Events

Authorship, language and textual pathology: Linguistic changes in Iris Murdoch’s informal novels

Cloisters, Bishop Otter Campus

Prof. Peter Garrard Iris Murdochā€™s profound and well-documented late life cognitive decline was caused by the accumulation of amyloid plaques and tau tangles in her brain: the molecular signature of Alzheimerā€™s disease. Yet plaque and tangle deposition begins many years, if not decades, before cognitive changes first emerge, so the discovery of methods for defining […]

Iris Murdoch Summer School: Iris Murdoch and London

Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester

THIS EVENT WAS CANCELLED   Whatā€™s included? We will be studyingĀ The Nice and the Good, A Fairly Honourable Defeat, A Word ChildĀ andĀ The Green Knight. Full tuition including lectures and seminars on all the novels taught, and optional 1:1 supervisions as required. Teaching staff are: Dr Miles Leeson, Director of the Iris Murdoch Research Centre at […]

Murdoch at Christmas

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Join Professor Anne Rowe, author of numerous works on Murdoch including Iris Murdoch: A Literary Life and co-editor of Living on Paper, for a 45-minute lecture 'Murdoch at Christmas', followed by questions from the audience. Tickets are Ā£5 for Iris Murdoch Society Members and students, Ā£10 for everyone else. The lecture will be live via […]

£5.00 ā€“ £10.00

‘Murdoch off the Map’, Prof. Cora Diamond

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We're delighted to welcome Cora Diamond, who will be giving this year's philosophy plenary titled 'Murdoch off the Map'. Cora Diamond is a leading American philosopher who is well known for her contributions to the interpretation of Wittgenstein and Frege, for her contributions to the philosophy of logic, mind, language, as well as to ethics, […]

£5.00 ā€“ £10.00