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Falkland Islands on a retro globe.

The Falklands/Malvinas Conflict: Forty Years On

Jonathan Rayner, Professor of Film Studies, features in the new collection of essays commemorating the Falklands Conflict of 1982.
Centre for Poetry and Poetics Presents a reading with Allen Fisher and Kelvin Corcoran
Centre for Poetry and Poetics Presents a reading with Allen Fisher and Kelvin Corcoran

Centre for Poetry and Poetics Presents a reading with Allen Fisher and Kelvin Corcoran

Join us for our next exciting event with readings from the recent works of our speakers.

Peer coaching video

School of English Peer Coaching Programme

Find out more about our School of English Peer Coaching Programme here.

Centre for Poetry and Poetics cut collective flyer
Centre for Poetry and Poetics cut collective flyer

Centre for Poetry and Poetics: a reading with CUT COLLECTIVE

Centre for Poetry and Poetics, Sheffield as its first reading into the Autumn 2023 Series presents: a reading with CUT COLLECTIVE; a collective of writers of poetry, prose, hybrid and experimental texts.
Eng Soc and David Crystal

David Crystal Charity Lecture: Child Language Revisited

An event hosted by EngSoc on the 28th of February.
Poster conference

Cancelled: The British Society for Literature and Science- 15th Annual Conference

Registration is now open via this link from the Online Store of the University of Sheffield until 1st April: https://onlineshop.shef.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-arts-and-humanities/english/15th-annual-bsls-conference
View from the Students' Union

Cancelled: Creative Arts and Climate Crisis Research Event

Creative Arts and Climate Crisis is a cross-disciplinary seminar that brings together artists and scholars to explore different approaches through which creative and performing arts are responding to the burning issue of climate crisis.
Derek Gregory and Adam Piette

International and Interdisciplinary speakers at the Aesthetics of Drone Warfare Conference

Over two days from 7-8 February 2020, about 45 attendees from at least 7 countries gathered at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, to present papers and discuss issues surrounding drones and drone warfare through the prism of aesthetics--aesthetics as art, and as the relationship between embodied experience and the material environment.
Centre for Poetry and Poetics

Centre for Poetry and Poetics Spring 2020 Schedule