Nicolette Zeeman has been awarded the 2019-20 Anne Middleton Book Prize of the International Piers Plowman Society, for her Arts of Disruption. Allegory and Piers Plowman (Oxford University Press, 2020). See: https://piersplowman.org/2019-2020-anne-middleton-book-prize/

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), […]

‘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 […]

Virtually Everything: an online event at the Folger Shakespeare Library Michael Witmore, Director of the Folger, in conversation with Subha Mukherji, 8.30 pm GMT (new time), Wednesday 7 June: Scholarship and the Humanities: Shakespeare as a Doorway to the Humanities​ https://crossroads-spacesofknowing.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk

Booking is open for Department of Anglo–Saxon, Norse & Celtic, Annual ASNC The Anglo–Saxon, Norse and Celtic Tripos is concerned with the history, languages,literature and material culture of the British Isles, Ireland and Scandinavia in the earlymedieval period. It is a wide–ranging course, which is likely to appeal to anyone with aninterest in medieval history, languages, […]

Cambridge University Library is excited to announce the launch of the University Library Research Institute (ULRI). Through innovation and partnerships, the Research Institute will collaborate with institutions locally, nationally and internationally to set the agenda for collections-led research, generating opportunities across and beyond disciplines.

Avani Tandon Vieira (4th year PhD student) and Lauryn Anderson (2nd Year PhD student) have organised, along with their colleague Anna Corrigan in the Centre for Latin America Studies, the one day hybrid conference ‘activist/aesthetics’, to take place online and in Cambridge on June 2. The conference, which will bring together scholars, artists, practitioners and activists to reflect on the ‘aesthetic’ […]

Symposium, Homerton College, 9-11 June 2023. Free (via EventBrite; link below)   ‘Overcoming Class Barriers at Cambridge’   This symposium aims to draw focus onto the experiences of students and academics from non-traditional, and in particular working-class, social backgrounds. Definitions of this are fluid, but would commonly include being first-generation, state-educated, and perhaps from schools/communities […]

FOUR CUT SUNFLOWERS AT CORPUS PLAYROOM    https://www.adctheatre.com/sunflowers  15th and 17th June 2023, 9:30pm Preview shows for the Official Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club Edinburgh Fringe Play 2023 Four Cut Sunflowers:  Van Gogh, stock image ‘ When light and dark converge, it is an act of creation…’.  It’s the mid-19th century and Europe is being transformed by […]

Dr Leo Mellor will speak at the University of Regensburg on June 7th on: ‘The Apocalyptic Pastoral: the significance of Richard Jefferies’ After London; or Wild England (1885). The lecture traces a strand of British literature and art in the twentieth-century, one which used the visionary nature of Jefferies’ thought experiment and imagined other cities […]