Professor James Raven has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Link to the British Academy website.    

Literary Magazines and Communities: From the Anti-Colonial to the Avant-Garde A conversation between Hana Morgenstern and Sophie Seita to celebrate the launch of Sophie Seita’s Provisional Avant-Gardes: Little Magazine Communities from Dada to Digital (Stanford University Press, 2019). Followed by a drinks reception. Sophie Seita is an artist and academic whose practice spans text- and […]

A ‘Crossroads of Knowledge’ event at Kettle’s Yard and Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge. Programme and further details for booking to be announced shortly. Link to Crossroads of Knowledge website.

Dr Jennifer Wallace was the subject of an interview feature in ‘Kathimerini’,  the main Greek newspaper, as part of their regular series ‘Lunch with Kathimerini’. Link to the article. An English translation of this interview has also been published by ‘Kathimerini’ and it has been syndicated in the ‘New York Times International Edition’. Link to […]

Dr Laura Davies (King’s College) is running a two-day public event on death and literature at Cambridge Central Library, Friday 19 July-Saturday 20 July.   The event, which includes workshops, activities, archaeology, is part of What is a good death?, a research and public impact project at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, bringing past […]

Critical Indigenous studies can neither be perceived as niche, nor trivialized as topical. In the way climate-capitalism has become an existential threat, a sincere engagement with Indigenous knowledges has become ineluctable. This conference seeks to initiate a multidisciplinary conversation on climate change, as conceived by, and re-inscribed within, Indigenous literatures. So far within the small […]

LIVE PERFORMANCE Sophie Seita performs Les Bijoux Indiscrets, or, Paper Tigers 4.30pm Sat 6 Jul, SPACE Mare St with: Emma Attwood, Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain, Simone Kearney, Erin Robinsong, Jocelyn Spaar, and Naomi Woo In her closing performance, artist Sophie Seita explores a whimsical and magical world of female friendship and immodesty, where jewels sing and books talk […]

Jamie Fenton has been awarded a place on the AHRC International Placement Scheme, which will allow him to spend four months as a researcher at the Library of Congress from January 2020. The International Placement Scheme (IPS) is an annual programme providing Research Fellowships to AHRC/ESRC-funded doctoral students, early career researchers and doctoral-level research assistants. […]

Ewan Jones has been awarded a Riksbankens Jubileumsfond fellowship, which will permit him to spend the academic year 2019/2020 at the School of Advanced Study in Uppsala. During this time he will complete his second book, which gives an account of the history of the concept of rhythm. http://www.swedishcollegium.se/subfolders/News/2019/Fellows_2019-20_190618.html

Insurgent Empire shows how Britain’s enslaved and colonial subjects were not merely victims, but also agents whose resistance both contributed to their own liberation and shaped British ideas about freedom and who could be free. Link to more information about ‘Insurgent Empire’.