Wednesday 12 June, 5.15pm-7.15pm, Scientiae 2019 Conference, Queen’s University Belfast: ‘Ways of Knowing’ Plenary panel led by Dr Subha Mukherji Anupam Basu (Washington) “Knowledge domains within the Early Modern printed corpus” Sorana Corneanu (Bucharest) “Reason and emotion in Robert Boyle’s moral and natural religious thought” Torrance Kirby (McGill) “A Form of the forms of knowing: […]

The pre-arrival resource for taught Master’s students, CamGuides, was recently announced as a runner-up for the Digital Award for Information Literacy 2019. Link to CamGuides. Link to further information about Digital Award for Information Literacy 2019. CamGuides was written and developed by Helen Murphy (English Faculty Library Manager) with support from the University’s Language Centre. […]

Dr Zoë Svendsen speaks at Ecological Issues and Environmental Problems in Theatre and Performing Arts, an international conference taking place in Bratislava, Slovakia, 4-9 May 2019. Link to conference programme.

Felicity Sheehy, a PhD student in English at King’s College, has been awarded the 2019 Jane Martin Poetry Prize, sponsored by Girton College. The prize was judged by Adam Crothers and Hilary Davies and was open to UK resident poets ages 18-30.  It was established in 2010 in memory of Girton alumna Jane Elizabeth Martin. […]

Dr Laura Wright speaks about ‘Language and London Bridge’ at the Docklands History Group Annual Conference on Saturday 18 May 2019.  The conference looks at ‘The Medieval Port of London’, and takes place at the Museum of London. A link to the conference website and programme.

‘Exuviae: Distributing the Self in Images and Objects’ celebrates the 21st birthday of Alfred Gell’s Art and Agency and takes place at CRASSH, University of Cambridge, from Friday 10 May-Saturday 11 May 2019. The convenors are Dr Jason Scott-Warren and Professor Caroline van Eck. Link to further information and registration.

Dr Michael D. Hurley will be running a postgraduate workshop on the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins with Dr Stephen Tardif (University of Toronto) at the University of St Andrews on Friday 26th April. https://events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/poetry-workshop-reading-gerard-manley-hopkins-sj/

John Kerrigan talks about the representation of migrant experience in contemporary poetry, drama, film and also NGO reports and journalism at a conference On Suffering being held at New York University on 18 and 19 April.

William Blake in Context has just been published by Cambridge University Press.  Its thirty eight essays, written by an international team of scholars, offer new interpretations and detailed analysis of a range of Blake’s work, from song to myth to critical prose and more, including his drawings, engravings, illustrations, paintings, manuscripts, and of course, illuminated […]

Dr Laura Wright is a speaker at ‘Multilingual practices from antiquity to the present day’, a round-table at the University of Oslo, 29-30 April 2019 https://www.hf.uio.no/multiling/english/news-and-events/events/conferences/2019/multilingualism-from-antiquity-to-the-present-day/index.html