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 […]
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Professor Jenny Richards gives a keynote lecture at ‘Marking Music: The Use of Music Books in Early Modern Europe’ 11 May 2026
Professor Jenny Richards will share the Keynote with Professor Henry Woudhuysen and they will speak about ‘Rhetoric, Reading, and Making Books’. This conference, which takes place at King’s College London, is part of the ongoing project DORMEME: dissemination, ownership, and reading of music in early modern Europe. Link to further information and to register: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/marking-music-the-use-of-music-books-in-early-modern-europe […]
Continue ReadingDr Beryl Pong gives a public lecture at King’s College London, 11 May 2026
The title of Dr Pong’s lecture is “Dronotope: Emerging Technologies and the Politics of Timeline Visualisations”. The event is part of the King’s College London Department of Digital Humanities Research Seminar and is run in co-operation with the Digital Investigations Lab. Dr Pong will talk on critical and creative practices of information design, and on […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Jenny Richards organises a Humanities and STEM Skills/Competencies Workshop, CRASSH, 6 May 2026
The workshop will bring together teachers and researchers from the Humanities and STEM, a range of professionals with an interest in skills and careers, STEM Learning and Skills Builder. Participants will collaborate to provide a more granular perspective on the skills developed by their different disciplines in order to offer a blueprint for future educational […]
Continue ReadingListen to Prof. Hurley @TrinCollCam on marking anniversaries — broadcast this morning on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thought for the Day’
Available on BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0nfns52 Or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7L0S7qOH6YWRiwNYnBsRS5
Continue Reading‘When the Music Fades: Power, Surrender and the Soul Survivor Generation’, a new book about faith, adolescence and spiritual abuse, published April 30th
In response to recent safeguarding investigations into Soul Survivor, a well-respected Anglican youth ministry, When the Music Fades takes a wider look at the culture and practices of charismatic evangelical Christianity in the nineties/noughties. What happens if you tell a bunch of teenagers they’re supposed to be saving the world? What is the impact when […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Anthony Bale gives a guest lecture at Trinity College, Connecticut, 14 April 2026
Professor Anthony Bale gives a guest lecture, ‘The First Witches: The 14th-century English invention of the witch’, on 14 April, at Trinity College, Connecticut, as part of the College’s A. K. Smith Visiting Scholar series. Link to further information: https://www.trincoll.edu/english/department-events/a-k-smith-scholars-series/
Continue ReadingProfessor Anthony Bale gives an invited lecture at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, 11 April 2026
Professor Anthony Bale gives an invited lecture, ‘New news’, at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee on 11 April. Link to further information about the Colloquium: https://www.sewaneemedievalcolloquium.com/
Continue ReadingCfP: ‘Freedom of Conscience in the pre-Enlightenment, 1000-1650’, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, 17 June 2026
Conference organisers: Anthony Stonestreet (Third Year English PhD, Homerton) Rachael Hodgson (Third Year English PhD, Murray Edwards) Deadline for submissions: Thursday 28 May Call for Papers:
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