Queer & Trans Philologies Friday 22 March-Saturday 23 March, 9.30am–5.30pm, Online Livestream Convenor Stephen Matthew Turton (English, University of Cambridge) Co-convenors François·e Charmaille (English and MMLL (French), University of Cambridge) Alexandra Zhirnova (ASNC, University of Cambridge) Orsolya Petocz, MMLL (Italian, University of Cambridge) For further information and to book: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/39800/

“Stonebreakers” Screening Award-winning 2022 documentary on conflicts over monuments and historical representation in the USA Thursday, March 14 | 5pm | Newnham College, (C. Beerbower Room) Followed by Q & A with the filmmakers Valerio Ciriaci, Isaak Liptzin, and discussants Prof Jenny Mander, Dr Amy Morris, and Saleyha Ahsan.

As part of commemorative events to mark 200 years since the death of Trinity’s most celebrated poet, Trinity College is offering up to three prizes worth £250 each for writing in verse or prose inspired or provoked by Byron. The competition is open to all current Cambridge undergraduate and postgraduate students. Poems must not be […]

Francesca Gardner’s short film, based on her research into light, commonplacing, and the literary essay, will be shown for the first time at the launch of this year’s Cambridge Festival at West Hub on 13th March. The film, titled ‘Making Light of Essays | Making Essays of Light’, was made in collaboration with creative professional […]

Dr Lloyd Meadhbh Houston is interviewed for an episode of Archive on 4 marking the 60th anniversary of the death of the Irish playwright, creative non-fiction writer, and bon viveur, Brendan Behan. It will air on the 16th of March at 8pm on Radio 4, and will be available online afterwards via this link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xfd0

Dr Jennifer Wallace speaks about Byron and Greece alongside Professors Roderick Beaton, David Ricks and Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri at a special event in London to commemorate the bicentenary of the poet’s death at Missolonghi. Two hundred years on from his death in Greece on 19 April 1824, Byron remains one of the most important […]

Well Beings is a cultural history of the 1970s with an emphasis on alternative health, experimental well-being and inner space exploration.  In essence, Well Beings is a secret history of modern wellness that takes the reader on a strange trip from the panoramic vistas of the Esalen Institute to the vast darkness of the flotation tank by way […]

James Raven’s new edited book Global Exchanges of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century: Ideas and Materialities c 1650-1850 was published by Boydell this week. Link to further information: https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781837650163/global-exchanges-of-knowledge-in-the-long-eighteenth-century/.

On 26 February 2024 Clare Pettitt spoke at the launch of The Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature: Subject, Ecology, Form eds. Thomas Hughes and Emma Merkling (London: Routledge, 2024).  The book includes a chapter that Pettitt has joint written with Art Historian, Professor Caroline Arscott (The Courtauld Institute of Art) entitled, ‘Multicolour as Disavowal: […]

Third year PhD student Lauryn Anderson has been awarded a prestigious Jane Eliza Procter Fellowship to attend Princeton University for the academic year 2024-25. Procter fellowships, nominated by the trustees of Oxford and Cambridge, are awarded on both the basis of a very high standard of academic achievement, as well as in recognition of fellows’ […]