Eva Dema has been awarded the David Paroissien Prize by the Dickens Society for her article ”’Wind, Wind, Wind, Always Winding Am I’: Dickens’s Metafictional Clockwork”. The prize is awarded each year to the best peer-reviewed essay on Dickens published in a journal or edited collection. You can find the article here: https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgab094.

Queen Camilla is Patron of First Story, a charity Dr Lander Johnson partners with to bring 400 secondary school students to Cambridge for an annual festival of writing. You can read more about this year’s festival here: https://firststory.org.uk/festival/ The event took place at Clarence House, to celebrate the 15th birthday of First Story. Guests had lunch and […]

Taking its title from a poem by Elizabeth Bishop, the podcast follows hosts Dr Diarmuid Hester (Emmanuel) and renowned ‘dandy’ drag king Holly James Johnston, as they tour the south-east coast of England from Margate to Hastings. Along the way, they visit the homes of iconic figures such as Derek Jarman, Vita Sackville-West, and Henry […]

Nicolette Zeeman has been awarded the 2019-20 Anne Middleton Book Prize of the International Piers Plowman Society, for her Arts of Disruption. Allegory and Piers Plowman (Oxford University Press, 2020). See: https://piersplowman.org/2019-2020-anne-middleton-book-prize/

Garden Sanctuaries Ahead of her exhibition on garden sanctuaries to be held at the Garden Museum in 2024, Claudia Tobin has been invited to speak at the 2023 Garden Museum Literary Festival held at Parham House, West Sussex. The festival is Britain’s only travelling Literary Festival, with previous hosts including Chatsworth House (2022), Helmingham Hall (2021), […]

‘Scoring Suffrage’ Claudia Tobin has been awarded funding from Calliope Arts to support the development of a research project and lecture-performance in collaboration with the award-winning violinist Ruth Palmer and Il Palmerino Cultural Association, Florence. Claudia and Ruth set out to uncover the musical sisterhood underscoring a network of European women artists, activists, and composers who took […]

Virtually Everything: an online event at the Folger Shakespeare Library Michael Witmore, Director of the Folger, in conversation with Subha Mukherji, 8.30 pm GMT (new time), Wednesday 7 June: Scholarship and the Humanities: Shakespeare as a Doorway to the Humanities​ https://crossroads-spacesofknowing.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk

Booking is open for Department of Anglo–Saxon, Norse & Celtic, Annual ASNC The Anglo–Saxon, Norse and Celtic Tripos is concerned with the history, languages,literature and material culture of the British Isles, Ireland and Scandinavia in the earlymedieval period. It is a wide–ranging course, which is likely to appeal to anyone with aninterest in medieval history, languages, […]

Cambridge University Library is excited to announce the launch of the University Library Research Institute (ULRI). Through innovation and partnerships, the Research Institute will collaborate with institutions locally, nationally and internationally to set the agenda for collections-led research, generating opportunities across and beyond disciplines.

Avani Tandon Vieira (4th year PhD student) and Lauryn Anderson (2nd Year PhD student) have organised, along with their colleague Anna Corrigan in the Centre for Latin America Studies, the one day hybrid conference ‘activist/aesthetics’, to take place online and in Cambridge on June 2. The conference, which will bring together scholars, artists, practitioners and activists to reflect on the ‘aesthetic’ […]