Marc Mierowsky Awarded S Ernest Sprott Fellowship, 2016

Marc Mierowsky is awarded the S Ernest Sprott Fellowship in 17th-Century Literature. It is supported by the University of Melbourne and he will be holding the award at the Faculty of English, Cambridge. The S Ernest Sprott Fellowship is open for award annually to an outstanding scholar, who must be an Australian citizen of no […]

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BBC New Generation Thinker Dr Sarah Dillon at the Proms

Dr Sarah Dillon, BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker, will feature in two BBC Radio 3 Proms Extra broadcasts this Proms season. On Saturday 5th August she will contribute to a live discussion of H. G. Wells’ speculative fiction along with renowned science fiction writer Stephen Baxter who has been commissioned to write a sequel to The War […]

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Call for Papers: ‘Ear Pieces: Listening, Diagnosing, Writing’, Faculty of English, December 2016

Ear Pieces: Listening, Diagnosing, Writing Faculty of English Cambridge, 16-17 December 2016   Keynote Speakers Carolyn Abbate (Harvard University) Steven Connor (University of Cambridge) Lennard J. Davis (University of Illinois at Chicago) Mara Mills (New York University)   Organiser: Edward Allen (University of Cambridge)   Call for Papers Ear Pieces is a new interdisciplinary venture, […]

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Clare Walker-Gore Discusses George Eliot on Radio 3, 2 August 2016

New Generation Thinker Clare Walker-Gore and novelist Patricia Duncker discuss George Eliot, Eliot’s travels in 19th-century Germany and the music she refers to in her novels and diaries as part of Proms Extra.  The conversation takes place at 17.45 on 2 August 2016 at Imperial College, London, and will be broadcast on Radio 3 that […]

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‘Poems and Ballads’ at 150 – A University Library Exhibition Curated by Laura Kilbride and Clive Simmonds, July 2016

Laura Kilbride and Clive Simmonds curate an exhibtion at the University Library to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Swinburne’s Poems and Ballads.  This exhibition is in the Library’s North Front Corridor between 20 July and 13 August and accompanies the conference celebrating 150 years of Poems and Ballads held at St John’s […]

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Laura Kilbride, Orla Polten and Alex Wong Organise ‘Poems and Ballads’ 150th Anniversary Conference, July 2016

Laura Kilbride, Orla Polten and Alex Wong organise an international conference to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Algernon Charles Swinburne’s seminal collection, the Poems and Ballads of 1866.  The  conference takes place at St John’s College, Cambridge, 29-30 July 2016. By focusing on Swinburne’s most notorious work, the aim of the conference […]

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