Dr Chris Townsend’s Philosophical Connections: Akenside, Neoclassicism, and Romanticism was published on May 2nd with Cambridge University Press, as part of their Elements series. It takes Mark Akenside’s Pleasures of Imagination as a vital link between Alexander Pope’s poetry and the Romantics. Dr Townsend draws attention in particular to Akenside’s focus on appearances and how […]

Dr Stephen Turton, along with Prof Charlotte Brewer (Oxford), has curated a small exhibition on ‘The Oxford English Dictionary and the Public’ at Oxford’s Weston Library. In order to create the OED, its first chief editor, James Augustus Henry Murray (1837–1915), wrote and received thousands of letters on the histories of words—so many that the […]

Professor Pete de Bolla has been elected an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Link to further information: https://www.amacad.org/news/2022-member-announcement

On Thursday, April 28-Saturday April 30, 2022, Revolutionary Papers (RP) will launch Revolutionary Papers: Counter-Institutions, Countercultures, and Counter-Politics in Periodicals of the Global South, an international conference and exhibition in Cape Town, South Africa. RP is a collaboration between the University of Cambridge English Faculty, the London School of Economics Sociology Department, and University of […]

Amidst global plans for economic recovery, resilience, and prosperity, academics and policymakers will meet for the Bennett Institute for Public Policy Annual Conference on Friday 22 April 2022 at the University of Cambridge. The day’s discussions will centre around the Institute’s four key research themes – Place, Progress, Productivity, and Decision-Making in Government. It will […]

Juliette Bretan writes for The Public Domain Review on Polish artist Witkacy’s chemical forays, including his 1932 book Narcotics, a genre-bending treatise that warns of the hazards of drugs while seductively recollecting their delirious effects. Link to essay: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/document Juliette Bretan is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of English and Newnham College.

Join us to welcome in Poetry Spring on Saturday 30 April at St John’s College, an afternoon of poetry workshops, discussions and readings with British and international poets. All the events are free but places must be booked. Poetry Spring is organised by Mina Gorji (Pembroke College) and Sasha Dugdale (St John’s College) and is funded by St John’s College and […]

350 KS 3 and 4 children from around the country spent the day in Cambridge working with professional writers on composing the story of their lives. Khadijah Ibrahim was MC in Lady Margaret Hall (appearance by Bonnie Lander Johnson and Phil Knox).  The day finished with a showcase of students’ work, read from the big […]