activist / aesthetics Bhanu Kapil Heba Hayek poetry reading 2nd June 2023      5:30 – 7pm Judith E Wilson Drama Studio Faculty of English   West Road CB3 9DP     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 […]

  The Trinity Hall Poetry Society presents an evening of poetry, with readings by Andrew Duncan, Naomi Foyle and Dr Simon Jenner.     Andrew Duncan was born in 1956 and brought up in the Midlands. He retired in 2017 and lives in Nottingham. He has been publishing poetry since the late ’70s, encouraged by […]

Bhanu Kapil (Churchill Fellow) in collaboration with Churchill College students will be introducing three writers published by the87 Press, a radical publishing collective in South London.   Fran Lock is the author of numerous chapbooks and ten poetry collections. Her most recent chapbook is Forever Alive (Dare-Gale Press, 2022), and her most recent collections are […]

Judith E Wilson Fund Grants for Practice-Led Research Projects 2022-2023   APPLY NOW!  The Judith E Wilson Fund Committee, with the approval of the Faculty Board, are delighted to announce a call for applications to the Practice-Led Research Fund. Applications are invited from all Senior Members of the English Faculty (UTOs, CTOs, Post-docs, and JRFs) […]

Vulgar Errors/ Feral Subjects Poetry Workshops with Fran Lock Lent Term 2023 Fran Lock is excited to share that Vulgar Errors/ Feral Subjects – a series of informal poetry workshops exploring feral subjectivity, abject animality, and the nonhuman “other” – is back! This term there will be snakes, weasels, cyborgs, and – you guessed it […]

Judith E Wilson Fund Grants for Practice-Led Research Projects 2022-2023   APPLY NOW!  The Judith E Wilson Fund Committee, with the approval of the Faculty Board, are delighted to announce a call for applications to the Practice-Led Research Fund. Applications are invited from all Senior Members of the English Faculty (UTOs, CTOs, Post-docs, and JRFs) […]

  I hope we can talk and write through the above ideas or actions—consent, augment, curve—by drawing gregariously deviant lines among some texts by Simone Weil, Edouard Glissant, Fred Moten, and Emile Benveniste. This constellation came to me after I completed a small book on Simon Weil, which includes my translation of her 1942 essay […]

Vulgar Errors / Feral Subjects Poetry Workshops with Fran Lock From Wednesday 2nd November 2-4pm Judith E Wilson Drama Studio Faculty of English, 9 West Road Fran Lock, the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow for 2022-2023, offers a series of informal workshops for anyone interested  in reading, writing, and performing poetry. The workshops will explore […]

Tuesday 25 October 2022 at 6pm Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP   Emily Stewart, one of Australia’s leading contemporary poets, is joined by Cambridge-based poets Emma Gomis and Cecily Fasham for a reading, organised by Louis Klee in association with the Judith E Wilson Centre for […]

Working with Film Archives: a Decolonial Approach Thursday 27th October 2022 From 4:00pm Judith E Wilson Drama Studio,  Faculty of English 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP       A Film Workshop featuring the work of two documentarians and their films.     We will be screening Ilana Navaro‘s Josephine Baker: Une Icone Noire […]