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University Trust Fund Events

The School is responsible through its Institutes for the organisation of an annual programme of Lectures, Literary Readings and Recitals funded by the John Coffin Memorial Bequest, and the Stanton/Cassal bequest. Trust Fund events organised by the School include the Hilda Hulme Lecture in English and the Creighton Lecture in History.

Past University Trust Funds Events

Friday 18 September 2009
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18:00 IES John Coffin Memorial Lecture in English
Biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist, Victoria Glendinning CBE is President of English PEN and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her ... 		Room G22/24 (Senate House, Ground Floor)

Tuesday 22 September 2009
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18:00 IGRS Reading by Joseph Kanon from 'The Good German'
Joseph Kanon's work has achieved critical acclaim as well as gathering a large readership. His first novel, 'Los Alamos' (1997), became a bestseller and... 		Room 273 (Stewart House, Second floor)

Monday 19 October 2009
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18:00 IES John Coffin Memorial Poetry Reading CANCELLED
Co-organised with the Institute of Commonwealth Studies as part of a series of events to mark the 60th anniversaries of both the Modern Commonwealth and... 		Other

Wednesday 18 November 2009
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18:00 IGRS ‘Haydn-Spaß’ - Haydn for Young and Old. Recital...
The Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature celebrates the 200th anniversary of Haydn’s death with a recital by the Matteo (formerly Escher) ... 		Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)

Thursday 19 November 2009
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17:45 IMR Handel, a 21st-Century Dramatist
Lecture supported by the John Coffin Trust 		Room G22/24 (Senate House, Ground Floor)

Friday 4 December 2009
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17:00 IGRS Reading by Antonella Anedda
Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)

Friday 22 January 2010
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14:30 IGRS The Memory of Myths: Sylvie Germain’s Narratives
Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)

Thursday 18 February 2010
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18:00 IES John Coffin Memorial Palaeography Lecture
The readings delivered to monastic communities each day in the refectory, and the books used for this purpose, have received comparatively little detail... 		The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, First Floor)

Friday 5 March 2010
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17:30 IGRS John Coffin Lecture on Literature: Franco Moretti, P...
"Network theory and its application to literature" 'In the last decade or so, the quantitative analysis of literary style has made considerable pro... 		Room 274/275 (Stewart House, Second floor)

Friday 16 April 2010
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18:00 IMR Recital of music by Erik Satie
A recital to illustrate the Study Day on Erik Satie: his music, the visual arts, his legacy ALL PLACES TAKEN 		Gresham College

Tuesday 25 May 2010
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18:00 IMR Old Hispanic Chant
A John Coffin Trust lecture-recital In association with the University of Bristol and the University of Colorado 		Goodenough College

Thursday 24 June 2010
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18:00 IMR Performing Haydn's Piano Music
A John Coffin Trust lecture-recital 		Goodenough College

Wednesday 30 June 2010
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18:00 IES John Coffin Memorial Lecture in the History of the Book
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. If you would like to attend please contact at the Institute of English Studies; tel. +44 (0)207 664 4859. 		Room G22/24 (Senate House, Ground Floor)

Wednesday 7 July 2010
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18:00 IES Hilda Hulme Memorial Lecture
Professor Slater’s research focuses on the life and work of Charles Dickens. From 1958 to 1977 he edited "The Dickensian". He has served as President ... 		The Beveridge Hall (Senate House, Ground Floor)