We are delighted to invite you and your A Level English students to our Subject Conferences hosted by the Department of English. These free conferences are designed to supplement your students’ current or future studies.
If you or any of your students would like to attend the conference or you have any questions please email Andrew Cooper, Recruitment Officer, at
[email protected] or call 0151 291 3111. We would be grateful if you could confirm your attendance a week in advance of each conference.
Wednesday 8th February 2017
English Literature
From 2pm – 4.15pm at our Hope Park Campus, Hope Park, Liverpool, L16 9JD.
1.30pm-2pm Arrival on Campus
2pm-2.15pm Welcome to Liverpool Hope
2.15pm-3pm Representing Love, Gender and Sexuality – Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
This session will consider Renaissance attitudes towards love, gender and sexuality in relation to Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. We will explore how the play examines these categories, and how it also raises important questions about how we see ourselves and others.
3pm-3.15pm Break
3.15pm-4pm Love Through the Ages - Death and Immortality in Thomas Hardy's 'Emma Poems'
In this session we will carry out close readings of a series of poems Hardy wrote in 1912-1913 following the sudden death of his wife Emma. We will consider how poetry can offer a medium to communicate with a lost loved one, how the ‘Emma Poems’ fit into the elegiac tradition and whether or not they offer a resolution to the speaker's feelings of grief and remorse.
4pm-4.15pm Plenary
4.15pm Depart Hope
Please confirm bookings by Wednesday 1st February 2017