The Manchester Lecture 2025
Monday 12 May, 5.15pm
Cosmopoetics in an Age of Borders: Tagore, Oxford and the World
Join us for our annual Manchester Lecture, this year delivered by Professor Santanu Das.
Professor Das will be speaking about Rabindranath Tagore, the Nobel prize winning poet, songwriter, philosopher and educationalist, who also had a number of links to Harris Manchester College.
Our speaker is Senior Research Fellow in English and Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at All Souls College, University of Oxford. He is the author of Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature (2006) and India, Empire and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs (2018) which won the Hindu Non-Fiction Award in India and the European Society for the Study of English Prize in 2020. He is currently editing the Oxford Book of First World War Empire Writing and completing a book, provisionally titled Archive, Testimony, and the Literary in Twentieth-Century Culture, for Cambridge University Press.
This year’s Manchester Lecture will be the first in our newly renovated chapel.
