Winter 2016 Faculty of English Newsletter Now Available

The online version of  of  9 West Road , Volume 16/Winter 2016  is now available https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/alumni/ Print copies will be distributed shortly. If you have any comments or suggestions, or if you know of anyone who might like to receive this newsletter and is not on the Faculty’s mailing list, please contact: Newsletter Editor Faculty […]

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Dr Sophie Seita Performs at Issue Project Room, New York, 17 December 2016

Dr Sophie Seita, a Junior Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge, will perform her short play “Les Bijoux Indiscrets”, the second in a series of keenly unfaithful ‘translations’ of Enlightenment tragedies and pseudo-scientific texts of the period, at Issue Project Room in New York. Props and set by Emmy Catedral. Performed by an all-female cast: Corina […]

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On Shakespeare and the Theatre of the Absurd at ‘Václav Havel’s Legacy and the Future of Central Europe’, 26 November 2016

Registration is now open for a symposium ‘Václav Havel’s Legacy and the Future of Central Europe’, held on 26 November at McGrath Centre, 10am-6pm, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. The symposium is free and includes lunch and a wine reception. Commemorating what would have been Václav Havel’s 80th birthday, this international symposium offers a platform for […]

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Seminar Series: Poetics Before Modernity – Western Literary Theory from Antiquity to 1700

Poetics before Modernity RITA COPELAND (University of Pennsylvania) “An Emotional Anthology of Style” Thursday (!), 24 November 2016, 5.15 PM Old Combination Room, Trinity College ALL WELCOME! Poetics before Modernity brings together leading classicists, medievalists, and Renaissance scholars to present new work on Western literary theory from antiquity to 1700. With the exception of Prof. […]

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