Dr Trudi Tate, Clare Hall, Director of Literature Cambridge, presents a study day on Virginia Woolf: Reading to The Lighthouse. With lectures by Professor Dame Gillian Beer, Professor Frances Spalding, and Dr Trudi Tate. Twenty-four people are booked for a day’s immersion in Woolf’s much-loved novel of art, yearning, and loss. Stapleford Granary, Saturday 17 […]

Michael J Sullivan, PhD candidate and former Harvard Visiting Fellow, publishes in Essays in Criticism:  http://eic.oxfordjournals.org/content/66/4/431.full.pdf+html The article, entitled ‘Tennyson and The Golden Treasury’, examines Tennyson’s involvement in the most significant anthology of the nineteenth century.

Join a conversation with authors Joe Moshenska and Edward Wilson-Lee, whose recently published books – Moshenska’s A Stain in the Blood and Wilson-Lee’s Shakespeare in Swahililand – are centrally concerned with the relationship between the voyages we make and the reading that accompanies us.  Saturday 29 October: 2:30-4pm Sidney Sussex College, Sidney Street, CB2 3HU.  […]

On 13 October 2016, New Generation Thinker Dr Joe Moshenska  appears on Radio 3 Free Thinking to review ‘Beyond Caravaggio’, the new exhibition on Caravaggio’s influence. ‘Beyond Caravaggio’ runs at The National Gallery, 12 October 2016 To 15 January 2017. The New Generation Thinkers scheme is run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and […]

Dr Robert Macfarlane curates ‘Conservation and Imagination’, an exhibition in the David Attenborough Building, the university’s new centre for biodiversity conservation, running from September 22nd 2016 until the end of January, open to visitors.

Dr Jennifer Wallace (English) and Dr Emily Kneebone (Classics) are organising a day-long symposium to accompany the production of the Cambridge Greek Play double bill of Antigone and Lysistrata at the Arts Theatre. The symposium brings together Classicists, philosophers, literary and cultural critics, theatre directors and actors to discuss tragedy, comedy, politics and revolution and […]

The Alchemical Landscape project has been awarded CRASSH Research Group status for the academic year 2016/2017.  As part of a series of seminars across Michaelmas, Lent and Easter terms, on Tuesday 18 October, James Mackay (film producer) gives a talk entitled ‘Jarman and Cocteau: A Shared Vision’  (5pm, Seminar room S2, 2nd Floor, Alison Richard […]

Following a sold out and extended run at the Young Vic in 2015, World Factory shines a light on ‘Made in China’ as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas. World Factory is at Cambridge Junction from 18-21 October and then moves to Brighton and Manchester. Considering that adults make approximately 35,000 decisions per day, […]

This October, the Faculty of English hosts a series of events with American Writers: Tuesday 4 October – English Faculty, Room G-R04, 4.30pm: Mark Greif, editor of n+1 and author of ‘In The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973’, will discuss his new book ‘Against Everything’.  (Sponsored by American […]

Dr Orietta da Rold posts a new blog, Paper as Commodity in Medieval Magical and Medical Practices, as part of ‘The Recipes Project: Food, Magic, Art, Science and Medicine’. ‘The Recipes Project’  is an international group of scholars interested in the history of recipes, ranging from magical charms to veterinary remedies. Old recipes can tell […]