Public lectures and performances

Professor Susan Sellers will be delivering a lecture on 'Writing Mrs Dalloway', as part of a study day 'Reading Mrs Dalloway' on Saturday 16th September. The day is organised by Literature Cambridge for the ACE foundation, a charity which aims to promote cultural and international understanding through the advancement of education.

Professor Anne Coldiron will deliver the 2017 Erasmus Lecture at the University of Toronto in Canada on 5th October. Her lecture, 'The Renaissance Englishing of medieval auctoritas', considers how textual producers in the era of early printing reconstructed and sometimes subverted the established, international marks of authorship and authority for expanding English readerships. The new means of production, new economic realities in the book trades, and changing social contexts entailed some paradoxically conservative innovations in material and literary aesthetics.

Dr Jim Byatt will be taking part in a panel discussion at the Cheltenham Literature Festival on 6th October. He will be in conversation with Adrian Owen about his book Into the Grey Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death (Faber, 2017). The panel will be exploring the science of liminality, to which Jim will be contributing fictional imaginings of the life/death boundary. For more information please see:

Cheltenham Literature Festival website

The Don Paterson Situation, featuring Professor Don Paterson, will perform at The Maltings in Berwick upon Tweed on 6th October.