Events

In the second paper in our 2019/20 seminar series, Amy Hungerford from Yale University charts the history of reading practices and their relationship with solitude.

Amy Hungerford is the Bird White Housum Professor of English at Yale University, and will deliver this lecture as part of her Distinguished Visiting Fellowship at Queen Mary University of London.

In the first paper in our 2019/20 seminar series, Mark Lee from the University of Oxford explores devotional solitude through the lens of ‘religious insanity’ in the nineteenth century.

Join us in discovering what Marion Milner calls ‘butterfly thoughts’, which flutter in from nowhere and are gone in a moment, in Chapter 8 – ‘Discovering that Thought Can be Blind’ – of A Life of One’s Own.

Join us in experimenting with ways of seeing, following from Milner’s observations in Chapter 7 – ‘Two Ways of Looking’ – of A Life of One’s Own.

Can we be ourselves ‘at all costs’? Join us to discuss the fifth chapter of A Life of One’s Own: part diary, part detective story, and above all an experiment in writing, thinking, and observation.