Professor Steve Connor joins Melvyn Bragg on ‘In Our Time‘ to discuss George Orwell.  This programme is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on  29 September at 9am and 9.30pm.

Peter de Bolla is in conversation with Jon Levi, author of ‘Septimania‘, at Waterstones in Cambridge on September 26th, 7.00 pm – 8.30 pm.

Dr Marcus Waithe organises ‘Craftsmanship To-Day: A Symposium on Modern Making‘ at the Art Workers’ Guild .  Sponsored by The Guild of St George, a charity for arts, crafts and the rural economy originally founded by John Ruskin in 1871, this event takes place on 24th September.

Dr Marcus Waithe gave an invited plenary lecture entitled ‘Ruskin and Craftsmanship’ on 19th August 2016 at a ‘Craft Symposium‘ hosted by the Falkland Centre for Stewardship, Falkland Estate, Fife, Scotland.

Dr Ian Patterson is one of two judges for this year’s Scott Moncrieff Prize for translations from the French.  The other judge is the author Michèle Roberts. Established in 1965, and named after the celebrated translator of Proust’s À la Recherche du Temps Perdu, the prize is sponsored by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni and […]

Dr James Wade (Cambridge) and Professor Elizabeth Archibald (Durham) organise a conference on medieval romance.  This conference, with a plenary address by Professor Helen Cooper, takes place in the Faculty on September 14th and 15th.

Nicolette Zeeman gives a plenary entitled ‘Theory Transposed: Chivalric Images and Idols’ at the Fifth Biennial Conference of the Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies in Zurich, 9-11th September 2016.

Ideas about numbers, magnitudes and frequencies shape and give texture to almost everything we feel, say, dream and do. In his new book Living by Numbers, published by Reaktion Books, Steven Connor explores the many ways in which we live in, and by, a world of numbers.  

Michael J Sullivan gives invited lecture at the Tennyson Society Annual Conference, held at Girton College, Cambridge. His one-hour lecture, on ‘Tennyson and the Victorian Literary Canon’, will take place on 19 August 2016.

Dr Robert Macfarlane writes an essay for the New Yorker on the wood-wide-web and tree-fungi mutualisms, as part of his ongoing work on subterranea and underground knowledge: http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-secrets-of-the-wood-wide-web