Yvonne Salmon FRSA FRGS FRAI hosts a Q&A with renowned producer Jeremy Thomas after a showing of the new film adaptation of J. G. Ballard’s novel High Rise at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse, 6pm on Saturday 12th March. G. Ballard’s dystopian novel about society disintegrating within a giant tower block is brought to the screen […]
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Prof Christopher Page Keynote at International Guitar Research Centre Conference
Professor Christopher Page will be a keynote speaker at the International Guitar Research Centre Conference, University of Surrey, 18 March to 23 March 2016. Some of the most distinguished and highly regarded scholars and musicians from around the world will gather for this major international conference featuring six public concerts, four keynote lectures, and over 50 lecture-recitals and academic papers.
Continue ReadingDr Edward Wilson-Lee: Book reading and Signing at Stanfords Books and Maps
Dr Edward Wilson-Lee is doing a book reading and signing at Stanfords Books and Maps London on Tuesday 15 March from 18.30 to 20.00 for his new book Shakespeare in Swahililand. To celebrate the Ides of March in this Shakespeare anniversary year, Dr Wilson-Lee tells the story of how Julius Caesar started a riot in Uganda in the […]
Continue ReadingDr Marcus Waithe gives Gallery Talk on Ruskin And Craftsmanship
Dr Marcus Waithe gives a Lunchtime Talk on Ruskin and Craftmanship at the Millenium Gallery, Sheffield, on Monday 7 March 2016 at 1pm. Ruskin was a founding father of the Victorian Arts and Crafts movement, and he continues to inspire the makers of today. Dr Waithe’s talk examines Ruskin’s contributions to craftsmanship and the practical contribution […]
Continue ReadingDr Edward Wilson-Lee Publishes New book: Shakespeare in Swahililand
Dr Edward Wilson-Lee’s new book Shakespeare in Swahililand is published on 10 March with HarperCollins. The launch party takes place at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, also on 10 March. Shakespeare in Swahililand is the story of a search across eastern and central Africa to recover the extraordinary and unknown story of the part played by Shakespeare’s works in […]
Continue ReadingDr Ian Patterson Publishes New Book of Poems: Time Dust
Dr Ian Patterson’s new book of poems, Time Dust (Equipage, 2015), is launched with a reading at Heffer’s, Cambridge, on Wednesday 24 February 2016.
Continue ReadingDr Raphael Lyne Publishes New Book: Memory and Intertextuality in Renaissance Literature
Dr Raphael Lyne’s new book Memory and Intertextuality in Renaissance Literature is published in February 2016 (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Using ideas from cognitive science this work sets up some new ways of thinking about how poems remember one another, but keeps coming back to the idea that the poems and plays are themselves essays and […]
Continue ReadingDr Edward Wilson-Lee at Bath Festival of Literature
Dr Edward Wilson-Lee speaks to author and broadcaster Jenni Mills about his new book Shakespeare in Swahililand at the Independent Bath Festival of Literature on Thursday 3 March, from 4.30 to 5.30. Shakespeare in Swahililand, published on 10 March with HarperCollins, is the story of a search across eastern and central Africa to recover the extraordinary and unknown story of the […]
Continue ReadingProfessor John Kerrigan Publishes New Book: ‘Shakespeare’s Binding Language’
Professor John Kerrigan’s new book Shakespeare’s Binding Language will be published this month with Oxford University Press. The work, a state-of-the-art intervention into Shakespeare studies, offers a transformative account of a large number of Shakespeare’s plays. Making interdisciplinary use of historical, legal, and religious sources, Shakespeare’s Binding Language engages with new ideas about performance and ‘performativity’. “a massive, complicated and brilliant interpretation […]
Continue ReadingDr Ian Patterson Plenary Lecture at Obscure Modernism Conference
Dr Ian Patterson gives the plenary lecture at the Obscure Modernism Conference, School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, Saturday 27 February. This one-day conference explores modernism, its practitioners and cultural products, under the aspect of their obscurity, understood in a variety of ways.
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