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.
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Dr Ian Patterson Judges Scott Moncrieff Prize, 2016
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 […]
Continue ReadingJames Wade and Elizabeth Archibald Organise Conference on Medieval Romance, September 2016
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.
Continue ReadingProfessor Nicolette Zeeman Gives Plenary On ‘Theory Transposed: Chivalric Images and Idols’, September 2016
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.
Continue ReadingProfessor Steven Connor’s ‘Living By Numbers: A Defence of Quantity’ Due Out September 1 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.
Continue ReadingMichael J Sullivan Lectures at Tennyson Society Annual Conference, August 2016
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.
Continue ReadingDr Robert Macfarlane on ‘The Secrets of the Wood-Wide-Web’, 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
Continue ReadingMarc Mierowsky Awarded S Ernest Sprott Fellowship, 2016
Marc Mierowsky is awarded the S Ernest Sprott Fellowship in 17th-Century Literature. It is supported by the University of Melbourne and he will be holding the award at the Faculty of English, Cambridge. The S Ernest Sprott Fellowship is open for award annually to an outstanding scholar, who must be an Australian citizen of no […]
Continue ReadingBBC New Generation Thinker Dr Sarah Dillon at the Proms
Dr Sarah Dillon, BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker, will feature in two BBC Radio 3 Proms Extra broadcasts this Proms season. On Saturday 5th August she will contribute to a live discussion of H. G. Wells’ speculative fiction along with renowned science fiction writer Stephen Baxter who has been commissioned to write a sequel to The War […]
Continue ReadingHolly Corfield Carr Features in ‘How to Write a Poem’ on BBC Radio 4, July 2016
Holly Corfield Carr, PhD candidate and current Visiting Research Fellow at the Henry Moore Institute, features in ‘How to Write a Poem’ on BBC Radio 4. The programme will be broadcast in two parts at 4.30pm on Sunday 31st July and the following Sunday 7th August. Written and presented by Glyn Maxwell, ‘How to Write […]
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