A new creative-critical book entitled Echoes of Paradise: Milton’s Epic and the Art of Response has been published in a limited edition.  In a series of essays – on satire, children’s fantasy fiction, slave narrative, painting, and radio drama – the book tells some of the stories of Paradise Lost‘s enduring influence; but the book […]

Pembroke College, Oxford, and Campion Hall on 23-24 March 2023 Please see here for conference webpages, including programme, abstracts, and speaker biographies The link to register is here Dr Jan Graffius, who is leading the conference’s pop-up exhibition, is giving a free public lecture, Óscar Romero: The Witness of Relics, on Friday 24 March at 17.30, […]

London Review Bookshop 2023 Winter Lectures at Conway Hall (London) and online Clair Wills: How to Plot an Abortion Friday 24 February, 7pm-8.30pm Following the US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and other challenges to reproductive rights, Clair Wills considers the stories we tell about abortion – in fiction, film, court rulings […]

The University Library has just launched an online exhibition called Cambridge Saffron, the product of a year-long project funded by the University’s Research and Collections Programme to investigate evidence of saffron cultivation & use in the libraries & archives of the city, colleges & university. Kasia Boddy & Bonnie Lander Johnson, of the English Faculty, & Alice […]

The symposium, which will take place 21-22 September 2023 at The Paper Foundation in Burneside, Cumbria, will bring together academics in any field who work on paper, with creative writers whose work is inflected by and responds to the materiality of their writing surfaces.  Deadline to apply is Friday 31st March. Full details can be found here. 

TRANSPLANTATIONS: Seeds, Plants and Gardens in the Contemporary Experience of Migration Monday 23 January 4-6pm GR06/07 Ground floor English Faculty 9 West Road Cambridge Jennie Spears from the Lemon Tree Trust https://lemontreetrust.org/about/ and Adam Alexander the ‘Seed Detective’ https://theseeddetective.co.uk/my-book/ talk about their work protecting and propagating the stability of plants and people amid the global turbulence of […]

Jen Pollard, the Faculty of English Computer Officer, won her award in Category 2: Innovating and Improving. The Awards recognise and celebrate the very best work across all professional service areas in the University and the 2022 winners were announced at a ceremony at the Fitzwilliam Museum on 12 December. Link to the list of […]

A feature documentary on art and activism in the suffrage movement by Dr Diarmuid Hester (Emmanuel) has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Dr Hester’s programme focuses on the work of Edith Craig, theatre producer, suffragette, and daughter of Ellen Terry, star of the Victorian stage. He travels to Smallhythe Place, where Craig lived with her […]

Submerged Reliquary of a Kentish Saint: a new essay-film by Sophie Mei Birkin, Eleanor Myerson and Bartek Dziadosz When: 2 December 2022, 6.30pm Venue: Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, 43 Gordon Square The screening will be accompanied by a talk by Professor Robert Mills, author of Derek Jarman’s Medieval Modern (Boydell and Brewer, 2018). Followed by […]