Research Institute for Literature and Cultural History news and events
Semester two 2024/25
Wednesday 5 February
Gothic Story-Making in Charles Robert Maturin’s ‘Leixlip Castle’
Martin Brooks
John Foster Building, 80-98 Mount Pleasant, JF1.27
5.30 to 7pm
Thursday 27 March
The Americans of Abercromby Square: The Lincoln Assassination and Liverpool
An Evening with John Maxwell
The Athenaeum, Church Alley, L3 1DD
5.30 to 7pm
Saturday 29 March
Spice Stories: The Botanical and Cultural World of Gingers (public event)
Kate Walchester and Jude Piesse in collaboration with Liverpool Botanic Trust
Tickets (£20) available on Eventbrite
Croxteth Hall, Liverpool, L12 0HB
10am to 4pm
Wednesday 2 April
APSS PGR Conference
The Women’s Organisation, 54 St. James Street, L1 0AB
9.15am to 4.30pm
Literature and Law: Ways of Seeing (with Hannah Baumeister)
John Foster Building, 80-98 Mount Pleasant, JF1.27
3 to 5pm
Thursday 24 April
Between the Salt and the Ash: Jake Morris-Campbell in conversation with Helen Tookey
Dead Ink Books, 375 Smithdown Road, L15 3JJ
Tickets (£5) available on deadinkbookshop.com
6 to 8pm
Tuesday 29 April
Grant Writing Workshop (with Matt Woodcock, University of Leeds)
John Foster Building, 80-98 Mount Pleasant, JF1.27
5.30 to 7pm
Wednesday 7 May
English and Sound Production (with Mariana Lopez, University of York)
John Foster Building, 80-98 Mount Pleasant, JF1.27
Book releases
Two colleagues from Creative Writing have both released books recently.
Sarah Mellor, The Departed.
Sean Watkin, Black Water Rising.
