Anchorless Bodies: Emii Alrai in conversation with E.K. Myerson

Join the artist Emii Alrai and curator E.K. Myerson to discuss their collaboration and the themes of the current exhibition Anchorless Bodies: Navigating Arabic in Medieval Manuscripts. Friday 25 August, 6pm Wilkins Room, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Expect discussion of ancient rot, museum practices, excavation, disintegration and the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony. The talk […]

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Eva Dema awarded the Paroissien Prize by the Dickens Society

Eva Dema has been awarded the David Paroissien Prize by the Dickens Society for her article ”’Wind, Wind, Wind, Always Winding Am I’: Dickens’s Metafictional Clockwork”. The prize is awarded each year to the best peer-reviewed essay on Dickens published in a journal or edited collection. You can find the article here: https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgab094.

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Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson had lunch with the Queen as part of a reception for the First Story charity, July 2023

Queen Camilla is Patron of First Story, a charity Dr Lander Johnson partners with to bring 400 secondary school students to Cambridge for an annual festival of writing. You can read more about this year’s festival here: https://firststory.org.uk/festival/ The event took place at Clarence House, to celebrate the 15th birthday of First Story. Guests had lunch and […]

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Claudia Tobin speaks at Parham House

Garden Sanctuaries Ahead of her exhibition on garden sanctuaries to be held at the Garden Museum in 2024, Claudia Tobin has been invited to speak at the 2023 Garden Museum Literary Festival held at Parham House, West Sussex. The festival is Britain’s only travelling Literary Festival, with previous hosts including Chatsworth House (2022), Helmingham Hall (2021), […]

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Claudia Tobin awarded funding from Calliope Arts

‘Scoring Suffrage’ Claudia Tobin has been awarded funding from Calliope Arts to support the development of a research project and lecture-performance in collaboration with the award-winning violinist Ruth Palmer and Il Palmerino Cultural Association, Florence. Claudia and Ruth set out to uncover the musical sisterhood underscoring a network of European women artists, activists, and composers who took […]

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