Sarah Dillon joins presenter Matthew Sweet, fellow academic David Hering, and filmmaker Daniel Bird on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking (1st February 2024) to discuss the film that some have called the best science fiction film ever made: Andrej Zulawski’s epic On the Silver Globe. Zulawski (1940-2016) studied cinema in France and became known for […]

The title of the article is ‘T.S. Eliot, Post-War Geopolitics and “Eastern Europe”’ and it is available to read here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/criq.12766

Poetry Reading at Churchill College Sandeep Parmar and Anthony Anaxagorou: 5.15pm on Saturday, January 27th  Lauryn Anderson and Jigisha Bhattacharya will be introducing the poets. Please arrive at 5.15pm for a 5.30pm start in the Bevin Room. The event will last an hour. Wine/soft drinks/nibbles to follow! Sandeep Parmar is Professor of English Literature at […]

Dr Leo Mellor gives a lecture on ‘A claustrophobic (or claustrophiliac) literary history of the long-1930s’ at LMU Munich on 17 January 2024.

In 2020 and 2021, Professor Sarah Dillon co-led an interdisciplinary Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar on the Histories of AI (HOAI). The Mellon Foundation’s Sawyer Seminars were established in 1994 to provide support for comparative research on the historical and cultural sources of contemporary developments. The HOAI Sawyer Seminar developed an interpretive community capable of […]

This term the Faculty has run 2 online outreach lectures to give Year 12 students the opportunity to find out more about the course and what it is like to study at Cambridge. The first saw over 130 students listen to Prof Drew Milne give an introduction to Practical Criticism followed by a session on […]

Justine Provino participated in an episode of the Digital Human programme on BBC radio 4. The 30-minute episode was aired on Monday 6 November at 4:30pm and is now available on BBC sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001s55r Presented by Aleks Krotoski and titled ‘Permanence’, this Digital Human’s episode features the self-destructive book Agrippa (A Book of The Dead) as the narrative thread […]

Now I find that once more I have shrunk To an interloper, robber of dead men’s dream, I had read in books that art is not easy But no one warned that the mind repeats In its ignorance the vision of others. I am still the black swan of trespass on alien waters.     […]