The University Library has just launched an online exhibition called Cambridge Saffron, the product of a year-long project funded by the University’s Research and Collections Programme to investigate evidence of saffron cultivation & use in the libraries & archives of the city, colleges & university. Kasia Boddy & Bonnie Lander Johnson, of the English Faculty, & Alice […]

The symposium, which will take place 21-22 September 2023 at The Paper Foundation in Burneside, Cumbria, will bring together academics in any field who work on paper, with creative writers whose work is inflected by and responds to the materiality of their writing surfaces.  Deadline to apply is Friday 31st March. Full details can be found here. 

TRANSPLANTATIONS: Seeds, Plants and Gardens in the Contemporary Experience of Migration Monday 23 January 4-6pm GR06/07 Ground floor English Faculty 9 West Road Cambridge Jennie Spears from the Lemon Tree Trust https://lemontreetrust.org/about/ and Adam Alexander the ‘Seed Detective’ https://theseeddetective.co.uk/my-book/ talk about their work protecting and propagating the stability of plants and people amid the global turbulence of […]

Jen Pollard, the Faculty of English Computer Officer, won her award in Category 2: Innovating and Improving. The Awards recognise and celebrate the very best work across all professional service areas in the University and the 2022 winners were announced at a ceremony at the Fitzwilliam Museum on 12 December. Link to the list of […]

A feature documentary on art and activism in the suffrage movement by Dr Diarmuid Hester (Emmanuel) has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Dr Hester’s programme focuses on the work of Edith Craig, theatre producer, suffragette, and daughter of Ellen Terry, star of the Victorian stage. He travels to Smallhythe Place, where Craig lived with her […]

Submerged Reliquary of a Kentish Saint: a new essay-film by Sophie Mei Birkin, Eleanor Myerson and Bartek Dziadosz When: 2 December 2022, 6.30pm Venue: Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, 43 Gordon Square The screening will be accompanied by a talk by Professor Robert Mills, author of Derek Jarman’s Medieval Modern (Boydell and Brewer, 2018). Followed by […]

The Paper and Poetry team is delighted to have been granted a Judith Wilson practice-led research grant for Paper and Poetry: Invention Through Craft: a symposium for academics and creative writers who work with paper. The Paper and Poetry team is made up of Orietta Da Rold (professor of medieval literature), Vona Groarke (poet-in-residence at St John’s […]

Bhanu Kapil and Fran Lock will be reading at the Barbican on November 30th, as part of an event curated by the87 press (The Uncollected), to accompany Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics.

Simon Jackson, George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2022) Publishing on 1 December Described by one contemporary as the ‘sweet singer of The Temple’, George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music. Nevertheless, Herbert’s own participation in seventeenth-century musical culture has yet to be examined in detail. This […]