‘From Rhodes to Churchill: Empire, Race and Commemoration’ A panel discussion with Nadine Batchelor-Hunt, Ruth Ramsden-Karelse, Alex von Tunzelmann and Gary Younge, chaired by Priyamvada Gopal. Hosted by the Postcolonial and Related Literatures Seminar, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge Link to further information and the recording
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Against Our Vanishing, a free immersive queer history set in the English coastal town of Rye is now available to download
Created by Dr Diarmuid Hester (College Research Associate, Emmanuel), this free audio trail focuses on Rye’s famous queer residents like writers Henry James, Radclyffe Hall, and EF Benson, and the painter Edward Burra. It weaves the stories of their lives through the cobbled streets of this ancient town and calls for a new history of […]
Continue ReadingTom Zille publishes his first monograph, the first study of Enlightenment translator Christian Felix Weiße, 30 Jun 2021
The title of the monograph is Christian Felix Weiße the Translator. Cultural Transfer and Literary Entrepreneurship in the Enlightenment and it is published by the Institute of Modern Languages Research, an imprint of the University of London Press. Tom Zille trained as a bookseller in Leipzig, and is currently reading for a PhD in Modern […]
Continue ReadingDr Mary Newbould organises ‘Form, Media, Digitisation: Adaptation in Sterne, Sterneana, and Beyond’, a one-day conference, Tuesday 20 July
This event is part of the AHRC-funded Sterne Digital Library project, a collaborative project between Northumbria University, the University of Cambridge, Cambridge University Library and the Laurence Sterne Trust. It is free to attend, but please register by 16 July. Link to more information about the conference Link to the registration page
Continue ReadingAlex Wong’s second collection of poetry, ‘Shadow and Refrain’, is published by Carcanet Press, May 2021
Alex Wong (CTO at St John’s College) publishes his next attempt at a poetry collection, Shadow and Refrain (Carcanet). Please support ailing independent publishing industry in its noble effort to keep in print authors whose books don’t sell: copies are available directly from Carcanet, with an introductory discount. https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=2372 164 pp. of bang-and-whimper for one’s […]
Continue Reading‘The Places of Early Modern Criticism’, edited by Gavin Alexander in collaboration with Cambridge colleagues Emma Gilby (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics) and Alexander Marr (Department of History of Art), has been published by Oxford University Press
The book derives from a CRASSH conference in 2015 and gathers contributions from fifteen early modernists working across a range of disciplines. What is criticism? And where is it to be found? Thinking about literature and the visual arts is found in many places – in treatises, apologies, and paragoni; in prefaces, letters, and essays; […]
Continue ReadingDr Ewan Jones awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for the academic year 2021/22
In the academic year 2021/22, Dr Ewan Jones will take up a Leverhulme Research Grant on the topic of ‘Close Reading as Attentional Practice: 1860-1920’. As part of the grant, he will be co-organising a seminar on attention at the Warburg Institute, with Professor Lorraine Daston. https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/listings?field_grant_scheme_target_id=11
Continue ReadingThomas Gray among the Disciplines: A Workshop, 30th July 2021
A multidisciplinary workshop exploring Thomas Gray’s scholarship will take place on Zoom on the 250th anniversary of his death, 30th July 2021. Outline and Schedule: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/eighteenth/?page_id=1075 Eventbrite registration for the Zoom link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thomas-gray-among-the-disciplines-tickets-157759618265
Continue ReadingDr Jennifer Wallace gave the sixth Annual Classics and English Lecture at the University of Oxford on Monday 26th April
The title of Dr Wallace’s lecture was “Tragedy Since 9/11”. The lecture was streamed on YouTube and followed by a live Q&A. To listen to the lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN_nkYa1Q2o
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