In response to recent safeguarding investigations into Soul Survivor, a well-respected Anglican youth ministry, When the Music Fades takes a wider look at the culture and practices of charismatic evangelical Christianity in the nineties/noughties. What happens if you tell a bunch of teenagers they’re supposed to be saving the world? What is the impact when […]
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Professor Anthony Bale gives a guest lecture at Trinity College, Connecticut, 14 April 2026
Professor Anthony Bale gives a guest lecture, ‘The First Witches: The 14th-century English invention of the witch’, on 14 April, at Trinity College, Connecticut, as part of the College’s A. K. Smith Visiting Scholar series. Link to further information: https://www.trincoll.edu/english/department-events/a-k-smith-scholars-series/
Continue ReadingProfessor Anthony Bale gives an invited lecture at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, 11 April 2026
Professor Anthony Bale gives an invited lecture, ‘New news’, at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee on 11 April. Link to further information about the Colloquium: https://www.sewaneemedievalcolloquium.com/
Continue ReadingCfP: ‘Freedom of Conscience in the pre-Enlightenment, 1000-1650’, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, 17 June 2026
Conference organisers: Anthony Stonestreet (Third Year English PhD, Homerton) Rachael Hodgson (Third Year English PhD, Murray Edwards) Deadline for submissions: Thursday 28 May Call for Papers:
Continue ReadingProfessor Anthony Bale’s ‘A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages’ is translated into Serbian and Hebrew
A Serbian translation of A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, by Anthony Bale, was published by Laguna in March 2026. Link to further information: https://laguna.rs/proizvodi/knjige/turisticki-vodic-kroz-srednji-vek/ A Hebrew translation, published last month by Keter Books, was the subject of a long review article in the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, available here.
Continue ReadingDr Louis Klee wins the University English 2025 Book Prize for ‘The Constellational Novel’
Louis Klee has been awarded the 2025 University English Book Prize for The Constellational Novel (Oxford University Press, 2025). Link to further information: https://universityenglish.ac.uk/ue-2025-book-prize-winner/
Continue ReadingCambridge English Faculty ranked 1st in the world for the study of English
We are delighted that the English Faculty has been recognised as world-leading for the study of Anglophone Literature in the latest QS rankings. It is testimony to the excellent work of our whole community, especially the globally influential research and inspirational teaching of our colleagues. The Faculty is exceptionally committed to demonstrating the central place […]
Continue ReadingListen to Prof. Hurley @TrinCollCam on the dignity we owe to the dead — broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thought for the Day’
Available on BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0n88xqj And Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0AQHp0IWb5mewhYOt9Rv0M
Continue ReadingProf. Michael Hurley @TrinCollCam speaking on John Henry Newman in Oxford on 29 March
Professor Hurley will give a paper on “Newman’s Sources of the Self” at a panel “drawing new maps of hope” to navigate the current challenges of our wounded world with wisdom, courage, and renewed purpose for individuals, communities, and future generations: https://convergenceuk.org/drawing-maps-of-new-hope The panel on Newman is part of Convergence, a two-day cultural event (28-29 March) […]
Continue ReadingCambridge University Library, University Museum of Zoology and the University of Cambridge: Fully-funded 4-year AHRC PhD studentship
Cambridge University Library, University Museum of Zoology and the University of Cambridge Fully-funded 4-year AHRC PhD studentship Recording nature and writing the self: time, entomology and the archive in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Start date: 1 October 2026 Application Deadline: 3 May 2026 Interviews are expected to take place online on 12 June 2026 Information session online 24 March 11:00–12:00 pm BST Register your interest Further […]
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