On 18th November, Fran Lock will give the Dyson lecture on R.S. Thomas. This is one of a series of lectures endowed by former Pembroke student A.E. Dyson, literary critic, gay rights campaigner, educational activist and co-founder of the journal Critical Quarterly. The title of her lecture is “A ‘shifting identity/ never your own’ R.S. […]
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Poetry reading with dove/Christine Kirubi + a dance-theater performance of Bhanu Kapil’s ‘How To Wash A Heart’ directed by Blue Pieta, 9 November, Faculty of English
Invitation from Bhanu Kapil What: A poetry reading with dove/Christine Kirubi + a dance-theater performance of Bhanu Kapil’s How To Wash A Heart directed by Blue Pieta. When: Saturday, November 9th at 3 pm. Doors open at 2.45 pm. The event will last an hour, and should be complete by 4.15 pm. Where: Judith E. Wilson Drama […]
Continue ReadingProf. Michael D. Hurley @TrinCollCam and @johnmilbank3 give keynote lectures at the Philosophy and Poetics conference at All Souls College, Oxford, 26 Nov. 2024
All Souls College, Oxford, is hosting an interdisciplinary conference on Philosophy and Poetics on Tuesday 26th November 2024. A range of speakers will give short papers throughout the day, organised into three sessions: the philosophy of poetry; poets as philosophers; poetics through time. There will be extended group discussion time at the end of each […]
Continue ReadingFilm Launch: ‘Beware Blue Skies: The Psychology of Drone Warfare’: Showing at the Imperial War Museum, 7 November 2024-16 March 2025 (free)
The Centre for Drones and Culture (directed by Affiliated Lecturer and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow Dr Beryl Pong) is showing an immersive film installation at the Imperial War Museum in London called Beware Blue Skies, which reflects on the psychology of drone warfare. More on the film can be found here: https://www.centrefordronesandculture.com/beware-blue-skies The launch for the […]
Continue ReadingDr Simon Jackson discusses George Herbert on ‘In Our Time’ – broadcast date, 7 November 2024
Dr Simon Jackson has recorded an episode of ‘In Our Time’, BBC Radio 4’s discussion programme chaired by Melvyn Bragg, on the topic of the seventeenth-century poet and priest George Herbert. The panellists for this episode are: Simon Jackson (Director of Music and Director of Studies, Peterhouse) Helen Wilcox (Professor Emerita, Bangor University, and editor […]
Continue Reading‘The Cambridge Companion to John Clare’ edited by Sarah Houghton-Walker is published by Cambridge University Press, November 2024
The Cambridge Companion to John Clare Edited by Sarah Houghton-Walker Includes essays by Mina Gorji, Sarah Houghton-Walker and Ross Wilson Published by Cambridge University Press, November 2024 In this Companion, leading scholars illuminate Clare’s rich life and writing, situating each within a range of critical contexts. Essays rooted in discourses as diverse as ecocriticism, aesthetics, […]
Continue ReadingAmelia Zhou, second-year PhD candidate in the Faculty of English, publishes ‘Repose’ (New York: Wendy’s Subway, 2024)
In her debut book, Amelia Zhou poses the question, “How do I perform or not perform?” Weaving together poems, fiction, and lyric essay, Repose follows an unnamed woman grappling with the limits of the self on the everyday stage of labor and routine, charting her emergent modes of resistance. She is already steps ahead, deftly shifting […]
Continue ReadingDr Hannah Lucas writes on D.W. Winnicott, Julian of Norwich, and the Good-Enough Mother/Mystic for ‘American Imago’
D.W. Winnicott, Julian of Norwich, and the Good-Enough Mother/Mystic By Hannah Lucas American Imago, Volume 81, Number 3, Fall 2024, pp. 401-428 Published by Johns Hopkins University Press: https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2024.a940329 This new article examines the theological resonances in D. W. Winnicott’s theory of motherhood and infant development, bringing to light possible inheritances from the medieval mystical […]
Continue ReadingDr Rebecca Barr speaks at the launch of the Cold War Steve Annual 2025, 12 November 2024
Dr Rebecca Barr speaks on Cold War Steve and William Hogarth at the Birmingham launch of Cold War Steve’s 2025 Annual on the 12th of November. Cold War Steve is a British photomontage artist and satirist whose punk-aesthetic photoshop images of dystopian Britain are disseminated on social media. He has provided cover art for The […]
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