How do we make theatre in a climate crisis?  Dr Zoë Svendsen talks to Maddy Costa of Exeunt Magazine about developing a climate dramaturgy: a holistic approach to theatre-making that centres artistic practice, treating climate crisis as a context for all aspects of theatre-making. Exeunt is an online magazine for theatre-lovers in the UK and […]

Dr Zoë Svendsen was selected as winner for the d’n (dramaturgs’ network’s) Established Dramaturg Award 2026 by a panel comprised of Robert Awosusi, Sudha Bhuchar, Frey Kwa-Hawking and Réjane Collard-Walker. The d’n is a home for dramaturgs in the UK – and anybody who wants to become one, or work with one. Link to further […]

Professor Pettitt will deliver her lecture on ‘Tennyson’s Garden: Idylls of the King and the Technologization of Nature’ on Thursday 16 July at 11.15am. ‘Tennyson 2026’ is an international conference organised by The Tennyson Society.  The venue is Lincoln Bishop University. Link to the conference programme: https://tennysonsociety.com/tennyson-conference-provisional-programme/

Dr Gabriel Rolfe has won the 2026 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize for his proposal for a book-length essay, Interior Station, described as ‘a genre-bending account of colonial violence and complicity’. The book centers around the 2019 killing of a young Warlpiri man by police in Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal township in the Central Desert Region of Australia. […]

Lord Chris Smith, the Chancellor of the University, writes forcefully in the Telegraph that studying English equips graduates with the human insight, empathy and critical thinking vital to facing the challenges of today. Drawing on his own experience, he calls for renewed commitment to the humanities, warning that their decline risks undermining the very skills […]

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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.