Further to the publication of his book Critical Forms and Jonathan Kramnick’s Criticism and Truth in 2023, Ross Wilson will join Jonathan Kramnick, Irina Dumitrescu, Thomas Karshan, Yvette Siegert, Lucy Newlyn, Ryan Ruby, and Jenny Davidson for a day-long symposium at UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies to discuss the forms of criticism and whether criticism can be […]

Dr Mark Wormald attends the Granard Booktown Festival to chat about his book The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes (2022) with Festival Director and Co-Founder John Connell. The Festival dates are 19-21 April 2024 and the interview with Mark Wormald takes place on Sunday 21 April at 12.15pm at Fay’s Bar. Link to the Granard […]

Join us at Heffers to celebrate the launch of James Riley’s new book, Well Beings: How the Seventies Lost its Mind and Taught Us to Find Ourselves. Concepts such as wellness and self-care may feel like distinctly twenty-first century ideas, but they first gained traction as part of the New Age health movements that began […]

Eva Dema has been awarded the 2023 Review of English Studies Essay Prize for her article ‘‘Sacred to the Memory’: Thomas Hardy’s Tombstones’. Launched in 1999, the prize is awarded annually to an article on any topic of English literature or the English language from the earliest period to the present, and is open to […]

Textiles are material objects, which are produced according to well-planned processes. Such a procedural nature favours multiple analogies between textiles and digitality – and raises, at the same time, resistance to these very associations. Weaving has become, in current discourse, a convenient ancestor of computing. By connecting computer history to a material craft, textiles offer […]

Dr Hester’s programme focuses on Smith’s incendiary 1963 film ‘Flaming Creatures’, which was banned in the US and championed by the likes of Susan Sontag. It features interviews with film historian J Hoberman and performance artist Penny Arcade, and a visit to Smith’s archive at the Fales Library and Special Collections (facilitated by a Faculty […]

On Saturday 16 March, members of the public were invited to participate in the mixed-reality production of ‘Faust Shop 2.0’ at Cambridge Central Library in a performance directed and produced by CDH Associates Dr Annja Neumann and Alex Mentzel for the Cambridge Festival. Participants were introduced to Homunculus – a digital, multi-dimensional artificial life created […]

Dr Siddharth Soni contributes to Cambridge Imagines 2024, a fascinating series of short films with researchers at Cambridge who are imagining the future. Dr Soni was the Isaac Newton Trust Fellow at Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) and the Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH). He lectures in many areas of modern […]

Code As Conversation: Transmedia Dialogues Around Critical Code Studies, a one-day conference on 1 June at Cambridge Digital Humanities – interested in the conversational capacities of code – opens for registration on Thursday 4 April Keynote: Critiquing Code Alignment: Tracing “Forward Alignment” and “Backward Alignment” in Critical Code Studies, David Berry (Professor of Digital Humanities, […]