Bad Timing and The Alchemical Landscape present ‘The Other Side: An Audiophonic Séance’ at 7.30pm on Thursday 12 May in the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. Leading Cambridge promoter of experimental music, Bad Timing, and members of the ongoing Alchemical Landscape research project invite you to an evening of […]
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Dr Orietta Da Rold: Keynote Lecture at University of Alicante, 3 May 2016
Dr Orietta Da Rold is at the University of Alicante on 3 May to give a Keynote Lecture entitled ‘Middle English Texts in their Material Context’.
Continue ReadingDr Rob MacFarlane Praises Choice of Nan Shepherd as Face of Scottish £5 Note
The new Scottish £5 note featuring the author Nan Shepherd will enter circulation later this year. As well as an image of Shepherd, the £5 note includes a quote from her first novel, The Quarry Wood – “It’s a grand thing to get leave to live” – and one from The Living Mountain: “But the […]
Continue ReadingDr Edward Wilson-Lee Awarded Leverhulme Fellowship for 2016/17
Dr Edward Wilson-Lee has been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship for 2016/2017 to work on his next project: The Life and Library of Columbus’ Bastard Son. Hernando Colón, son of Columbus the explorer, was the collector of the first great library of the print age, the core of which survives today as the Biblioteca Colombina within […]
Continue ReadingPoetry Reading on Saturday April 30, 2016
Poetry Reading on Saturday 30 April, 2016. 8pm to 9.30pm in the Faculty of English Judith E Wilson Drama Studio. Featuring: Geoff Gilbert & Alex Houen, Chris Nealon and Sophie Mayer
Continue ReadingDr Edward Wilson-Lee at the Stratford Literary Festival, 29 April 2016
Dr Edward Wilson-Lee is at the Stratford Literary Festival on 29 April, taking part in ‘For All time – The Global Reach of Shakespeare’. In discussion, Dr Wilson-Lee, Bennet Brandreth and Gabriel Josipovici explore the extraordinary reach of Shakespeare’s global legacy, and look at how he is interpreted in wildly differing cultures. Dr Wilson-Lee also […]
Continue Reading‘ART / MONEY / CRISIS’ Conference at the Faculty of English and CRASSH, 29-30 April, 2016
The English Faculty hosts several forums from ART / MONEY / CRISIS, an international two-day conference based at CRASSH. The conference timetable includes artistic practitioners and academic speakers from disciplines including literature, sociology, economics, visual arts, cultural studies, anthropology, history, music, and politics. ART / MONEY / CRISIS features contributions from Faculty of English members […]
Continue ReadingFaculty of English Library and UL: Event for 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s Death
An all-ages event, with a special pop-up exhibition of Shakespeare-related materials. Come and hear (very) short informal talks by researchers in the Faculty of English on subjects ranging from the myth of Richard III, illustrated Shakespeare, women editing Shakespeare, and Shakespeare in Swaziland, illustrated by a wide range of items from the University Library’s holdings, […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Page Plenary Talk on Performance, Imagination and the Early-Romantic Guitar
Professor Christopher Page will be a keynote speaker at a conference on Performing Knowledge being held at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge on April 25-26, 2016. Bringing together performing musicians engaging in practice-led research, ethnographers of Western art music, and psychologists specialising in tacit knowledge research, this two-day conference explores performers’ interpretative processes and their uses of tacit knowledge […]
Continue ReadingDr Laura Wright: Shakespeare 400 Talk at St Andrew by the Wardrobe, London
Dr Wright talks on Shakespearean actors and their linguistic – and addictive – legacy at St Andrew by the Wardrobe Parish Church, London, on Monday April 25, 2016. This talk forms part of events at the church to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and celebrate his links with the parish. Shakespeare worked close […]
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