News from the MHRA

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Aug 25, 2026 events
Celebrating a Century of the Annual Bibliography and the MHRA’s Work in English Studies
This year the MHRA will publish volume 100 of the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL), and to mark the occasion we are hosting an event in central London on 16 October, to which you are warmly invited.
Apr 23, 2026 events
Sirens in Joyce in Italian in Zurich
Arianna Autieri's new book on translating the Sirens episode of Ulysses into Italian launches at the James Joyce Foundation in Zurich.
Feb 6, 2023 events
Anthropocene Austria: Book Presentation Online
Anthropocene Austria, Austrian Studies volume 30, has an online book presentation on 17 February.
Jun 12, 2022 events
Quim Monzó in Birmingham
The University of Birmingham, sponsored by the institut Ramon Llull, is holding a launch on 22 June for Guillem Colom-Montero's new Legenda book Quim Monzó and Contemporary Catalan Culture (1975-2018).
Jun 12, 2022 events
The Latest Radical
David McCallam, translator of André Chénier, is interviewed by Radical Translations.
Jun 11, 2022 events
Humanizing Childhood at the Instituto Cervantes Manchester
The Instituto Cervantes Manchester's Ex Libris series is holding an online launch for the paperback of Anna Kathryn Kendrick's prize-winning book Humanizing Childhood on 21 June.
Mar 18, 2022 events
Orrery Show
Launching Ritchie Robertson's Festschrift.
Feb 22, 2022 events
Welcome to Uncanny Valley
Uncanny Valleys, Austrian Studies 29, has an upcoming online launch on 3 March.
Aug 30, 2020 events
Hispanic Baroque Ekphrasis Returns to Video
A Spanish-language interview on film between our author Luis Castellví Laukamp and UNAM, Mexico's leading university.
Jun 17, 2020 events
Bertha von Suttner: A Champion of Peace
Barbara Burns, editor of our new English edition of Bertha von Suttner's pacifist novel Lay Down Your Arms, joins a panel on the BBC World Service to discuss von Suttner, the remakable woman who inspired the Nobel Peace Prize.
Jun 14, 2020 events
Prismatic Translation on Video
Our recent volume "Prismatic Translation" was this week's Book at Lunchtime at TORCH. Matthew Reynolds, the editor, joined a panel to talk about the book, and here's the presentation at YouTube.
Jun 14, 2020 events
Hispanic Baroque Ekphrasis on Video
In three recent videos, Luis Castellví Laukamp talks about his work on early modern Spanish writing in the New World.
May 19, 2018 events
Beauty in Hell: Culture in the Gulag
Andrea Gullotta's well-received book on the Solovki gulag now has an accompanying virtual exhibition, courtesy of the Hunterian.
Apr 12, 2018 events
The Italian Renaissance at the Warburg
All are welcome to attend a presentation at the Warburg Institute, on Mionday 23 April, of two Legenda books on the Italian Renaissance. The speakers are Marina Warner, Brian Richardson and Michel Jeanneret.
Oct 22, 2017 events
Jane Everson's Festschrift in Rome
Our recent Festschrift for the distinguished Italianist Jane Everson will be marked by an event at the Biblioteca Nazionale in Rome on Monday 30 October 2017.
Aug 8, 2017 events
Sri Lanka to the Western Front: Farrer's Buddhism
The author of our forthcoming book on Reginald Farrer, Michael Charlesworth, is speaking at the British Library on 21 August.
Apr 25, 2017 events
AGM 2017
The nineteenth Annual General Meeting will be held in Room 347, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 16 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW, on Saturday 13 May 2017 at 2.00 p.m. All members are welcome to attend.
Nov 2, 2016 events
Solovki at the Pushkin House
On 15 November, our author Andrea Gullotta will speak at the Pushkin House in London on the subject of his forthcoming book: a prison camp on the frozen archipelago of Solovki, converted from an ancient monastery, which became in a curious way also an artistic centre.
Sep 13, 2016 events
MHRA Conference 2016: Have you Heard?
Announcing Have you Heard? Navigating the Interstices between Public and Private Knowledge, the MHRA Conference 2016, to be held at the IMLR on 14 October 2016.
Dec 18, 2015 events
From the Guadalajara Book Fair
An interview with Ana Clavel.
Dec 3, 2015 events
¡Son Yambú!
Our thanks to the Instituto Cervantes in Eaton Square, London, for hosting a truly memorable book launch. Katia Chornik presented her new study Alejo Carpentier and the Musical Text as part of the Instituto’s series of lectures on winners of the Cervantes Prize.
Jul 21, 2014 events
Adapting the Canon Conference
Announcing the 2014 Legenda conference, Adapting the Canon.