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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Kirsten Norrie publishes An American Book of the Dead (Broken Sleep Books) on Nov 30th. Launches and readings: Nov 4th, Blackwell’s Bookshop, Oxford: Kirsten Norrie in discussion with Prof. Simon Critchley, chaired by John Mitchinson: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-seance-of-mysticism-with-dr-kirsten-norrie-and-prof-simon-critchley-tickets-988957647947 Nov 24th, The Horse Hospital, London: Kirsten Norrie reading with Camille Ralphs, Gregory Leadbetter and James Byrne: https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/talkingspirits Nov 28th, […]