8 June 2022 16:00 – 19:00
Launching the 2022 volume of Essays and Studies.
A special session of Oxford’s Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar to mark the centenary of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922), including two seminar panels and a group reading of the poem.
The event is organised by the Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar in collaboration with Professor Steven Matthews (University of Reading), to celebrate the launch of a new edited collection The Waste Land after One Hundred Years, which will be published by Boydell & Brewer in July of this year. It take place from 4-7pm on Wednesday 8th June and will consist of a group reading of The Waste Land followed by two panel discussions of the poem and its afterlives.
Speakers at the event include: Professor Rebecca Beasley (The Queen’s College, Oxford), Dr William Davies (Reading), Professor Hugh Haughton (York), Professor Marjorie Perloff (Stanford), Professor Andrew Michael Roberts (Dundee), and Professor Peter Robinson (Reading).
The event will be taking place in the Old Library at All Souls College as well as online via Zoom. Since there are only a limited number of seats available, please register in advance if you are planning to attend the event.
