This term the Faculty has run 2 online outreach lectures to give Year 12 students the opportunity to find out more about the course and what it is like to study at Cambridge. The first saw over 130 students listen to Prof Drew Milne give an introduction to Practical Criticism followed by a session on […]
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PhD student Justine Provino participates in an episode of ‘The Digital Human’ on BBC radio 4 (6 November 2023/podcast available on BBC sounds)
Justine Provino participated in an episode of the Digital Human programme on BBC radio 4. The 30-minute episode was aired on Monday 6 November at 4:30pm and is now available on BBC sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001s55r Presented by Aleks Krotoski and titled ‘Permanence’, this Digital Human’s episode features the self-destructive book Agrippa (A Book of The Dead) as the narrative thread […]
Continue ReadingWilliam Holbrook and Jeremy George organise Ern’s Night, an evening of poetry readings in the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio (18 November 2023)
Now I find that once more I have shrunk To an interloper, robber of dead men’s dream, I had read in books that art is not easy But no one warned that the mind repeats In its ignorance the vision of others. I am still the black swan of trespass on alien waters. […]
Continue ReadingWilliam Holbrook and Jeremy George convene the 2-day conference Antipodean Modernism Today (17/18 November 2023)
Over the 17th and 18th of November 2023, William Holbrook (a PhD candidate at Trinity College, Cambridge) and Jeremy George (a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne) are convening ‘Antipodean Modernism Today’, an international, in-person conference in the Cambridge Faculty of English. The event will feature keynote addresses from Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of […]
Continue ReadingDr Ewan Jones publishes ‘The Turn of Rhythm: How Victorian Poetry Shaped a New Concept’ (UVA Press, November 2023)
Incredibly, until the cusp of the nineteenth century, the word rhythm was not widely used. It likewise had no cultural connotations. The Turn of Rhythm traces the complex and overlooked way in which anglophone culture “got rhythm,” concentrating on the pivotal role that poetry played in that narrative. Drawing on the work of Robert Browning, […]
Continue ReadingHumanities Exploration Day, Monday 4th December 2023, 10am-3pm
The School of Arts and Humanities is hosting a Humanities Exploration Day for high-performing Year 12 students on the 4th December 2023. The aim is to give students the opportunity to experience university-level teaching in a range of humanities subjects, to enrich their current studies and to help them decide which subject might be the […]
Continue ReadingForm, Genre, Mode reading group
An interdisciplinary reading group exploring form, genre, and mode, meeting fortnightly during term time from 5th week of Michaelmas (8th November and 22nd November this term), at 5:30pm, Gonville & Caius College. Please contact ccpf2@cam.ac.uk and fgg23@cam.ac.uk for more information.
Continue ReadingThe Centre for Drones and Culture organises a symposium at the Imperial War Museum (London), 18 November 2023
From Sniper to Smartphone: Hybrid Warfare and the New Face of Conflict 18 November 2023 2-6pm Imperial War Museum (London) Beryl Pong is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the Centre for the Future of Intelligence, and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of English, at the University of Cambridge. As part of her […]
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