Friday 22nd May 2026 4:30—7:30pm Nihon Room, Pembroke College, Cambridge (in person only) An exhibition of Thomas Gray collection materials curated by Genny Grim and Lizzy Ennion-Smith (Pembroke College Library and Archives) will be on display before and after the seminar. 5pm Nihon Room, Pembroke College, Cambridge (in person or Teams) https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/9c1a07cc-c65b-4a7e-b1cb-178415d2ecb6@49a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9 Ruth Abbott (Cambridge) […]
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Drew Milne exhibits ‘How Peace Came 2’ as part of a pop-up exhibition at the Judge Business School, 18 May 2026
HPC2 (How Peace Came 2), which Drew Milne made with Andrew James, is being exhibited at ‘Give & Take’, a pop-up exhibition on Value & Exchange at the Judge Business School, on Monday 18 May, 9.30am-6pm. Here is the blurb for the artwork to be installed: HPC2 (How Peace Came 2) by Andrew James and […]
Continue ReadingShona Whelan awarded Newnham College’s Wood-Whistler Medal and Scholarship
Shona Whelan, first year PhD candidate in English, has been awarded Newnham College’s Wood-Whistler Medal and Scholarship for postgraduate students in the humanities. The prize, worth £3000, was given for her essay on the fiction of Mary Wollstonecraft as moral philosophy. The panel of assessors praised Shona’s work as ‘a superb piece of scholarship that […]
Continue ReadingIndia Oswin and Lola Gabellini-Fava convene one-day critical/creative symposium ‘Reframing Poetics: Language, Structure, Form’ at UCL’s IAS (22 July 2026). Accepting abstracts until 15 May 2026
On Wednesday 22 July 2026, PhD students India Oswin (Trinity College, Cambridge) and Lola Gabellini-Fava (UCL) are convening ‘Reframing Poetics: Language, Structure, Form’, a one-day critical/creative symposium at UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies. We will be accepting abstracts for 15-20 minute presentations until 15 May 2026. The event will feature keynote addresses from Professor Craig […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Priyamvada Gopal in conversation, ‘The Oxford Student’, May 2026
Priyamvada Gopal, Professor of Postcolonial Studies, was interviewed about her work by Ava Doherty for ‘The Oxford Student’, Oxford University’s Student Newspaper. Link to article: https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2026/05/01/in-conversation-with-priyamvada-gopal-professor-of-postcolonial-studies/
Continue ReadingKasia Boddy interviews Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate, 29 May 2026
Kasia Boddy interviews Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-2014) as part of a conference on ‘The United States of America at 250: Reflections on the past, present, and future of independence’, which will take place on 29 May 2026, 12.30pm to 7pm, at the Ray Dolby Centre, Cambridge. This event […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Jenny Richards gives a keynote lecture at ‘Marking Music: The Use of Music Books in Early Modern Europe’ 11 May 2026
Professor Jenny Richards will share the Keynote with Professor Henry Woudhuysen and they will speak about ‘Rhetoric, Reading, and Making Books’. This conference, which takes place at King’s College London, is part of the ongoing project DORMEME: dissemination, ownership, and reading of music in early modern Europe. Link to further information and to register: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/marking-music-the-use-of-music-books-in-early-modern-europe […]
Continue ReadingDr Beryl Pong gives a public lecture at King’s College London, 11 May 2026
The title of Dr Pong’s lecture is “Dronotope: Emerging Technologies and the Politics of Timeline Visualisations”. The event is part of the King’s College London Department of Digital Humanities Research Seminar and is run in co-operation with the Digital Investigations Lab. Dr Pong will talk on critical and creative practices of information design, and on […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Jenny Richards organises a Humanities and STEM Skills/Competencies Workshop, CRASSH, 6 May 2026
The workshop will bring together teachers and researchers from the Humanities and STEM, a range of professionals with an interest in skills and careers, STEM Learning and Skills Builder. Participants will collaborate to provide a more granular perspective on the skills developed by their different disciplines in order to offer a blueprint for future educational […]
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