Archived Events

February 2008 - Upon My Word!

Curious about what goes on in English Literature at Bangor? Come and find out! Upon My Word - Saturday 9 February. Download the event flyer (pdf)

International Layamon Conference - 1-6 July 2008

6th International Layamon Conference will take place at Gregynog, 1-6 July 2008. Organised by Dr Raluca Radulescu (Bangor) and Dr Rosamund Allen (Queen Mary, University of London), this conference will bring together scholars from the
UK, US, Germany, France, and further afield. This conference has been held since 1992 every few years in USA, Britain and Europe.The 6th International conference, to be hosted mainly by Bangor University, will continue the tradition of the preceding very successful conferences, like them also introducing relevant new topics, such as the Round Table on teaching romance and chronicle. For details about the conference, please email Dr Raluca Radulescu (r.radulescu@bangor.ac.uk) or Dr Ros Allen (r.s.allen@qmul.ac.uk). It is anticipated that the conference webpages will become available mid-December.

www.layamon.org

School of English Seminars October - December 2007

For a full list of School of English Seminars , click here

Erín Moure and Chus Pato

Erín Moure and Chus Pato: Reception and Reading Poetry, Wine and Discussion
Wednesday 24th October 2007, 7.30pm.
Drama Rehearsal Room, Main Arts Building, College Road. More information...

The Pleasures of the Text

On the 18th September 2007, The School of English was delighted to host an evening for Access students from Coleg Menai and Coleg Landrillo Yn Rhos. Professor Helen Wilcox, Drs Andrew Hiscock, Ian Davidson, Sue Niebrzydowski and the students explored the pleasure gained from considering Shakespeare's staging techniques, the language and form of modern poetry and the puzzles posed by contemporary prose. For further information about the work of the School and future events please email english@bangor.ac.uk

Centre for Medieval Studies

Seminar series for 2007-08: Centre for Medieval Studies

'Medieval Women in their Third Age: Middle Age in the Middle Ages'

An International Conference to be held at Bangor University on Wednesday-Friday, 12-14th September, 2007, hosted by the School of English, Bangor and the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, The Universities of Wales, Bangor and Aberystwyth.

This conference gathers together established scholars internationally renowned for their work on medieval womanhood. The papers are drawn from a variety of related disciplines; history, literary history, archaeology, art history and theology, and pose radical and provocative questions about the way in which the middle-aged woman perceived herself and how she was perceived by others.

Keynote Speaker: Anneke Mulder- Bakker (Leiden). Featured speakers; Roberta Gilchrist (Reading), Clare Lees (King's, London), Sara Elin Roberts (UWB), Nicola McDonald (York), Carol Meale (Bristol), Sue Niebrzydowski (Bangor), Helen Phillips (Cardiff), Jane Geddes (Aberdeen), Raluca Radulescu (Bangor), Corinne Saunders (Durham), Diane Watt (Aberystwyth).

The conference has received funding support from the Royal Historical Society for the support of postgraduate delegates. Postgraduates are invited to apply for bursaries of £40 to help toward their costs to attend the conference. Those interested should send a short description (500 words) of their current research project, authorised by their institution, to Dr Sue Niebrzydowski, The School of English, Bangor University, Gwynedd, LL57 2DG, by 25th August, 2007.

More information:

Download a copy of the conference programme (Word)

Download a copy of the booking form (Word)

Download campus map (PDF)

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Medievalism Transformed - 16 June

With the support of the Centre for Medieval Studies and the School of English, Bangor University is delighted to host 'Medievalism Transformed', the Third Annual Postgraduate Conference on the topic of medieval expression, to held on June 16, 2007, 9-5pm.

Guest Speaker: Professor Steve Ellis (University of Birmingham).

For further information please email medievalismtransformed@bangor.ac.uk.

Please note - all registration cheques should be made payable to Bangor University.

International Arthurian Society British Branch Meeting

The 26th British branch meeting (and 49th AGM) of the International Arthurian Society will take place at Gregynog hall, Newtown, Powis, 14-16 September 2007.

Only members of the society may attend.Further information about how to join and the society is available at http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~iasbb/index.htm

Information about the conference, including a programme, is available from the organisers, Dr Raluca Radulescu or Dr Neil Thomas

Click here to download a registration form (Word Doc)

Schools Literary Liaison

The School of English is delighted to be participating in a literary liaison with local sixth form students by offering workshops and lectures on A Level set texts. To date, on 28th March Professor Helen Wilcox and Dr Ian Davidson have visited members of the sixth forms of Llangefni and Amlwch to discuss ‘Dystopias – Orwell and Atwood’; Professor Tom Corns and Dr Sue Niebrzydowski have hosted a half-day workshop, ‘Focussing on Faustus ‘on 28th March, attended by the sixth forms of seven local schools and Professor Wilcox has given a talk on King Lear on the 30th April at Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle (Penygroes).

Forthcoming sessions include a talk on Renaissance drama to be given by Dr Andrew Hisock on 2nd May at St. Gerard's School, Bangor.

For further details, and suggestions for future workshops or schools’ visits, please contact Michelle Harrison, email english@bangor.ac.uk.

Fun and frolics at Bangor’s Fawlty Towers

Expect to see all of your favourite Fawlty Towers characters skilfully portrayed by Bangor students in a fun, fast paced BEDS production in JP Hall at Bangor University this weekend (27,28 & 29 April).

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School Research Seminar

All staff and students are welcome to all events. We are equally delighted to see members of the public.

Wednesday 5.00 pm Council Chamber

7th February Professor Neil Roberts, Sheffield
‘Ted Hughes’s Myth’
(chair: Professor Ian Gregson)

21st February Dr. Ian Davidson, Bangor
‘Ideas of space in contemporary poetry’
(chair: Dr. Stephen Colclough)

28th February Professor Nick Royle, Sussex
‘Forgetting well (in memory of Jacques Derrida)’
(chair: Professor Justin Edwards)

7th March Dr. Stephen Colclough, Bangor
‘The peasant poet and the ghost of Uncle Lorne: the problems of editing Clare and Le Fanu’
(chair: Professor Tom Corns)

Monday 19th March Professor Bill Baker, Northern Illinois University
‘Pinter the Poet’
(chair: Professor Helen Wilcox)

18th April Professor Helen Wilcox, Bangor
‘Why do we need a new edition of All’s Well?’
(chair: Dr. Andrew Hiscock)

25th April Dr. Nathan Abrams, Bangor
‘From Jeremy to Jesus: the Jewish male body on film, 1990 to the present’
(chair: Dr. Stephen Price)

2nd May Professor Catherine Belsey, Swansea
‘Objects of desire in Shakespeare’s sonnets’
(chair: Professor Helen Wilcox)

The Film Studies Seminar

11th December screening Y Lleill (The Others, 2005)
6:30 pm MALT (after show discussion, Emyr Gwyn Williams)

25th January Dr. Andrew Hassam, Monash University Australia
‘Bollywood in Australia, and Transnational Creative Dialogue

29th January screening Y Chwarelwr (The Quarryman, 1934)
6.30 pm MALT (after show discussion, Dr. Pwyll ap Sion)

Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Tuesday 5 pm in colleges’ videosuite

10th October Prof Finbarr McAuley, Criminology, University College Dublin
'Canon Law and the End of the Ordeal'
Hosted by Bangor, History

24th October Prof Michael Clanchy
‘Books as objects of female desire: manuscript culture, 1300-1500.'
Hosted by Aberystwyth, History

7th November Dr Jonathan Wooding Department of History, Lampeter
'The inscribed monument from Lllanllyr, Ceredigion, and the cults of Irish saints in south-west Wales'.
Hosted by Lampeter, History

21st November Stephen Rees, Bangor School of Music
‘“On some compositions from the fifteenth century”': Fétis, Pixérécourt, and the rediscovery of late medieval song’
Hosted by Bangor, Music

5th December Dr Andrew Hiscock, Bangor
A Round Table Discussion on Early Modern Women’s Writing
Hosted by Bangor, English

12th December Dr Margaret Bent, All Souls College, Oxford
‘Memento mei: Polyphonic Music in some 15th-century Commemorations for the Dead’
Hosted by Bangor, Music

16th January Dr Stefan Halikowski-Smith
‘Meanings behind Myths. The Multiple Manifestations of the Tree of the Virgin at Matarea, c. 1400-1600’.
Hosted by Swansea, History

30th January Prof Jocelyn Wogan Browne, York Centre for Medieval Studies
‘“[Ele] out les monumenz”: Women’s Vernacular Historiography in Medieval England?’
Hosted by Aberystwyth, English

27th February Prof Helen Fulton, Swansea
‘Patient Griselda and the Performance of Social Class: Boccaccio, Chaucer and Dekker’
Hosted by Swansea, English

13th March Prof Alex Walsham ‘The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Memory and Legend in Early Modern Britain’
Hosted by Aberystwyth, History

Video suite addresses: Abertawe/Swansea: EBMS/YRBE, Singleton
Aberystwyth: Llyfyrgell HUGH OWEN Library, Penglais
Bangor: DEAN ST/ STRYD Y DEON, Mathemateg/Mathematics
Cardiff: “Railway Room, 51 Park Place”
Llanbedr Pont Steffan/Lampeter: MEDIA-S2

Centre for Medieval Studies

Seminar series for 2007-08: Centre for Medieval Studies

Poetry Readings and ContemPo

28th November Peter Barry and Ian Davidson
5.30 Dean Street videosuite – ContemPo discussion

5th February Chris Emery and Professor Ian Gregson
8 pm Theatre Gwynedd Bar

19th February Peter Didsbury
8 pm Theatre Gwynedd Bar

5th March Kathryn Gray
8 pm Theatre Gwynedd Bar

6th March Tiffany Atkinson and Professor Ian Gregson
5.30 Dean Street videosuite – ContemPo discussion