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17 Jun

On Shoddy

17 June 2026, 17:30 to 19:30

A special seminar with Professor Hanna Rose Shell, historian of art / cinema / science from the…

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260612 pen microscope
12 Jun

Medical/Health Humanities Event: Is the pen mightier than the microscope?

12 June 2026, 10:00 to 16:30

Is the pen mightier than the microscope? What can literature or the arts tell us, that science…

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2 Jun

Crossroads: People, Places, and Ideas

2 June 2026, 09:30 to 18:00

The English and Creative Writing programmes are delighted to invite you to the annual PGR Conference…

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18 May

Performance: a tentative unravelling, a commons

18 May 2026, 18:00 to 20:00

Professor Kélina Gotman explores the strands that have underpinned ‘performance’ discourse over the…

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wayward lives, beautiful experiments
30 Apr

Queer@King's Reading Group: Saidiya Hartman's Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

30 April 2026, 14:00 to 16:00

Exploring excerpts from Saidiya Hartman's Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories…

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21 Apr

An Agenda for the Medical Humanities and Ageing

21 April 2026, 17:00 to 18:30

A ‘biological turn’ in the medical humanities that integrates narrative and empowers policy.

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1 Apr

Nation/postnationalism in contemporary South Asia and the EU: on migrant and diasporic theatres

1 April 2026, 15:00 to 16:30

Dr Lizzie Stewart and Dr Priyanka Basu in conversation on nation and postnationalism in South Asia…

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260319 writing speculative fiction
19 Mar

Speculative Fiction: The What, The How, The Why

19 March 2026, 19:00 to 20:30

The Writers Reading Book Club invites you to a discussion of the art of writing science fiction and…

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260318 in the margins
18 Mar

In the Margins: Writing Non-Elite Lives in the Long Eighteenth Century with Professor Abigail Williams

18 March 2026, 17:30 to 19:00

Professor Abigail Williams explores the reading practices of non-elites in long eighteenth-century…

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260318 medicine as theatre
18 Mar

When the Medical Contract Meets Performance’s Imaginative Contract: Introducing Medicine as Theatre: Theatre as Medicine

18 March 2026, 16:00 to 18:30

Professor of English at the University of Toronto and award-winning filmmaker Marlene Goldman joins…

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