Organised by Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group and the School of English at the University of Kent, Refugee Tales 2016 will open with day-long Forum on … Read more
Category: Events
Shakespeare 400 comes to Canterbury
2016 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare and it is being marked nationally and internationally by events and celebrations of the … Read more
Award-winning journalist Amira Hass to speak at Kent
The Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies (in collaboration with the Palestine Centre at SOAS, University of London) has invited Amira Hass, Israel’s leading reporter … Read more
Special screening of ‘Carol’ at Curzon Canterbury
The Centre for Gender, Sexuality and Writing will be hosting a post-screening panel discussion of the film Carol at the Curzon cinema in Canterbury on Sunday 6th … Read more
‘The Queer Persistence of Shakespeare’: Professor Stephen Guy-Bray
‘The Queer Persistence of Shakespeare’ Professor Stephen Guy-Bray (British Columbia) Chair: Dr Declan Kavanagh (University of Kent) 5pm, Monday 23 November Eliot Lecture Theatre 2 … Read more
Festival of English Open Lecture: Woolf
The final Festival of English event will take place on the Canterbury campus next week. Dr Derek Ryan will be giving a paper entitled ‘Virginia … Read more
Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year 2015
The School of English and the Centre for Creative Writing at the University of Kent were proud sponsors of this year’s Canterbury Festival Poet of … Read more
David Herd to open this year’s Esteem Lecture series
The Esteem Lectures series was introduced by Vice-Chancellor Professor Dame Julia Goodfellow in the University of Kent’s 50th anniversary year to celebrate the achievements and … Read more
2015 T S Eliot Memorial Lecture: Terry Eagleton
Jointly sponsored by Eliot College, the Centre for Postcolonial Studies and the School of English the T S Eliot Memorial Lecture will take place in … Read more
Festival of English Poet in Residence Patience Agbabi performs new material
English Literature was one of the University of Kent’s founding subjects. To celebrate the milestone of fifty years at the forefront of local, national and international … Read more