Amy Morris hosts prizewinning US author Tayari Jones at a Cambridge Literary Festival one-off event taking place 8pm-9pm on Friday 5 June at the University Arms Hotel.  Tayari Jones is in Cambridge to discuss her new novel Kin, published earlier this year by Oneworld Publications. Link to further info about the Tayari Jones event: https://www.cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/events/tayari-jones-kin  […]

Benjamin Wilson has recently published two articles on the work of Samuel Beckett. The first, published in the latest edition of Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui, is entitled ‘ “Into What Nightmare Thingness Am I Fallen?”: Visual Agnosia in Beckett’s Four Novellas’.  It explores how the narrators of Beckett’s four post-war nouvelles experience the perceptual […]

On 4-5 June 2026, the Machine Visual Culture group will host ‘Noisy Systems: Aesthetics, Epistemology, and Computation’, a two day conference, at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, in Rome.  The conference examines noise across machine learning, information theory, media theory, aesthetics, art history, philosophy, and practice-based research.  It brings together […]

Professor Anthony Bale will speak in a plenary roundtable at the third Annual Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities in Europe, on the theme of ‘Moving and Being Moved’.  This colloquium takes place at Queen Mary, University of London, 11-12 June 2026.

Shanti Giovannetti-Singh has organised an online graduate conference for The Renaissance Society of America, consisting of a series of short lightning talks in response to the theme of ‘fragments’.  The conference will take place on Thursday 4 June. Link to further information about the conference and to register: https://www.rsa.org/news/727257/Fragments-Graduate-Student-Lightning-Talks.htm Shanti Giovannetti-Singh is a PhD candidate […]

The fellowship will support Dr Impett‘s ongoing work on machine visual culture, digital art history, and the cultural study of artificial intelligence.  

Link to further information about ‘Vector Media’: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921675/vector-media/

Professor Houghton-Walker draws from Clare’s autobiographical writings, journals, letters and poetry, to present a rich, grounded portrait of the man and the places that shaped him. This new biography is published by Reaktion Books as part of their Critical Lives series of short critical biographies that present the work of important cultural figures in the […]

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Kasia Boddy interviews Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-2014) as part of a conference on ‘The United States of America at 250: Reflections on the past, present, and future of independence’, which will take place on  29 May 2026, 12.30pm to 7pm, at the Ray Dolby Centre, Cambridge. This event […]