Dr Kasia Boddy gives a Keynote entitled ‘American Girl: The Iconographies of Helen Wills’ at ‘Visualities: Sports, Bodies, and Visual Sources’. This interdisciplinary conference, devoted to the study and analysis of various types of visual sources from the realm of sports, takes place in Cologne, Germany, from 24-26 June 2016.

Dr Elizabeth Savage is awarded this year’s Wolfgang Ratjen Award for distinguished research in the field of graphic arts. The Wolfgang Ratjen Award is an annual award for distinguished research in the field of graphic arts. The prize, funded by the Wolfgang Ratjen Foundation, is curated and presented by the Association of Friends of the Zentralinstitut […]

Dr Laura Wright is a Plenary Speaker at Sociolinguistics Symposium 21,  taking place  at the University of Murcia, Spain, 15-18 June 2016. In 2016, the general theme of Europe’s premier international conference on language in society is Attitudes and Prestige.

Holly Corfield Carr has been awarded a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds for the year 2016/17 in order to research the writing practices of sculptors working with text in Britain after 1960. For more information: https://www.henry-moore.org/hmi/research/hmi-visiting-research-fellowships/fellowships-archive/201617-fellows

Hay Literary Festival. Tuesday 31st May, 1pm. Jennifer Wallace and Adrian Poole. Cambridge Series 11: Literary Celebrities in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Jennifer Wallace and Adrian Poole will be discussing the rise of literary celebrity in the C18th and C19th, the cult of the poet and the trade in literary relics and reading from […]

Dr Mina Gorji gave a talk entitled John Clare’s Ragwort: Weeds and Wildflowers at the 2016 Festival of Plants which took place at Cambridge University Botanic Gardens on Saturday 14 May.

This AHRC-funded, invitation-only symposium, organised by the University of Strathclyde, takes place in Central Glasgow on May 18-19 2016.  Abi L Glen presents a paper on the importance of, and difficulties in navigating, the synthesis of art historical and literary approaches to medieval animal studies. The symposium takes place just before the next British Animal […]

American Literature Graduate Symposium: “American Stuff” Saturday 14 May, 2016 GR06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge Keynotes: David Brauner (Reading), Pamela Thurschwell (Sussex) Defending his unadorned, realist style, William Dean Howells remarked in a 1903 letter to Charles Norton: ‘I am not sorry for having wrought in common, crude material so much; that […]

Dr Joe Moshenska’s new book ‘A Stain in the Blood – The Remarkable Voyage of Sir Kenelm Digby‘ is the story of an extraordinary life and of a journey that helped to shape a nation. Digby, one of the most remarkable Englishmen who ever lived, was a trusted advisor to the King, a pioneering philosopher […]