Juliette Bretan writes for The Public Domain Review on Polish artist Witkacy’s chemical forays, including his 1932 book Narcotics, a genre-bending treatise that warns of the hazards of drugs while seductively recollecting their delirious effects. Link to essay: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/document Juliette Bretan is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of English and Newnham College.

Join us to welcome in Poetry Spring on Saturday 30 April at St John’s College, an afternoon of poetry workshops, discussions and readings with British and international poets. All the events are free but places must be booked. Poetry Spring is organised by Mina Gorji (Pembroke College) and Sasha Dugdale (St John’s College) and is funded by St John’s College and […]

350 KS 3 and 4 children from around the country spent the day in Cambridge working with professional writers on composing the story of their lives. Khadijah Ibrahim was MC in Lady Margaret Hall (appearance by Bonnie Lander Johnson and Phil Knox).  The day finished with a showcase of students’ work, read from the big […]

Poetry readings by Verity Spott, David Grundy, Nick Ines Ward, Emma Gomis, Rosa van Hensbergen, Lewis Todd, Louis Klee, Reem Abbas, Paul Norris, Lewis Wynn, and others, in collaboration with Blackbirds Poetry Society. https://www.facebook.com/queensartsfestival/

Saturday 2 April in person talks – GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Road Cambridge 2.00-2.30 The Norsemen and the Natives: Mutual Discovery in Vinland – Elizabeth Rowe 3.00-3.30 Taming the Landscape and Shaping Space: Medieval Irish Naratives of Place – Máire Ní Mhaonaigh 3.30-4.00 Into the Wild: Merlin in the Caledonian Forest – Francesco […]

  We would like to invite you to a roundtable on periodicals of the Arab left and decolonization from the 1950s to the 1980s with scholars Idriss Jebari, Zeina Maasri, Mezna Qato and Hana Morgenstern. A discussion on the critical role of Arab left journals in social, literary and cultural movements, as well as related […]

Philip Knox’s new book has been published in the new Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture series at OUP. The book looks again at fourteenth-century literary history from the perspective of a single text, the thirteenth-century French love allegory and medieval ‘bestseller’, the Romance of the Rose, and thinks about Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and […]

On 23rd March, as part of 2022’s AI UK event, the UK’s national showcase of artificial intelligence and data science research and collaboration, hosted by The Alan Turing Institute, Professor Sarah Dillon will be in conversation with contemporary writer Jeanette Winterson. They will explore Winterson’s new work, 12 Bytes: How Artificial Intelligence Will Change the Way […]