The Old Library at Magdalene College is open on Thursday 6th February 2020 from 11am to 1pm. This is a chance to see the medieval building, with its collection of books dating back to the fifteenth century. There will be a special display, curated by M E J Hughes, on twentieth-century first editions in English […]
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Dr Joe Jarrett publishes ‘Mathematics and Late Elizabethan Drama’ (Palgrave Macmillan)
Dr Jarrett’s book, Mathematics and Late Elizabethan Drama, has just been published with Palgrave Macmillan, in their series of books on Literature, Science and Medicine. It is the first book to examine the influence that sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century mathematical thinking exerted on the writing and production of early modern drama. It examines how the […]
Continue ReadingDr Mina Gorji contributes to ‘John Clare’s Scraping’, BBC Sounds, 12 January 2020.
Dr Mina Gorji contributes to ‘John Clare’s Scraping’, first broadcast on BBC Sounds on Sunday 12 January 2020. For the 200th anniversary of John Clare’s poems, this programme takes a look at the music and songs he gathered. For more information and to listen to the programme go to: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000d6sh
Continue ReadingDr Jennifer Wallace speaks on the keynote Presidential Panel at the MLA convention in Seattle, 10 January 2020
Jennifer Wallace speaks on the keynote Presidential Panel at the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) convention in Seattle on Friday 10th January, on the subject of “Being Human”. https://mla.confex.com/mla/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Session/8184
Continue ReadingJerusalem in Exile: Artist’s Books by Kamal Boullata, 24 January-13 March 2020, West Court Gallery, Jesus College
This exhibition celebrates the life and work of the Jerusalem-born artist Kamal Boullata (1942—2019), and is curated by Claudia Tobin and the artist’s wife, Lily Farhoud. It centres on Boullata’s handmade artist’s books and silk screen prints, which explore the interplay between poetry and image, and convergences of colour and architecture. At the centre of […]
Continue ReadingDr Sarah Dillon and Dr Olivia Belton to present at UNESCO Global Futures Literacy Design Forum, December 2019
On Monday 16th December, Dr Sarah Dillon and postdoctoral researcher Dr Olivia Belton will participate in UNESCO’s first Global Literacy Design Forum at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. The Forum will bring the general public together with leading Futures Literacy practitioners, designers, facilitators, teachers and researchers. The Forum has two primary objectives. One is to prepare […]
Continue ReadingDr Michael Hurley awarded a Visiting Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, for Trinity Term 2021
Dr Michael Hurley, Faculty of English and St Catharine’s College, has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, for Trinity Term 2021. https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/all-souls-college-oxford
Continue ReadingBACK TO THE FUTURE OF AL-ANDALUS: A POETRY READING AND CONVERSATION with PETER COLE, 5pm, Tuesday 12 November, English Faculty
MacArthur-winning poet and translator Peter Cole will read from his work and talk about the hybrid Hebrew poetry of Muslim Spain and its relevance for readers and writers today. Moving between eleventh-century Iberia and today’s Middle East and America, between translations and his own original English poems, Cole will take us into the heart of […]
Continue ReadingJohn Kerrigan gives a talk at Stanford University, 15 November 2019
On 15 November John Kerrigan will give a talk at Stanford University entitled ‘Cambridge and the Slave Trade’. Link to Stanford English News & Events
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