Professor Pettitt gives her Plenary Lecture, entitled ‘Speed, Relay and the Digital Empire’, on Thursday 19 June, at ‘Speed and Acceleration‘, the 2025 INCS (Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies) Conference. INCS takes place in Genoa, Italy, from 18-20 June.
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Listen to Prof. Hurley @TrinCollCam on the power of language to change the world, and ourselves — broadcast this morning on BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day
Link to this morning’s broadcast (30 May 2025): https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0lfdfyw. You can listen to other episodes to which Prof. Hurley has contributed on: beauty, dogs, silence, gratitude, ancestors, creation, relics, fighting, euthanasia, reality, humour, discrimination, service.
Continue ReadingMigrant Forms: Creative Futures (16 June 2025)
Migrant Forms: Creative Futures A symposium, followed by the launch of Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms, edited by Natalya Din-Kariuki, Subha Mukherji and Rowan Williams (punctum books, 2025) Cripps Building (Auditorium and Gallery Garden) Magdalene College, 1-3 Chesterton Road, Cambridge 16 June, 2025 Advance registration is requested. Please register at the following link by 9 […]
Continue ReadingDr John Colley’s ‘The Coniuracion of Lucius Sergius Catelina: An Early Tudor Translation of Sallust’s “Bellum Catilinae”’ (Early English Text Society/Oxford University Press) scheduled for publication in June 2025
The book is a critical edition of the first ever translation of a Roman history into English, from a manuscript in the Cambridge University Library, and is printed here for the first time. Link to further information about the book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-coniuracion-of-lucius-sergius-catelina-9780198976387?cc=gb&lang=en& Link to further information about the Early English Text Society: https://users.ox.ac.uk/~eets/membership.html
Continue ReadingVictoria Baena and Clare Pettitt organise a symposium: ‘Genres of Revolt: Cultural Afterlives of 1848’, June 2025
The symposium will take place on 12-13 June 2025, at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge. This event has been made possible by a Cambridge Humanities Research Grant.
Continue ReadingDr Leo Mellor gives a paper at ‘A Very British Apocalypse: John Wyndham Then and Now’, 7 June 2025
The title of Dr Mellor’s paper is ‘John Wyndham and the Militarised Imagination’. It will consider some of the major works of John Wyndham – The Day of the Triffids (1951), The Kraken Wakes (1953), The Midwich Cuckoos (1957) – as part of a wider reading of what can plausibly be called the militarised imagination […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Ross Wilson writes two blog posts in connection with the recent publication of ‘Percy Shelley in Context’
The first post is ‘Five Questions: Ross Wilson on Percy Shelley in Context‘ on the blog of the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS); the second is on ‘Fifteen Eighty Four‘ the blog of Cambridge University Press, featuring current news and commentary from Cambridge authors and staff.
Continue ReadingProf Michael D. Hurley @TrinCollCam gives a keynote lecture at the CPI Scholars Network Plenary Conference, 16-17 June @BYU
The Christian Poetics Initiative (CPI) is an academic network dedicated to exploring the role of Christian faith in the study and practice of literature. Founded at Yale University, the initiative is now hosted by the Rivendell Center for Theology and the Arts (RCTA). The CPI Scholars Network, a central feature of the initiative, brings together senior, emerging, and early-career scholars […]
Continue ReadingFrancesca Gardner’s Critical Quarterly study ‘Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers’ in the news
‘Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers’, published 17th May in Critical Quarterly, is a new study by Francesca Gardner, a PhD student and Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholar at St Catharine’s College. This week media outlets including The Times, The i Paper, the BBC, BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, ITV News, and ITV Anglia have featured her […]
Continue ReadingGordon Duff Prize 2025 awarded to Ruth Abbott
The Gordon Duff Prize is awarded annually for an essay on a subject relating to the science or arts of books and manuscripts. This year’s prize has been awarded to Ruth Abbott for her essay ‘Transcribers of the Mind: Copying Historical Manuscripts in the British Museum Reading Room, 1759-1795’, which was also recently published in Library […]
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