

• 2018

New Histories for the Age of Shakespeare

• Many leading historians present thei research on recent developments in the history of Elizabeth I and James VI and I. 
• November 17, 2018
• download conference program here

"The Political Education of Young William Shakespeare"

• Glyn Parry, Professor of History, Roehampton University
• November 16, 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Justice and Political Society in David Hume's Second Enquiry"

• Ryan Patrick Hanley, Mellon Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Marquette University
• March 1, 2018

2017

"Brexit and the Future of the EU"

• Featured Professor Robery Geyer, University of Lancaster
• Center for British and Irish Studies, Norlin Library M549
• Wednesday, September 13, 2017

2016

Shakespeare's First Folio, on Tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library

• CU Art Museum
• August 9-31, 2016

2012

The Rake's Progress - Stravinsky, Hogarth, Hockney, Auden, and Kallman: A Multidisciplinary Conference

• Keynote: Lawrence Weschler - “The Tapering Perspectival Vice of Hockney’s Bedlam”
• October 26-27, 2012

Related Events:

• Hockney and Hogarth: Selections from the CU Art Museum's Collection of British Art

  • September 7 - October 27, 2012
  • CU Art Museum
  • Curated by Lisa Tamiris Becker, Director, CU Art Museum and Catherine Labio, Associate Professor of English, University of Colorado Boulder

• Lecture by Frédéric Ogée

  • Professor of English Studies at the Université Paris-Diderot (Paris 7), France, and a world-renowned expert on William Hogarth
  • September 20, 2012

• CU Opera: The Rake's Progress

  • ​an opera in English by Igor Stravinsky, libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman 
  • October 26 and 28, 2012

2010

"Writing About Ireland"

• A free talk by author Frank Delaney
• September 29, 2010

The Next English Renaissance: New Directions in Early Modern Literary Criticism

• September 24, 2010

The Tudors Conference

• Keynote Speaker Michael Hirst, creator of the Shotwime series The Tudors and screenwriter for Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age
• February 3-4, 2010

Fifth Annual CBIS Gathering of Scholars: "Britain and India"

• January 22, 2010

2009

"Circular Referral and Alterity: The Three Ladies in Coriolanus and What They Can Tell Us"

• Yasunari Takada, Chair of the Department of Cultural Representations and visiting scholar at Yale as a guest of their Alumni Association, University of Tokyo 
• November 16, 2009

"Fictional Settlements: Footnotes, Metalepsis, Imperial Design"

• Elaine Freedgood, Department of English, New York University
• November 13, 2009

"On the Promise of Peace: Kant's Wartime and the Tremulous Body of Philosophy"

• David Clark, Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
• September 4, 2009

2008

Internationally Renowned Visiting Scholars (Fall 2008)

• Dr. Professor Christoph Bode (Department of English, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
  "The Discursive Subject in British Romanticism"
• Dr. Nicholas Roe (School of English, University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
  "John Keats, Benjamin Haydon and the Elgin Marbles"

Fourth Annual CBIS Gathering of Scholars: "Fashion Thoughts"

• Fall 2008

"Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, and the Lyrical Ballads of 1797-1798"

• Jacqueline Labbe, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
• Fall 2008

2007

Third Annual CBIS Gathering of Scholars: "Questions of Affect: Emotion and Sensation"

• Fall 2007

Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference

• February 23-34, 2007

2006

Second Annual CBIS Gathering of Scholars: "The Future of Romanticism"

• Summer 2006

2005

First Annual CBIS Gathering of Scholars: "Two Centuries of Things"

• Fall 2005