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Birthing a Nation: Jonson’s Black Shakespearean Masque

Faculty of Arts · Forum Theatre (153), Arts West - North Wing (148A)

Recent criticism of Ben Jonson’s A Masque of Blackness (1605) has generally focused on a racial blackness in early seventeenth-century Britain, but this presentation argues that these readings, while…

ARC Conversations: Newspeak, Oldspeak and the Unspoken - The Power of Language to Shape the World

University of Glasgow · Advanced Research Centre

How does language shape what we know, imagine and act upon? Nearly eighty years after Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, ARC Conversations brings together leading voices from urban studies, data science…

Keele Hall Readings: Julia Cranney

Keele University · Raven Mason Suite, Keele Hall

Award-winning playwright, screenwriter and actor Julia Cranney joins the Keele Hall Readings series for an evening of readings and conversation in the Raven Mason Suite, Keele Hall. Discover the work…

Ice cream dumplings: Transpositioning through friction across digital mediums

University College London · Room A5.02, 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL, United Kingdom

Join this event to hear Gordon Blaine West examine how food meanings shift across different communication mediums.

"Why Tragedy? Two Famous Plays By Shakespeare"

Human Resources · University Extension in University Village, Room 1101, 1299 University Ave Suite 201, Riverside, CA 92507

UC Riverside Retirees' and Emeriti Associations with additional sponsorship by UCR Osher and UCR's Office of Gift Planning Present

2026 Stone Memorial Lecture by Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Office of the Provost · The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Research in Black Culture and History, Stone Center Auditorium, 150 South Road, Chapel Hill, NC

Lecture Title: A Homemade Field of Love: Expansive Understandings of Growth in Times of Change

ASL Literature Series: Handplay with Vicki Nordquist

Cornell University · Morrill Hall, 106, Cornell University Dept, 159 Central Avenue, Ithaca, NY 14853-4701, USA

The ASL Program at the Department of Linguistics proudly presents Vicki Nordquist.

An Evening of Poetry with Dana Gioia and A.E. Stallings

University of Colorado Boulder · Trident Booksellers and Cafe, 940 Pearl St, Boulder, CO 80302

When: Tuesday, November 17, 2026 Time: 6:00–7:30 pm Where: Trident Booksellers and Cafe, 940 Pearl St, Boulder, CO 80302

Love's Transcendence in the Poetry of John Donne, George Herbert and RS Thomas

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

Looking at some works by Donne, Herbert, and RS Thomas, this lecture explores what it is about the poetic language and form of these ‘Metaphysical Poets’ that lends itself to the expression of the…

Well Nigh Inebriating Us with the Sultan’s Verses”: Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī and the Making of a Poet-King

Trinity College Dublin · Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub

The 2026 Cochrane Fellow Lecture, co-hosted by the Trinity Centre for the Book and the Chester Beatty Library.

Novels and Women in Oman

Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies · Jerusalem Room, George Street, Oxford

Book Club, Louise Penny, hosted by Ceri Morgan and Emma Head

Keele University · Chapters Cafe, Union Square

Love a good mystery? Join Ceri Morgan and Emma Head for a friendly discussion of Louise Penny’s brand-new Three Pines novel, Miss Wolcott's Ghost, and enjoy an evening of conversation with fellow…

Three Writers on Writing: A conversation with Jerwood Fellows

University of York · Berrick Saul Building, Campus West

Writers Kym Deyn, Katherine Horrex and J.A. Mensah will speak about their experiences as New Writing North’s Jerwood Fellows, exploring how they have developed their practice and navigated the…

More than words with Professor Federico Faloppa

University of Reading · G.10 Lecture Theatre, Palmer Building, Whiteknights Campus

We’re told words are just words. But words can inspire, unite and empower. They can also stigmatise, exclude and harm.

Truisms, Fiction and Women Writing: A lunch workshop with author Marie Darrieussecq

Department of French and Italian · Building 260, Pigott Hall, Rm 216, 450 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305

Please join the Department of French and Italian for a lunch workshop with author Marie Darrieussecq.

Reading with Martín Espada, part of the Lane Lecture Series

Creative Writing Program · Faculty Club, Cedar Room, 439 Lagunita Drive, Stanford, CA 94305

The Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce the next event in the Lane Lecture Series: A Reading with Martín Espada.

Presentation of Three FWF Projects Hosted by CEMS

Central European University · Quellenstrasse 51 · Room C-419, Vienna

Project Description: Rhetoric profoundly shaped the worldview, intellectual culture, and literature of the Byzantine Empire throughout its millennium-long history. Rhetorical education—and literary…

The 2026 Seamus Heaney Lecture: The Right Hon Dame Siobhan Keegan

University of Liverpool · Lecture Theatre 1 Yoko Ono Lennon Centre

The 2026 Seamus Heaney Lecture, organised by the Institute of Irish Studies and the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool, in association with The Estate of Seamus Heaney, will be…

American Hagwon: Novelist Min Jin Lee Goes Back to School

Harvard University · Knafel Center OR Online on Zoom

Min Jin Lee returns to Harvard Radcliffe Institute for a conversation with Jared Bowen about her new novel American Hagwon.

Lit Happens: UCalgary Book Club with Amanda Leduc

University of Calgary · Taylor Family Digital Library 410 university court nw t2n 1n4

You're invited to Lit Happens, the inaugural UCalgary Library x CDWP book club!Thursday, Nov 19, 2026 from 6-7:30PMGallery Hall, Taylor Family Digital Library, UCalgary Main Campus The first novel…