The School of Arts and Humanities is hosting a Humanities Exploration Day for high-performing Year 12 students on the 4th December 2023. The aim is to give students the opportunity to experience university-level teaching in a range of humanities subjects, to enrich their current studies and to help them decide which subject might be the […]

An interdisciplinary reading group exploring form, genre, and mode, meeting fortnightly during term time from 5th week of Michaelmas (8th November and 22nd November this term), at 5:30pm, Gonville & Caius College. Please contact ccpf2@cam.ac.uk and fgg23@cam.ac.uk for more information.

From Sniper to Smartphone: Hybrid Warfare and the New Face of Conflict   18 November 2023 2-6pm Imperial War Museum (London) Beryl Pong is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the Centre for the Future of Intelligence, and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of English, at the University of Cambridge.  As part of her […]

Kasia Boddy, Bonnie Lander Johnson and Claudia Tobin have been awarded an IAA (AHRC) grant to share their research on sanctuary gardens with public audiences in London and Cambridge. Events include talks about the history and literature of sanctuary, writing workshops in Sue Stuart-Smith’s sanctuary garden, an exhibition at the Garden Museum London and a […]

Katrin Ettenhuber’s new book is the first major study of the role of logic in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature.  It explores how major authors of the period, including Shakespeare, Milton, Donne, Spenser, and Sidney, conceived of the arts of thinking and argument, and how they creatively appropriated and transformed logical concepts and ideas in […]

Olivia Krauze has co-translated and co-directed Jean-Luc Lagarce’s 1994 play J’étais dans ma maison et j’attendais que la pluie vienne (I was in the house and I was waiting for the rain to come) for what will be its UK English-language premiere at the Corpus Playroom, Cambridge, 31st October-4th November. The project combines translation, movement, and original […]

What is a dramaturg? What is dramaturgy? What are the political implications for the way that plays produce meaning in performance? Over the last decade, the role of the dramaturg has become more common in the theatrical process, but it is still a new term for many theatre-goers. Theatre & Dramaturgy offers a working definition […]

Studying English at Cambridge The Faculty of English is holding two online study evenings on Wednesday 8th and Wednesday 15th November 2023. The events are aimed at A Level, IB or Scottish Higher English Literature students who may be considering studying English at university. If you are in Year 11 and thinking about taking English […]

This event will celebrate the publication of Baroque Latinity: Studies in the Neo-Latin Literature of the European Baroque, ed. Jacqueline Glomski, Gesine Manuwald and Andrew Taylor (London: Bloomsbury, 2023), an essay collection marking the culmination of an AHRC-funded project based at UCL. Booking for the free event at: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/events/2023/nov/ias-book-launch-hybrid-baroque-latinity