A Poetry Reading by Karen Sandhu & Mina Gorji Monday, 25/02/19 Queens’ College, Erasmus Room, 8pm Organised by Andrew Zurcher and Sophie Seita Karen Sandhu is a poet and book artist. She is currently completing her PhD in contemporary poetry and artists’ books at Royal Holloway, where she was awarded a College Studentship. Her poetry […]

RE-ORIENTATING E. M. FORSTER Texts, Contexts, Receptions An international anniversary conference Cambridge, Thursday 2 to Saturday 4 April 2020 Confirmed speakers: Paul Armstrong (Brown), Stefan Collini (Cambridge), Santanu Das (Oxford), Leela Gandhi (Brown), Jane Goldman (Glasgow), Stefania Michelucci (Genoa), Rachel Potter (East Anglia), and David Trotter (Cambridge). E. M. Forster, one of the major British […]

Dr Jenny Wallace gives the opening keynote lecture at the “Art and the Archaeological Imagination” conference, held jointly by the Aberystwyth University School of Art and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, on February 27th and 28th. The title of Dr Wallace’s lecture is “Beachy Head, Romantic Barrows and the […]

Dr Sophie Seita is the recipient of an AHIF (Arts and Humanities Impact Fund) Award for a solo exhibition of her ongoing performance project My Little Enlightenment Plays. The multimedia exhibition will include text, performance props, costumes, videos, sound pieces, and photographs, and will be presented in London in the summer/autumn of 2019.  

Trudi Tate of Clare Hall gives a talk on ‘Women and Children, Love and Loss in To the Lighthouse. Presented by Literature Cambridge and Lucy Cavendish College. Tuesday 12 February 2019, 1.00 pm. You can get lunch in the college dining hall at 12.30, if you wish. Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge CB3 0BU. Free and […]

Dr Leo Mellor gave a response to Professor Glyn Salton-Cox’s lecture on “Scabs and Radicals: Toward a Cultural Morphology of the Lumpenproletariat” at the University of Freiburg on 5 February 2019. This is part of Dr Mellor’s ongoing project on ‘the long 1930s’. https://www.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de/data/events/guest-lecture-prof.-glyn-salton-cox-uc-santa-barbara-201cscabs-and-radicals-toward-a-cultural-morphology-of-the-lumpenproletariat201d

On Saturday 16 February the Faculty of English hosts ‘TRASH! Waste and Excess in Queer Cultures’, an interdisciplinary symposium exploring waste and excess in LGBTQ+ life and culture. Featuring contributions by leading scholars of literature, film, art history, and performance, it celebrates queer cultures’ remarkable, inventive employment of waste and garbage as artistic materials and […]

Ananya Mishra, a third year PhD candidate working on comparative indigenous literatures, has collaborated with Danika Parikh and Akshyeta Suryanarayan, graduate students in the Department of Archaeology,  to initiate ‘Untold Histories Museum Tours’ at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge. These tours look into the difficult histories of how objects came to be in […]

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Film Screening: ‘Now Circa (1918)’ directed by Redell Olsen February 8th, 2019, 5.00 pm. McCrum Theatre, off Benet Street, Cambridge (behind the Eagle pub) ‘Now Circa (1918)’ was written and directed by Redell Olsen, produced by Drew Milne, and starring Catherine Lord, Caitlin Doherty, Saskia West, and Sophie Gilmartin. The screening […]

Dr Diarmuid Hester (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) will give a lecture for Cambridge Queer History Month on 4th February 2019 called, ‘”Nothing Ever Just Disappears”: Innovative Queer Writing in America in the 1980s’. It’s free and takes place in the Howard Theatre, Downing College at 6pm. More information available here: https://www.facebook.com/events/135620190712146/ The event is organised […]