Dr Michael D. Hurley gives a lecture on ‘Wrestling with Hopkins’ at the Gerard Manley Hopkins Literature Festival, to be held at Stonyhurst College on 10th November.

Dr Orietta da Rold delivers a Plenary Lecture entitled ‘From Pulp to Fictions: The Role of Paper Before Print’ at ‘Working with Archives’, AHRC Archives and Writing Lives Project and Quadrivium UK, University of Glasgow, 10 November 2018.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/season-for-change-cop24-industry-briefing-tickets-50219455744?platform=hootsuite COP24 is the informal name for the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and will take place from 3-14 December 2018, in Katowice, Poland.  

Free talks on Virginia Woolf and her Contemporaries, hosted by Literature Cambridge and Lucy Cavendish College. 30 October 2018, 1.00 pm: Clara Jones will talk on Woolf’s lost sketches from 1931. Town and Gown all welcome. https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/virginia-woolf-talks/ *

Trudi Tate and Isobel Maddison organised an all-day reading of Woolf’s 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse, Sunday 14 October 2018. Another all-day reading is planned for October 2019: probably of The Waves (1931). https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/vw-past-talks  

Dr Kasia Boddy interviews Olga Tokarczuc, winner of the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for Literature, as part of the Cambridge Literary Festival, 6.30pm, Wednesday 17 October, Heffers Bookshop.

POETRY READING featuring JOHN BALABAN and SARAH HOWE 5.30 to 7pm on Weds 24th October in the Thomas Gray Room, Pembroke College Open to all. Free of charge. Free wine. Poet Bios JOHN BALABAN <http://www.johnbalaban.com/> is the author of twelve books of poetry and prose, including four volumes which together have won The Academy of […]

What does the fictional chapter do? Why do novels have them and how have they changed? This talk will propose the chapter — among the most innocuous and pervasive of the novel’s formal features — as a new object of analysis, and offer suggestions on what methods are appropriate in order to approach a phenomenon so ubiquitous and so […]

Dr Michael D. Hurley is giving a keynote lecture on ‘The Fate of Angels in the Nineteenth Century’ at a conference on ‘Word and Mystery’ in Santiago, Chile (18-19th October). The conference is hosted at the Universidad de los Andes, organized by: Institute of Literature de los Andes; the Faculty of Philology of the Universität […]

Dr Sophie Seita has been commissioned to make a new performance piece in response to a research project in Sociology and an exhibition at Murray Edwards on reproductive technologies and reproductive labour. Her piece Transpositions will reflect on the concept and choreography of transposition, queer kinship, corn as a queer plant, ritual, the ritornello, and the cross-pollinating possibilities of […]