Founded in 1844, Hillsdale College is a small, Christian, classical liberal arts college in southern Michigan. In honour of the 2019 completion of “Christ Chapel” on the College quad, the Drummond Lecture Series was endowed to offer lectures that touch in significant ways on matters of faith and learning, or issues of the day related […]

Dr. Hannah Lucas, Newby Trust Research Fellow at Newnham College, was recently interviewed for the Hermitix podcast about her new book, Impossible Recovery: Julian of Norwich and the Phenomenology of Well-Being (Columbia University Press, 2025). You can listen to the episode on Spotify or via YouTube.

Dr Beryl Pong was on the ‘Conflicts of Interest’ podcast speaking about how art helps to convey the psychological experience of war in the 20th and 21st centuries at the Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries in the Imperial War Museum. The other podcast guests were the Actor and Chancellor of University of Sussex, Sanjeev […]

In the wake of Simon & Schuster US’s decision to downgrade book blurbs, Professor Wilson contributed a few words about the history of the book blurb to a piece in The Economist (paywalled) and had a longer conversation on the subject with David Marr on Late Night Live, ABC Radio (Australia), which can be heard […]

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The lecture will begin at 7.30pm in the Aula at Blackfriars, and will be followed by refreshments. All are welcome. For further details, see here.  

Dr. Hannah Lucas, Newby Trust Research Fellow at Newnham College, has been awarded a prestigious Research Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The AvH Foundation funds outstanding postdoctoral researchers from around the world to conduct research at any academic institution in Germany. Dr. Lucas will take up the Fellowship from October 2025, jointly affiliated […]

Eva Dema has been awarded a Junior Fellowship in the Harvard Society of Fellows. Supported by this three-year research award (2025-28), she will aim to publish her doctoral thesis as a monograph, before starting work on a new research project. While her thesis constitutes the first book-length study of Thomas Hardy’s poetry manuscripts, her second […]