The Symposium will be held at the British Library on 8th May 2025. Further information on the event and submitting papers can be found in the poster below or at this link: https://blogs.bl.uk/americas/2025/03/call-for-papers-twentieth-century-black-periodicals-and-space-.html
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Registration open (until Friday 6 June) for ‘Staging Silence from Antiquity to the Renaissance’, 3-4 July 2025, St John’s College, Cambridge
Registration has now opened (until Friday 6 June) for ‘Staging Silence from Antiquity to the Renaissance’, a two-day conference at St John’s College, Cambridge, 3-4 July 2025. Speakers include Barbara Ravelhofer, Julie Stone Peters, and Elisabeth Dutton. Further details about the event, including a programme and how to register, are available at https://stagingsilence.wordpress.com. Space is […]
Continue ReadingThe Faculty of English is delighted to announce that Dr Chris Tilmouth has been awarded a 2025 Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching
The Faculty of English is delighted to announce that our colleague Dr Chris Tilmouth has been awarded one of the 2025 Pilkington Prizes for excellence in teaching. You can find out more about this year’s winners and the history of the prize here: https://www.cctl.cam.ac.uk/pilkington-prize/2025
Continue ReadingDr Bonnie Lander Johnson discusses her new book ‘Vanishing Landscapes’ at Heffers, Cambridge on 10 April
Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson will be discussing her new book Vanishing Landscapes at Heffers, Cambridge on April 10th 6-7pm. Link to further information about the event and to get tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vanishing-landscapes-bonnie-lander-johnson-at-heffers-bookshop-tickets-1291155935159 Vanishing Landscapes combines nature writing and social history to tell the story of how we became modern people, alienated from the landscape. The book […]
Continue ReadingRead a review of two new books by members of the English faculty, Edward Wilson-Lee and Michael D. Hurley, in the latest issue of @TheCriticMag
Read a review of two new books by members of the English faculty, Edward Wilson-Lee and Michael D. Hurley, in the latest issue of @TheCriticMag here.
Continue ReadingProf Sarah Dillon discusses ‘Evidence’ on BBC Radio 4 Free Thinking
On Friday 14th March, Professor Sarah Dillon joins presenter Matthew Sweet and other guests on BBC Radio 4’s Free Thinking programme, to discuss our shifting relationship to evidence. Sarah will appear alongside Uncanny television presenter Danny Robins, the former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption, and philosophers Dr Jonathan Egid (SOAS) and Dr Anthony Milligan (KCL). […]
Continue ReadingThe Centre for Drones and Culture organises an exhibition: ‘Dronotope: The politics of timelines and data visualisation’
Dronotope: The politics of timelines and data visualisation Alison Richard Building 24th March – 11th April Cambridge Festival Event Using interactive timelines of recent developments in drone technology, the public is invited to explore the politics of how data visualisations narrate emerging technology. Link to further information about the event: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/45869/ This exhibition draws from the research […]
Continue ReadingDr. Hannah Lucas gives public lecture on Julian of Norwich for Sarum College, 10 March
Dr. Hannah Lucas, Newby Trust Research Fellow at Newnham College, will deliver a public lecture on Julian of Norwich as part of a short course on ‘Women Mystics: Female Theologians through Church History’, run by Sarum College in association with the Church Times. The event will be held online at 7.30-9PM on Monday 10 March, […]
Continue ReadingBhanu Kapil performs at the National Gallery, 17 March 2025
Bhanu Kapil performs at the National Gallery on March 17th, as part of the Dark Readings Group convened by Katrina Palmer, artist-in-residence at the National Gallery and Professor of Fine Art (sculpture) at Slade School of Fine Art. Link to further information about this event, which is fully booked: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/performance-the-dark-readings-group-pitch-dark-and-live-at-the-national-gallery-17-03-2025
Continue ReadingProfessor Michael D. Hurley @TrinCollCam will give “The Drummond Lecture” @Hillsdale on 25 March
Founded in 1844, Hillsdale College is a small, Christian, classical liberal arts college in southern Michigan. In honour of the 2019 completion of “Christ Chapel” on the College quad, the Drummond Lecture Series was endowed to offer lectures that touch in significant ways on matters of faith and learning, or issues of the day related […]
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