Events

Past events

2022-23, Semester 2

• Reflecting on 35 years since Penny Marshall’s Big, one day symposium (University of Leicester, Friday 19 May 2023)
• 'The University of the West Indies and University of Leicester International Summer School: Crime, (In)Justice, Human Rights' (5-10 June 2023. Find out more about the UWI-UoL Summer School and how to apply).
• 'Val McDermid: 10th Annual Creative Writing Lecture: Killing People for Fun and Profit' (Tuesday 9 May 2023, 6.15pm, Peter Williams Lecture Theatre). For further details, please visit the Centre for New Writing.
• Latinx Studies in the UK -  Thursday 20 April and Friday 21 April, 2023. Learn more about the event.
• Literary Leicester 2023.

2022-23, Semester 1

• 'Imagine if you can: Thoughts on writing dystopian fiction' - a talk by Paul Taylor-McCartney (Monday 5 December, 4.00pm - 5.00pm, Bennett Building, Room F75a).
• 'Decoding Dickens Online' workshop (19 November 2022, 2.00pm - 3.30pm).
• ‘Creative subtitling as film-transformative practice: from immersion to amazement in Edgar Pêra’s The baron’ - a LeCTIS research seminar featuring Dr Dionysios Kapsaskis, University of Roehampton (Thursday 17 November, 4.00pm-5.00pm, online. Find out more). 
• Centre for Victorian Studies Annual Public Lecture: Shrabani Basu, 'Arthur Conan Doyle and the Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer' (16 November 2022, 5.15pm - 6.15pm in Lecture Theatre 1, Attenborough Seminar Block).
• XXII Annual Conference of Women in Spanish and Portuguese Studies (WISPS) (10-11 November 2022, online and in-person).
• ‘Faithfulness versus Loyalty – a poetry-translating point of view’ - a LeCTIS research seminar featuring Professor Francis Jones, Newcastle University (Thursday 3 November, 4.00pm - 5.00pm, online. Find out more).
• ‘Translation of Alternative self-help Books from English into Arabic: Features of Informal Register as a Case Study’ - a LeCTIS research seminar featuring Amjad Alliheibi, University of Leicester (Thursday 27 October, 4.00pm - 5.00pm, online. Find out more). 
• 'Things I Wish I’d Known Before Becoming a Writer' - a talk by Professor Kit De Waal (Wednesday 26 October 2022, 2.00pm - 4.00pm, Attenborough Film Theatre).
• 'Other Lives in Samuel Pepys Diaries' - a creative writing pamphlet anthology launch with Dr Kate Loveman (Tuesday 25 October 2022, online).
• 'Translation and Corpus Stylistics' - a LeCTIS research seminar featuring Professor Kirsten Malmkjaer (Thursday 20 October 2022, 4.00pm - 5.00pm, in person).
• Windrush stories: Visiting writer event with Paulette Ramsay (Wednesday 19 October 2022, 5pm, Attenborough Second Floor LR206).
• Social Change And Gender-Based Violence: Representations In Caribbean Literature And Performance Cultures (22-23 September 2022) - a virtual symposium hosted by the University of Leicester and the University of the West Indies.

2021-22, Semester 2

• Victorian Discovery: Celebrating Innovation and Invention in the Long Nineteenth Century (1 July 2022) - a free student-led symposium
• LECTIS Workshop: Translating for Theatre (8 June 2022).
• The Future of ‘WWII France’ in Academia: Contemporary Research Paradigms, Trajectories and Challenges (7-8 June 2022).
• Amitav Ghosh with Clare Anderson, Mark Williams and Caroline Upton: The Climate Emergency: Creating A Dialogue Between Science And The Arts (7 June 2022).
• #SolveItDickens: Hunt the Source (27 May 2022) - a free online workshop to help decoders find source texts for Charles Dickens's mysterious shorthand writing.
• The University of the West Indies and University of Leicester International Summer School (23-27 May 2022) - a week-long intensive programme aimed at postgraduate students and ECRs, focused on the theme 'Cultures and Politics of Protest'.
• Forgotten Popular Culture: Asian Cinema and Film History - an online international conference (23-25 May 2022).
• Larkin at Leicester (19 May 2022) - a public talk.
• Victorian Studies Centre Spring Seminar Series (February to May 2022) - a free series of research seminars examining the global dimensions of Victorian literature and culture.
• Annual Creative Writing Lecture: Val McDermid, 'Killing People for Fun and Profit' (12 May 2022).
• Pint of Science: 'Societal Crises Management', featuring Dr Fransiska Louwagie on 'Youth Perspectives and Political Cartooning on the Covid-19 Pandemic: Public Engagement through the Arts' (10 May 2022).
• Homage to Gianni Celati (27 April 2022) - a round table in Homage to Gianni Celati, at the Italian Cultural Institute, London
• The Dickens Code: 'SolveItDickens: An Introductory Workshop for New Decoders' (22 April 2022).
• English Book Group - an online Book Group for staff and students.
• Literary Leicester (23-26 March 2022) - a free annual literary festival.
• LeCTIS Research Seminar: 'Life After the MA: How to Choose and Use Your Dissertation to Open Doors' (17 March 2022).