Events in English Literature In 'English Literature events' EventsPast events Back to 'English Literature' The Shakespeare Birthday Lecture Date23 - 24/04/2021DescriptionThis year's Shakespeare Birthday Lecture will be presented online for the first time, with new and important research exploring what Shakespeare looked like and the kind of man he was. Your Shakespeare questions answered, live from Stratford! Date24/04/2021DescriptionIn honour of Shakespeare's 457th birthday, three Shakespeare Institute faculty members will be online to answer any questions you may have about Shakespeare's works, influence, life, times, and afterlives. Techniques of Indifference: Celibate Machines and the Modernist Gimmick Date29/04/2021DescriptionJoin Michelle Rada (Brown University, USA) for a talk about indifference, death, automation, and erotic desire in modernism. Moving Pictures: Serial Revolutions in 1848 Date05/05/2021DescriptionProfessor Clare Pettitt (Kings College London) will present work from her ongoing monograph series on the centrality of serial form to nineteenth-century culture, media, history and politics. GCfE 15th Annual Conference 13-14 May 2021 Date13 - 14/05/2021DescriptionCommunities in Europe between continuity and transition From Fairy Queens in "Gauze and Spangles" to "Shakespeare in Black Velvet": Examining Changing Attitudes to Theatre Costume in the Long 19th Century c. 1789-1914 Date19/05/2021DescriptionNineteenth-Century Centre seminar given by Dr Veronica Isaac (Brighton). AWW-STRUCK: Creative and Critical Approaches to Cuteness Date21/05/2021DescriptionA virtual one-day seminar co-hosted by the University of Birmingham and Royal Holloway Displaying 1 to 7 of 7