Pembroke Fellow Dr Mark Wormald, who has closely studied how central Ted Hughes’ love of fishing was to his approach to poetry and life, first came across mention of Barrie Cooke in Hughes’s unpublished fishing diaries in the British Library. This mention prompted Dr Wormald to visit Barrie Cooke in Ireland, which is when the […]
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‘Women Beat Poets and the Naropa Archive: Rewriting an American Experimental Lineage’, filmmaker Melody London in conversation with poet Emma Gomis, A Re- Interdisciplinary Network screening/seminar, via Zoom, Tuesday 1 December, 5pm
‘Women Beat Poets and the Naropa Archive: Rewriting an American Experimental Lineage’ Filmmaker Melody London in conversation with poet Emma Gomis A Re- Interdisciplinary Network online screening/seminar (via Zoom) Tuesday 1 December, 5pm-6.30pm For further information about the event: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/29478 To register, contact: clef3@cam.ac.uk Filmmaker Melody London will screen excerpts from and discuss her current feature documentary-in-progress, the untold story of the […]
Continue ReadingAnanya Mishra’s presentation, ‘Of Mountains and Seeds’, has been published by Cambridge Open Engage as part of the inaugural Cambridge Zero Climate Change Festival, November 2020
Ananya Mishra is a postgraduate student at the University of Cambridge Faculty of English and Corpus Christi College. To read the abstract of Ananya Mishra’s presentation and listen to the recording: https://www-cambridge-org.ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/engage/coe/article-details/5fac6ff1c207cd0019cb1141 The Cambridge Zero Climate Change Festival offers eight days of online events structured around the COP26 themes: Energy Transitions, Zero Carbon Transport, Finance, […]
Continue ReadingDr Diarmuid Hester, one of the BBC’s New Generation Thinkers for 2020, has contributed a piece on tattooing and literature for BBC Radio 3’s popular Words & Music programme
Focusing on Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and the tattooed Pacific Islander Queequeg, the piece will be read by an actor and is part of a special episode on The Body. It airs on Sunday 29 November at 5.30pm. Use this link to tune in or catch up: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pvbq
Continue ReadingDr Marcus Waithe has published a new book: ‘The Ins and Outs of Public Lettering: Kindersley Inscriptions in the Open’
‘The Ins and Outs of Public Lettering’, written by Marcus Waithe, Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley and Thomas Sherwood, looks at works by The Cardozo Kindersley Workshop in public spaces. For further information: http://www.kindersleyworkshop.co.uk/shop/the-ins-and-outs-of-public-lettering.php
Continue ReadingAcclaimed Actress and Director, Lisa Dwan, visits the Drama and Performance Seminar this week…to talk ‘A Body of Beckett’
Lisa Dwan, Princeton’s Long-term Visiting Professor, will be visiting us via Zoom to talk about: A Body of Beckett. This seminar will take place via Zoom on Thursday 26th November at 5pm. A Zoom link to join the meeting can be accessed via the Drama and Performance Seminar Moodle Page or email ew513@cam.ac.uk
Continue ReadingDr Charles Moseley edits a new collection of essays: ‘Engaging with Chaucer’ Berghahn Books, November 2020
Dr Moseley provides the introductory essay to the collection, as well as one of the chapters, ‘“Tu numeris elementa ligas”: The Consolation of Nature’s Numbers in Parlement of Foulys’. The collection also includes contributions from Professor Helen Cooper, Dr Alex da Costa, Dr Jackie Tasioulas, Professor Barry Windeatt. For further information: https://berghahnbooks.com/title/MoseleyEngaging
Continue ReadingUpdates on the Present: Feminist Art Once More. Professor Peggy Phelan visits the Drama and Performance Seminars this week…
Professor Peggy Phelan, Ann O’Day Maples Professor, Stanford University, will be visiting us via Zoom to talk about: Updates on the Present: Feminist Art Once More. This seminar will take place via Zoom on Thursday 12th November at 5pm. The article used as the starting point for discussion and Zoom link to join the meeting […]
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