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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026/27
The Faculty of English and Department of Anglo Saxon Norse and Celtic welcome applications for British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/schemes/postdoctoral-fellowships/ About the British Academy fellowships: The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship offers outstanding early career researchers the opportunity to strengthen their experience of research and teaching in an academic environment. The scheme aims to help develop the award holder’s curriculum vitae and boost their prospects […]
Continue ReadingAmy Morris in conversation with Tayari Jones for the Cambridge Literary Festival, Friday 5 June
Amy Morris hosts prizewinning US author Tayari Jones at a Cambridge Literary Festival one-off event taking place 8pm-9pm on Friday 5 June at the University Arms Hotel. Tayari Jones is in Cambridge to discuss her new novel Kin, published earlier this year by Oneworld Publications. Link to further info about the Tayari Jones event: https://www.cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/events/tayari-jones-kin […]
Continue ReadingBenjamin Wilson publishes two articles on the work of Samuel Beckett
Benjamin Wilson has recently published two articles on the work of Samuel Beckett. The first, published in the latest edition of Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui, is entitled ‘ “Into What Nightmare Thingness Am I Fallen?”: Visual Agnosia in Beckett’s Four Novellas’. It explores how the narrators of Beckett’s four post-war nouvelles experience the perceptual […]
Continue ReadingDr Leonardo Impett and Dr Ryan Heuser Chair Panels at ‘Noisy Systems: Aesthetics, Epistemology, and Computation’, June 2026
On 4-5 June 2026, the Machine Visual Culture group will host ‘Noisy Systems: Aesthetics, Epistemology, and Computation’, a two day conference, at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, in Rome. The conference examines noise across machine learning, information theory, media theory, aesthetics, art history, philosophy, and practice-based research. It brings together […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Anthony Bale speaks at the third Annual Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities in Europe, June 2026
Professor Anthony Bale will speak in a plenary roundtable at the third Annual Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities in Europe, on the theme of ‘Moving and Being Moved’. This colloquium takes place at Queen Mary, University of London, 11-12 June 2026.
Continue ReadingShanti Giovannetti-Singh organises an online graduate conference for The Renaissance Society of America, 4 June 2026
Shanti Giovannetti-Singh has organised an online graduate conference for The Renaissance Society of America, consisting of a series of short lightning talks in response to the theme of ‘fragments’. The conference will take place on Thursday 4 June. Link to further information about the conference and to register: https://www.rsa.org/news/727257/Fragments-Graduate-Student-Lightning-Talks.htm Shanti Giovannetti-Singh is a PhD candidate […]
Continue ReadingLeonardo Impett has been appointed Research Fellow of the British School at Rome from 26 May 2026
The fellowship will support Dr Impett‘s ongoing work on machine visual culture, digital art history, and the cultural study of artificial intelligence.
Continue ReadingLeonardo Impett and Fabian Offert’s book ‘Vector Media’, with a foreword by Johanna Drucker, was published by the University of Minnesota Press, 28 April 2026
Link to further information about ‘Vector Media’: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921675/vector-media/
Continue ReadingProfessor Sarah Houghton-Walker publishes new biography of John Clare, June 2026
Professor Houghton-Walker draws from Clare’s autobiographical writings, journals, letters and poetry, to present a rich, grounded portrait of the man and the places that shaped him. This new biography is published by Reaktion Books as part of their Critical Lives series of short critical biographies that present the work of important cultural figures in the […]
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