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Dr Jennifer Wallace was the subject of an interview feature in ‘Kathimerini’,  the main Greek newspaper, as part of their regular series ‘Lunch with Kathimerini’. Link to the article.      

Dr Laura Davies (King’s College) is running a two-day public event on death and literature at Cambridge Central Library, Friday 19 July-Saturday 20 July.   The event, which includes workshops, activities, archaeology, is part of What is a good death?, a research and public impact project at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, bringing past […]

Critical Indigenous studies can neither be perceived as niche, nor trivialized as topical. In the way climate-capitalism has become an existential threat, a sincere engagement with Indigenous knowledges has become ineluctable. This conference seeks to initiate a multidisciplinary conversation on climate change, as conceived by, and re-inscribed within, Indigenous literatures. So far within the small […]

LIVE PERFORMANCE Sophie Seita performs Les Bijoux Indiscrets, or, Paper Tigers 4.30pm Sat 6 Jul, SPACE Mare St with: Emma Attwood, Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain, Simone Kearney, Erin Robinsong, Jocelyn Spaar, and Naomi Woo In her closing performance, artist Sophie Seita explores a whimsical and magical world of female friendship and immodesty, where jewels sing and books talk […]

Jamie Fenton has been awarded a place on the AHRC International Placement Scheme, which will allow him to spend four months as a researcher at the Library of Congress from January 2020. The International Placement Scheme (IPS) is an annual programme providing Research Fellowships to AHRC/ESRC-funded doctoral students, early career researchers and doctoral-level research assistants. […]

Ewan Jones has been awarded a Riksbankens Jubileumsfond fellowship, which will permit him to spend the academic year 2019/2020 at the School of Advanced Study in Uppsala. During this time he will complete his second book, which gives an account of the history of the concept of rhythm. http://www.swedishcollegium.se/subfolders/News/2019/Fellows_2019-20_190618.html

Insurgent Empire shows how Britain’s enslaved and colonial subjects were not merely victims, but also agents whose resistance both contributed to their own liberation and shaped British ideas about freedom and who could be free. Link to more information about ‘Insurgent Empire’.

Helen was awarded the prize, which is for excellence in technology-enabled learning, at the Pilkington Teaching Prizes Awards Ceremony on 25 June 2019. Link to further information about the prize. Link to more information about CamGuides, and the Cambridge Information Literacy Network, of which this is a product.  

In the second year of the University of Cambridge Centre for Creative Writing’s partnership with the BBC we will celebrate the short story through a wide range of events with award-winning authors, publishers, agents and judges. There will be talks, workshops, panel discussions and conversation with authors including Tessa Hadley (in conversation with Dame Gillian […]

The Faculty is collaborating with the Prince’s Teaching Institute (https://www.ptieducation.org/) on an English Enrichment Residential in Cambridge, 29 June-1 July.  Members of the Faculty have been working with the PTI to deliver research-led, academically inspiring CPD to secondary-school teachers for over a decade.  By helping teachers to re-engage with the academic subject they love, the […]