The St. Clare's Seminar Series has provided an opportunity for students to explore a stimulating range of issues and ideas. Each semester the series is linked by a common theme. Themes in previous years have included: Death and Love; Dreams and Nightmares; Creation and Inspiration; Tragedy and Love; Cultural Contests.

The Sense of Place - This seminar series will explore a fundamental (but often overlooked) set of questions. How exactly do we conceive of the place we live in? How, and why, do we identify with the place we come from? Is the sense of place a natural or a cultural phenomenon? What is the nature of the relationship between what Seamus Heaney has called 'the geographical country and the country of the mind'? This interdisciplinary series will attempt to answer some of these questions.

Seminar title	Speaker
A Sense of Place: W B Yeats and the Lake Isle of Innisfree	Keith Hopper - Kellogg College, Oxford
Ivor Gurney's Gloucestershire: An Exploration of Poetry and Place	Dr Eleanor Rawling - University of Oxford, Department of Education
Canada's Ground Zero: Harold Gilman's Halifax Harbour at Sunset	John Rolfe - St. Clare's, Oxford
The Canvas of History: Forming the past from where we are	Dr Stephen Forrest - Hertford College, University of Oxford
I walk the streets everywhere: Virginia Woolf's Phantasmagoria	Dr Rachael Holmes - Wycombe High School, Oxford
This heap of broken images: Anti-modernism and the Vatican's Ethnographic Collections	Dr Alison Kahn - University College London and Oxford Academy of Documentary Film
Location, Location, Location: The Sense of Place in Crime Fiction	Victoria Staveley - St. Clare's, Oxford
The genius of the place: Man, Nature and the Creation of the English Landscape	Paul Sinclair - St. Clare's, Oxford
Fields of Dreams: Lords, Wembley and Twickenham	Mark Searle - St. Clare's, Oxford