Diary

Location: Hovenden Room, All Souls College

TT1 Introduction: Literature and Intellectual History
• Middlemarch, Prologue & Book 1
• (Optional) C. Kidd, The World of Mr Casaubon, prologue

The historicist tone of Eliot's Middlemarch (1871-2) has been commented on by readers from Virginia Woolf to Zadie Smith. This reading group seeks to explore the historical richness found in Eliot's study of provincial life.

Tea and biscuits provided! 
 

Location: Old Library

The first lecture provides the historical and scholarly background for the entire lecture series. It first outlines the main characteristics of Late Bronze Age socio-political infrastructures, describing their collapse after the crisis of 1200 BC, and identifying general patterns in the reorganization of societies across Greece, Anatolia, and the Levant during the Iron Age. It then revises the models currently adopted to study and classify Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean political systems and asks whether they provide valid heuristic tools…

Location: Old Library

Wednesday 6 May (Trinity Week 2) at 5.15pm in the Hall, All Souls College

This open evening is an opportunity for students belonging to gender and ethnic groups that remain underrepresented within academic careers, including women, to learn more about the Fellowship.
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Speaker: Professor Dominic Goodall

Location: Old Library, All Souls College

Location: Hovenden Room, All Souls College

Politics I: Inheritance and Society
• Middlemarch, Book 3
• (Optional) Poon, ‘Inheritance and Succession in George Eliot’s Late Fiction’

The historicist tone of Eliot's Middlemarch (1871-2) has been commented on by readers from Virginia Woolf to Zadie Smith. This reading group seeks to explore the historical richness found in Eliot's study of provincial life.

Tea and biscuits provided! 

Location: Wharton Room

The third lecture examines socio-political transformations in Iron Age Anatolia. It takes the case of Gurgum (modern-day Kahramanmaraş), exceptionally documented by a series of local inscriptions, as a representative microcosm for a broader analysis. The inscriptional evidence left by local political leaders illuminates not only the peculiar path to rulership walked by Gurgum’s ruling dynasty, but, most importantly, the changing and manifold nature of political leadership in Iron Age Anatolia as a whole. Key aspects include the rise of…

Speaker: Professor Dominic Goodall

Location: Old Library, All Souls College

Location: Hovenden Room, All Souls College

Science and Progress
• Middlemarch, Book 4
• (Optional) Knoepflmacher, Religious Humanism and the Victorian Novel, pp. 27-44

The historicist tone of Eliot's Middlemarch (1871-2) has been commented on by readers from Virginia Woolf to Zadie Smith. This reading group seeks to explore the historical richness found in Eliot's study of provincial life.

Tea and biscuits provided!