Oopsing & Erring : The Year of Reading

Oopsing & Erring : The Year of Reading
-- all welcome.... pop in/out as you wishHosted by
OOPs: The Out of Practice Seminar, co-organised by the Institute of English Studies and the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, School of Advanced Study for the OOPs Collective, (https://ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/out-practice-seminar)
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Errant: A Peer Reviewed Journal of Post-Criticism from The School of Arts at Lancaster University, (https://errantlancaster.wordpress.com/)@ The University Suite, Lancaster Castle, 6 June 202610:45-11:00 Welcome11:00-13:00 Panel 1: OOPs x Errant
Clare Lees, Reading the Room
Katja Hilevaara, TBC
Dani Salvadori, Reading the silences in m nourbeSe philips Zong!
Rupert Smith, A Fool with a Magic Lantern... threw the nerves in patterns on a screen. (The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock/T.S. Eliot)
Catryn Thomas, Listening to the Maternal Voice in Creative-Critical Writing
James Gray, Sance, a play: Funny business with Becketts Endgame, Joyces ghost and OBrians shadow13:00-13:45 Lunch13:45-15:45 Panel 2: OOPs x Errant
Tim Mathews, A reading from New Chronicles of Art and Hope, Writing in Times of Demagoguery, (MA BILOTHQUE, May 2026)
Mathelinda Nabugodi, Dots on a page (a reading)
Emily Orley, Reading and Responding with Love and Possibility
James Davies, TBC
Sameeya Maqbool, The Islamic East in Woolfs Imagination
Lucie Staniek, November 23: The Windermere Train15:45-16:00 Tea / Coffee Break16:00-16:30 Roundtable: Oopsing & Erring: The Year of Reading 2026
John Schad, Lucie Staniek, Sameeya Maqbool, Clare Lees, Penny Young16:30-16:35 Final WordsErrant welcomes OOPS to the Castle for a symposium on and of creative criticismErrant is postgraduate-run journal edited at Lancaster (https://errantlancaster.wordpress.com)OOPS (the Out of Practice Seminar) is hosted by the University of London, School of Advanced Studys Institute for English Studies (IES), and its Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies (ILCS). It was founded in 2023 by a group of creative-critical researchers from across the University of London, and aims to build on the Schools ambition to establish a forum for experimental approaches to Humanities research, including practice and the practice-led (https://ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/out-practice-seminar)