(Please visit again for updates on the 2018-19 Public Lecture programme.)
Past Public Lectures
2017/18
Dr Kate Lister (Leeds Trinity University), ‘”A Nasty Name for a Nasty Thing”: A History of C**t’
Professor Carolyne Larrington (Oxford University), ‘Winter Is Coming: Game of Thrones and Medieval Culture’
2016/17
Jay Griffiths (Writer), Tristimania: In Conversation with Professor Niall Griffiths.
2015/16
Pauls Bankovskis (Novelist), Reading from and discussing his work
Professor Thomas Docherty (Warwick University), ‘On critical responsibility and criminal irresponsibility: the managed university’
Tracey Hill (Bath Spa University), ‘Strangers and aliens: immigrants in early modern London’
Professor Francis O’Gorman (Leeds University), ‘Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History’
Adam Thorpe (Novelist), ‘Writing Out of the Past’
Catherine O’Flynn and James Hannah (Novelists), ‘In conversation with Dr Paul McDonald’
2014/15
Professor Niall Griffiths (University of Wolverhampton), Inaugural Professorial Lecture: ‘Paradise is on the end of your nose’
Eimear McBride (Novelist), Reading from A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing and Q&A
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