Launch of the Cambridge Foundation Year in the Arts and Humanities

The Cambridge Foundation Year is a free and fully-funded one-year residential course designed to offer a stepping stone to Cambridge for those who have experienced educational disadvantage. If you want to pursue further study in the Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences, are ordinarily resident in the UK, and circumstances have prevented you from realising your […]

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Alexander Freer’s book ‘Wordsworth’s Unremembered Pleasure’ is published by Oxford University Press, October 2020

Wordsworth’s Unremembered Pleasure (Oxford UP, 2020) investigates Wordsworth’s sustained interest in unnoticed, retrospective and “unremembered” pleasure. Reading Wordsworth with and against the psychoanalytic tradition of reading for unconscious trauma, it recovers Wordsworth’s distinct interest in forgotten and unremembered things, and uses romanticism’s anti-traumatic forms as a resource for rethinking wider questions of aesthetic pleasure and compositional […]

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‘Voicing the Devil’: an online study evening for Years 11 and 12, hosted by the Faculty of English and the Faculty of Divinity, Thursday 28 January, 6pm-7pm

The Faculty of English and the Faculty of Divinity are holding a joint online study evening on Thursday 28th January 2021, 6pm-7pm. The event is aimed at students in Years 11 and 12 with an interest in literature, performance, theology, religion, and philosophy of religion – especially those who may be considering studying these subjects […]

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Olive Schreiner Centenary Workshop, an online roundtable and discussion hosted by the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, on Monday 14 December 2020, 14:00-15:30 (GMT) / 16:00-17:30 (SAST)

On 11 December 1920, the South African writer, novelist and intellectual Olive Schreiner, aged 65, died in her sleep in the historic port city of Cape Town. Buried in the former mining town of Kimberley, Schreiner was later to be exhumed and buried atop Buffelskop Mountain near Cradock—where she wrote at least a significant part […]

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Laura McCormick Kilbride wins CHRGS funding for online archive to digitise David Jones’ letters to Jim Ede at Kettle’s Yard, as part of the David Jones Digital Archive

Digitizing David Jones’ letters to Jim Ede at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge as part of the David Jones Digital Archive In June 2021 a collaboration between the David Jones Research Center and the Faculty of English in the University of Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, Kettle’s Yard Gallery and Cambridge Digital Humanities Learning Programme will begin work […]

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