Dr Elizabeth Savage is awarded this year’s Wolfgang Ratjen Award for distinguished research in the field of graphic arts. The Wolfgang Ratjen Award is an annual award for distinguished research in the field of graphic arts. The prize, funded by the Wolfgang Ratjen Foundation, is curated and presented by the Association of Friends of the Zentralinstitut […]
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Dr Laura Wright: Plenary Speaker at Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, 15-18 June 2016
Dr Laura Wright is a Plenary Speaker at Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, taking place at the University of Murcia, Spain, 15-18 June 2016. In 2016, the general theme of Europe’s premier international conference on language in society is Attitudes and Prestige.
Continue ReadingHolly Corfield Carr Awarded Visiting Research Fellowship, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Holly Corfield Carr has been awarded a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds for the year 2016/17 in order to research the writing practices of sculptors working with text in Britain after 1960. For more information: https://www.henry-moore.org/hmi/research/hmi-visiting-research-fellowships/fellowships-archive/201617-fellows
Continue ReadingDr Kasia Boddy Discusses New Don DeLillo Novel, 31 May 2016
On 31 May 2016, 8-9.30 pm (UK time) Dr Kasia Boddy takes part in a twitter chat, #Bookhour, about Zero K, the new Don DeLillo novel. Hosted by US Studies Online, #Bookhour is an open forum twitter discussion between scholars and the public that takes place on the last Tuesday of the month. The title selected for […]
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon Presents BBC Radio 3 Literary Pursuits
The third and fourth episodes in Dr Sarah Dillon’s literary detective documentary series for BBC Radio 3 – Literary Pursuits – will be broadcast to bracket the Hay Festival at 6.45pm on Sunday 29th May and Sunday 5th June. Episode 3 investigates the story behind the posthumous publication of Jane Austen’s Persuasion whilst episode 4 travels to […]
Continue ReadingDr Jennifer Wallace and Professor Adrian Poole at Hay Literary Festival: 31st May 2016
Hay Literary Festival. Tuesday 31st May, 1pm. Jennifer Wallace and Adrian Poole. Cambridge Series 11: Literary Celebrities in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Jennifer Wallace and Adrian Poole will be discussing the rise of literary celebrity in the C18th and C19th, the cult of the poet and the trade in literary relics and reading from […]
Continue ReadingWriting by Sound – a New Exhibition on the First Floor
Writing by Sound: Pitman’s Phonographic Shorthand charts something of the extraordinary ambition of Isaac Pitman’s attempt to create and popularise a system of writing in which the ‘very sound of every word is made VISIBLE.’ Pitman’s innovation was to develop a shorthand system with a phonetic rather than orthographic basis; a way of recording speech […]
Continue ReadingDr Mina Gorji at Cambridge University Botanic Garden Festival of Plants, 14 May 2016
Dr Mina Gorji gave a talk entitled John Clare’s Ragwort: Weeds and Wildflowers at the 2016 Festival of Plants which took place at Cambridge University Botanic Gardens on Saturday 14 May.
Continue Reading“Being Interdisciplinary in Animal Studies: a Postgraduate Symposium”: Abi L Glen Presents Paper
This AHRC-funded, invitation-only symposium, organised by the University of Strathclyde, takes place in Central Glasgow on May 18-19 2016. Abi L Glen presents a paper on the importance of, and difficulties in navigating, the synthesis of art historical and literary approaches to medieval animal studies. The symposium takes place just before the next British Animal […]
Continue Reading“American Stuff”: American Literature Graduate Symposium, 14 May 2016, Faculty of English
American Literature Graduate Symposium: “American Stuff” Saturday 14 May, 2016 GR06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge Keynotes: David Brauner (Reading), Pamela Thurschwell (Sussex) Defending his unadorned, realist style, William Dean Howells remarked in a 1903 letter to Charles Norton: ‘I am not sorry for having wrought in common, crude material so much; that […]
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