Reading ‘Mrs Dalloway’, a Literature Cambridge Study Day, Saturday 16 September

Literature Cambridge presents a Study Day, Reading Mrs Dalloway. A full day of lectures and discussion with Woolf scholars Susan Sellers, Trudi Tate and Claire Nicholson. Sat. 16 September, 11 am to 5 pm. £90 / £75 for students and CAMcard holders. Price includes light lunch. More information: http://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/dalloway/ Bookings: http://staplefordgranary.org.uk/whats-on/reading-mrs-dalloway.aspx Enquiries: info@literaturecambridge.co.uk

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Dr Leo Mellor and Dr Deborah Bowman organise major round-table at MSA19 Amsterdam, August 2017

Dr Deborah Bowman and Dr Leo Mellor co-organised a major round-table at this year’s Modernist Studies Association conference in Amsterdam (MSA19). Their round-table was: ‘The Long 1930s: Aeriality, Sensations, Language’. The other participants were: James Purdon (University of St Andrews), Abbie Garrington (University of Durham), Jeremy Noel-Tod (University of East Anglia), and David Trotter (Cambridge). […]

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‘John Clare and the Art of Bird Watching’: a symposium exploring John Clare as nature writer, 15 September 2017

On September 15, ‘John Clare and the Art of Bird Watching’, a symposium, will be held in the David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge. The event is a collaboration between the Centre for John Clare Studies (English Faculty) and the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI). Speakers will include Tim Dee, Mina Gorji (Cambridge), Francesca Mackenney (Bristol), […]

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‘Sculpture in the Close’, curated by Dr Rod Mengham, at Jesus College until 17 September 2017

‘Sculpture in the Close’, showcasing the work of nine female artists (Phyllida Barlow, Louise Bourgeois, Mona Hatoum, Shirazeh Houshiary, Kim Lim, Cornelia Parker, Agnes Thurnauer, Rachel Whiteread, Alison Wilding), continues throughout August, daily 10.00am to 6.00pm. Dr Rod Mengham has written the catalogue: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/news/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SitC-2017-final-no-bleeds-170613-1-1.pdf For further information about the exhibition:  https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/college/events/sc@Sculpture-close

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