Professor Clare Pettitt has been awarded the 2023 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for her book Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848 (Oxford University Press, 2020). The British Academy jointly awarded the prize to Professor Pettitt and Noémie Ndiaye. Link to further information: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/prizes-medals/rose-mary-crawshay-prize/
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Dr Julia Empey co-edits “Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media: From ‘Annihilation’ to ‘High Life’ and Beyond”, published by Bloomsbury, September 2023
Science fiction (SF) as a genre allows for new imaginings of human-technological relations and human exceptionalism. In this way, science fiction affords unique opportunities for the scholarly investigation of the relevance and relative applicability of specific posthumanist and feminist themes and questions in a particularly rich and wide-ranging popular cultural field of production. Where typically […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Orietta Da Rold gives a plenary at the 33rd International Conference of SELIM, September 13-15, 2023
The title of Professor Da Rold’s lecture is ‘Late medieval book culture and the sociology of scripts’. The conference takes place at the University of Murcia. Link to the conference programme: https://eventos.um.es/82437/section/40878/selim-33.html
Continue ReadingBhanu Kapil is a featured performer at the Burley Fisher Festival in London
The Festival is organised by Burley Fisher Books, with funding support from Arts Council England, awarding funds from the National Lottery. It takes place from Thursday 21 September to Saturday 23 September. For further information about the festival: https://burleyfisherbooks.com/blogs/news/bfday23-festival-21-23-september-back-bigger-bookier
Continue ReadingBhanu Kapil is offering a workshop as part of a conference organized by the European Alliance of Academies: “On Freedom of Artistic Expression in Literature in the 21st Century”
The conference, organized by the European Alliance of Academies, in collaboration with the Royal Society of Literature, takes place at Homerton College, Cambridge, on 26-27 August 2023. Link to further information about the conference: https://www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2023-08/eaoa_homerton-college_2023_booklet.pdf
Continue ReadingThe English Faculty was delighted to host 26 students from all over the country for the annual Sutton Trust Summer School last week
Staying at Gonville & Caius College for the week the students had a packed programme of lectures, classes and other activities designed to give them a taste of the life of an English undergrad. Students also completed an individual project; choosing topics from Keats to Plath, Virginia Woolf to Taylor Swift, Vile Bodies to The […]
Continue ReadingIncreased Risk: Malware and Ransomware
The National Cyber Security Centre has just released some guidance on a new(ish) trend of malware and ransomware attacks specifically affecting public and private sector institutions. Without going into the boring details (although, if you want those, please head down to the bottom of this post!), the latest spate of attacks aren’t necessarily targeting institutions […]
Continue ReadingAnchorless Bodies: Emii Alrai in conversation with E.K. Myerson
Join the artist Emii Alrai and curator E.K. Myerson to discuss their collaboration and the themes of the current exhibition Anchorless Bodies: Navigating Arabic in Medieval Manuscripts. Friday 25 August, 6pm Wilkins Room, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Expect discussion of ancient rot, museum practices, excavation, disintegration and the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony. The talk […]
Continue ReadingLewis Roberts speaks at the Monasterevin Hopkins Society Festival, 29 July 2023
Lewis Roberts, supervisor and PhD candidate in the department, gives the guest lecture at Monasterevin Hopkins Festival on Saturday 29th July. The festival celebrates Gerard Manley Hopkins and his time spent in Dublin and Monasterevin, and is timed to coincide with his birthday. Lewis, who is taking up the Procter Fellowship at Princeton University from […]
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