Facing Crisis: Text and Context

Friday 10 July 2026, 10:00am to 5:00pm

Venue

Lancaster University Management School, Lecture Theatre 9, Lancaster - View Map

Open to

All Lancaster University (non-partner) students, Alumni, Applicants, External Organisations, Families and young people, Postgraduates, Prospective International Students, Prospective Postgraduate Students, Prospective Undergraduate Students, Public, Staff, Undergraduates

Registration

Registration not required - just turn up

Ticket Price

Free

Event Details

Facing Crisis: Text and Context @ The Castle Keynote Speaker: Dr Nathan Jones (Lancaster University) The second annual Value of Literature Conference

Facing Crisis: Text and Context

Lancaster University

10 July, 2026

Keynote Speaker: Dr Nathan Jones (Lancaster University)

This year’s theme, ‘Facing Crisis’, engages with the ways that the written word shapes and responds to many crises facing our world today: climate change, political upheaval, war, gendered, generational trauma, literacy, and the crises in the humanities and in UK higher education, to name but a few.

The conference will take place between 10:00 and 17:00 in Lancaster University Management School, LT9. Come and go as you please. No registration required – just turn up.

Contact Details

Name John Schad
Email

j.schad@lancaster.ac.uk

Directions to Lancaster University Management School, Lecture Theatre 9

Management School, LT9