Peter de Bolla is in conversation with Jon Levi, author of ‘Septimania‘, at Waterstones in Cambridge on September 26th, 7.00 pm – 8.30 pm.
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Dr Hazel Wilkinson Wins First Prize at GDDH 2016 for ‘A Database of Printers’ Ornaments’
Dr Hazel Wilkinson was awarded first prize in the 2016 GDDH seminar series for her paper ‘A database of printers’ ornaments’. The prize of €500 was awarded by the board of the Göttingen Dialog in Digital Humanities on the basis of an evaluation of both the paper and the quality of the presentation.
Continue ReadingDr Marcus Waithe Organises ‘Craftsmanship To-Day: A Symposium On Modern Making’, September 2016
Dr Marcus Waithe organises ‘Craftsmanship To-Day: A Symposium on Modern Making‘ at the Art Workers’ Guild . Sponsored by The Guild of St George, a charity for arts, crafts and the rural economy originally founded by John Ruskin in 1871, this event takes place on 24th September.
Continue ReadingDr Orietta Da Rold Organises Symposium To Mark Retirement of Professor Richard Beadle, September 2016
Dr Orietta da Rold organises ‘Textual and Related Studies. A symposium to mark the retirement of Richard Beadle’. This symposium takes place on 22 September 2016, at the Faculty of English, University Library and St John’s College, under the auspices of the ‘Writing Britain’ conference series.
Continue ReadingDr Marcus Waithe Gives Plenary Lecture On ‘Ruskin and Craftsmanship’, August 2016
Dr Marcus Waithe gave an invited plenary lecture entitled ‘Ruskin and Craftsmanship’ on 19th August 2016 at a ‘Craft Symposium‘ hosted by the Falkland Centre for Stewardship, Falkland Estate, Fife, Scotland.
Continue ReadingDr Ian Patterson Judges Scott Moncrieff Prize, 2016
Dr Ian Patterson is one of two judges for this year’s Scott Moncrieff Prize for translations from the French. The other judge is the author Michèle Roberts. Established in 1965, and named after the celebrated translator of Proust’s À la Recherche du Temps Perdu, the prize is sponsored by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni and […]
Continue ReadingJames Wade and Elizabeth Archibald Organise Conference on Medieval Romance, September 2016
Dr James Wade (Cambridge) and Professor Elizabeth Archibald (Durham) organise a conference on medieval romance. This conference, with a plenary address by Professor Helen Cooper, takes place in the Faculty on September 14th and 15th.
Continue ReadingProfessor Nicolette Zeeman Gives Plenary On ‘Theory Transposed: Chivalric Images and Idols’, September 2016
Nicolette Zeeman gives a plenary entitled ‘Theory Transposed: Chivalric Images and Idols’ at the Fifth Biennial Conference of the Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies in Zurich, 9-11th September 2016.
Continue Reading‘Ear Pieces: Listening, Diagnosing, Writing’ – Interdisciplinary Conference at the 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, hosted by the […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Steven Connor’s ‘Living By Numbers: A Defence of Quantity’ Due Out September 1 2016
Ideas about numbers, magnitudes and frequencies shape and give texture to almost everything we feel, say, dream and do. In his new book Living by Numbers, published by Reaktion Books, Steven Connor explores the many ways in which we live in, and by, a world of numbers.
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