Breath in Poetry (Public talk, 12th March)

Join Professor David Fuller, Professor (Emeritus) of English Studies and Researcher on the Life of Breath project, at a talk associated with the Catch Your Breath exhibition at Palace Green Library. This free, public event is on 12th March at 18.00. Poetry is not merely words on paper. For many poets it is about the...

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What’s On: North East Literature and Book Events in March 2019

A little later than planned - thanks February for having too few days to get stuff done - our March books newsletter is out now, with listings for literature events taking place in Durham, Newcastle, Teesside, Sunderland and around the North East this month. Make sure you subscribe or submit your event to avoid missing...

Preaching to the Choir: A Sceptical Look at Carthusian Transmission of Vernacular Spiritual Writing (Public Lecture, 9th March)

All are welcome to the first of a series of annual lectures in memory of Ian Doyle, in Durham Castle on 9th March at 16.00. Professor Vincent Gillespie, J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, will explore the public role of the Carthusians in the transmission of...

George Eliot and the Victorian Extended Mind (Seminar, 27th February)

The next Inventions of the Text seminar will be given by our own Dr Peter Garratt on 27th February, 17.30, in Hallgarth House seminar room. All welcome. Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? This question—and the reply that thinking ain't all in the head—is posed today by proponents of the 'extended mind' account...

Evelyn Waugh, Catholicism, and America: Hollywood, Death, and the Religious Life (Public Lecture, 12th February)

Join renowned literature scholar Professor Martin Stannard at the next public lecture in the Centre for Catholic Studies' Ushaw College series, where he'll be tracking Evelyn Waugh's encounters with religion in America. All welcome to this free event in Ushaw College on 12th February from 17.30. About the lecture By 1947, the year of his...