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Echoes of Paradise: An Evening of Contemporary Responses to Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’, 7 November 2017
Tuesday 7 November, 4.30pm, Christ’s College, Yusuf Hamied Theatre Echoes of Paradise An Evening of Contemporary Responses to Milton’s Paradise Lost, 350 years after its first publication 4:30-5:30pm Lecture by Professor Sir Christopher Ricks : ‘ Milton and those who follow his art towards blasphemy ’ Interval 6:00-7:30pm Music from Trio Apaches, by Sally […]
Continue ReadingDr Laura Wright continues to present ‘Word of Mouth’ on BBC Radio 4
Throughout September and October 2017, Dr Laura Wright co-hosts BBC Radio 4’s Word of Mouth, a series which explores the world of words and the ways in which we use them. Monday 30 October – Pub Names From The Red Lion to the Bucket of Blood, how did your local get its name? Michael Rosen […]
Continue ReadingUniversity of Cambridge launches campaign to promote zero tolerance of sexual misconduct
To read more about ‘Breaking the Silence – Cambridge speaks out against sexual misconduct’ go to: http://www.cam.ac.uk/news/university-of-cambridge-launches-campaign-to-promote-zero-tolerance-of-sexual-misconduct
Continue ReadingDr Fiona Green gives a talk on Marianne Moore at ‘Poet in the City: Back to the Beginning’, October 2017
Dr Fiona Green gives a talk on Marianne Moore and Revision at ‘Poet in the City: Back to the Beginning’, 18 October: http://www.poetinthecity.co.uk/show-event/?pc_event_id=336 —
Continue ReadingDr Rod Mengham joins Tate Modern Curator, Juliet Bingham, for ‘Walk and Talk: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov’, 30 October 2017
Dr Rod Mengham joins exhibition curator Juliet Bingham for a walk through ‘Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into the Future’ at Tate Modern, on 30 October 2017, 6.30–8.30pm. The hour-long tour and discussion is followed by a private viewing of the exhibition. ‘Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into […]
Continue ReadingYvonne Salmon to give TEDx Talk
Yvonne Salmon will be giving a TEDx talk on the value of mischief at BAFTA on 24th October. Invited by Fidelity as one of their Agents of Change, the talk will draw on Yvonne’s research into behaviour, culture, law, recording and ways to expose prejudice, as well as her own art, film and performance work. […]
Continue ReadingJohn Kerrigan wins 2016 Roland H. Bainton Prize for ‘Shakespeare’s Binding Language’
John Kerrigan’s book Shakespeare’s Binding Language has won the 2016 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize in Literature. The award ceremony takes place at the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, 26-29 October, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Continue ReadingDr Ian Burrows hosts ‘Making Shakespeare’, Cambridge Festival of Ideas, 20 October 2017
As part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, Ian Burrows will be hosting a workshop on the 20th October which talks members of the public through Shakespeare’s editorial history, introducing them to the centuries of Shakespeareana held at the University Library. Participants will be invited to bring in their own copies of Shakespeare and to consider the ways […]
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