Thursday 22 April 2021, 17:00-18:30 and Friday 30 April 2021, 11:00-12:30, 14:00-15:30 Creative critical approaches are having a growing impact on how we do research in the humanities – from practice-based work in art, drama and performance, to creative writing, visible and interventionist modes of translation and annotation, autoethnography and experimental ways of curating archival […]

Please join us for the first spring meeting of the Centre for John Clare Studies Tuesday, 13th April, 1-2pm. Poet and former Fenland Poet Laureate Kate Caoimhe Arthur will read poems and discuss how John Clare’s vision of landscape has inspired her work with Fine Art Print Maker Iona Howard. Kate Caoimhe Arthur is from […]

On a podcast hosted by the Jesuit Collections https://www.jesuitcollections.org.uk, Dr Hurley (University of Cambridge), Dr Lamb (University of St Andrews), and Dr Graffius (Curator of the Museum, Library, and Archives at Stonyhurst) explore Hopkins’s life, the literary and theological richness of his poetry, and some of the ways in which his religious, scientific, and creative […]

The early modern period witnessed a unique and rapid epistemological expansion as the world was ‘discovered’, colonised and conceptualised. Literature became a portal for experiencing this ever-expanding world and wondering at it. Our conference brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on the worlds and wonders being written before 1750. We will be joined by our keynote speaker, […]

This is one of a series of case studies compiled and published by SMA as part of ‘Communicating Archaeology: case studies on the use of and engagement with archaeological collections’. Link to SMA website for further information.

Link to the Spring 2021 issue of 9 West Road.  

Sarah Jilani is a British-Turkish researcher and culture journalist who has studied films, fiction and art looking at subjectivity and decolonisation in post-independence (1950s-80s) Africa and South Asia. Her academic research has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Literature/Film Quarterly, Women: A Cultural Review and Life Writing, while her freelance writing […]

Barrie Cooke’s archive is a treasure trove of previously unseen poems, personal letters and literary papers written by Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and other writers, as well as electrifying drawings and paintings by Cooke, inspired by his friends.  The archive was acquired by Pembroke College, Cambridge. Link to the podcast.  

Draw from Within was one of the earliest new dance pieces created during the Covid-19 pandemic. It was a hugely ambitious work to create technically as it was conceived to be performed and consumed as a live stream globally. So rather than performing “in front of” cameras Rambert Dancers performed with cameras “within” the production, […]