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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Dr. Hannah Lucas interviewed on Hermitix Podcast
Dr. Hannah Lucas, Newby Trust Research Fellow at Newnham College, was recently interviewed for the Hermitix podcast about her new book, Impossible Recovery: Julian of Norwich and the Phenomenology of Well-Being (Columbia University Press, 2025). You can listen to the episode on Spotify or via YouTube.
Continue ReadingDr Beryl Pong gives a public lecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, 13 March
Dr Beryl Pong gives a public lecture on the ethics and aesthetics of humanitarian drone documentaries at Goldsmiths, University of London, in their visual cultures department on 13th March 2025. Link to event: https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=15354
Continue ReadingDr Beryl Pong appears on a podcast on art and the psychological experience of war
Dr Beryl Pong was on the ‘Conflicts of Interest’ podcast speaking about how art helps to convey the psychological experience of war in the 20th and 21st centuries at the Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries in the Imperial War Museum. The other podcast guests were the Actor and Chancellor of University of Sussex, Sanjeev […]
Continue Reading‘Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire’ | Book review | Ross Wilson
Professor Ross Wilson reviews ‘Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire’, by Matthew Leporati (Cambridge University Press) for the TLS, February 21, 2025, issue. Link to the review: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/literary-criticism/romantic-epics-and-the-mission-of-empire-matthew-leporati-book-review-ross-wilson
Continue ReadingProfessor Ross Wilson is interviewed about the history of the book blurb
In the wake of Simon & Schuster US’s decision to downgrade book blurbs, Professor Wilson contributed a few words about the history of the book blurb to a piece in The Economist (paywalled) and had a longer conversation on the subject with David Marr on Late Night Live, ABC Radio (Australia), which can be heard […]
Continue ReadingDiscover Faculty of English events at the Cambridge Festival, 19 March-4 April 2025
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Continue ReadingProf. Michael D. Hurley is lecturing at the Oxford Thomistic Institute on 3rd March on the subject of The Theological Poetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ.
The lecture will begin at 7.30pm in the Aula at Blackfriars, and will be followed by refreshments. All are welcome. For further details, see here.
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