The materials Reading and Seminar series is hugely excited to present Sara Larsen and David Brazil, on a special visit from Oakland, CA, stopping over at Cambridge, UK. Poets and scholars of Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, the Pauline tradition, Sappho, Christian communism, the Paris Commune, the Trojan war, riot grrrl, and more; co-editors of the legendary […]
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Readings by novelist Anna Moschovakis, artist Sharon Kivland, and translator Charlotte Collins, hosted by Dr Sophie Seita, Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, 19 November 2018, 7.30pm
Readings by novelist Anna Moschovakis, artist Sharon Kivland, and translator Charlotte Collins Hosted by Dr Sophie Seita Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio 19 November 2018, 7.30pm Anna Moschovakis is the author most recently of the novel Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love (Coffee House Press, 2018). Her books of poetry include the James Laughlin […]
Continue ReadingDr Michael D. Hurley lectures at the Gerard Manley Hopkins Literature Festival, 10 November 2018
Dr Michael D. Hurley gives a lecture on ‘Wrestling with Hopkins’ at the Gerard Manley Hopkins Literature Festival, to be held at Stonyhurst College on 10th November.
Continue ReadingDr Orietta Da Rold delivers Plenary Lecture at ‘Working with Archives’, Quadrivium XIII , University of Glasgow, 10 November 2018
Dr Orietta da Rold delivers a Plenary Lecture entitled ‘From Pulp to Fictions: The Role of Paper Before Print’ at ‘Working with Archives’, AHRC Archives and Writing Lives Project and Quadrivium UK, University of Glasgow, 10 November 2018.
Continue ReadingDr Zoë Svendsen speaks at Season for Change COP24 Industry Briefing, National Theatre, 2 November 2018
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/season-for-change-cop24-industry-briefing-tickets-50219455744?platform=hootsuite COP24 is the informal name for the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and will take place from 3-14 December 2018, in Katowice, Poland.
Continue ReadingElrington and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon
The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic and the Faculty of English are delighted to announce that Dr Rosalind Love has been elected to the Elrington and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon with effect from 1 October 2019, to succeed Professor Simon Keynes.
Continue ReadingLiterature Cambridge and Lucy Cavendish College host free talk on two previously unpublished sketches written by Virginia Woolf in 1931, 30 October 2018
Free talks on Virginia Woolf and her Contemporaries, hosted by Literature Cambridge and Lucy Cavendish College. 30 October 2018, 1.00 pm: Clara Jones will talk on Woolf’s lost sketches from 1931. Town and Gown all welcome. https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/virginia-woolf-talks/ *
Continue ReadingDr Trudi Tate and Dr Isobel Maddison organise all-day reading of ‘To the Lighthouse’, 14 October 2018
Trudi Tate and Isobel Maddison organised an all-day reading of Woolf’s 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse, Sunday 14 October 2018. Another all-day reading is planned for October 2019: probably of The Waves (1931). https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/vw-past-talks
Continue ReadingDr Trudi Tate lectures at ‘World War I: Lifting the Shadow’, a First World War centenary conference organised by the York Quakers, 6 October 2018
Dr Trudi Tate gave a keynote paper on ‘The Hidden Legacies of War’ at a one-day conference exploring the legacies of World War I and the lessons of the past. The conference was organised by the York Quakers and took place on 6 October 2018, http://www.yorkquakers.org.uk/ww1conferences.html
Continue ReadingDr Kasia Boddy interviews Man Booker International Prize-winner, Olga Tokarczuk, Wednesday 17 October 2018
Dr Kasia Boddy interviews Olga Tokarczuc, winner of the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for Literature, as part of the Cambridge Literary Festival, 6.30pm, Wednesday 17 October, Heffers Bookshop.
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