‘ART / MONEY / CRISIS’ Conference at the Faculty of English and CRASSH, 29-30 April, 2016

The English Faculty hosts several forums from ART / MONEY / CRISIS, an international two-day conference based at CRASSH.  The conference timetable includes artistic practitioners and academic speakers from disciplines including literature, sociology, economics, visual arts, cultural studies, anthropology, history, music, and politics. ART / MONEY / CRISIS features contributions from Faculty of English members […]

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Professor Page Plenary Talk on Performance, Imagination and the Early-Romantic Guitar

Professor Christopher Page will be a keynote speaker at a conference on Performing Knowledge being held at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge on April 25-26, 2016. Bringing together performing musicians engaging in practice-led research, ethnographers of Western art music, and psychologists specialising in tacit knowledge research, this two-day conference explores performers’ interpretative processes and their uses of tacit knowledge […]

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Dr Laura Wright Plenary Speaker at International Symposium – Urbanisation in the British Isles: A Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspective

Dr Wright is a Plenary Speaker at the international symposium Urbanisation in the British Isles: a historical and interdisciplinary perspective, University of Lausanne (Switzerland) April 22-23 2016. In her paper, Urbanisation and house names in London 1700-1900, Dr Wright examines the development of nineteenth century house names and focuses on one in particular, preferred by […]

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Celebrating 400 Years of Shakespeare

As the world marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, why not listen to members of the Faculty of English reading his complete poetry? Shakespeare’s plays are performed every day throughout the world. His poems are read everywhere too; but usually in silence. In 2014, to celebrate the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, we brought […]

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