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Prof. Hurley’s new book, ‘Angels and Monotheism’, will be published with CUP in Dec. and is available for pre-order now
While angels have played a decisive role in all the world’s major religions and continue to loom large in the popular religious and creative imagination, modern theology has tended to ignore or trivialize them. The comparatively few scholarly works on angels over the last century have typically interpreted them as mere symbols and metaphors: they […]
Continue ReadingFran Lock gives Dyson lecture, 18th November, Pembroke college
On 18th November, Fran Lock will give the Dyson lecture on R.S. Thomas. This is one of a series of lectures endowed by former Pembroke student A.E. Dyson, literary critic, gay rights campaigner, educational activist and co-founder of the journal Critical Quarterly. The title of her lecture is “A ‘shifting identity/ never your own’ R.S. […]
Continue ReadingPoetry reading with dove/Christine Kirubi + a dance-theater performance of Bhanu Kapil’s ‘How To Wash A Heart’ directed by Blue Pieta, 9 November, Faculty of English
Invitation from Bhanu Kapil What: A poetry reading with dove/Christine Kirubi + a dance-theater performance of Bhanu Kapil’s How To Wash A Heart directed by Blue Pieta. When: Saturday, November 9th at 3 pm. Doors open at 2.45 pm. The event will last an hour, and should be complete by 4.15 pm. Where: Judith E. Wilson Drama […]
Continue ReadingProf. Michael D. Hurley @TrinCollCam and @johnmilbank3 give keynote lectures at the Philosophy and Poetics conference at All Souls College, Oxford, 26 Nov. 2024
All Souls College, Oxford, is hosting an interdisciplinary conference on Philosophy and Poetics on Tuesday 26th November 2024. A range of speakers will give short papers throughout the day, organised into three sessions: the philosophy of poetry; poets as philosophers; poetics through time. There will be extended group discussion time at the end of each […]
Continue ReadingFilm Launch: ‘Beware Blue Skies: The Psychology of Drone Warfare’: Showing at the Imperial War Museum, 7 November 2024-16 March 2025 (free)
The Centre for Drones and Culture (directed by Affiliated Lecturer and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow Dr Beryl Pong) is showing an immersive film installation at the Imperial War Museum in London called Beware Blue Skies, which reflects on the psychology of drone warfare. More on the film can be found here: https://www.centrefordronesandculture.com/beware-blue-skies The launch for the […]
Continue ReadingDr Simon Jackson discusses George Herbert on ‘In Our Time’ – broadcast date, 7 November 2024
Dr Simon Jackson has recorded an episode of ‘In Our Time’, BBC Radio 4’s discussion programme chaired by Melvyn Bragg, on the topic of the seventeenth-century poet and priest George Herbert. The panellists for this episode are: Simon Jackson (Director of Music and Director of Studies, Peterhouse) Helen Wilcox (Professor Emerita, Bangor University, and editor […]
Continue ReadingAmelia Zhou, second-year PhD candidate in the Faculty of English, publishes ‘Repose’ (New York: Wendy’s Subway, 2024)
In her debut book, Amelia Zhou poses the question, “How do I perform or not perform?” Weaving together poems, fiction, and lyric essay, Repose follows an unnamed woman grappling with the limits of the self on the everyday stage of labor and routine, charting her emergent modes of resistance. She is already steps ahead, deftly shifting […]
Continue ReadingDr Hannah Lucas writes on D.W. Winnicott, Julian of Norwich, and the Good-Enough Mother/Mystic for ‘American Imago’
D.W. Winnicott, Julian of Norwich, and the Good-Enough Mother/Mystic By Hannah Lucas American Imago, Volume 81, Number 3, Fall 2024, pp. 401-428 Published by Johns Hopkins University Press: https://doi.org/10.1353/aim.2024.a940329 This new article examines the theological resonances in D. W. Winnicott’s theory of motherhood and infant development, bringing to light possible inheritances from the medieval mystical […]
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