An all-ages event, with a special pop-up exhibition of Shakespeare-related materials. Come and hear (very) short informal talks by researchers in the Faculty of English on subjects ranging from the myth of Richard III, illustrated Shakespeare, women editing Shakespeare, and Shakespeare in Swaziland, illustrated by a wide range of items from the University Library’s holdings, […]
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Professor Page Plenary Talk on Performance, Imagination and the Early-Romantic Guitar
Professor Christopher Page will be a keynote speaker at a conference on Performing Knowledge being held at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge on April 25-26, 2016. Bringing together performing musicians engaging in practice-led research, ethnographers of Western art music, and psychologists specialising in tacit knowledge research, this two-day conference explores performers’ interpretative processes and their uses of tacit knowledge […]
Continue ReadingDr Laura Wright: Shakespeare 400 Talk at St Andrew by the Wardrobe, London
Dr Wright talks on Shakespearean actors and their linguistic – and addictive – legacy at St Andrew by the Wardrobe Parish Church, London, on Monday April 25, 2016. This talk forms part of events at the church to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and celebrate his links with the parish. Shakespeare worked close […]
Continue Reading“Change and Exchange”: Faculty of English/CRASSH 2-day Colloquium at Trinity Hall
Organised by the Faculty of English and CRASSH, this two-day Colloquium explores ideas of change and exchange – and their implicit interrelation – across various early modern domains engaged with ways of knowing. Change and Exchange takes place at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, April 29-30 2016. The Convenors for this event are Dr Subha Mukherji, Dr […]
Continue Reading‘Lost Languages’ Film Evening at the Drama Studio with Sarah Wood
Sarah Wood is at the Judith E Wilson Drama Studio on 25 April to introduce a series of films about lost languages. Sarah Wood works with the found object, particularly the still and moving image, as an act of reclamation and re-interrogation. She works mainly with the documentary image to interrogate the relationship between the […]
Continue ReadingDr Laura Wright Plenary Speaker at International Symposium – Urbanisation in the British Isles: A Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspective
Dr Wright is a Plenary Speaker at the international symposium Urbanisation in the British Isles: a historical and interdisciplinary perspective, University of Lausanne (Switzerland) April 22-23 2016. In her paper, Urbanisation and house names in London 1700-1900, Dr Wright examines the development of nineteenth century house names and focuses on one in particular, preferred by […]
Continue ReadingProfessor John Kerrigan Lectures on ‘Shakespeare’s Originality’, 22 April 2016
Professor John Kerrigan lectures on ‘Shakespeare’s Originality’ at Il Nuovo Mondo: Cervantes, Garcilaso L’Inca, Shakespeare, on 22 April 2016. This event is organised at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, to mark the fourth centenary of the deaths of Miguel de Cervantes, Garcilaso de la Vega and William Shakespeare.
Continue Reading“Flaws” Conference at the Faculty of English, April 18, 2016
On April 18, the English Faculty hosts Flaws, a graduate and early-career conference exploring ideas of error, disruption, and contamination in English literature after 1750. Dr Adam Kelly, Lecturer at the University of York, will be the keynote speaker.
Continue ReadingCelebrating 400 Years of Shakespeare
As the world marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, why not listen to members of the Faculty of English reading his complete poetry? Shakespeare’s plays are performed every day throughout the world. His poems are read everywhere too; but usually in silence. In 2014, to celebrate the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, we brought […]
Continue ReadingDr Philip Connell Publishes New Book – Secular Chains: Poetry and the Politics of Religion from Milton to Pope
Dr Phillip Connell’s new book Secular Chains offers an original and richly contextualized account of the relationship between poetry and religious controversy between 1649 and 1745. This was a period of political conflict and intellectual upheaval, in which traditional sources of spiritual authority were variously challenged and transformed. Dr Connell reveals the importance of English […]
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