Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of ‘Articulating Media: Genealogy, Interface, Situation’, edited by James Gabrillo and Nathaniel Zetter, with one of the chapters written by Caroline Bassett. Nathaniel Zetter is a College Teaching Associate in English at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. Caroline Bassett is Professor of Digital Humanities in the […]

The Fitzwilliam Museum’s new exhibition ‘Islanders: the making of the Mediterranean’ has received critical acclaim, thanks in part to the resources funded by Cambridge Digital Humanities. CDH provided a Digitisation Award to bring archival material –  notebooks, plans, and photographs that document archaeology at Knossos from the 1930s to the 1950s – from the British School at […]

The Cambridge University Herbarium is one of the most diverse and historic natural sciences collections held by the University of Cambridge. Professor Boddy was one of a panel of experts from the arts and sciences contributing to a series of talks, presentations and discussions with audience participation that aimed to bring the diverse histories embodied […]

Louise Joy and Jessica Lim publish Women’s Literary Education, 1690–1850 (Edinburgh University Press), an edited volume containing essays by English faculty colleagues including Jennifer Wallace, Rebecca Anne Barr and Jonathan Padley. The book brings together leading critical voices from a range of disciplines to examine the complex and significant ways in which female literary artists […]

In passus B.XVI, the narrator of Piers Plowman is shown an allegorical tree to teach him what ‘charite is to mene’, yet despite the ‘Tree of Charity’ label which follows this passage in critical literature, in the B-text Langland never actually calls the tree itself ‘charity’ but rather ‘patience’. Conor McKee’s article looks at the […]

Prof. Subha Mukherji launches the collaborative project, Migrant Ecologies, with Martin Crowley (MML, Cambridge), Jonathan Gil Harris (Ashoka University) and Sumana Roy (Ashoka University), at Ashoka University, Delhi (India), from the 20th of March to the 4th of April. She gives a talk on ‘Migrant Forms’ at the opening symposium, ‘Migrant Ecologies’. This project is supported […]

‘WILD: forms of resistance’, StAnza 2023, takes place from 9-12 March, in St Andrews, live and online. Dr Gorji speaks about wildness on Friday 10 March:  https://stanzapoetry.org/events/breakfast-at-the-poetry-cafe-wild/ and reads poems on Sunday 12 March: https://byretheatre.com/shows/stanza-23-reading-mina-gorji-and-tim-cresswell/

The National University of Ireland honorary degree conferring ceremony took place on Tuesday 7 March 2023. Professor Clair Wills was awarded an Honorary Degree for her exceptional contribution to scholarship in the area of Irish Studies, cultural history, and Irish Literature. Link to the citation by Anne Enright, published in the Irish Times: Clair Wills: […]

Link to the recording, which is currently available on BBC Sounds: Poetry Please – Bhanu Kapil – BBC Sounds

On March 6, Bhanu Kapil gives a reading from a forthcoming book, Incubation: a space for monsters, for Bangor University. Link to further details about this event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bhanu-kapil-reading-and-discussion-tickets-560340121387