Simon Jackson, George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2022) Publishing on 1 December Described by one contemporary as the ‘sweet singer of The Temple’, George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music. Nevertheless, Herbert’s own participation in seventeenth-century musical culture has yet to be examined in detail. This […]
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Dr Eleanor Myerson moderates online event with artist Michael Rakowitz, 4 November
Dr Eleanor Myerson is co-hosting and moderating ‘Michael Rakowitz: (G)hosting’ with the Centre for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College on 4 November. This is an online event. Link to further information and to register: https://chra.bard.edu/event/michael-rakowitz/ Please note that the time listed is New York time. Dr Eleanor Myerson is the Parker Library […]
Continue Reading‘All My Sons’ by Arthur Miller @ Robinson Auditorium, 17-20 November, 7.30pm
ALL MY SONS BY ARTHUR MILLER @ ROBINSON AUDITORIUM, 17th-20th NOVEMBER, 19:30 Every man has a star… the star of one’s honesty. A tree has blown down in the night. It’s Larry Keller tree; the tree that his mother planted in his memory after he disappeared three years ago. It’s 1946: the War is over, but […]
Continue ReadingEmma Gomis coedits ‘New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archive’
The collection of lectures, transcribed from the audio archives of Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, edited by Emma Gomis and Anne Waldman, is published by Nightboat Books. The official release date for the publication is 8 November. The book can be preordered here: https://nightboat.org/book/new-weathers/ The editors will be doing a virtual launch with City Lights […]
Continue ReadingDr Diarmuid Hester goes On the Road with Penguin Classics podcast
Dr Diarmuid Hester (Emmanuel) was a special guest on a recent episode of On the Road with Penguin Classics podcast. He joined the charming host Henry Elliot for a walk around Cambridge and a meander through E.M. Forster’s classic novel Maurice. Dr Hester’s new book Nothing Ever Just Disappears, a history of LGBTQ culture through […]
Continue ReadingDr Trudi Tate gives a keynote lecture at the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain Annual Conference, September 2022
Trudi Tate (Clare Hall) gave a keynote lecture on ‘1922: The International Context’ for the annual conference of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, Corpus Christi College, September 2022. Link to Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain website: http://www.virginiawoolfsociety.org.uk/
Continue ReadingDr Harry R. McCarthy talks about his new book ‘Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre’, Wednesday 23 November
What was life like for early modern boy actors, and what was it like to write for them? Join the Intellectual Forum and Jesus College Fellow Dr Harry R. McCarthy to hear about his new book, Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre. Date and time: Wednesday 23 November, 5pm-7.30pm […]
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