Professor Sarah Dillon’s new book is published today with Routledge, entitled Storylistening: Narrative Evidence and Public Reasoning. Co-authored with Dr Claire Craig, former Head of the Government Office for Science and Vice-President (Evidence) of the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA), Storylistening makes the case for the urgent need to take stories seriously in […]
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Michael D. Hurley @TrinCollCam has been made an Honorary Professor of the International Institute for Hermeneutics
The award recognises Professor Hurley’s scholarly work on the intersections of literature, theology and philosophy: https://www.iihermeneutics.org/honorary-professors
Continue ReadingDr Harry McCarthy (Jesus) is featured on an upcoming BBC Radio 4 programme on teaching novels in the contemporary university (2 November, 11.30am)
The second in a three-part series titled Pride or Prejudice: How We Read Now and presented by Professor Abigail Williams (University of Oxford), the programme explores the reading and teaching of novels in an era of content warnings, cancel culture and calls to decolonise the curriculum. Dr McCarthy is one of several academics who contributed […]
Continue ReadingDissident Histories of Pakistan: joint virtual launch of The South Asian Resource and Research Centre Archive & Revolutionary Papers Digital Teaching Tools, 1 Nov 2021
Dissident Histories of Pakistan We would like to invite you to a joint virtual launch of The South Asian Resource and Research Centre (SARRC) Archive & Revolutionary Papers (RP) Digital Teaching Tools 1 Nov 2021, 1:30-3:15 PM (GMT + 1) via Zoom The event, which will be live translated into Urdu and English, is part […]
Continue ReadingKasia Boddy and Bonnie Lander Johnson receive University funding to explore the history of Cambridge’s involvement in saffron production and consumption
Kasia Boddy and Bonnie Lander Johnson have received a grant from the University’s Research & Collections Programme for funding within the Materiality Research Growth Network to explore ‘Cambridge Saffron’. The project is to examine the history of Cambridge’s involvement in saffron production and consumption, both locally and globally. Working with colleagues in the UL, the […]
Continue ReadingTrudi Tate was in conversation with Merve Emre about Merve’s new annotated edition of Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’
Trudi Tate (Affiliated Lecturer and Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall) was in conversation with Oxford scholar Merve Emre about Merve’s new annotated edition of Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway. The event was hosted by Waterstones bookshop in Cambridge on 15 October 2021.
Continue ReadingDr Orietta Da Rold gives the 2021 Sandars Lectures, November 2021
The Sandars Readership in Bibliography is one of the most prestigious honorary posts to which book historians, librarians and researchers can be appointed. Those elected deliver a series of lectures on their chosen subject, and Dr Orietta Da Rold will be speaking on the subject of ‘Paper Past and Paper Future’: Lecture One – Tuesday […]
Continue ReadingJoin Professor Sarah Dillon and Dr Claire Craig for the launch of their new book ‘Storylistening: Narrative Evidence and Public Reasoning’, 25 November 2021
The two authors will talk to Bennett Professor of Public Policy Diane Coyle about the urgent need to use stories to improve public reasoning. They will share a theory and practice of listening to narratives where decisions are strongly influenced by contentious knowledge and powerful imaginings in areas such as climate change, artificial intelligence, […]
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