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Festival of Ideas – The Alchemical Landscape

Posted on 21 October 201518 March 2016 by english
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Contemporary writers, film-makers and musicians are increasingly investing the English landscape with notions of magic and the occult. As part of this year’s Cambridge Festival of Ideas, Yvonne Salmon and Dr James Riley present a field guide to this ‘geographic turn’.

The Alchemical Landscape 

Faculty of English, GR06/07
24 Oct 2015, 6:30pm – 7:30pm

This event is featured as part of the Festival’s Speaker Spotlight series.

Read more on the The Alchemical Landscape blog and in Robert Macfarlane’s article for the Guardian.

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