The LCCP centre has hosted numerous past events, including annual conferences, postgraduate workshops, the Byron Lectures, and interdisciplinary seminar series.
2018-19
2017-18
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- Please join us for the launch of Lila Matsumoto's new collection of poetry from Shearsman Books, Urn & Drum. Lila will be joined by poet Vicky Sparrow.
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- Come along to our Poetry Reading Group meeting.
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- Join us for an evening of poetry with Camilla Nelson, Rachael Allen, and Leah Wilkins.
2016-17
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- Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) was one of the twentieth century's most innovative and most controversial avant-garde painters, writers, and theorists. This conference will mark the 60th anniversary of Lewis's death and is intended to be a scholarly celebration of his work.
2015-16
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- On Tuesday the 15th of March Dr Máire ní Fhlathúin (University of Nottingham) will be delivering a talk for the Interdisciplinary Eighteenth Century Research Seminar entitled "Birds of Prey and Passage": Imagining Britain in India, 1780-1856'.
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- We are delighted to announce this upcoming talk for the Interdisciplinary Eighteenth Century Research Seminar "Letters to Robert Southey 1774-1843 the other side of the story".
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- We are very excited to offer first year undergraduate students the chance to explore the University's Manuscripts and Special Collections.
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- This unique event brought together contemporary poets and critics to explore the relationship between poetry and local and national identities.
2014-15
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- The Interdisciplinary Eighteenth Century Research Seminar is pleased to announce 'Nottinghamshire and the Great Peace. Reflections on the End of the Napoleonic Wars' by Dr Richard Gaunt.
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- All first year undergraduate students in the School of English are invited to our first ever Manuscript Workshop at King's Meadow Campus. This workshop is designed to give you time to look at manuscripts and rare books in detail and also to ask any questions that you may have about the items, handling historical documents or about manuscript and book conservation.
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- Northern Modernism Seminar: BLAST 1915-2015: Celebrating the 'War Number' of BLAST
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- The first Eighteenth Century Research Seminar of the year will focus on the poety of Keats. Our guest speaker is Dr Paul Whickman, lecturer in English Literature at the University of Derby, and Nottingham graduate.
2013-14
Interdisciplinary 18th Century Research seminar
Architecture & Literature: Forms of Memory
This symposium set out to explore the common ground between architecture and literature through a series of cross-disciplinary dialogues - read more about the symposium.
Forming Ruins: an interdisciplinary postgraduate workshop
2 July 2014
This interdisciplinary workshop explores the different forms ruins can take, and the way these formations are realised and written as ruins are explored as both material ‘things’ and intangible process. - read more about the workshop.
Recoveries 2014: Reconnections – 1714-1914
23 June 2014
Reconnecting with three centuries of literature and history - read more about the conference.
2012-13
Robert Southey and Romanticism: The Lake School in Context
29-31 July 2013
Paul Betz (Georgetown University) and Mike Franklin (University of Swansea)
Read more about the conference.
Ben Jonson's Epic 'Foot Voyage' to Scotland - a digital journey
8 July 2013 - 5 October 2013
Ben Jonson - read more about the project.
Ecological Inscriptions a Postgraduate Workshop
24th June 2013
Read more about the workshop.
Records of Early English Drama and Other Projects
4 June 2013
John McGavin (University of Southampton)
Lincolshire Landscapes
16 April 2013
Read more about the conference.
Philosophy notebooks at the Dissenters' Private Academies, 1660-1720
26 March 2013
Mark Burden (University of Oxford)
The best that has been thought and uttered: British Literary Modernism, German Classical Music, and the First World War
29 January 2013
Nathan Waddell (University of Nottingham)
The Northern Modernism Seminar
23 November 2012
Read more about the seminar.
2011-12
CRLC and LSP Seminars
The CRLC and LSP seminars focussed on diverse aspects of the Centre’s research, and speakers included current graduate students, research staff in the Centre, and invited speakers from other institutions.
D. H. Lawrence: Regional, National and International Contexts Conference
5-6 July 2012
This two-day Regional, National and International Contexts conference addressed Lawrence’s response to – and influence upon – regional, national and international writers, and the various regional, national and international contexts which shaped his work.
Contested Environments: A Postgraduate Workshop
7 June 2012
Read more about the Contested Environments workshop.
2010-11
Regional Literary Cultures: Modernism and After
14-15th April 2011
Trent building University Park
DH Lawrence Society
All meetings were at Eastwood Public Library
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Keith Sagar 'Lawrence's God'
- October
Peter Preston 'Lawrence at Picinisco'
- November
Barrie Mencher 'The Eye of the Beholder'
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Sean Matthews 'Lawrence on Film'
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Ruth Webb 'Lawrence in Croydon'
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Bethan Jones 'Lawrence's Late Restoration Narratives'
- April
Howard Booth 'Emotion, Desire and Inhibition in Lawrence's Early Short Fiction'
- May
David Brock 'Nettles: Do they Sting?'
- June
Richard Swigg 'The Recorded Lawrence'
The Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Seminar
The seminar has a focus on the 'Long' Eighteenth Century and was particularly keen to encourage interdisciplinary dialogue and exchange. Seminars took place on Tuesdays at 5.15pm in the Club Lounge, Staff Club, University Park Campus. The seminar received financial assistance from the School of English Studies, French Department and Dean’s Fund.
Programme for 2010-11
- 5 October 2010
Katie McDade (Nottingham - History), ‘Bristol and Liverpool Slave Trade Merchant Networks in their Urban Environment, 1725-1807’.
- 2 November 2010
John Goodridge (Nottingham Trent - English), 'Hell, Hull and Halifax: John Dyer Visits the Workhouse'.
- 7 December 2010
Fintan Cullen (Nottingham - Art History), 'Representing Parliament: Francis Wheatley's The Irish House of Commons (1780)'.
- 18 January 2011
Dr. Paul Bracken (Independent Scholar and Musician) ‘Singers and Songs in eighteenth-¬century London’.
- 8 February 2011
Mr. Paul Whickman (University of Nottingham - English)
‘The Age of Toleration?: Blasphemy and the Freedom of the Press, 1695- 1745'.
- 15 March 2011
Dr. Rebecca Ford (University of Nottingham - French)
‘Pierre and his Female Readership: Reading Between’.
- 12 April 2011
Professor John Becket (University of Nottingham - History)
‘The Industrial Revolution and the English Village’
CRLC Seminar
The 2010-2011 programme included seminars on the city in late medieval and early modern literature, sixteenth-century literary culture in Lowland Scotland, community theatre in the rural East Midlands, and a roundtable discussion showcasing current post-graduate research projects.
Celebrating Alan Sillitoe
2 October 2010
Nottingham City Council House, Market Square
Before 2010
Landscape, Space, Place Research Group
Seminar Series 2009-2010
‘Mapping: Cultural Cartographies’
Robert Southey and Romantic Contexts
14-16 April 2010
Keswick, Cumbria
Ovid, Myth and (Literary) Exile
10-12 September 2009
Ovidius University Constanta, Romania,
International D.H.Lawrence Conference
26-28 March 2009
"The logic of emotion" in Paris
Regional Romanticism: A Midlands Romantic Seminar Event
14 November 2008
Loughborough University (The Music Centre)
Sponsored by the Centre for Regional Literature and Culture, Nottingham
Post-Romantic Indentities
26 April 2003
University of Nottingham
Sponsored by the Centre for Regional Literature and Culture, Nottingham
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