June 29th, 6.15pm at Arts Picturehouse: Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War. Special Screening followed by Q&A with director Margy Kinmonth and Robert Macfarlane. Co-produced by David Trotter, the film concerns the life and art of the great landscape painter Eric Ravilious, one of only three British war artists to be killed on active service during […]
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Professor Subha Mukherji wins a Global Humanities Initiative Award
Subha Mukherji wins a Global Humanities Initiative Award (with Martin Crowley, MML), to start a collaborative teaching and research programme on Migrant Ecologies with Ashoka University, New Delhi, September 2022. Link to Global Humanities Mobility Scheme webpage for further information: https://globalhumanities.org/mobility-scheme/
Continue ReadingProfessor Subha Mukherji gives an invited talk at the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities 24th Annual Conference, June 2022
Subha Mukherji gives an invited talk on ‘The poetics of hypokrisis and the ethics of emotion in early modern theatres of law’, at the Annual conference of the Association for Law, Culture and the Humanities, at Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia. Link to conference website: https://lawculturehumanities.com/event/2022-conference/
Continue ReadingPop-up poetry reading event in honour of Judith E Wilson Poetry Fellow, Jeanne Heuving. Wednesday 8th June, 5-7pm. All welcome.
Pop up Judith E Wilson Poetry Event! Come and join a pop-up poetry reading event in honour of this year’s Judith E Wilson Poetry Fellow, Jeanne Heuving. Wednesday 8th June, 5 pm. – 7 pm. SR24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge. All welcome. Jeanne Heuving will read from her work, along with readings […]
Continue ReadingJill Damatac gives a paper at ‘Rethinking Resistance’, University of Oxford, 23-24 June 2022
Jill Damatac will be giving a paper at ‘Rethinking Resistance’, an Interdisciplinary Conference organised by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). The title of the paper is ‘Queered, Feminised Resistance in Contemporary Filipino American literatures’. Jill Damatac is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of English and Selwyn College. Link to further information […]
Continue ReadingRegistration open for ‘Saffron: global history, Cambridge stories’, an interdisciplinary symposium, Saturday 11 June
SAFFRON GLOBAL HISTORY, CAMBRIDGE STORIES 11 June 2022, 9.30am-5.15pm Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road Convenors Kasia Boddy Bonnie Lander Johnson Alice Wickenden This interdisciplinary symposium seeks to explore the history of saffron cultivation and use – both globally and more locally. It is very unusual for a crop that flourishes in Crete, Kashmir and […]
Continue ReadingBooking is now open for the Cambridge Hybrid Open Days (Thursday 7 and Friday 8 July)
The Faculty of English will be taking part in the University of Cambridge Hybrid Open Days on Thursday 7 July and Friday 8 July 2022. The hybrid approach offers prospective applicants the chance to visit the University of Cambridge in person if they wish to, alongside offering webinars, events and videos for students to learn […]
Continue ReadingREF 2021 RESULTS PUBLISHED
The outstanding research produced by members of the Faculty has been recognised in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) results, published today (12th May). The REF is the system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions. The Faculty submitted samples of the work of 108 colleagues, at all career stages across […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Michael D. Hurley @TrinCollCam lectures on G. M. Hopkins, Sunday 8th May, St Mary’s Church, Hampstead
The lecture will be given in person but can also be watched by livestream. To book a place and for further details, see: https://www.stmaryshampstead.com/blog/2022/4/14/talk-at-st-marys-hampstead-8-may-4-5pm
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