The Faculty of English wishes to appoint a full time temporary Teaching Associate in Postcolonial Literature and/or the Literature of the Global South for 12 months from 1st September 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter but no later than 1st October 2023.The Teaching Associate will be expected to teach, examine and supervise dissertations on […]
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Teaching Associate in the literature of the Long Eighteenth Century (Temporary Cover) The Faculty of English wishes to appoint a full-time twelve-month temporary Teaching Associate in the literature of the Long Eighteenth Century from 1st September 2023, or as soon as possible thereafter, and not after 1st October 2023.The Teaching Associate will be expected to […]
Continue ReadingMichael Witmore, Director of the Folger, in conversation with Subha Mukherji, 8.30 pm GMT (new time), Wednesday 7 June:
Virtually Everything: an online event at the Folger Shakespeare Library Michael Witmore, Director of the Folger, in conversation with Subha Mukherji, 8.30 pm GMT (new time), Wednesday 7 June: Scholarship and the Humanities: Shakespeare as a Doorway to the Humanities https://crossroads-spacesofknowing.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
Continue ReadingDepartment of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, Open Day Wednesday 28th June 2023
Booking is open for Department of Anglo–Saxon, Norse & Celtic, Annual ASNC The Anglo–Saxon, Norse and Celtic Tripos is concerned with the history, languages,literature and material culture of the British Isles, Ireland and Scandinavia in the earlymedieval period. It is a wide–ranging course, which is likely to appeal to anyone with aninterest in medieval history, languages, […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Orietta da Rold is the Academic Director of the newly-launched University Library Research Institute
Cambridge University Library is excited to announce the launch of the University Library Research Institute (ULRI). Through innovation and partnerships, the Research Institute will collaborate with institutions locally, nationally and internationally to set the agenda for collections-led research, generating opportunities across and beyond disciplines.
Continue ReadingAvani Tandon Vieira, Lauryn Anderson and colleague Anna Corrigan present ‘activist/aesthetics’, June 2nd 2023
Avani Tandon Vieira (4th year PhD student) and Lauryn Anderson (2nd Year PhD student) have organised, along with their colleague Anna Corrigan in the Centre for Latin America Studies, the one day hybrid conference ‘activist/aesthetics’, to take place online and in Cambridge on June 2. The conference, which will bring together scholars, artists, practitioners and activists to reflect on the ‘aesthetic’ […]
Continue ReadingDavid Clifford hosts ‘Overcoming Class Barriers at Cambridge’ Symposium, Homerton College, 9-11 June 2023
Symposium, Homerton College, 9-11 June 2023. Free (via EventBrite; link below) ‘Overcoming Class Barriers at Cambridge’ This symposium aims to draw focus onto the experiences of students and academics from non-traditional, and in particular working-class, social backgrounds. Definitions of this are fluid, but would commonly include being first-generation, state-educated, and perhaps from schools/communities […]
Continue ReadingFour Cut Sunflowers Preview shows for the Official Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club Edinburgh Fringe Play 2023
FOUR CUT SUNFLOWERS AT CORPUS PLAYROOM https://www.adctheatre.com/sunflowers 15th and 17th June 2023, 9:30pm Preview shows for the Official Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club Edinburgh Fringe Play 2023 Four Cut Sunflowers: Van Gogh, stock image ‘ When light and dark converge, it is an act of creation…’. It’s the mid-19th century and Europe is being transformed by […]
Continue ReadingDr Leo Mellor speaks at the University of Regensburg on June 7th: The Apocalyptic Pastoral: Richard Jefferies’ After London; or Wild England (1885)
Dr Leo Mellor will speak at the University of Regensburg on June 7th on: ‘The Apocalyptic Pastoral: the significance of Richard Jefferies’ After London; or Wild England (1885). The lecture traces a strand of British literature and art in the twentieth-century, one which used the visionary nature of Jefferies’ thought experiment and imagined other cities […]
Continue ReadingLouise Joy, Highly Commended CUSU Student-Led Teaching Awards 2023
Congratulations to Louise Joy for being Highly Commended for Student Support (Academic) in the CUSU Student-Led Teaching Awards 2023: The ceremony was held at St Barnabas Church, Cambridge on Tuesday 16th May. https://www.cambridgesu.co.uk/news/article/cambridgesu/SLTA-Winners-announced/
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