2019
The Precinct of St. Paul's in Early Modern London
Professor Roze Hentschell, Colorado State University
Thursday 14 November, 2019
Time: 5:00 PM
British and Irish Studies Room (M549), 5th floor Norlin Library
Professor Hentschell is the author of The Culture of Cloth in Early Modern England: Textual Constructions of a National Identity (Ashgate, 2008) and has recently completed a monograph entitled "St Paul's Cathedral Precinct in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Spatial Practices," which is under contract with Oxford University Press.
"Addiction in the Archives"
Rebecca Lemon, University of Southern California
POSTPONED
British and Irish Studies Room (M549), 5th floor Norlin Library
Professor Lemon is the author of Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England (Pennsylvania, 2018), King Richard III: Language and Writing (Arden, 2018) and Treason by Words: Literature, Law and Rebellion in Shakespeare's England (Cornell, 2006)
"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)
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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:
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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
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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
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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
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"
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"
"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"
Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference
2006
Second Annual CBIS Gathering of Scholars: "The Future of Romanticism"
2005
First Annual CBIS Gathering of Scholars: "Two Centuries of Things"
