Ideas about numbers, magnitudes and frequencies shape and give texture to almost everything we feel, say, dream and do. In his new book Living by Numbers, published by Reaktion Books, Steven Connor explores the many ways in which we live in, and by, a world of numbers.
Continue ReadingMonth: August 2016
Michael J Sullivan Lectures at Tennyson Society Annual Conference, August 2016
Michael J Sullivan gives invited lecture at the Tennyson Society Annual Conference, held at Girton College, Cambridge. His one-hour lecture, on ‘Tennyson and the Victorian Literary Canon’, will take place on 19 August 2016.
Continue ReadingDr Robert Macfarlane on ‘The Secrets of the Wood-Wide-Web’, August 2016
Dr Robert Macfarlane writes an essay for the New Yorker on the wood-wide-web and tree-fungi mutualisms, as part of his ongoing work on subterranea and underground knowledge: http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-secrets-of-the-wood-wide-web
Continue ReadingMarc Mierowsky Awarded S Ernest Sprott Fellowship, 2016
Marc Mierowsky is awarded the S Ernest Sprott Fellowship in 17th-Century Literature. It is supported by the University of Melbourne and he will be holding the award at the Faculty of English, Cambridge. The S Ernest Sprott Fellowship is open for award annually to an outstanding scholar, who must be an Australian citizen of no […]
Continue ReadingBBC New Generation Thinker Dr Sarah Dillon at the Proms
Dr Sarah Dillon, BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker, will feature in two BBC Radio 3 Proms Extra broadcasts this Proms season. On Saturday 5th August she will contribute to a live discussion of H. G. Wells’ speculative fiction along with renowned science fiction writer Stephen Baxter who has been commissioned to write a sequel to The War […]
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